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9 years ago Looks pretty cool! Excited to see all the progress being made to OpenWords.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Marc-Bogonovich notifications@github.com wrote:
This description of the Writing LM is not yet complete. Please give me some time to complete it.
Given our prioritization of Chinese, and the importance of writing in Chinese, together with the availability of existing resources, we should aim to generate a Chinese writing learning module.
This writing learning module can be put together by appropriating existing resources in the public domain (Wikimedia Stroke Order Project), and existing utilities available for writing Chinese characters in the Android system - specifically built for Chinese writers (as opposed to purpose built for learners).
Stroke Order Project: At the time of this writing there were 379 animated GIFs available in the Wikimedia Commons Stroke Order project - and 86 GIFs to be animated. Importantly, 100 radicals in particular are especially prevalent in the most common Chinese characters. Learning these radicals in particular goes a very long way toward writing proficiency in Chinese.
Stroke Order website: http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Stroke_Order_Project
Here is the link to the Hacking Chinese website - describing the common Chinese radicals:
http://www.hackingchinese.com/kickstart-your-character-learning-with-the-100-most-common-radicals/
The following is an example GIF from the Stroke Order Project.
[image: screenshot_2014-12-22-18-16-27] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/3949100/5532627/0c030ac8-8a08-11e4-9b11-5d240cd79007.png
The Interface of the Writing LM.
The Writing LM does not need to be a test per se. In fact, the Writing LM must first teach writing before testing. So, we would need at least (and probably at most) the following kind of setup..... HERE I'LL ILLUSTRATE THE WRITING LM.
Simplified vs. Traditional The same available
What we learn from the Writing LM for Chinese could be applied to other languages that have similar writing utilities. This will however, be most important for X->Chinese. The writing complexity of Chinese is perhaps the greatest. However, there is a second category of languages with great complexity, but perhaps not quite as complex as Chinese. These are syllablary languages.
These languages include Korean, Oromo (Ethiopic script), and many others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabary
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Marc-Bogonovich
This is a description of an Openwords Writing LM. This is a first draft, input at this stage would be valuable.
Given our prioritization of Chinese, and the importance of writing in Chinese, together with the availability of existing resources, we should aim to generate a Chinese writing learning module.
This writing learning module can be put together by appropriating existing resources in the public domain (Wikimedia Stroke Order Project), and existing utilities available for writing Chinese characters in the Android system - specifically built for Chinese writers (as opposed to purpose built for learners).
Stroke Order Project: At the time of this writing there were 379 animated GIFs available in the Wikimedia Commons Stroke Order project - and 86 GIFs to be animated. Importantly, 100 radicals in particular are especially prevalent in the most common Chinese characters. Learning these radicals in particular goes a very long way toward writing proficiency in Chinese.
Stroke Order website: http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Stroke_Order_Project
Here is the link to the Hacking Chinese website - describing the common Chinese radicals: http://www.hackingchinese.com/kickstart-your-character-learning-with-the-100-most-common-radicals/
The following is an example GIF from the Stroke Order Project.
The Interface of the Writing LM.
The Writing LM does not need to be a test per se. In fact, the Writing LM must first teach writing before testing. So, we would need at least (and probably at most) the following kind of setup. The appropriate GIF resource from the Stroke Order Project at the top illustrating the stroke order. On the bottom, a Chinese writing Android utility would need to be brought up, and placed on the writing input setting. This setup is illustrated below.
The learner would write in the utility and the utility would produce the character. Provided the learner is following the strokes as illustrated from the Stroke Order Project, the appropriate character should emerge, some signal of success could be provided at this stage. We might encourage several iterations each writing exercise.
Simplified vs. Traditional Both Simplified and Traditional input are available, and thus we'll want the appropriate input method of the utility for the language being learned.
Extension to other languages What we learn from the Writing LM for Chinese could be applied to other languages that have similar writing utilities. This will however, be most important for X->Chinese. The writing complexity of Chinese is perhaps the greatest. However, there is a second category of languages with great complexity, but perhaps not quite as complex as Chinese. These are syllabary languages.
These languages include Korean, Oromo (Ethiopic script), and many others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabary
Here is a list of Syllabaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_writing_systems#Syllabaries