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<DIV>In my opinion, the programming effort wouldn’t be huge: it would only
suppose an extra button/control to open an existing clip or not. This extra
button could be set to have a boolean behavior, i.e., to appear or not,
depending if the clip exists (is defined) or not. The children would certainly
love any extra information presented in a video clip, and the retention of that
word would certainly be better.</DIV>
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<DIV>Selecting/trimming 564 clips in national languages of the countries that
don’t have a developed film industry – yes – that would certainly be a difficult
task. However, I believe that the users from these countries would be more
interested in the english-french-german-spanish lang activities than in their
mother tongue lang activity. Besides, if the implementation would be “boolean”,
there won’t be any frustration: a clip either exists and then there is an extra
buton, or it doesn’t exist, in which case there isn’t any extra button.</DIV>
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<DIV>About the age pool you have mentioned, it depends very much of the parent
and the kid: some would prefer animations, others (like my son) would go for the
Hollywood celebrities’ acting. This is why it would be very useful to give the
user the possibility to customize the clip.</DIV>
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<DIV>I am not informed about copyrights, but I know that a videoclip wouldn’t
exceed more than 30 seconds, so couldn’t it be possible to just obtain the
copyright for free, eventually mentioning in a watermark the title, the year and
the owning company? I mean come on, there is a good chance that some of these
movies would be bought in the future by some of the users, isn’t it?</DIV>
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<DIV>All in all, I still believe that my idea is viable. I hope I’m not the only
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<DIV>Horia</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=echarruau@gmail.com
href="mailto:echarruau@gmail.com">Emmanuel Charruau</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, 02 October, 2016 15:32</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=horricane@gmail.com
href="mailto:horricane@gmail.com">Horia PELLE</A> ; <A
title=gcompris-devel@kde.org href="mailto:gcompris-devel@kde.org">GCompris
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: lang activity proposition</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi,<BR></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></DIV>Is this not a too huge task? <BR>GCompris is translated
in many languages, I doubt that this idea if implemented in english will be
maintained in an other language.<BR></DIV>Then we have to think that this is for
children from 2 to 10, we would have to find the words in kids animation movies
mostly, which norrows the source of vocables.<BR></DIV>Then there is this
copyright problem. If we solve it with links, who would do the tests to see if
the links are still relevant?<BR></DIV>This is a really huge quantity of
situation to solve for only one activity :( and we have little ressources
:(<BR></DIV>But this is just my opinion :)<BR><BR></DIV>Emmanuel<BR>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>2016-10-02 13:46 GMT+02:00 Horia PELLE <SPAN
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<DIV>I have a proposition for the lang activity. Although this activity is
complex, very instructive and useful for vocabulary and writing purposes, I
think it misses the liveliness of normal/everyday human language. The reason
for this inert/still feature is the “atomization” of language in 564 small
basic words. They can be learnt individually, but in this case they will only
remain 564 pieces of a puzzle, with little value in real life communication.
In my opinion, all these 564 small blocks of language would exponentially
increase their learning value if they could be individually exemplified with
everyday human speech.</DIV>
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<DIV>My idea is to place a button/link near each word image, and when it is
clicked, it would open a popup window with an external video clip in which one
(or more) persons say a phrase containing that word. Ideally, that phrase
should be a clip from a good movie, so that pronunciation and emotion could
reach maximum levels.</DIV>
<DIV>In this way, the kids would learn two things: (1) to use all those 564
small pieces of language in real verbal communication and (2) the emotional
intelligence of human speech, which is a big lack in most computer-assisted
learning programs.</DIV>
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<DIV>I began to test short video clips a long time ago, on my little boy, and
they all proved very successful (he easily remembers them, and he likes to
recite/interprete these clips very often). I provided here four examples, for
the words <A href="https://youtu.be/fYJA26EjPEg" target=_blank>coin</A> (<A
href="http://youtu.be/fYJA26EjPEg" target=_blank>youtu.be/fYJA26EjPEg</A>), <A
href="https://youtu.be/CCOSZxD7gtI" target=_blank>cute</A> (<A
href="http://youtu.be/CCOSZxD7gtI" target=_blank>youtu.be/CCOSZxD7gtI</A>), <A
href="https://youtu.be/4PjHe2xPwa8" target=_blank>dog</A> (<A
href="http://youtu.be/4PjHe2xPwa8" target=_blank>youtu.be/4PjHe2xPwa8</A>) and
<A href="https://youtu.be/bfV3oGZozkY" target=_blank>huge</A> (<A
href="http://youtu.be/bfV3oGZozkY" target=_blank>youtu.be/bfV3oGZozkY</A>) →
please take a look at them. Maybe they aren't the best examples or format, but
you can feel the fluent everyday language and the broad spectrum of human
emotions + body language of these short clips.</DIV>
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<DIV>Of course, the copyrights would certainly raise serious concerns, but if
this problem could not be solved by GCompris team, then it could be easily
overcome by the individual user. What I mean is that GCompris could provide by
default a link of a clip without copyright problems, but the user could be
given permission to customize the link and place his/her own link, with the
preferred video clip.</DIV>
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<DIV>What do you think?</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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