Monday 29 August 2011

Wait.. I'll turn on the sound...

With the introduction of the iTouch, Iphone, IPad etc. in our house, the number of applications increased as well. One of the applications we have downloaded is a Norwegian Signlanguage Application..
We used signlanguage - well, signs, when Lotte couldn't hear, and in the time she started wearing CI. So, out of interest, we had a look at the application.
It's very good. Many words in alphabetical order with a video attached showing the sign. Obviously, it's "sign", not "signlanguage" but still good to have..
Of course, we showed it to Lotte who is interested in learning the signs... She loved it... part of "loving anything that moves on a touch-screen" but she is very interested in signing...

So.. Lotte wanted to have a go at it and loved it. Entering the words, looking at the video and repeating them to us - for us to guess what it meant... Great game..

Suddenly she say's "I'll turn the sound on so we can hear what the lady says." only to find that there was no sound with this application... She was so surprised.....
Then she smiled, looked at us and said.. "Yeh.! I can do that as well". Took off her CI's and continued playing with the application for a while..
Not too long... there's not enough sound to keep it interesting....




 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I dont think lack of sounds have anything to do with it. People lose interests in any vocabulary building quickly. It take determination to keep going. My hearing son does the same thing with japanese on CD. He lost interests real quick. People learn better in class with human interaction.

Anonymous said...

My experience is the same as the person above - vocabulary lists are pretty boring in any modality.

It's when there's something interesting to do that uses the language you're learning that it's most engaging. Like having a friend that speaks that language and doesn't speak your language, an entertaining story, a place you really want to visit, etc....

Even learning sentences or short conversations is much more fun and makes you remember a lot more.

Cloggy said...

When Lotte wants to learn sign language, we will provide for that. And it will not be from an iPhone. It will be by providing her with a Deaf environment where she learns signlanguage. not just sign.
So far, speaking Dutch, Norwegian and learning English is filling up a lot of the available time. If we have to choose between interacting with children in the street, at sport etc and time spend on learning signlanguage, the social activity will have priority. Ideally, both wold be done at the same time, but for us, that's not an option.. Lotte will have to be taken out of 1 environment in order to go to the other...
But time will tell...

Cloggy said...

When Lotte wants to learn sign language, we will provide for that. And it will not be from an iPhone. It will be by providing her with a Deaf environment where she learns signlanguage. not just sign.
So far, speaking Dutch, Norwegian and learning English is filling up a lot of the available time. If we have to choose between interacting with children in the street, at sport etc and time spend on learning signlanguage, the social activity will have priority. Ideally, both wold be done at the same time, but for us, that's not an option.. Lotte will have to be taken out of 1 environment in order to go to the other...
But time will tell...

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