Showing posts with label language resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language resources. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

to hiragana Japanese box, by Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinion avatar)

to hiragana Japanese box, created by Akemi Mochizuki (Draceina Pinion avatar) is a device which allow avatars to translate the vogals to hiragana. By using this tool, people can take advantage of the virtual world for learning the hiragana symbols in a funny and innovative way. You can find this tool at the shop which Akemi Mochizuki has in Second Life and where you can find a lot of interesting devices for being applied at Virtual Worlds.


Friday, May 14, 2010

Dracy Crossword type 5, by Draceina Pinion



Dracy Crossword type, created by Draceina Pinion

You can obtain it in Dracy´s Virtual Shop

1. Teachers can use 'DRACY CROSSWORD type 5' in the classrooms.
2. Students can use this to study languages by oneself.
3. 'DRACY CROSSWORD type 5'is wearable.
4. The accent marks are prepared. So this can be used for many languages.
5. 11 puzzles can be set in this and students can choose the puzzle.

Monday, April 12, 2010

'Languages to English', (tool for being used in S.L) made by Draceina Pinion

'Languages to English', is a tool very adequate to learn English in Second Life. The users can learn to translate sentences or words from some languages to English. Owners must add the data to the tool.

Example:
(Traduce una frase en Español al Inglés
(y escríbela en el cuadrado.
Soy una muchacha.
I am a girl.
Juego al tenis.
I play tennis.

When the tool is ready, with data added by the owner, users will be asked to translate some phrases or words to English. They must write the answer in a square and this tool will say if the answer is right or wrong. Furthermore, this tool helps users to complete answers by giving a clue.

This tool can be used to learn English by oneself. This can be used by plural accounts, too.

'Languages to English' needs just two prims to be used and it works with 2.0 version of Second Life.

You will find it at Dracy´s Virtual Shop

Video made by Draceina Pinion, explaining by voice the Languages to English tool

Sunday, August 30, 2009

WordNet

WordNet® "is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing".

The British National Corpus

The British National Corpus (BNC)
"is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century, both spoken and written. The latest edition is the BNC XML Edition, released in 2007.

The written part of the BNC (90%) includes, for example, extracts from regional and national newspapers, specialist periodicals and journals for all ages and interests, academic books and popular fiction, published and unpublished letters and memoranda, school and university essays, among many other kinds of text. The spoken part (10%) consists of orthographic transcriptions of unscripted informal conversations (recorded by volunteers selected from different age, region and social classes in a demographically balanced way) and spoken language collected in different contexts, ranging from formal business or government meetings to radio shows and phone-ins"

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