NYT on iPods for language learning

I talk a lot about this on my http://www.mp3languagelearning.com site - basically the way you learn is listen over and over to native speakers. I also talk on my blog about this. http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/ Basically if you use music for language learning or ipods or mp3 it all helps.

Just hoping that the kids aren't given Bob Dylan or something, imagine a generation of kids learning English with that long drawl through each word.

Didn't we learn any thing from 'Better Off Dead'?

There has been an ongoing debate about iPod use in schools for some time -some say they are great because they're familiar and so ubiquitous, others say there no good because they are so limited compared to PDA's.

You can read more about this debate by doing a search for ipod at http://www.mlearnxyz.net.

The best resource site for ipods in education is http://www.learninginhand.com/ipod/index.html

iPods for translations is a cool idea. I like this site:

http://www.mp3translations.com/

I love my iPod, but it seems EXTREMELY cost ineffective. Even with an educational discount, spending hundreds of dollars a pop seems like a waste for a school district that doesn't have many resources. It would be a lot cheaper to buy a bunch of CD-Rs and even portable CD players. Since most people probably have a CD player in their homes, these portable CD players wouldn't even be necessary for every student. It just seems like such a waste of money.

Jonathan, you may have seen that here:

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/10/ipod-being-used-by-army-as-arabic-translator-in-iraq/

I believe it was on the oday show that military are using iPods with different language tranlations programmer into them to aid in road side checks in the middle east. Apparently they have sign language pictures on the too to help gesture to civilians.

I use my iphone to play music to put my month old daughter to sleep.