Bug 257391

Summary: Add Question and Answer Practice
Product: [Applications] parley Reporter: alsaf <alfraealba>
Component: generalAssignee: parley bug tracker <parley-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.9.4   
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Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description alsaf 2010-11-20 08:49:11 UTC
Version:           0.9.4 (using KDE 1.2) 
OS:                Linux

This is a submission of an idea to add a practice mode for Parley which is styled on 'Cafe conversation' style exercises used in traditional language courses. 

By this I mean that Parley would post a question in the language you are learning which is taken from a .kvtml file for instance What is your name? and you have to answer My name is... 

Parley would only recognise the first part and would ignore anything else i.e. If you entered My name is John and the answer was My name is, it would take My name is as the answer and disregard John

To add a bit more variety to these questions, when adding these questions in the Editor, tags could be allowed that pulls other entries from .kvtml file via word Types. An example of this could be a place-names word type which holds geographical locations. An example of this entry would be 

I am from <place-names>, where are you from?

When the proposed Question and Answer Practice mode parses this entry, it would recognise <place-names> as a tag and would substitute that from an entry on the .kvtml file that was defined as a place-names word-type. The above entry would then appear as:

I am from Scotland, where are you from?

I am not sure if this would be beneficial as I am currently not at the level with the language I am learning to hold simple conversation or would fit in with Parley is trying to achieve but I thought I would submit it get thoughts from other users of this program.    

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Comment 1 alsaf 2011-01-13 19:05:31 UTC
Thinking about it, I don't think this is possible to implement in Parley as the program is a vocabulary rather than grammar trainer.