TALK WITH METhe social way to learn a language

WHAT´S GOING ON RIGHT NOW?

Country analysisAll project partners have been elaborating reports on the current state of arts concerning the demand and o�er on the Eastern European languages . One of the main aims of the analysis is to describe potencial target groups which could bene�t from our project and to outline the opportunities for the project and its products.Recruitment of pilot test participantsWe have been looking for people interested in learning Czech, Slovak, Hungarian or Slovenian who would be willing to participate in the pilot phase of the project. For further information look at the project website and contact your local project partner or the project coordinator.

TYPICAL PARTICIPANTS WILL BE: * future Erasmus students or other international students * businesspeople * tourism managers * migrants * unemployed people or people on maternity leave * seniors with basic ICT skills * tourists with deeper language interest

The attractivity of web-based social networks has been the starting point for “Talk with me” as a new, interac-tive, deeply socially motivated way to learn. The project makes use of the potentials of a blended-learning approach, using Second Life™ as a virtual 3D interactive social community environment combined with a powerful learn managment system.

The platform provides content for the level A (basic user) of the languages Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Slove-nian. It will motivate target groups that are less inclined to traditional language learning and will stimulate a rich multi-directional intercultural dialogue between the participants and the 'outside world'.

The mission of the 'Talk with me'-project combines several important intentions:

* It supports the European strategy of Multilingualism and motivates people to learn less known and less spoken European languages. As the countries where the languages are spoken are geographicaly close , the project can exploit the existing cross-border relationships and common �elds of interest.

* It uses the possibilities of state-of-the-art technology including a learn management system, Web 2.0 and 3D-virtual worlds to build an attractive setting for a creative and respect-ful learning process.

* It combines several elements of experience pedagogy and task-based learning as well as emotional and social learning with powerful information technologies and to integrate them in an immersive, engaging, user-friendly and e�cient language teaching system.

* It addresses learners who don´t like classical languages classes, who need a distance-learning o�er because of geographical or personal reasons and for whom social motiva-tion is especially important for their learning success.

MISSION

WHY COULD OUR PROJECT ADRESS YOU?We aim to develop a language learning platform that will be:distance learningsimpleinteractive and playfulindividualsocial