Reading Your Way to Danish Fluency: The Zeeguu Approach
Details
Join us for a talk and interactive session at SimCorp headquarters with Mircea Lungu, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen. Mircea will share insights from his long-standing research on personalized language learning tools.
The session will focus on Zeeguu, a platform developed by Mircea and his students over many years. Unlike applications (that shall not be named) that rely on made up sentences, Zeeguu allows learners to engage with authentic content that matches their interests and proficiency level. The platform personalizes reading, listening, and vocabulary practice, helping learners at any stage improve their language skills through real-world materials they actually care about.
Whether you're learning Danish or another language, bring your computer or phone to try Zeeguu during an interactive session. And bring your enthusiasm for the discussion that follows!
Schedule:
- 17:00 Doors open
- 17:15 Welcome by the organizers
- 17:20 Workshop by Mircea Lungu
- 18:20 Snacks and Networking
- 19:00 Doors closed
Practicalities:
- Anyone can join, regardless of technical and language skill level.
- Parking is only allowed in the street, not in the underground parking.
- The doors will be locked and unattended, so please contact us if you are going to be joining later than 17:15.
Links:
Zeeguu main page: Learn foreign languages while reading what you like: Zeeguu
Zeeguu source code: Zeeguu
Zeeguu academic works: mircea | Mircea’s Academic Homepage
Speaker bio:
Mircea Lungu is associate professor in computer science at the IT University of Copenhagen. Before coming to Denmark he was assistant professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering of University of Groningen where he was a member of the SEARCH research group and the Data Science Pioneers group. He was also part time visiting researcher in the SWAT group at CWI in Amsterdam. Before that he was postdoc at the University of Bern in Switzerland, and for six months, visiting researcher at IBM TJ Watson Research Center in New York. He got his PhD working with Michele Lanza and the REVEAL research group at the University of Lugano, in Switzerland. His interests are in software visualization, tools for software evolution, human computer interaction, and personalized learning environments.