LangUR is a groundbreaking project which bridges the difficult phases of learning languages. In a diverse business world with hundreds of languages being used in high commerical settings, modern applications serve to teach proficiency in langauges, but per a fluency study of Duolingo patrons learning French and Spanish, only 52.94% of 102 French learners reached a pre-intermediate level, and 66.03% of 156 Spanish speakers reached a similar level. (Jiang X, 2021)

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1. Uses a grounded evaluation metric to measure your performance (LIX scoring algorithm)
2. Application learns and adapts to individual learner's abilities
3. Learning of language conveniently incorporated into daily workflow
4. Reinforced learning of queries words through review quizzes

The instructions to install and run the dashboard, extension and LLM backend are in their individual repos.

The project's premise and continuity relies very heavily on social research. When Robin was learning his languages, he found that maintaining continuous performance on a daily basis aided his performance in learning a language, and such a trend is commonly correlated with higher testing proportions among students that are fed information on a consistent daily basis when studying, as demonstrated by the American Psychological Society (Mawhinney et al., 1971).

Moreover, the concept of integrating language learning seamlessly into daily routines aligns with principles of habit formation and behavioral psychology. By embedding language practice within the natural flow of a user's day, LangUR capitalizes on the psychological phenomenon of habit stacking. This approach leverages existing habits as anchors for new behaviors, making language learning feel less like a burdensome task and more like an integrated aspect of daily life. Stacking habits is quintessential as evidenced for learning, so, how would one be able to consider a new approach to structuring a language learning app based off of this? Let's look back at the presented graph.

In any instance, Distributed Practice and Practice Testing appear to be the largest factors associated with higher testing in general study areas, where we based our project idea off of: a gradual but slow streamline of language implementation, albeit slowly and consistently. By being passive and seamless, LangUR has the capability to gradually streamline language learning modes into a user's daily workflow, providing an excellent UI, with a diverse array of features such as translation, suggested articles based off of past history, and progressively improving the user's ability to take in the language with the readability algorithm.

We often encounter the issue that learning a language is daunting, requiring contiuous effort, where a lot of people simply don't have that time to invest, whereas the practicality of being fluent in languages has a high yield in business returns by eliminating barriers between multinational individuals and corporations. The idea behind LangUR had to critically emphasize the parallel and efficient nature of learning, which other applications failed to consider. Giving users a comfortable experience, automatically determining skill level through a customized LIX Algorithm, and structuring the application to cater to their learning pace was imperative during the building phase.

In conclusion, taking into account human study patterns, the demanding needs of learning a language and daily time constraints, LangUR was built with the mindfulness that dedication is always on the users side, but we can do our job to make it as seamless as possible, accessible, and catered to the users.