Technology
With the growth of the internet social networks and voice-over-IP technologies, language exchanges have become an increasingly popular option for language learners. Language learning social networks now offer students the ability to find language partners around the world, and speak or text chat through instant messengers. This has allowed students who previously could not find foreign language partners to search online for native speakers of that language.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)