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Slovoed [14] is a dictionary and phrasebook app available for more than 37 world languages. [15] [16] It incorporates more than 350 electronic dictionaries, [17] encyclopedias and phrase books developed in conjunction with Duden, Langenscheidt, Oxford UP, PONS/Klett, Le Robert, VOX, and other publishing houses.
Various definitions of the term world language have been proposed; there is no general consensus about which one to use. [4] [5]One definition proffered by Congolese linguist Salikoko Mufwene is "languages spoken as vernaculars or as lingua francas outside their homelands and by populations other than those ethnically or nationally associated with them".
Heureka Klett was a German software engineering company which has made several personal computer games of the sort called "edutainment". They are point-and-click puzzle- adventure games , heavily inspired by Myst for Windows and Mac.
A separate portal for people teaching less commonly taught languages to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Offerings included a section on curricular frameworks and standards, links to dozens of outside resources for K-12 language teachers, and a year's worth of free lesson plans for teachers to download and adapt to their own ...
Svensson (2003) describes the Virtual Wedding Project, in which advanced students of English made use of Active Worlds as an arena for constructivist learning. [4] The Adobe Atmosphere software platform was also used to promote language learning in the Babel-M project (Williams & Weetman 2003). [5] The 3D world of Second Life was
The Langenscheidt Publishing Group was founded on 1 October 1856 by Gustav Langenscheidt, in response to other publishers' refusal to publish his self-study materials for learning French, which he subsequently published under the title „ Unterrichtsbriefe zur Erlernung der französischen Sprache“ ("Teaching letters for learning the French language").
Jean-Pol Martin (born 1943, Paris, France) [1] studied teacher education for foreign language teachers in Germany, and developed a teaching method called learning by teaching. He spent most of his career at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and was a Professor there when he retired in 2008.
Powell Alexander Janulus (born 1939) is a Canadian polyglot who lives in White Rock, British Columbia, and entered the Guinness World Records in 1985 for fluency in 42 languages. [1] To qualify, he had to pass a two-hour conversational fluency test with a native speaker of each of the 42 languages he spoke at that time.