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Whether it’s learning C# or French, developing fluency in a new language is challenging.  

French teacher and Windows developer Cyprien Marie shows with his memory-improvement app Memorize It! that the Universal Windows Platform and its online resources can help simplify and accelerate the language-learning process – for spoken and programming languages. 

He created Memorize it! based on an in-class memorization exercise in which students used hand-held whiteboards to write their answers in French. Similarly, with Memorize It!, students enter text, select a memorization technique like fill-in-the-blank or word jumble, and then test themselves out loud. 

He developed the memorization-learning app in Windows Phone 8. By making the switch to Windows 10 and the UWP, his audience has gotten much larger: In the last three months, Memorize It! on Windows 10 was downloaded almost twice as many times compared with its Windows Phone 8.1 version.  

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