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Article: Lingua franca for home learning
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 7, 1994
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Browse in any middle-class home and you are likely to find the
abandoned corpse of at least one foreign language study package.
Perhaps you intended to learn a little holiday Spanish or acquire
some basic business French, but somehow each time you put on the
cassette your eyes closed.
A new medium which claims to combine the advantages of audio
cassette, textbook and video with the ability to interact might
seem to be the answer. And this is the promise held out by
language- learning packages on CD-Rom.
Plenty of titles have already appeared in the catalogues, from
business courses to packages for young children, but do they live
up to the hype? There is certainly little correlation between ...