Interesting Things In Cases #2 : Language Learner

Another interesting thing in a case - a Language Learning system.

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[Techmoan]

@DRDCC added the following info under an earlier edit of this video:
_The system was sold like this (in a case) by commercial language learning companies. There were 2 versions. Home study (like this) and a version that would allow to send tapes back to the tutor (organization). They were also used at schools. Then called Language Lab. I have installed many of them back in the day. You could use several recorders at once as a teacher, all connected to a teacher desk with a main recorder. Each student would have their own recorder and all tapes, containing the student answers would have been collected at the end of a class. They would all be evaluated by the teacher later._

[Zveebo]

2:05 The bit about being very careful to get a matching set of batteries never fails to make me laugh 😂

[AussieTVMusic]

That stereo test tape sounds like a couple in a car arguing which way to go.

[robertjpayne]

Trust Matt to shoehorn a karaoke feature into almost any device...

[joethompson]

Thanks Patrons! Really appreciate you making Mat's life easy without having to deal with sponsors ❤

[gbraadnl]

19:18 from the written Dutch: "Taalpracticum thuis" which means "Language Practice at home" it sounds like it would be the case this was done at home and probably sent in for review.

[LegoBob]

10:15 It's lunchtime at school and you want to listen to your favorite tape while eating, but your Walkman's batteries are empty. You sneak into the empty language classroom and pop your tape into one of these machines. You accidently hit the record button, since it's right next to play, and don't notice since the tape starts playing. The next time you play your tape, you realize that the right channel of your favorite song has been replaced by your chewing.

[GreenJimll]

I always grin at the matching sets of batteries.

[FreezerKing]

"Hello. This is Dr. Marvin Monroe. Let's build your vocabulary. A. Abattoir: Slaughterhouse. The cow was slaughtered in the abattoir"

[cheeseparis]

Technology : here's a language learning system
Techmoan : I'll use it for karaoke 🙂
Thanks, great video! I wouldn't use it either for regular tapes, since you can erase one track of a write protected precious recording...

[BarryWilliams]

Reminds me of my school days in the 1970's. We occasionally went into the Language Lab, which was a room full of booths. Each student would sit in a booth and don a pair of headphones. Under each seat was a reel to reel tape recorder which you could control with switches to your right - REC, PLAY, FFWD and REW.
A French lesson consisted of listening to the recorded teacher and repeating what they said until you got it right.
The actual French teacher sat at the front of the room behind an elevated desk and a control panel. She also had headphones and could secretly listen in to any of our sessions, occasionally speaking to us with words of encouragement - or otherwise if she caught us messing about!

[NeungView]

"une fvoiture". The student was definitely dutch 😂🎉❤

[DeathInTheSnow]

An interesting follow-up to "Weird Stuff in a Can". I like it!

[jimgrippin]

I enjoy all Techmoan's content, but when he sings it increases my joy twofold.

[AshGCG]

My daughter works in a charity shop that doesn't or can't sell electrical products. She brought me a briefcase that was dumped outside and, on opening it, I found tapes and a player. Sadly, the player in this one was a basic, standard, mono tape deck. Now, having seen this vid, I'm strangely disappointed. Ha ha

[mackpines]

I don’t know why but, that intro was so satisfying.

[Tnenamrep]

Very interesting indeed. It's amazing how well things could be done pre-mainstream computer era.

On the side: At the start of the video, I was almost expecting "Good morning, Mat. Your mission, should you choose to accept it...".

[StackOverflow]

Similar language learning tape recorder was produced in Czechia in 70s, but it was reel to reel-based. Teacher's track was write protected with the lock. Teacher had a key, could unlock the track and record his/her track for the student. Or could use pre-recorded language tapes.
Such a hi-tech learning systems were a hit in 70's here. I still remember language classroom in my secondary school being equipped with isolated booths for students, with these tape recorders and with headsets. Students could use the tapes individually or they could have their headphones fed centrally from teacher's tape machine. They would repeat what they had heard in their headsets. The teacher had a switchbox on her table and could listen to the student she switched to and could instruct him/her throught their headset. I was impressed by the system and wanted our teacher to use it on us, but they didn't use it anymore - they didn't know if it was still working, didn't have new tapes for it or even didn't know how to use it.

[MM.]

Aside from mixing, it seems like you could do quite some tape jockeying with two of these and carefully prepared cassettes.

[hatpeach]

I've been watching your videos for years and still have no understanding of why they're so compelling. But they really are. Merci Monsieur; vous êtes très apprécié !