Anyone familiar?

[Andre Cramblit]

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From: "Veronica Gilhooly" <veronica.gilhooly at welho.com>
Subject: Native American Indian Languages- teaching  material

Dear recipient

My name is Veronica Gilhooly and I reside in Helsinki, Finland. I  
work in
the area of language training, translations and web based resources for
teachers.

We have in the past year set up a website for teachers including 16  
tools to
make worksheets with and around 2000 hand drawn pictures by 2  
artists. At
the moment we offer 31 languages, and some of the tools enables  
teachers to
make bilingual material as well, with or without pictures.
Some interactive games have been added as well for students to practice
vocabulary and grammar with.

www.thelanguagemenu.com (Teacher's material)

The site is free for anyone to use and download material from.  
Material is
being made by teachers of different languages and our aim is to have  
over 50
less spoken languages on our website within the next 6 months. There  
is no
limit to the amount of languages we are able to add to the site.

As we have added most of the European languages and some Asian  
languages to
the site, we have also been approached by several organisations  
asking us to
develop material for less commonly use languages as well. We are now  
trying
to find possible partners to work with in this area. We would now   
like to
ask you if you would be interested in being a part of this project to  
make
material into the Native American Indian languages more readily  
available
for teachers and students. We have added fonts (UTF-8) to support  
some non
latin languages, but this still needs to be updated with a larger  
fontsystem
when more non latin based languages are to be added to the site.

We have an excel wordlist with around 3000 common words like nouns,  
verbs
and adjectives, and pictures for these are being drawn and updated  
regulary.
When this wordlist is translated to the "new" language, we can easily  
add
them to our database, and the tools that uses the words (and the  
pictures to
correspond with this) are ready to use within the hour after that.  
What we
are looking for is someone to translate the lists to their native  
language
and perhaps a person/teacher for each language to create grammar and
vocabulary material in their native language as well. This would then  
be a
resource to be used by teachers anywhere for free.


We will be adding about 20 more tools and about the same amount in  
different
interactive games/exercises in the next year, depending on how much  
time our
collaborators have to develop the site with us. We have also found  
teachers
of different languages who are wiling to create language material like
grammar and vocabulary exercises (to be added to the tool "fill in the
blank") and a lot of games to be downloaded from the material bank.  
We have
already started working with English, Swedish, Danish, French, Russian,
Spanish, Romanian and Icelandic teachers who are creating material.
Discussion exercises, flash cards of diffent types, power point
presentations in different languages will be added as well in the near
future.

The website will receive a "facelift" during the month of December  
when we
will add some new features and change the look of it as well, and more
material will be added.

Other institutes supporting our project:
The Finnish-Danish cultural center, The Finnish-Norwegian cultural  
center
http://www.hanasaari.fi/english/index.html and the Pools Project in  
Denmark
http://www.languages.dk/cooperations.html

If you would be interested in participating in this project, please  
contact
me at the address/telephone numbers below.

(If this is not something you would like to be involved in, perhaps  
it would
be possible for you could let me know what organisation would be the  
correct
one to be in contact with?)


Best regards
Veronica

Veronica Gilhooly
MD

Learnwell Oy-The Language Menu
Hietalahdenkatu 2 B
00180 Helsinki, Finland
+358 45 130 1114
+ 358 50 531 1453
veronica.gilhooly at welho.com
office at thelanguagemenu.com
veronica.gilhooly at thelanguagemenu.com
www.thelanguagemenu.com


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