Education

Since this is relevant among others for Parley I am posting the article also here:

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It's just two weeks ago that I started to merge the dictionary data for Ambaradan in our loader application: this is needed to make sure data is in the right shape and we won't loose any.

I was editing some files in Parley for my kids to be done this summer, they don't like paper work and if I create exercises for them, well then they are also available for translation and use by anyone else.

Actually it is impossible to collect all achieved results in one single article. Compared to all other events we went to, this was the most productive one and we will need months to actually work on all that will need to be done. Let's try to point out what interests our users most: language learning.

These are days with many ideas coming along. I always look at my kids, those of others and see what they do and how they do things ... They don't like learning with text, but with pictures, video, sound. My twins learnt the names of countries and associating their flags and main monuments with 5 years of age with a puzzle. The learnt German terminology by playing memory.

The other day we released the terminology for vocabulary training and CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tools that was collected up to 10th of March. The mainwork was done during a International Mother Language Day Translation Marathon. New languages were added, others improved.

First of all: a huge THANK YOU! to all who contributed.

The data can be used with:

Today I had a verbal fight with my daughter ... she was testing the limits I supposed and I actually was so tired that my personal limits were very low. Now the funny thing is the result ot of that fight.

We've just finished homework. They had to write a story starting with three words they choose. I will write the story below. What was really surprising to me is: she took her time and wrote, compared to her brother a really long story. Now she told me: take the story and give it to children that don't have books, so that they can read it.

Quotations about language from the book "The fall of the Roman Empire" by Pether Heather, ISBN 978-0-330-49136-5

I was just trying to find translations for the Latin names in Robert L. Freedmans famine food list (the pages takes quite some time to load since it is long and it is just a buffer application for now) What I noted is that for many plants there is just the Latin name. This helps scientists, but not people. Almost none of them are in Wikipedia, but just in botanical databases at Universities ...