Language Tech
Playing Chinese in Korean
Assuming that most of us can’t read either Korean or Chinese characters, news about a new Multiplayer Online Game - Hanjamru - for school children to learn the latter, might not be so exciting. But the blog of the creators of the game - Eduflo - is a little: they describe there the design process [...]
Does code count as a language?
The following statement of Kristian over at web-translations made me wonder. He was writing about how much is too much in language learning, and ends with the following: “As for me, well, I speak 6 languages…English, French, small talk, MSN speak, some basic programming languages (do they count? They should as they have strict syntax [...]
Save an endangered word, redefine the dictionary
I’ve always found it curious that the Americans have no centralized institution which establishes the end-all be-all of language. I mean, something along the lines of the German Rechtschreibungen, grammars that all of which incorporated a rather catastrophic spelling reform mandated by an official agreement between German-speaking countries in 1996. Or the Real Academia Española [...]
MILLEE: Literacy phones home
After 4 years of field-testing, the MILLEE Project hopes to go big time in India. MILLEE - Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies - grew out of Matthew Kam’s doctoral thesis at the University of California, Berkeley. His idea was to use phones and educational computing to improve English language learning for [...]
