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A Vision of Teachionary's Future

Current state

Teachionary includes language learning resources for 18 languages including some of the most rarely taught, yet important, of modern spoken languages.

Today you can visit the website, click on Teachionary, click on a language name, click on a word set, and start learning the words for, say, face parts in Uzbek.

Students enrolled in language learning classes in these languages can benefit from supplemental language-lab services to enhance recall of what they learn in class and to prepare for material to be presented in a communicative context.

Travellers visiting another country, needing some resource to learn with, can use Teachionary to learn hundreds of useful words.

Teachionary has limitations currently. While it optimizes the cognitive process of vocabulary memorization, it does not provide a complete language teaching curriculum.

I'd like to further develop and enhance Teachionary so it can do more for you, for citizens of this world, so we can all understand each other better.

Future Plans

Teachionary could do many more things than it does so far. However, since we provide it as a low-cost service, we are dependent on external funding sources to grow and improve the system. Please contribute.

Our task plans include the following:

  • Enhance the display with non-English and phonetic spelling on the buttons.
  • Further develop the grammar-teaching modules exemplified in the Pashto "cube" sentences, for example: pronouns1.
  • Add a module for phonetic perception training.
  • Increase coverage for current languages, particularly Farsi (done), Urdu, and Tamil.
  • Add new languages
    • Czech (done)
    • Iraqi Arabic (done)
    • Korean (done)
    • Malayalam (done)
    • Palestinian Arabic
    • Dari Farsi
    • Tagalog
    • Korean (done)
    • Mandarin Chinese
    • etc.
  • Develop a web based interface to add data to the system, so that outside contributors can help grow it.
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Date: November 21, 2024