iKnow!

I’ve been learning English words by using iKow!, an online English learning service. They have a lot of courses for learners’ various goals. It had been free for about two years but they started to charge for it this April. I guess they had accumulated the users' data, such as age, purpose, skill, how and when to learn and so on, by offering their service for free. The data helped them offer better and more sophisticated services. I think iKow! is an excellent service. Since I knew about iKow!, improving my vocabulary hasn’t bothered me at all, aside from remembering the words or not. I’ve tried to do it for one hour a day. 

Now I’m mainly enjoying tackling a TOEFL course because there are many words that appear in school textbooks, for example, mammal, reptile, molecule, hydrogen, equation, gravity, current, equator, tropical rain forest, conifer etc. I forgot or didn’t know most of them, so I can’t understand even a junior high school textbook. When I tried to do an SAT course, it was too much for me! They seemed to be magic formulas. 

Anyway, now I like learning English words. I have two nieces and one nephew, and they are students, so I always show them how useful iKow! is, but they never try it out, just as I didn't take any advice when I was a student.