EcrireEnPictos to practice french spoken and written

We developped EcrireEnPictos for people with special needs who meets difficulties to learn reading and writing. We need some features and a lot of preferences to adapt the exercices to the capacities of users.

WriteEnPictos uses a free library of pictograms and offers tools to explore, enrich, produce sentences and play with words, sounds and images. Although it uses pictograms, it is not reserved for specialized teaching and is useful for novice readers.

WriteEnPictos is open. The index of the collection allows to have several titles for the same pictogram and several pictograms for the same title.

An editor allows you to modify the list of titles for a pictogram, to create a new one from an image and to delete it. A register of registrants keeps the contents and their treatment modalities for each of them in the activities.

website https://alternatic.ch/ecrireenpictos/#more-8

Help people learn French

Alain Vézina set up a small language learning centre for adults more than 20 years ago. At that time, he looked for activities on computer to help students and didn't find much. So he started computing to create the kind of apps of which he dreamt. He started with HyperCard, continued with SuperCard and for several years used LiveCode.

One of those apps he developed in LiveCode is named A-mots-couverts. It is a new type of language game, a kind of crisscross puzzle in varied, interesting texts. The user consolidates and enhances their knowledge and abilities in all aspects of French. There are numerous skills, abilities and knowledge put to the test: listening ability, memorising, reading, text analysis (main idea, secondary ideas), usual spelling, grammatical spelling, syntax, vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, words of the same family, conjugation, tense conformance, phrases and expressions. It stirs up the user’s interest in learning French in all its forms: oral, read and written. There are three difficulty levels and at the highest difficulty level, challenges are issued to the strongest students.

"It is extremely educational. It's very addictive. I love it" according to Delia Dyer, one of Alain's students.

A-mots-couvert is available for Mac, Windows and iPad. Learn more about A-mots-couvert. 

It's in both the iOS AppStore and the Mac AppStore.

Learn the Cyrillic alphabet

Devin Asay used LiveCode to build his first iOS app. Drawing on his academic background in Russian, Devon created a Cyrillic alphabet tutor for iPad. It includes letter cards for each letter, knowledge checks and games to help the user test visual recognition of the letters.