Total (Onscreen) Immersion
Atlantic, The, April, 2007 by James Fallows
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No gimmicks make learning a foreign language easy. But there are tools to make it less hard. When I’m headed for a taxi or subway in China, I carry a bunch of flash cards, the best tools I’ve found for learning (and relearning) written characters. The Canon Word Tank V-80, a small handheld device I now carry with me, has a screen on which I sketch in a character I see on a sign or in the paper and then get a translation, plus pronunciation from a digitized voice.
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The tool that intrigues me now is Rosetta Stone, the language-learning program sold in booths at airports and advertised in many magazines, including this one. At first its approach struck me as bizarre. The lessons, available for purchase on CD- ROM for around $200 or online for $50 a month (I bought the CDs), contain absolutely ...
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