JP2007218934A - Computer software for foreign language learning and multilingual simultaneous learning system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve problems, called a barrier to foreign language learning, such as difficulty in thinking in English, poor listening comprehension, and difficulty in self-education of a foreign language, and to achieve acquisition of other languages through simultaneous learning. <P>SOLUTION: A teaching material is so constituted that a learner learns other foreign languages in English. The learner begins learning with easy English and, based on the comprehension of which, learns a second and a third foreign language. After the learner comprehends a story in a video where the content of daily conversation can be easily understood, answering practices and pronunciation practices in a plurality of languages are combined. In addition, the audio portion of the video is recorded in a plurality of languages including English, and a CD exclusively used for listening comprehension is combined with learning. Thus, listening comprehension, pronunciation, and the skill to directly comprehend a language can be enhanced. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

    The present invention relates to a foreign language learning system.

    Even if you study at an English conversation school with the aim of learning English conversation or study with existing English conversation materials, you will not be able to get out of the habit of thinking after translating the basic English of school English into Japanese. It usually takes a long time, more than a few years, to understand and be able to have a smooth conversation. This is because Japanese is the basis for understanding foreign languages, and it is customary to speak in Japanese or in English.

One of the major obstacles for Japanese to master foreign languages is low listening skills. This is because there are many sounds that are not in Japanese in foreign languages, and a lot of listening practice time is required to solve them.

Language acquisition requires native speakers, instructors and conversation practice partners, and it is difficult to practice conversation in self-study, resulting in high learning costs.

    Overcome the traditional habit of understanding English after the Japanese has been translated, or speaking after being translated into English. To be able to acquire skills that can be done within a short period of time.

Improve listening ability, which is not good for Japanese people, in a short period of time, and at the same time improve the pronunciation level.

Develop self-study software that can learn basic daily conversations in multiple foreign languages in a short period of time in order to reduce the costs of learners.

    In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is developed as a CD-ROM teaching material that can be personally learned by a personal computer. Introduced Video Clip, a corner where students can watch daily life scenes of American families in video as the center of their curriculum. Make the unit a short story so that you can easily understand the conversation.

As shown in Figure 1, in addition to the Video Clip above, one unit includes Pronunciation, a corner where you can practice your pronunciation, and Vocabulary, a vocabulary practice corner that enhances understanding and application, and a new word learning corner. There is a certain New Words that can be used for complex learning such as pronunciation, conversational expression, vocabulary and applied practice.

The pronunciation practice corner, vocabulary practice corner, and new word corner above have pronunciation buttons for the second and third foreign languages in addition to the pronunciation buttons for English. Turn into.

Figure 2 shows the click on Pronunciation, the pronunciation practice corner. As shown in FIG. 2, while being based on English, it is programmed so that pronunciation of a plurality of languages can be practiced at the same time by listening to the voice of the second foreign language or the third foreign language.

Vocabulary in Figure 1: Introduce voice buttons for second and third foreign languages into Vocabulary. Figure 3 shows a click on Vocabulary. As shown in Fig. 3, when learning a second foreign language and a third foreign language, the foreign language is constructed so that the meaning of the foreign language is captured in English, regardless of Japanese. Therefore, the more you learn a second or third foreign language, the more naturally you will understand and memorize English, so that you can overcome the habit of relying on Japanese and English translation and understand English as it is. .

Using the voice buttons in the Vocabulary corner above, the learner will be programmed to practice in English and answer in a second foreign language, or in a third foreign language and answer in English. Thereby, the learner can practice conversation alone.

In order to improve listening ability, a listening-only CD is created, and the story portion of the video clip is recorded in units of English, second foreign language, and third foreign language in that order. This allows the learner to listen to the short story over and over in multiple languages with different sounds.

English brain effect As shown in Fig. 4, when learning Chinese or Korean with a multilingual simultaneous learning system, if you want to understand the meaning or remember the flow of the story, English sentences will inevitably come first. As a result, the ability to instantly understand English is cultivated, the habit of translating English into Japanese is lost, and English can be understood straight.

One of the biggest effects of the English ear effect multilingual simultaneous learning system is that the hearing ability is greatly improved. As shown in Fig. 5, the learner learns other languages with different sounds at the same time, so it is possible to distinguish more than twice different sounds compared to learning only English, resulting in the ability to hear. Will improve.

Easy learning by one person The advantage of learning with the multilingual simultaneous learning system is that it is easy to answer your own questions. That is, as shown in Fig. 6, the learner asks questions in English and answers in a second foreign language or a third foreign language, or questions in a second foreign language and answers in English or a third foreign language. Can be done by yourself. It is important to have a conversation partner in learning foreign language, but this system can compensate for it to some extent, and it is easy for one person to continue learning happily.

Click four buttons to learn. Video Clip allows you to watch a daily life scene of a family on video. Clicking the Pronunciation button allows you to practice pronunciation of everyday conversation as seen on the video. Click on the Vocabulary button to improve vocabulary comprehension and practice response. Click the New Words button to learn new words. When you click the voice button a, you can hear the pronunciation of each language and practice pronunciation over and over again. Click the voice button to hear the question and answer in each language. Select the answer from A and B and click Check Answer. If the answer is correct, the correct display will appear in voice and text. You can go forward. If the answer is incorrect, the Reset button will appear and you will not be able to proceed until you get the correct answer, so even one person can easily learn. When a learner learns a second or third foreign language, he / she understands the meaning based on English, not Japanese. Through personal learning on a personal computer, learners can practice listening to other foreign languages with different sounds. While learning multiple foreign languages, learners can practice response in different languages on their own.

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As a learning material for everyday English conversation, a video image of a scene in which a real life of a general American family is tailored is recorded in a CD-ROM. Units are organized around them, and each unit has a corner to improve pronunciation practice and comprehension of words and syntax. Computer software that allows you to learn multiple languages at the same time by installing a play button to listen to the pronunciation of other foreign languages in the same corner. When learning other foreign languages, such as pronunciation practice and question-and-answer practice, as a means to understand the meaning of the foreign language, it is set so that it can be understood in English sentences, the more you learn the second foreign language, An English brain improvement type multilingual simultaneous learning system that naturally increases English understanding. A multilingual simultaneous learning system that can record daily conversations alternately in multiple languages and improve listening and pronunciation with a multilingual listening CD. When studying personally, you can remember questions and answer sentences, ask questions in English, and practice in the second and third foreign languages, or vice versa, so that one person can easily do so. Multilingual simultaneous learning system that enables language acquisition

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