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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."
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.
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
"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