Tick-Tack
is one of those brilliant ideas that everyone wishes they had
thought of. Simple to use, it provides a wonderful
stimulus to anyone wanting to improve their confidence in
learning a language. My wife Anne and I, both keen linguists from
Oxford, refined the idea as a hobby and
then developed and perfected it, making it into an
international success story. It offers a
library of complete sentences, relevant to the subject, each
with a code-number, and a direct equivalent in other
languages. Choosing your sentences and then selecting the same
code-number in the chosen language, creates a text which is
elegant, correct and authentic. You edit the text to create
your final document. Learn more about it in the extract from
my presentation, given below.
The main languages and programs now offer tasks and exercises,
voice-recordings and wordlists. Available on CD and
on-line, it is now in 12 programs covering 50 languages,
mainly European ones. Asian languages are now being added to
Tick-Tack in co-operation with Language Learning Club.
I am sure Tick-Tack will be
of great help to all Japanese people who want to use a second
language more efficiently - both in their work and
socially.