kids ace

Introduction

Kids Ace is a program for kids to watch, listen to and practice speaking when studying English words.

When I study words, pictures are helpful.

The sound effect of pictures and native speakers’ pronunciation are even more helpful.

It is better if users practice pronunciation.

It is better if the user’s pronunciation is heard and pronunciation is evaluated.

You should try Kids Ace.

Kids Ace is not about just pictures. It is `edutainment’ (a game for education) with English pronunciation and sound effects. With Kids Ace, users should speak.

It also has a precise voice recognition function designed to correct users’ pronunciation. Adults also can assess their pronunciation.

Importance of English pronunciation

In a foreign country, I asked foreigners, ``Where is the rest room?’’ Nobody knew. Koreans can’t pronounce ``R’’ well. When I asked, ``Where is the toilet?’’ they kindly showed me the way to the toilet.

In every English lesson, a student spoke with perfect intonation and ``butter pronunciation’’ (voiced sounds) for about 20-30 minutes, so I thought that the student’s pronunciation was very good. One day, a native speaker told me that he couldn’t understand what the student was talking about.

There was an English speech contest in which children who spoke English well joined from across the country. A native-speaking judge stopped the contest because participants’ pronunciation was so bad and the judge corrected their pronunciation of F, P, R and L. This is a true story.

An elite soldier of KATUSA who graduated from a famous university continuously pronounced F for an hour standing at attention before an American soldier who graduated from an elementary school.

At present, Asian-American college professors don’t pronounce English well and can’t conduct lessons, causing a problem.

I once was on a Northwest plane. A Korean passenger ordered coffee, coke and orange juice, but the stewardess gave the passenger other things. The Korean received them without complaining.

The system provides the opportunity to watch, listen and speak through voice recognition and enables two-way education format. Users of Kids Ace who self-study can improve their English without native speakers.

- The voice recognition of Kids Ace can be used diversely from beginners to experts through controlling the level of difficult

- Users can distinguish the pronunciation of F and P and R and L through phoneme recognition.

- Users can distinguish voiced sounds and voiceless sounds and should be careful about the number of syllables too.

- In the case of words like `get’ and `that,’ in particular, almost 99% percent of Koreans can’t pronounce these words well.

- As the program was organized to suit the pronunciation of Koreans with their weaknesses in mind, this program is ideal for Korean people.

As Kids Ace contains English contents for children, from children who are beginners to kids who want to improve their English skills, it can be used in diverse ways.

- Users can use it diversely from off-line learning through word cards and exercise books to E-Learning through Kids Ace software.

- As users can learn in accordance with categories and at the right level of difficulty and can do games using cards, they can learn English easily.