User:Lolocowboy

This is about a vocabulary-based student-directed curriculum/methodology for teaching English to second-language learners. It would probably work with other second languages. It's well suited to China because no textbook is required - just a bilingual dictionary.

While I'm here, I would like to ask if any reader knows how to do sound mouse-overs for icons, on a website. The sound has to be resident - it takes too long to fetch a sound clip from a faraway server. In other words, I'm designing little icons, in the shape of phonemic characters (36 of them for English), that a language learner can run his/her mouse over. This creates a sound - that of the phonemic character. This is for the Pronunciation unit of this curriculum/methodology. If anyone knows how to do this, we can team up. I'm using 36 sounds for English, mostly common ones found in dictionaries. The long-term goal is to bunch two or more of these phonemic characters together to form a word (did I mention that the phonemic character icons are movable on a web page?) which can be heard when the mouse goes over the bunched characters. The short-term goal is to build the characters and to embed the sounds they represent (each character has one sound) on a movable icon on a web page.