Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Ideas-about-language-learning

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Better if they are well-funded and be freemium or free. I don't expect Duolingo to do that, at least before it makes its new courses acceptable.

Website of visual dictionary

I have seen three books:

5 Language Visual Dictionary

The Firefly Five Language Visual Dictionary: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian

Merriam-Webster's Compact 5-Language Visual Dictionary (English, Spanish, French, German and Italian Edition)

So I think there can be a website can provide such a service, even better.

[REALIZED: https://babadada.com/ also some paid visual dictionaries in apple app store]

Review: In Babadada, there are no genders, no pinyin tones for Chinese, no furigana or romaji for Japanese, many languages are incomplete without indications, parts of speech are not clear. Great for having dialects.

There are several visual dictionaries in the apple app store, but they are not for advanced users.

Tutorials of languages

I have seen two channels on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ProgrammingKnowledge

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfx2dro_w4_MyA19Nm5badg

providing "tutorials" about programming languages such as C++, Java, Python, which last several hours. So I think somebody may give such "tutorials" about the grammar of human languages.

Filter of characteristics

This requires a database of characteristics of ethnics or nationalities, with a filter. Input the characteristics, and get the result of which ethnics or nationalities possess them.

Of course, it requires the update, because culture may change with time.

Sentence analyzer

Tatoeba has a lot of sentences, but it only shows what a sentence looks like. There should be something radical, to reveal the function of a sentence, to show people the logicality of a sentence. That is to say, syntax.

I imagine a service, which draws parse trees of each sentence, and shows how a sentence may be changed in the structure into another one without changing its general meaning.

If you don't know how to analyze a sentence, see https://www.wikihow.com/Analyze-Sentences.

[REALIZED: https://www.webforditas.hu/parser http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/submit-sentence-4.html http://www.zzcad.com/parse.htm]

Review: It is clear that linguistics have this tool since long ago. But it is really not widespread, because they are usually amateur-proof. I wish there will be support for more languages.

Parallel text in video games and other software, also websites

It is very common for current games to be multilingual, but no one has made such a little change to help language-learning players. Also in other software, and also websites.

Postage stamps on e-mails

Postage stamps can be brought back, showing different culture.

Screensaver for language learning

With a terrible collaboration of nouveau and Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M, costing me hours to find a solution to install, finally I embraced Linux Mint 19 MATE. Now I have switched to its LMDE 3 to avoid packages from the privacy violator Ubuntu.

It has a wonderful XScreenSaver! Somebody can make use of it to learn languages, just like "Molecule" teaching chemistry.

If you are new to Linux, Manjaro is as suitable as Linux Mint for you.

Software on the resources

This would be epic.

I am thinking about what it can do:

1. Fetch Wiktionary word frequency lists, translate those words with those dictionaries, generate flashcards on those flashcard programs with example sentences;
2. Access almost every resource on the lists, with Android or iOS simulator;
3. Background music from "Traditional Music Channel";

I think its name can be named "Polyglot 1".

Google Maps game

It shows a random street view image, and let you find its origin in a range of satellite images by switching to street view and reaching the same spot.

[SIMILAR: https://www.geoguessr.com/]

Review on Geoguessr: It is not what I want. My idea is based on how to locate a photo, but this one just want to let you know where you are. I think its idea is not so cool as mine.

A remix of Tetris Theme A played by instruments of the world

This song is very good for looping. So I think it may be remixed involving all kinds of instruments around the world, each several of them playing a section.