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Teresa Pombo

GermanTeaching.com - Home - 0 views

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  • Teresa Pombo on 10 Jan 09
     
    Katherine Munro's resources for languages including German, Chinese, English (ESL), Indonesian and Japanese., Katherine Munro's suggestions for student group travel to L�beck and Sierksdorf., Katherine Munro's information and links on S�tterlin (German handwriting)., Update of Katherine Munro's gallery of original photos., Katherine Munro's suggestions for student group travel to Saarbr�cken, Homburg and Ottweiler.
Simon B

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  • There are certain perceived advantages – flexibility, price, personalized learning… but frankly most of the research will show that these are not nearly as important as we might feel.
  • Disadvantages in online language courses are relatively obvious, I think – lack of easy group practice, lack of eye contact, lack of many paralinguistic features which make the possibility of group gelling and real communicative practice much harder than they might be in a face-to-face context.
  • there are plenty of opportunities online for real, meaningful language practice – Second Life with its international communities of native speakers springs to mind here – and these may be much more real and useful than anything that may be achieved in an online classroom.
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  • you cannot really learn a language online, but you can improve one.
  • many online courses will give you plenty of practice in the basic skills, few of them have the community side in place to successfully emulate the experience of learning with a group of like-minded people.
  • the social community should be the absolute centre of any school or course, and not something tacked on at the end.
  • People need to get together and talk to each other, to laugh and share and discuss – you simply don’t get this in an online tutorial with a teacher. So yes, by all means have good solid exercises, games and everything else – but don’t bother opening an online school, or engaging in distance language teaching unless you give people a chance to talk to each other.
  • I would be looking for a company that has been around for a while, long enough to prove that what it offers is good enough to survive. I would then be looking at if they are recognized by an institution for the work they do.
  • I’d ask to talk to a real human being at the other end of the phone who could answer my questions in the language of my choice, and I would find out about the organization – who they have working for them, who the writers are, who their big clients are. I’d have a sample class and a sample tutorial.
Day Translations

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  • Day Translations on 18 Nov 10
     
    In the Bible, after the Great Flood that washed the whole of the Earth - a united group of people, speaking one language, came to the land of Shinar and created a massive tower to ensure that they won't be "scattered in the face of the Earth". However, God saw this and said, "They are one people and have one language, and nothing will be withholden from them which they purpose to do... Come, let us go down and confound their speech." Then, God scattered these people and confounded their speech - the tower was then called Babel (from the Hebrew word, "balal" meaning to jumble.)
Robert Smith

Easy Online Methods to Learn Chinese Language - 0 views

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  • Robert Smith on 12 Jan 09
     
    We are using open source teleconferencing technology to conduct 1-on-1 and group classes via video, voice, flash technology for displaying Chinese characters.
Isabelle Jones

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yc c

WordNet Search - 3.0 - 2 views

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  • yc c on 15 Nov 09
     
    WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
yc c

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  • yc c on 25 Nov 09
     
    a group of volunteers throughout the world began creating an open, free, online Japanese-English dictionary. The form and content of the dictionary are decided by the participants in the project. Among its features are the following: * Definitions that explain the meaning of words as completely as possible * As many examples as possible of each word in real contexts * Photographs and other illustrations, especially for entries about uniquely Japanese things * No restrictions on the type or range of vocabulary * No restrictions on the length of entries The dictionary has been named jeKai (je海), pronounced "jay-kai" or ジェーカイ.
Andrew Graff

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  • Viele Jugendliche möchten den Führerschein so bald wie möglich machen. Frühestens mit 17 geht das. Bis zum 18.Lebensjahr muss dann im Auto immer ein Erwachsener als Begleitung dabei sein.
    • Andrew Graff
      Andrew Graff on 13 Jul 08
       
      In welchem Alter kann man in Deutschland mit dem Führerschein anfangen?
  • Nur wer beide Prüfungsteile besteht, erhält den Führerschein.
    • Andrew Graff
      Andrew Graff on 14 Jul 08
       
      Gibt es bei uns auch zwei Prüfungsteile?
  • Es gibt viele Fahrschulen. Sie bieten Kurse zur Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung an. Zuerst kommt die theoretische Prüfung und anschließend die praktische Fahrprüfung. In der Theorie werden mindestens 26 Unterrichtsstunden verlangt und in der Praxis 13 Fahrstunden
    • Andrew Graff
      Andrew Graff on 14 Jul 08
       
      Muss man in Deutschland in eine Fahrschule gehen? Wie ist der Führerscheinprozess in deinem Land?
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  • Ein Führerschein kostet viel Geld. Im Schnitt ca. 2.000,- Euro.
    • Andrew Graff
      Andrew Graff on 14 Jul 08
       
      Wieviel kostet ein Führerschein in deinem Land?
  • Andrew Graff on 13 Jul 08
     
    To anyone in this group who happens upon this note/page: I am simply experimenting with diigo and foreign language texts online. Obviously just adding traditional comprehension questions to a text with diigo's floating sticky notes is the easier part/path of least innovation. I am trying to figure out how to maximize interactivity, creativity, and personalization while also reinforcing those grammatical/vocab stepping stones which a learner needs to be able to appreciate the onus of the creativity the new-fangled teacher is laying upon them :) . Please drop comments and suggestions below!
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