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The Web Way To Learn a Language
theodp writes "Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee, you can now sit in your underwear in Omaha and learn French from a tutor in Paris. The NY Times has a round-up of ways to learn a language over the Web. 'We offer modern-day pen pals facilitated with voice over I.P.,' said Tom Adams, CEO of RosettaStone, whose learning options include RosettaStudio, a place where a user can talk to a native speaker via video chat. TellMeMore offers a speech recognition component that analyzes pronunciation, graphs your speech, and suggests how to perfect it. Free-as-in-beer offerings include BBC Languages, where you'll find varying levels of instruction for 36 languages, with features including audio and video playback and translation. Things have certainly come a long way since the PLATO Foreign Languages Project of the '70s."
How do you say "the Party is always right" in Chinese?
i think we all kno how the web way to learn languege turns out from lookin at how the young netizen ppl write n speak today lol its a desaster
I took a look at your friend's site, but didn't get too far with it. I'm afraid it's all Greek to me.
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This is a great article for me. Thanks /.
I've been wanting to learn German language for reasons that will probably only seem important to me.
I talk to myself incessantly, yeah, I'm kinda mental. I want to do it in German to add to the confusion of others.
I really do get a strange feeling when Mexican folk switch from English to Espanol in my presence and would like to throw some German into the mix to let them see how it feels.
Lastly of course, I have a German \ Italian heritage and would someday like to travel to Germany and be understood. Italy too, but that is a different matter and some Italian could be easily deciphered by Mexicans. Right now German is on my mind, so first things first.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
"Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee, you can now sit in your underwear in Omaha and learn French from a tutor in Paris."
Um... I'm not sure how well this will work, I can't really stick my tongue in the monitor and since it's a touch screen I might accidentally tongue the close widget in the upper right corner of the screen. Not to mention the possible shock hazard, some how I feel like that kid that was dared to stick his tongue on the flag pole in winter.
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Who wants to learn French from a tutor over a webcam?! I want that French tutor in the same room with me, baby!
"Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee, you can now sit in your underwear in Omaha and learn French from a tutor in Paris."
this is disgusting. i'm not sure what "learn french" is slang for, but i have a clue since its done in your underwear "in omaha": obviously some variation on shibari japanese rope bondage. how puerile. and i don't think slashdot needs to be the place for yet more attention for that whore paris hilton, no matter that there is a tutor in her, or whatever is in her, has anything or anyone not been in her?
and i don't know who this Tim Berners-Lee fellow is but he's obviously some sort of pornography-addicted pervert. yet more proof the internet has been warped form the noble intentions of whoever started the internet. probably some nice science fellow working trying to better mankind with some sort of high minded science research, not this Tim Berners-Lee degenerate mentioned here
how can we stop this madness?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
German TV in Germany is great if you're from an English speaking country. It's all about how to open beer with your lighter, how strong a beer-table is, and shows like COPS, except where they give people a stern talking to for riding their bicycle with an open beer.
It must get very tedious if you're German, but if your English speaking, even the commercials are fascinating.
And I don't know why this stuff exists: NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKiAL0UeId4
> If all you have is a hammer, everything is going
> to kinda like oh my god look like a nail cuz
Actually, if all you have is Hammer, you're going to end up thinking Americans wear weird pants.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.