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by Harry Diakoff
March 29th, 2014, 4:16 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Perseus, Alpheios, and Corpus-Based Language Learning
Replies: 7
Views: 3020

Re: Perseus, Alpheios, and Corpus-Based Language Learning

At the Perseus site, I can click any word and use the Perseus word tool to get all the goody info on the word. It too will prioritize the lemmata if there is more than one possibility. I know that Alpheios works independently on any site that is written in the target language, but how does the resu...
by Harry Diakoff
March 26th, 2014, 6:45 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Perseus, Alpheios, and Corpus-Based Language Learning
Replies: 7
Views: 3020

Re: Perseus, Alpheios, and Corpus-Based Language Learning

Trude has a complete German course online https://calico.org/memberBrowse.php?action=article&id=811 Scott Payne's LangBot is being moved to an android platform at the moment https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/faculty/node/144997 Mathias Schulz gave an overview of icall a couple of years a...
by Harry Diakoff
March 12th, 2014, 5:46 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: An "unsound" way to learn vocabulary
Replies: 20
Views: 7788

Re: An "unsound" way to learn vocabulary

The so-called "diglot weave" technique for learning vocabulary by substituting an increasing percentage of L2 words in L1 sentences, never raising the percentage of new words to much above five, does indeed seem to work quite well for the majority of people. The Mormons appear to have the ...
by Harry Diakoff
March 12th, 2014, 12:01 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Perseus, Alpheios, and Corpus-Based Language Learning
Replies: 7
Views: 3020

Re: Perseus, Alpheios, and Corpus-Based Language Learning

Well, Jonathan, if more people were in fact applying corpus based learned effectively to the study of classical and patristic Greek, Perseus and Alpheios would probably not be so intent on doing so ourselves. A few years ago we noticed that teachers of modern languages were developing more and more ...

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