User talk:ThomasStrohmann

Hello and Welcome! As you can see this is a very new and experimental project - pardon the mess while we get settled-in. You might be interested in Textbook planning or more casual discussion about the project in our Staff lounge. Cheers! --mav 09:24 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Just a note, I am very excited to get an open content Spanish textbook started because it is a big need worldwide to teach people new languages, and you have just started the first of many language textbooks. I am almost as excited about the book you started as the organic chemistry one that I started to kick off the new site. Welcome aboard de todos modos y estoy muy contento de tenerlo aca. (Perdon, me considero bilingue pero ya tengo un rato de no estar hablando cada dia y se me esta echando a perder el espanol ... ) --Karl Wick 03:12 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hey Thomas, what do you think of this page: Spanish contents ? Its a compact alternative I created of the main Spanish page .. --Karl Wick

Hey Thomas, you are the one uploading Mariela Riva's stuff for her, right ? I ask because some people were talking about this sound file format, the ogg. Have you heard of it ? Do you have the capability to produce that kind of file ? It is all the same to me but they did have some good arguments on why to use that particular format .... -- Karl Wick 03:00 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I applied the contents page to the Spanish page. If this was unexpected or unwelcome to you I will defer to your preference. A revert is quick and easy. By the way, check out how you were a trendsetter and led the way with the language textbooks, now there is a Japanese one that started up! Oh yeah, what do you think of the pictures ? With time we can match pictures to textbook topics, I jsut uploaded a couple I had of Mexican friends .. --Karl Wick

I created an authors page for the book and included my name on it per your suggestion. Karl Wick
 * Visit http://www.vorbis.com/download.psp to get ogg players and encoders. --mav 03:35 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I really appreciate all the work you are doing man, I think it is great. I am now officially more excited about the Spanish book than I am about my own Organic Chemistry one. -- Karl Wick

Thomas, I have created a few Spanish grammar comments. You can see it in here. I'm not very sure where it should go in the textbook, but these are very basical stuff. Tell me if you want that I paste that in any place or fell free of pick up that yourself. My English is not the best at world, so, maybe (well.. sure) there are errors in the sentences. Regards.

Wintermute 19:21, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I was just thinking about how to get some good photos of hispanic people to liven up the pages .. huh so you studied a bit of French too ? I always wanted to visit Africa and thought French would be a good tool. So you speak English, some French and Spanish, and German ? It sounds like you've got the memory of two men. --Karl Wick

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Your "nicer arrows" cannot be viewed on many browsers. Please use the old ASCII arrows. --mav

Just an idea. I see you have created "Web resources" in the Spanish course, how about creating "software resources" ? I guess, there are downloadable (free) dictionaries and conjugators. Kpjas

Thomas, I have written two pronouns exercices for lesson 1 but I don't see clear where it should be paste. Is there one exercice page for every concept? for every lesson?. Tell me where it should be or fell free yourself for paste it. Regards.

Wintermute 22:26, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hey Thomas, hows it going with the Spanish studies ? Any plans to visit a Spanish-speaking place soon ? --Karl Wick

Thomas, sorry, I didn't see your apendix E for the solutions. I can change the solutions to the lesson 1 exercises there if you think that is a better idea.

Wintermute 06:16, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC) ---

Dude I missed seeing you around, welcome back ! --Karl Wick

Admin
Thomas I want to nominate you to be an admin, as soon as I can find the nomination page. --Karl Wick

Thanks for keeping tabs on the German. I've not used it in about 20 years. I thought that mit mein Brudder needed a different case, but had not tracked it down in the grammer book. Hope it comes back to mind soon! Also, I left off the definite articles on that first intro page because they (articles) are not introduced until lesson 1. Although not exactly grammatically correct, the point there was just to show word comparisons, and not "translate" words. - Marsh 07:33, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)


 * I agree with your reasoning on the inclusion of articles in the introduction page. As long as you do not think they will confuse the first-time reader - Marsh 01:29, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Man, you were right there with the alphabet tape! Great addition. Did you already have it in the wings waiting for the text to appear? Is it dialect or my ear, but the 'B' and 'E' sound a bit English to me - Marsh 08:58, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Thomas. How did you make those tables in the Spanish Book that are laid out nicely, and appear as if enclosed in &LT;pre&GT;&LT;/pre&GT; tags, but are not (no tags of anykind evident in edit mode)? - Marsh 01:22, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Learning Project
Hej Thomas, I saw you contributed to the Spanish and German wikibooks, so I thought you might be interested in this. I have written a program for learning vocabulary. I think for this purpose a program is more useful than a website, although maybe one day we can make this a java project. It is based on the belief that it is best to learn foreign words by learning typical sentences. The program can also be used for learning other stuff that works with the question/answer scheme, e.g. the theory for the driving licence or anatomy. Unfortunately I wrote it in qbasic, which can be downloaded here. It also uses images and sound files for alternation and in order to work on the pronunciation. Let me know what you think about it. I currently have files in English, French (with sound), Spanish, and Portuguese. Catalan is in the planning. Corrections or additions are very welcome. The easiest thing to start with for improvements would be adding new vocabulary, sound files or images. A guide to the program will follow soon, although I think it is rather self-explanatory. In the long run the program should be rewritten in a better language. Afterwards it should be possible to switch languages within the program. Up to now there is a different version of the program for each language. Get-back-world-respect 23:15, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I TRY TO CONTACT WITH THOMAS

juani.franco@terra.es

Spanish textbook
Hi, I was wondering who to talk to about the Spanish textbook. I have Spanish textbooks from the 1910s and '20s that are in the public domain; I plan to digitize them for Project Gutenberg and wonder whether their content might be incorporated into the Spanish Wikibook. -- Tetraminoe 21:28, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikibooks in Simple Eng. needs an administrator
I've just started working on Wikibooks in Simple English. We need to make someone an administrator. With very few other users (at the moment!) how can I become one and so start getting the project started? Any help would be great. Cheers Charlie123 14:19, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Copyright tags
Could you please insert license information to files you have uploaded to Wikibooks? I would like to move Spanish dialogues to Commons, but they don't have any license, so it's forbidden. You can check Template messages/Image namespace for availables licenses. Thank you. --Derbeth 18:50, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Your De-Adminship
Hello. I would like to inform you that you will have your sysop rights removed here on 1 Nov 2006 due to inactivity. If you would like to discuss the matter, please see WB:RFA. You can re-apply for adminship at a later date if you wish. Thanks. -within focus 21:31, 1 October 2006 (UTC)