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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">coin</A>
(youtu.be/fYJA26EjPEg), <A href="https://youtu.be/CCOSZxD7gtI">cute</A>
(youtu.be/CCOSZxD7gtI), <A href="https://youtu.be/4PjHe2xPwa8">dog</A>
(youtu.be/4PjHe2xPwa8) and <A href="https://youtu.be/bfV3oGZozkY">huge</A>
(youtu.be/bfV3oGZozkY) → 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></BODY></HTML>