TALERUM - Learning Danish by Doing Danish

Talerum is an interactive L2 learning environment, here presented publicly for the first time. Talerum is designed for use in Danish language classes throughout the vast and sparsely populated WestNordic area. In a town-like setting (resembling Copenhagen) the pupil navigates among shops (foods, clothes, tools), a cafe, a school and, importantly, a home base where the game opens and the pupil is welcomed as an exchange student. Through elaborate dialogues with the game characters, the pupil discovers and pursues a secret mission. Talerum thus uses elements of game-logic, informal dialogue, and relatively deep semantic analysis to get and keep the attention of the language student of generation IT.