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Mike Zink explained it better than I did, that the idea is to provide an effective tutorial for implicit learning by using images and movies/animations, but also like parallel2 with text and audio. It would combine this with explicit learning, but hopefully in a more visual form. I placed a query on the main list about this per your comment. I'm seeing it as something that could expand along with the community by allowing people to create modules which would be simple enough for non-programmers to create (a module would consist of text files, images, movies, and it would have to conform to the "allowed sub modules" of modules, such as 'flash card game', 'memory game', 'picture to word match', 'flash image and text', 'tutorial', etc). I was planning on using java, hoping to make it cross platform, and since I have the most experience in it. I'd like to leverage a lot of what is already out there - text to speech would complement the module concept, parallel2, flash cards, image to word maps, and on. The only reason I don't want to take this on myself is because I need someone who understands the language very well. I get the feeling everyone is tied up. I'll start a sourceforge project in the meantime.
Michael > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:05:58 -0600 > From: pdf23ds@gmail.com > To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org > Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: software question > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 19:00, M CHILDS <m_chi919@msn.com> wrote: > > I feel a little lost/without grounding trying to learn the language from the > > documents available, and I haven't seen any software that I feel comfortable > > using. Is there software similar to Rosetta Stone for Lojban? If so, is it > > free? > > > > If not, where can I offer to create such an application, as I would need > > someone who knows the language well to create the conceptual piece while I > > can develop the application? > > This query might be a bit more appropriate on the main list. > > The main software being used currently is jboski/jbofi'e for > translation, and Supermemo or other flash card programs for memorizing > vocabulary. I'm not too familiar with Rosetta stone, so I couldn't > tell you how they differ. I'm currently working on an application > similar to jboski, but more Web 2.0ish, and based on Robin Lee > Powell's work on the camxes parser. It will try to offer integrated > parsing and word lookup, and eventually possibly even lessons. It's > called Lojgloss and written in C#. Source is available using Bazaar at > http://pdf23ds.net/bzr. You can google all those others, I'm sure. > > Chris Capel > -- > "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it > like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" > -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet) > > > Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live Click here |