'the cat sat on the mat': learn reading?

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I remember the brilliant stik-man-cartoon Spanish-tutor-book. Yo soy un hombre ....

So, for languages that are less phoenetic than Spanish, how would you setup a system, using eg. `scratch`, so that the children would program learn-to-read-ERS, for younger children?

Let's consider: the man sees a banana the boy eats a banana the woman calls the girl the girl approaches the woman ....

Currently `scratch/squeak` has got a 'CAT' image. Would it be trivially easy to add: man, boy, ...dog?

I remember, it has sound: beep. So, could the child-programmer record their own speech and syncronise it with the appearance of the words?

Will the teachers'-union appeal against this at UNO - you know?

What about 'foreign' languages? Are RPis sold in China? Can Russian, Japanese RPi-ers exchange 'tutors', so that I can then learn to read/speak Japanese?

Dom · Accepted Answer

(snip a load of questions I don't know the answers to)

Yes.

There is a Chinese manufacturer/distributor (called "Egoman", I think).

They are only allowed to sell to China.

You can tell their Pis from RS/Farnell ones because the board is red, not green. They also have a different set of revision numbers.

You can sometimes see them being re-sold on eBay.

John Rumm · Answer

Yes. If you look in the media/costumes directory there are tones of  people, animals and other sprites supplied as standard. Yup. Huh? No reason why not. Yes. Have a look at the scratch web site - loads of uploaded programs to play  with. --  Cheers, John. /================================================================= |          Internode Ltd -              | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| |        John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk              | =================================================================/

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