Letters learning game and English vocabulary teaching for non-native speakers

Part of our current bi-weekly teachers training sessions in our pilot in China, we introduce new applications that we believe could be of interest to teachers. As you could read on RPM Experimental group BLOG we found and (quickly) packaged a new (very old) GTK application for G-Linux enabling simple English vocabulary rehearsal. The strength is that teachers can customize the vocabulary list without recompiling the application and one just need to have a native English speaker around to record the associate soundtrack and copy the file in the proper directory. We ran a demo of the application at today's session, where coincidently a visiting English teacher was attending. She just loved the application and pertaining that we can build her vocabulary list into the application (of course we can) she'll be visiting the school daily as soon as it's ready, and use the gdium plus this great little software to teach Wende school students English. Definitely a big plus for the students since they'll be getting new classes thanks to the computers, and great feedback on our side.

Now the reason why I am posting this in OLPH is that this application has been unmaintained for about 10 years (with two exceptions in 2001, and 2004 for a GTK2 port) and needs a bit of additional features. What we would like to see is an easy way to add vocabulary lessons (that can be handled by data packages), but most importantly a way to select them from the application itself. This way children could for example only work on "city, people and greetings" lessons, or all or whatever other options we could have. So this is a real need today and what better place to ask than the great OLPH community? Source code and package information can be found here and we already contacted the Debian maintainer to see whether he had time for this. Any other question please ask in the comment section, on the mailing list or on the IRC channel