On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
OSX has a really powerful built-in dictionary/thesaurus, which works in a similar manner. It's only available anywhere there is selectable text, but even that is invaluable. Here's a sample: http://niquimerret.com/?p=72 You could imagine offering dictionary/thesaurus/translation all in a similar manner. - Eben > * 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. > > Thanks, > > - Chris. > -- > Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel