ESL and more with open source

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ESL and more with open source

Author: jza

Software libre habla Espanol, and English, et Francais, a Romanesce, wa Nohonjin. But not just that, also free software teaches you all these languages. KDE education project has a suite of tools and applications to learn from Japanese Kanjis to English as a second Language to how to say "Hola amigos" and not stop there.

Here are some of the tools that KDE can have your classroom learn not just one but many languages.

kwordquiz - Fun game in which the student need to make use of his vocabulary skills to learn the language.
Kletters - The application will let you learn the alphabet and also basic syllables in different languages. It is meant to help learning the very first sounds of a new language, for children or for adults.
Kiten - is a beautiful application for students that want to learn Japanese. Learn your students say 'kombonwa' with this application.
KVerbos - With KVerbos you can practice the Spanish verb conjugation. The program comes with a large set of Spanish verbs.
Lektura - The teacher can select the difficulty level into the exercise. This is a multimedia application so learning is based in pictures and sounds.

This applications are really great tools for teachers to use and execute in classroom environments. Other tools such as Ekiga is a great tool to have live conversations over the internet. This will help your students practice conversational drills. Another application is Gizmo which will let you record conversations and study them.

Gizmo te permite hablar en todo el mundo

More applications can also help you to learn new languages. There is also web tools that are free to use and implement. Future lessons will also touch how to languages tools can connect to your Linux classroom.