483861 http://uservoice.com/users/483861-ghilhaume http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a64d3117573681a6dcabfc0d3ed4ad46?default=http://uservoice.com/images/icons/default-avatar.jpg ghilhaume ghilhaume ghilhaume 40 64 16573 http://livemocha.uservoice.com/pages/2163-features/suggestions/16573-add-forum-message-board 380 22 2163 Features general 28299 livemocha livemocha livemocha 2008-08-08T20:28:34Z 2008-08-08T21:10:50Z general 17623 http://livemocha.uservoice.com/pages/2163-features/suggestions/17623-a-wikipedia-like-solution-for-users-to-create-lessons The lessons by themselves are not sufficient if one wants to learn a language using only We need to have an addition to each lesson, that would allow users to create a lesson summing up the ... The lessons by themselves are not sufficient if one wants to learn a language using only Livemocha. We need to have an addition to each lesson, that would allow users to create a lesson summing up the content of the course. For instance: -vocabulary -tenses -grammar etc. As I am learning Hindi, I can tell that learning the devanagari alphabet is crucial. Yet nowhere on Livemocha can we find a tutorial. Users could modify the contents freely or under certain restraints (knowledge of the language, user's points, elections through votes by other members...) I think that would be a HUGE addition to LiveMocha. Long life!! 268 14 2163 Features general 31601 qdbout qdbout qdbout 2008-08-13T22:18:14Z 2008-08-13T22:18:14Z general 27436 http://livemocha.uservoice.com/pages/2163-features/suggestions/27436-add-verb-conjugator-grammar-lessons It would be very useful to add a feature that conjugates common verbs or gives the user brief grammar lessons for writing exercises. Many users on LiveMocha have very little exposure to the language... It would be very useful to add a feature that conjugates common verbs or gives the user brief grammar lessons for writing exercises. Many users on LiveMocha have very little exposure to the language and unless you've taken it in school before, the writing exercises are impossible! 635 27 started 2163 Features general 47227 anonymous anonymous anonymous 2008-09-20T11:58:23Z 2009-03-26T12:40:38Z general 36428 http://livemocha.uservoice.com/pages/2163-features/suggestions/36428-don-t-stick-to-one-size-fits-all-lessons I've completed the Spanish 101 course (although it's admittedly way below my level -- I was trying out the system and I still learned some new words or expressions now and then) and played a bit with... I've completed the Spanish 101 course (although it's admittedly way below my level -- I was trying out the system and I still learned some new words or expressions now and then) and played a bit with other courses as well. In so doing, I found it obvious that you created a course for learning English, then simply swapped in different words (and sometimes grammar structures) to make lessons for other languages. If this is not actually what happened, it still certainly looks that way. Now, I understand why you've done this, of course: It's a heck of a lot faster and easier to reuse pictures and sentence patterns for every language than to do every course from scratch. And it's true: a lot of the work you've done is just fine and can be adapted virtually as-is. But you can't do that for the entire course, because no two languages work exactly alike, and a lot of the differences come up from the very beginning. For example, the lessons for Romance languages invariably use familiar forms for "you", which I don't think is a good idea: the student should be introduced to the difference between familiar and formal forms from the beginning and be taught to err on the side of being too formal. The lessons also tend to use subject pronouns much more than necessary, which can form bad habits: it's a very common mistake to overuse subject pronouns, and students should be taught to use them only when actually necessary. There are other problems, too. For instance, Spanish 101 Unit 3 lesson 5 has the phrase "508 niñas", and somebody going by only the lesson would probably guess "Cincocientos ocho niñas", but in fact it must be "Quientas ocho niñas": the word for 500 is irregular and the numbers 100-900 must change for gender. But this wasn't taken into account, because the course wasn't designed with the Spanish language in mind. 288 16 under review 2163 Features general 61025 furrykef furrykef furrykef 2008-10-14T23:39:44Z 2009-01-29T19:54:16Z general 2009-05-17T21:43:20Z 2009-08-04T23:46:48Z