It would be great if there was a program for turning NL into TL idea. For example, you could start off at a restaurant. There is a menu. You can choose what you want from a menu. Say you choose strawberries, there would be a sentence that comes up in Korean that says: "I want strawberries." And then you have to pay. You can choose different methods of payment. You should choose what you normally use. You choose "$5". Then the change will come back. The server will say, "$2 change" or something like that.
Then you can go to the clothes shop. You choose what you want to try on. You choose a skirt. So you press skirt or a picture of a skirt.
The Korean sentence will come up and say, "Can I try on the skirt?".
The server will say yes, "go there." You go to the changing room. And you find it's too small. You want a different size. And you can choose a different size. And the sentence comes up with "Do you have this in medium?" or whatever size you choose.
And so it goes on. It is almost like a role-playing game.
Another idea that's good is to find things like the Gardenscape game. Have things in different languages. It's easy to adapt that game for different languages I think. It would be good for nouns especially objects, but not that good for verbs, unless you choose a different type of object, such as name that activity.
There are so many possibilities with computer programs, especially games.
But my idea is to focus on the reader's choice. What THEY want to say.
So it is going from NL to TL.
A game would take a lot of work though. The program would take a lot of work. But it would really be HELPFUL. Majorly helpful.
I think someone who is talented in that sort of technology would be good to collaborate with. I would think of the concept; the person would be the one to put it into motion.
So there are so many things that can be done. LOTS and LOTS of scenarios. Picnic, movie theater, shopping, restaurants, fast food restaurant, food court, clothes shopping, shoes shopping, buying furniture, renting a home, buying a phone, shopping at the supermarket, buying an electronic dictionary, ordering something online, getting your blocked toilet fixed, getting a leaking tap fixed, opening a bank account, traveling by subway, traveling to a country town by train, booking a hotel, buying a piece of luggage, buying a fan, buying a washing machine, buying a TV. Ordering a coffee at a coffee shop ... buying fruit ... so many things to do ... hospital visit ... seeing a dentist ... visiting a zoo ... going to a museum ... buying a souvenir ... going to the library ... buying snacks at a convenience store, catching a bus, catching a taxi ...
It can be done with multiple languages. The thing is that the learner picks what is RELEVANT for them. I reckon that anybody who went through such a program would learn in a very short time.
What I can do is after the learner chooses the thing, the sentence comes up - in Romanization - and there is audio - the sentence is read aloud six times. There is a pause for the person to repeat the sentence and there is a question at the end: "Would you like to hear it again?" and a button.
And so it goes ...
I think there should be about twenty of these scenarios. All with nice romanization, nice readings that are repeated ...
There can be a game element to it as well. Eg. Packing for a trip. You can pick twelve things for a trip. You choose twelve things from a picture that has about thirty things in it. You lose your baggage at the airport. They take you to the Lost and Found room. There are many things in that room. Now you have to indicate which ones are yours. There are things on the left you choose from. So you have to know the TL for the things you packed. Once you have found all the things you've packed then you can move on.
So it's all about CHOICE. The person will have a terrific time with this program. It's very visual like a computer game. It's very helpful. I think that it's more for a beginner though.
The good thing is that it can be adapted for different languages. The user can use the program again and again and make different choices each time. It's INTERACTIVE which is good.
There are a few "tests" as well.
The important thing about this game is that it always goes from NL to TL. The learner chooses something in English and then a sentence comes up in romanized Korean and they can hear the audio. The audio is repeated multiple times by the way.
The learner always feels in control no matter what. They choose the activity, the problem, the thing they want to buy and so on. So it's a matter of choosing things. There aren't THAT many choices, otherwise it confuses the person.
Anyway, I think it will be fun. And the learner will learn quickly. They can learn many things in different languages that way.
