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<body><p> FWIW. I have had a number of high school teacher and university instructors ask about using the xo as a language learning appliance. The two reoccurring themes have been:</p><p>XO as a portable language lab.</p><p>Ability to develop a language learning activity which could tailor itself to the needs of an individual learner.</p><p> </p><p>thanks</p><p>david </p><div><hr /></div><br />On 10/28/2008, 20:04, Gary C Martin (gary@garycmartin.com) wrote:<div style="border-left: 1px solid #0000cc; padding: 5px; margin-left: 10px">On 28 Oct 2008, at 23:46, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > I'm learning Spanish at the moment, and I wish the XO made it easier > for me. I don't have any knowledge of what the right way to do either > conventional or constructionist language
learning on computers is; if > anyone has much experience with either, I'd love to hear about it. > > I have some obvious candidates for software that could be produced in > mind: > > * A method -- similar to Scott's recent GtkLabel overlay for > allowing > strings inside Sugar and activities to be translated -- that > does a > dictionary lookup of a word on the screen and overlays the > translation of that word into a local language. This should be > activity-agnostic, if possible. For bonus points, translate > phrases instead of just words. > > * Perhaps some kind of Pronunciation Activity that gives you words > in the target language, speaks them to you, explains what they > mean in
your local language, and asks you to speak them back, > perhaps grading your response? (All but the last part is already > possible to do manually in the Words activity, but not in a > structured way.) > > * Is there any free content that matches iconic images to words, > so that language vocabulary could be taught even without textual > translation to a local language? > > Feel free to come up with questions/ideas around language learning on > the XO in general in this thread, and they'll make it into the > conference talk. Still being worked on by Urko, but functioned quite well last time I tested on an XO. I set it up with a bunch of pathophysiology term flash card type questions/answers: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Assimilate > Thanks, > >
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