Everything else was pretty straight-forward.īyki – which stands for Before You Know It – works by taking a bunch of words and phrases used in everyday speech, categorising them into “lists”, e.g.
First, a pop-up appeared telling me to create a user account or something to that affect, so I entered my name and clicked OK/Save/Whatever the button said. The website sends you an email with the link for downloading the software- after it finished, the programme started immediately. I clicked on Spanish, reckoning that I should start with what I’m familiar with (I study Spanish in school). The homepage explains what Byki is about and has a massive list of languages to choose from in alphabetical order. Intrigued by this (Byki, I mean, not learning Finnish), I decided to try it out, and went onto. He ranted on, saying it was great and that I should try it, and that he thinks learning Finnish would suit me… He told me about Byki (pronounced Buy-kee), a language learning system that teaches you any language you want. Out of curiousity I asked him “How do you know the days of the week in Icelandic?” and what he told me changed my life forever… So I did, and he got them all right (I’m assuming, I don’t actually speak Icelandic). It was on a warm, sunny day in Dublin that my linguistic, Eurovision-obsessed friend asked me, very excitedly, to quiz him on the days of the week. So she forced them to show her how they did it… Zeta was puzzled to discover her friend could suddenly speak Icelandic. “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow” – Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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