Fabien Benetou's PIM Languages/Languages

Languages

Still to add

Hebrew?
- שִׁבֹּלֶת (shibbólet)
- עִבְרִית (Ivrit) : Hebrew
- ? (aemaeth) : Truth; God
- גולם (golem) : animated anthropomorphic being created entirely from inanimate matter
Spanish?
- lessons at Les Cordeliers
Portuguese? (brasilian)
- lessons at UTC
- lessons at UTFPR
  - in particular Gerencia do Conhecimento
- daily life in Brazil
German?
- lessons at Les Cordeliers
- motivating material
  - http://media.ccc.de/
French?
- Bernard Cerquiglini, apôtre de la francophonie et du plurilinguisme ! Jean Pruvost, Canal Academie May 2010
- add my discussions with Gilbert
Chinese?
- lessons at UTC
- include potential cognitive difference of symbol manipulation
  - stay up to date regarding technology for inputs
    - linearity and phonetics aspect
    - Wu Bi input
Japanese?
- Anime
- Lean Thinking
Template?
- consider English since it is the most complete and used page so far
- why I was initially interested in that language
- why am I currently interested or not
- ...
- expressions, metaphores, idioms, ... cf little book we had in French/English
- Hierarchical tree thanks to linguistic research
  - origin and mother tongue in linguistic
- arrow diagram of properties on the top of each page
  - Italian accent straightforward vs. English with a lot of complex accents
  - Chinese with no conjugation marker on tenses and person vs. french
  - conjugation including both
- overall coherent navigation mode
  - general (tree) in Languages
    - per page (same zoomed tree with highlighted node of the current page)

Linguistic

Tools to learn existing languages

most frequently used words
- in English
  - Common English Words List Available as Download by TextFixer
  - WORDCOUNT Tracking the Way We Use Language
- in French
  - Liste des mots classée par fréquence décroissante EduSCOL
- each would benefit from a GreaseMonkey script to add
  - definition
  - translation in another language
  - pronunciation
  - example in a sentence
  - pictures
Recherche d'un mot with "saisie phonétique", TLFi
Wiktionary
- use with a shortcut to directly access a definition, like http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/exemple
The Mnemosyne Project flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs
Image search
- example http://images.google.com/images?q=bateau
Save The Words
StudyStacks Languages Study Resources
Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus based on Princeton University’s WordNet
Langue française by Canal Académie
- Erik Orsenna : pour apprendre la langue française, il faut articuler savoir et plaisir, February 2010
Gradint variant of the "graduated-interval recall" method published by Pimsleur in 1967

Still to explore

http://en.allexperts.com/e/l/li/list_of_idioms_in_the_french_language.htm
check http://www.interactiveselfstudy.com/
subtitles
- Universal Subtitles
- dotSUB Share your videos in multiple languages in a few simple steps
mbrola Towards a Freely Available Multilingual Speech Synthesizer
http://www.theconjugator.com/
http://www.leconjugueur.com/
check http://singandstudy.com/
OpenNLP organizational center for open source projects related to natural language processing.

Remark

Those tools should be integrated and used with artificial languages

Domain Specific Language
Computer Languages
Professional vocabularies
Specific Ontologies

Research

A new method for fMRI investigations of language: Defining ROIs functionally in individual subjects, Fedorenko et al., 10.1152/jn.00032.2010, Journal of Neurophysiology April 2010
The Rise of the Speaking Machine - Human Language Evolution by Mark Pagel, Santa Fe Institute 2009
- Mark Pagel Reading Evolutionary Biology Group website
Ray Jackendoff's webpage, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University

Making your own language

project with Dina (cf lost pages in this wiki)
discussion in Point Click When Thinking Stops regarding language
inspired by Building Your Own Dynamic Language by Ian Piumarta for the Stanford University 2007
1. consider then making it a Cookbook page
not limited to text and computer languages
1. Tangible Functional Programming http://conal.net/papers/Eros/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJ8N0giqzw
2. Wikipedia:Esperanto
"A programming language that doesn't change the way you think is not worth learning. " Alan Perlis
my own Keywords
1. yet without grammar

To do

parse logs
1. assign channel and users to languages
  1. mapping path <=> language
2. keep only own sentences
  1. ... | grep Utopiah|Fabien|...
3. concatenate in 1 file per language
  1. ... | ... > language_file
4. sort alphabetically
  1. ... | sort
5. remove duplicates
  1. ... | uniq
6. spellcheck
  1. local spell check (with OpenOffice, Firefox, Gmail, ...)
  2. remote with web service (Bescherel ?)
export Firefox logs
1. url like "%translate.google.com/%"
2. url like dictionnaries...
Wikipedia:Context-free grammar (CFG)
Wikipedia:Affix
1. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:All_affixes

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