{"id":256,"date":"2006-10-27T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/wblog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2008-01-08T23:33:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T22:33:05","slug":"vr-to-learn-a-foreign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/27\/vr-to-learn-a-foreign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"VR to learn a foreign language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exills.com\/\">Exills<\/a> is a project by Xerox ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xrce.xerox.com\/\">Xerox Research Centre Europe<\/a>, XRCE ) to learn foreign language on the web through a virtual world (via the Blaxxun Vrml plugin).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.web3d-fr.com\/articles\/blaxxun\/Xerox\/ecran.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.web3d-fr.com\/articles\/blaxxun\/Xerox\/article.php\">This article<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web3d-fr.com\/\">Web3D-fr<\/a> (in french) presents the project.<br \/>\nThe advantages are :<br \/>\n&#8211; To put the user into typical situations (professional, country specific..)<br \/>\n&#8211; Visual explanation of movement verbs, which are often hard to explain because very specific for each language<br \/>\n&#8211; Meeting of other foreign users that can help you learn<br \/>\n&#8211; More fun than textbooks or classes.<\/p>\n<p>Robots inside the VW are used to evaluate\/correct the user. The user is also forced to use the foreign language, since a language detector filters other languages.<br \/>\nThe user also has access to a contextual translator. Users can share relevant links they found on the web.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like a very interesting project and I hope there will be more like that. Don&#8217;t we say that immersion is the best way to learn a language? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exills is a project by Xerox ( Xerox Research Centre Europe, XRCE ) to learn foreign language on the web through a virtual world (via the Blaxxun Vrml plugin). This article on Web3D-fr (in french) presents the project&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,61,63,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}