RECORDING MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND METHOD THEREOF

摘要

In a recording medium and an apparatus for language learning, in wich a pause/still signal is recorded in a predetermined region where a learner should speak every dialogical interval to make an external reproducing apparatus (121) perform a pause/still operation, or a signal-free region in a predetermined region where a learner should speak every dialogical interval is used as a pause/still signal region. The language learning apparatus (200) for performing a dialogical language learning includes at least one input terminal for receiving a reproduction signal supplied from the external reproducing apparatus (121) for reproducing a recorded signal from the recording medium, a detector (220) connected to the input port for detecting the pause/still signal from the reproduction signal input through the input port, an audio input unit (240) for converting an audio signal into an electrical audio signal, an output unit (300) for supplying the electrical audio signal supplied from the audio input unit (240) and the reproduction signal input through the input port to at least one output terminal to which an external signal output unit is connected, and a controller (230) for generating a control signal which controls the external reproducing apparatus (121) to perform a pause/still operation and simultaneously controls the output unit (300) to output or selectively output the electrical audio signal, in response to the pause/still signal detected from the detector (220), and controls the external reproducing apparatus (121) to release a pause/still operation and simultaneously controls the output unit (300) to output or selectively output the reproduction signal, in response to the input electrical audio signal. The language learning apparatus is compatible with video equipement, and can be incorporated in audio or video equipment, thereby performing a dialogical language learning function.