Next year I'm teaching Biblical Narrative, and with the Hebrew option students I'll be focusing on Jonah and Ruth. I have been playing with a new software toy. It allows me to create a system where the student can play Jonah in Hebrew with the written text following along in both Hebrew and English phrase by phrase. Here's a video of a sample:
As well as playing continuously a student can step through, or jump around just clicking on the phrase they want to hear:
Neat! Fred, the programmer who is preparing the program has just released a new version, but is not sure it can handle RTL languages with strange scripts. See http://talkingdocs.org/
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