updated 6mo ago
Why Is Korean So Hard? - BLARB
- The students learn Mandarin Chinese by conversing with A.I. avatars that can recognize not only what they say but their gestures and expressions, all against a computer-generated backdrop of Chinese street markets, restaurants and other scenes. Students in the immersion lab mastered Mandarin about twice as fast as their counterparts in conventional... See more
from How Technology Is Changing the Future of Higher Education (Published 2020) by Jon Marcus
sari added
- It's true, people who find many Chinese software UI's to be busy and crowded can't read Chinese and thus don't understand their localized appeal to the Chinese market. As eye-tracking studies have shown (example), Chinese users scan pages differently, and why shouldn't they considering the fundamental differences between an alphabetic language like... See more
from Why Information Grows — Remains of the Day by Eugene Wei
sari added
" Younger generations didn’t become “more technical”, per se – if anything, they’re probably less technically literate overall. It’s programming itself that became easier, because there are now so many tools and layers of abstraction available that make coding a much more trivial practice than before."
from Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova