Language Learning Apps

[Aidan Wilson]

Yes, we've had some issues with various phones, such is java. Unfortunately
the sorts of phones that most people have in community situations are the
cheapest off-the-shelf ones that all run different software. It would be a
lot simpler if everyone had Androids, or even those other ones made by
Apple, but that won't happen anytime soon.

Incidentally, a book containing a chapter I wrote on the project has just
been published by Sydney University Press and is available to order from:
http://fmx01.ucc.usyd.edu.au/jspcart/cart/Product.jsp?nID=525&nCategoryID=24

-Aidan

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Aidan Wilson

Department of Linguistics
The University of Melbourne
a.wilson at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, phil cash cash wrote:

> Just a bit of follow up...
>
> Apparently, the folks in Australia who have done some amazing work in regard 
> to mobile phone apps.  If you have not seen this link or blog, it is quite 
> interesting to say the least.  It is noted in the blog post that the mobile 
> phone dictionary uses the Java platform.
>
> http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/elac/2008/07/mobile_phone_dictionaries.html
>
> As a test, a tribal community member recently tried to load the mobile phone 
> dictionary from the above link.  Here is the response:
>
> "I tried to install the mobile dictionary and I could not get it to load. My 
> mobile phone uses WM and I have had trouble with any program that uses Java 
> platform on it. Perhaps someone who is using a blackberry or a droid could 
> try to load it and let us know."
>
> All of this is exploratory at the moment and community members are very 
> interested in on how things may work in this regard.
>
> Phil