{"id":1743,"date":"2008-07-11T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T12:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2010-09-23T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:03:36","slug":"how-do-i-learned-new-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2008\/07\/11\/how-do-i-learned-new-language\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I learned new language?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m surprised that Wikimedia Foundation hasn’t yet expanded into providing language learning<\/a> material, apart from Wiktionary<\/a>, of course. I reckon that basic, “101”-type course material for self-teaching always follows an easily applicable template, no matter what the language, and that there would be plenty of multilingual Wikipedians eager to contribute to such courses.<\/p>\n

There doesn’t seem to be too much open source software for such self-teaching either, for that matter. I see a couple of drilling utilities in the repositories, but not much beyond that. What I’d love to see is a generic ‘lang-teacher’ package with a bunch of optional ‘lang-teacher-en-101’, ‘lang-teacher-ja-101’ and so on, packages to choose from.<\/p>\n

I can hear it already: Sounds like a nice idea. So what are you waiting for, why don’t you start coding?<\/q> But it’s so much easier just to toss these ideas around than to actually do anything about them…<\/p>\n

Many seem to think that the best route to learning a new language is to just get the basics straight and then dive in with people who speak it, but for someone like me that would be impossible. I lead a life which you couldn’t even begin to describe using the word ‘introvert’. Apart from not being able to learn by speaking, this means that I’m not that interested<\/em> in spoken language; my purpose for learning any new language at this point would be primarily to gain access to the vast amount of written<\/em> knowledge available (online and in books) in languages other than my own and in English.<\/p>\n

Even if I didn’t lead such a secluded life, there really just aren’t enough, say, Japanese people around where I live, to strike a conversation with. And even if there were, there’s still that ‘basics’ part which I’d somehow have to get a grip on, and for that I’d love to have some free (as in freedom) tools, either online or on my desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m surprised that Wikimedia Foundation hasn’t yet expanded into providing language learning material, apart from Wiktionary, of course. I reckon that basic, “101”-type course material for self-teaching always follows an easily applicable template, no matter what the language, and that there would be plenty of multilingual Wikipedians eager to contribute to such courses. There doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-internet","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}