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| JasonE Groupie Canada Joined 5073 days ago 54 posts - 78 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 3 29 January 2011 at 6:49pm | IP Logged |
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I've only been reading these forums for a few weeks now, but I gather that most people don't care for the
language learning program Rosetta Stone. That may be a fair evaluation, but I do think that there is a huge potential for software to make language learning more efficient, interactive, and altogether more enjoyable. What features do you think these hypothetical programs should have? I'm most excited by the potential for programs to learn and adapt to the user via frequent quizzing to find trouble spots. Ideally I'd like to have one of these: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Vulcan_Learning_Center.jpg Also, assuming that there is a strong chance of a high quality language learning program in the near future, how would that change your language learning behavior now? If you thought that learning all of the most common languages would in the future be significantly easier, would you spend less time learning languages now? Discuss. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5117 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 2 of 3 29 January 2011 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
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I'm a book and stationery girl, and I don't think anything on a computer will ever make the cut for me. It's also often aimed at beginners who haven't studied a language before, and with 7 languages under my belt (learnt, not necessarily known), I can't deal with stuff that introduces you so slowly to a language. Plus I see languages as a way to communicate and interact with other human beings, and I can't see a computer ever filling that role to teach me actively. Edited by Préposition on 29 January 2011 at 8:37pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6014 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 3 of 3 29 January 2011 at 9:41pm | IP Logged |
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One of the problems with current computer courses is limited media.
The idea of high variability phonetic training sounds very promising, and with TV and radio becoming increasingly digital, there's a massive source of media for most languages already -- if someone can find a way to license it without making things prohibitively expensive. A home HVPT package would be useful in its own right, but would always suffer from not knowing what words the student should know. As part of a broader learning package, aware of the learner's current vocabulary, it would be increadibly useful. Edited by Cainntear on 29 January 2011 at 9:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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