How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
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Re: How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
#2Someone should use this concept to make a browser extension that transforms words in your entire newsfeed into flashcards while you browse.
Re: How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
#3I really like the idea of using the lock screen as more than just a simple way to get into the phone. I would love to use something like this to force me to spend a few seconds learning something every time I want to get into my phone.
Re: How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
#4I wonder if this works in parts of the world that don't even have 2G...
Re: How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
#5I really like the idea of using the lock screen as more than just a simple way to get into the phone. I would love to use something like this to force me to spend a few seconds learning something every time I want to get into my phone.
I recently installed DashClock https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roma... and while it's not strictly a 'learning' tool you could likely write an extension for it to do what you are looking for. I like it so far, better than normal lock screen anyway.
Re: How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
#6Really awesome idea guys! This is the coolest unlock screen concept I've seen—and the Android unlock screen really could use some help :p
Re: How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
#7Someone should use this concept to make a browser extension that transforms words in your entire newsfeed into flashcards while you browse.
There's an extension that does this for all sites:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/language-immersion...
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#8Having studied a foreign language (Brazilian Portuguese) as an adult, my experience is that learning written and spoken language are separate skills. Just because you know a written word doesn't mean that you will recognize it when it is spoken.
My experience is that I had to learn every word twice: once as text and again as audio.
This was despite the fact that Brazilian Portuguese is much more regular than English in mapping sounds to letters.
Quizlet and similar ideas look fine for written vocabulary, and helping you read, but don't kid yourself: you're not going to be able to listen and speak by mastering this tool.
Re: How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
#9Having studied a foreign language (Brazilian Portuguese) as an adult, my experience is that learning written and spoken language are separate skills. Just because you know a written word doesn't mean that you will recognize it when it is spoken . My experience is that I had to learn every word twice: once as text and again as audio. This was despite the fact that Brazilian Portuguese is much more regular than English…
That's a great point, listening and speaking is much harder than just being able to read and match some words.
We did consider using text-to-speech to say the word out loud once you answer it, but it wouldn't be ideal to have to hear every time you wanted to unlock your phone.
Re: How to learn a language from your news feed (and win a Facebook hackathon)
#10Having studied a foreign language (Brazilian Portuguese) as an adult, my experience is that learning written and spoken language are separate skills. Just because you know a written word doesn't mean that you will recognize it when it is spoken . My experience is that I had to learn every word twice: once as text and again as audio. This was despite the fact that Brazilian Portuguese is much more regular than English…
Not to mention this has no capability for helping you learn grammar or verb conjugations etc... ie. the stuff you'll need to know in order to write OR speak in sentences. Still pretty neat idea for studying vocab, but nothing more.
The UI is a bit heavy here and with 4 words to choose from, even without knowing much about the language it is pretty obvious what the correct answer is.