29.4333, FYI: Free App for Learning Languages and Cooking

Mon Nov 5 20:36:42 UTC 2018

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4333. Mon Nov 05 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4333, FYI: Free App for Learning Languages and Cooking

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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:36:00
From: Paul Seedhouse [paul.seedhouse at ncl.ac.uk]
Subject: Free App for Learning Languages and Cooking

This is to let you know that the Linguacuisine app is now available for free
download from the android Google Play and Apple App stores.

The free Linguacuisine app helps you learn a language while you’re cooking a
meal. Choose a foreign language and a delicious recipe from that country. Then
your own smartphone or tablet will speak to you in the foreign language and
talk you through all of the stages of cooking the recipe in your own kitchen.
If you can’t understand, just press a button to get a photo or video
explaining what to do. When you’ve finished, eat the food you’ve cooked and
learn something about the culture of the country. Linguacuisine has a range of
recipes now available for language learning from around the world at
https://linguacuisine.com/app/ 

We now have recipes available in: English, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish,
German, Arabic, Quechua, Chinese, Turkish and Korean. 

You can also use the free recipe builder app on the website so that you can
upload your own favourite recipe in your own language. That means that anyone
anywhere in the world will be able to watch videos and listen to audios of you
guiding them through cooking your recipe and learning your language! Use your
own smartphone or tablet to make recordings of yourself and upload them using
our user-friendly software to create your own recipe.

You can also join our worldwide online community so you can rate and discuss
other people’s recipes and post information, stories and photos. They can do
the same for your recipe, so it’s a good way to make friends in other
countries.

So Linguacuisine is a really fun way to learn about foreign languages,
cultures and cuisines and you get to eat what you produce. You can also tell
other people around the world about your own cooking, language and way of
life. You learn foreign words better when you are physically touching food and
cooking utensils and using them to prepare food. When you are cooking, you
involve all of your senses in the learning experience – touch, smell and taste
as well as hearing and seeing. So this is multi-modal and multi-sensory
language learning. This is task-based language learning with a real product at
the end of it and is intended to improve international understanding and
communication.

Linguacuisine is available now for all devices, smartphones, tablets and
computers from our website, where the online community is also located
https://linguacuisine.com/ 

The Linguacuisine app is the end result of a 10-year collaboration between
computing scientists and linguists at Newcastle University. The Linguacuisine
project is a collaboration between Newcastle University, Action Foundation
(UK), Hellenic Open University (Greece), Università degli Studi di Modena e
Reggio Emilia (Italy) and the Workers’ Educational Association (UK). It is
funded by an Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership grant of €324K.

For Teachers

The Linguacuisine app can be used for foreign language lessons, but also for
cookery lessons and cross-curriculum projects. Students can use the app to
cook and learn in the kitchen at home as well as at school. 

The app is a good way of preparing students for a foreign trip as it helps
engage them with the cuisine, culture and language in advance. Students can
also write their own recipes in their own language, informing people abroad
about their culture and cuisine.

It is also an excellent way of getting learners to communicate with learners
in other countries. Video links have been available for some time, but
Linguacuisine means that learners in different countries can do enjoyable
shared activities together, cooking recipes from the other countries whilst
learning about the other language and culture.

Digital skills can also be developed by using the ‘recipe builder’ authoring
software.  This was co-authored with learners and designed to develop a wide
range of digital skills using the DIGCOMP 2.1 framework; it has been shown to
be successful in improving learner competence.

For Professionals working with Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

The Linguacuisine app was co-designed with a group of migrants, refugees and
asylum seekers from Action Foundation, Newcastle, UK and seeks to help them in
two ways. Firstly, immigrants to a country can cook the recipes to learn about
the language, cuisine and culture of their host country and help their
integration. Secondly, immigrants can produce their own recipes in their own
language using the recipe builder software, so they are able to have a voice
and so people in their host country are able to learn something about their
life prior to arrival here. A number of recipes currently on Linguacuisine
have been produced by migrants in the UK.

For Catering Professionals

Chefs and other catering staff who are travelling to work abroad can introduce
themselves to the language, culture and cuisine of their destination country
by using the Linguacuisine app. They can also increase their repertoire and
employability by trying recipes from around the world and improving relevant
language skills.

Chefs can also produce their own recipes in their own language or English
using the recipe builder software. Their recipes can then be tried out by
users anywhere in the world. Users can post feedback about the recipes and
rate the recipes, so chefs can gain an international reputation and increase
their own job opportunities.

Try out the app, cook a recipe and learn a new language!

Contact us at linguacuisine at gmail.com or email paul.seedhouse at ncl.ac.uk 

Best wishes

Paul

Professor Paul Seedhouse
Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics
T: 0191 208 8873 |F: 0191 208 6546 | E: paul.seedhouse at ncl.ac.uk
A: Room 3.01, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences|
Newcastle University | King George VI Building | Queen Victoria Road |
Newcastle upon Tyne | NE1 7RU | UK

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     German (deu)
                     Greek, Modern (ell)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Korean (kor)
                     Spanish (spa)
                     Turkish (tur)

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