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Imagine
the situation. You are an exchange student from China and now you are learning French
in a university in Paris, the capital city of France. One day, you come into
the kitchen of your flat. Twenty minutes later, you cook several delicious
French dishes. To everyone's surprise. You learn the French language at the
same time! This kind of wonderful kitchen is called a French Digital Kitchen or
a "talking kitchen".
What
do you think of the "talking kitchen" A French Digital Kitchen has
been developed at Newcastle University in the UK. It teaches students how to
cook French food and speak French at the same time. For the first time, students
can learn the language by following cooking steps.
All
grammar and vocabulary have been carefully chosen to make sure the users can understand
French well. After learning for some time, the users can test themselves by
doing a short test on the computer.
The
kitchen project was started by Professor Paul Seed house. He began to show
interest in the idea after he visited another kind of talking. kitchen. He
said," the purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language
more interesting and more educational."
How
does the kitchen work? There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer,
the users can first choose a French recipe(菜谱) that they
want to follow. Using information on the computer, the kitchen starts to guide
the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instructions on the
computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the program goes back and repeats
the recipe or information. At any time, the users can ask the kitchen to repeat
the recipe on any information.
The
new kitchen can be used in schools, universities and even people's homes. The researchers
can also be developing the European Digital Kitchen, for the next three years.
