[eal-bilingual] multilingual software

Hi

There would definitely be a need for Somali and Arabic.  I may be able to
get involved with Czech, if needed. I'd like to see what is available - an
example? You can contact me at work or through my personal email
(norafabian at hotmail.com).

Nora McKenna
Children's Education Policy Adviser
Mainstreaming Team
The Refugee Council
240 -250 Ferndale Road
London  SW9 8BB
Direct Line:  020 7346 1168
T: 020 7346 6700
F:  020 7737 3306

-----Original Message-----
From: trevor millum [mailto:trevor at fernhse.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: 25 January 2007 14:58
To: For practitioners involved in teaching pupils from ethnic andlinguistic
minorities
Subject: Re: [eal-bilingual] multilingual software

I wonder if anyone out there is interested in helping to develop some 
multi-lingual software which we have been working on for the last year or 
so?

I work (part-time) for a small family-run company called Resource Education 
which makes educational software and we have (with the help of one or two 
LAs and other local experts) created a way of incorporating a range of 
languages into a number of our Primary programs.  So far we have worked on 
Gujerati, Urdu, Punjabi and Polish (as well as Welsh, Spanish and French) 
but we would like to branch out further as we have discovered there is 
considerabe demand!
The software feature we have created is called Talk-2-Talk and enables 
recorded speech in a program to be spoken twice: once in one language, then 
in another. (Can be used in single language mode as well, of course). As far

as I know, this hasn't been done elsewhere.

I'll keep this brief - but if anyone is interested in getting involved - or 
just making suggestions, please email me  trevor at fernhse.demon.co.uk   We 
would obviously make sure that any help was properly recompensed.

Trevor Millum