Learn Ojibwe now with OjibwemowinNoongom
Learn at your own pace in a fun, multimedia environment. Start with basic vocabulary and pronunciation, and quickly move to more advanced conversational skills. Grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, pronunciation skills are all empasized in OjibwemowinNoongom.
Learn in an immersion context
Watch video scenarios of native speakers in every day contexts. Slow down the sound to hear every nuance of speech. Turn the Ojibwe text or the English translations on or off as you watch. Each line is highlighted as it's spoken. You can even click on a sentence or word to hear it repeated again and again.
Move at your own pace. All the tools you need to succeed are immediately available.
Interactive conversational practice
Practice your lines using the prompts and the integrated speech features, then record your voice and replay the whole conversation with the lines you've recorded. It's a terrific way to get valuable real-world experience using your new language. In no time, you'll be conditioned to respond correctly without thinking about it, just like you do in English.
Grammar information at your fingertips
Quickly and easily access grammar information on any word you come across. Expand your knowledge of how a word is used in context. Find out the part of speech, how it is inflected or read a grammar tutorial.
Pronunciation practice
Improve your pronunciation by listening to the native speaker, then recording self. The audio spectrograph will compare your pronunciation with the native speaker and give you feedback for improvement. Practice with single words or whole sentences.
Play interactive language games
Or jump to interactive games. Play crosswords, vocabulous, unscramble video, word or sentence dictation or graffiti games. OjibwemowinNoongom will keep track of your scores, and tell you how you're doing.
Launch Before You Know It®
Before You Know It (BYKI) is a powerful vocabulary learning tool that will help you learn phrases with perfect recall. It uses a rapid 3-step process to help you learn the most critical words and phrases. Many words and phrases include images and native speaker audio.
BYKI guides you through a review of the material, teaches you the written and spoken forms of each word or phrase and then provides you opportunity to produce it yourself. BYKI helps you spend your study time wisely, by recognizing the items that you learn quickly and noting which items give you more trouble. It will adjust to your needs by helping you focus on the items you find challenging.
Using a personalized learning system, you'll see your progress charted as you learn items, and multiple testing options will help you with listening comprehension, writing, dictation and more.
Are you ready to start learning?
Release Date: Summer 2009
OjibwemowinNoongom will be released summer 2009. Signup now to become the first to know when OjibwemowinNoongom is available.
