--- Forwarded Message from Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 17:13:27 -0400 >From: Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: [log in to unmask] >To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7176.2 IALLT Tech Museum (!) >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >Originator-Info: login-id=psawhill; server=mail.oberlin.edu This recently was given to our lab by the East Asian Studies Department: A Chinese vocabulary "tutor" that consists of boxes and boxes and boxes of manila cards with a magnetic strip on each of them that can be run through an electronic reader and, depending upon the speed with which you fling it through you can have very fast Chinese sounds or painfully slow and somewhat montone Chinese sounds. But the strip is only long enough for one or two words...so creating audible sentences with this technology is an aerobic activity...cards flying, strips swiping... Barbara Barbara Sawhill Director Cooper International Learning Center (The Language Lab) Oberlin College phone: 440-775-8595 fax: 440-775-6888 The Language Lab website: http://www.oberlin.edu/ilc "The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does."