Aus Rotten
I’m flying to visit Tanya in Germany this week and wanted to brush up on the language — among my international faux pas include telling a French restauranteur “gracias” after being handed a menu and on another occasion replying to a question posed to me in German with: “You speak to German children” (to my credit, I think it communicated “I don’t speak German” which is what I was trying to say). Anyway, the BBC have a nice online language training site covering German and I have re-purposed it into something that works nicely online for me now and will almost work with my PocketPC. Check it out. “Almost” on the PocketPC because while AJAX is nifty, it really expects there to be a webserver at the other end of the transaction and does not work if there is not.
UPDATE 2006.02.19 Goodbye ajax, hello working pocket german!
I should have skipped the new trend and just done this the easy way to
begin with. I moved the langauge lessons to an array in the host page
and it doesn’t care that you don’t have a webserver behind the lesson
pages. Also, the Flash codebase attribute seems to be finicky and
won’t “just work” on a pocketpc the same way it will on the
desktop. I’ve tweaked this so it works both places now. I also put up
a *.zip of
everything in case you’d like to take this with you, too. Enjoy!