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wixi: can language learning get any easier?
ask the experts: include everyone who knows any answers
ask the ones who have fun learning language easy: kids.
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wixi your wiki to see more hows and ways we learn language,
and maybe uncover more fun and easy ways to learn language,
so maybe more of us can have more fun learning languages.
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=verb=
wixi is a verb meaning to multilingualize or learn language
wixi this verb into any wiki you like; verbs are public domain..
so this verb wixi is thus free from trademark restrictions

=noun=
wixi can serve wixi + twext interface for language learners,
with [[twext]] translations of multilingualizing [[wiki]]s

==wiki==
awesome resource, enabling communications, instructions and
meanings to be easily shared by all kindsa groups.. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham thanks!]

==twext==
potentially useful resource for language learners; a simple
system to format [[bifocal bitext]] in variable [[chunk size]]; the
twext method may enable many rich, complex learning systems.

==purpose==
wixi will enable wiki texts to "[[get twext]]", providing users
with an interface to create and share [[comprehensible input]]
and maybe make it easier to read in more languages.

=context=
demand to learn English worldwide grows intense; learning
languages creates a plethora of opportunities for people..
problem: many people have a hard time with language methods.
solution: promote systems that help people improve methods:
wixi proposes system help us freely improve [[language methods]].

=[[integrate]]=
wixi can integrate existing and potential wiki resources, ie:
• wikia, schtuff, twiki, xwiki, wikeva, etc
• OLPC laptop systems
• wikipedia and other wikimedia projects
• people who teach languages
• people who learn languages

wixi

[[User:Duke|Duke]] 11:17, 5 October 2006 (EDT)

[[category:software ideas]]

Revision as of 10:51, 10 October 2006