Foreign language learning apparatus, foreign language learning method, and medium

(amended) A foreign language learning method comprising the steps of:

• receiving sentence speech information, the sentence speech information corresponding to speech produced successively by a learner when the learner utters a sentence including a plurality of words, and accordingly separating said sentence speech information into word speech information on the basis of each word included in said sentence (S106, S108);
• evaluating degree of matching of each said word speech information with a model speech (S110);
• and.
• displaying, for each said word, a resultant evaluation of each said word speech information (S110).

A foreign language learning device comprising:

• storage means (118) for storing a model sentence to be pronounced by a learner and model phoneme array information corresponding to said model sentence;
• display output means (104, 120) for presenting said model sentence to said learner in advance;
• word separation means (140.1) for receiving sentence speech information corresponding to a sentence pronounced by said learner to separate the sentence speech information into word speech information on the basis of each word included in said sentence;
• likelihood determination means (140.4) for evaluating degree of matching of each said word speech information with a model speech;
• and
• display output means (120) for displaying, for each phoneme and each said word, a resultant evaluation by said likelihood determination means,
• said word separation means including
• phoneme recognition means for recognizing said sentence speech information on the basis of each phoneme information, and
• word speech recognition means for recognizing said word speech information for each said word according to said phoneme information and said model phoneme array information after the separation, and
• said foreign language learning device further comprising pronunciation evaluation means for evaluating a resultant pronunciation after practice of the pronunciation for each said phoneme and for each said word in said model sentence uttered by said learner in a pronunciation practice period.

(amended) A computer-readable medium recorded thereon a program for executing a foreign language learning method by a computer, said foreign language learning method comprising the steps of:

• receiving sentence speech information, the sentence speech information corresponding to speech produced successively by a learner when the learner utters a sentence including a plurality of words, and accordingly separating said sentence speech information into word speech information on the basis of each word included in said sentence;
• evaluating degree of matching of each said word speech information with a model speech;
• and
• displaying, for each said word, a resultant evaluation of each said word speech information.

(amended) A computer program for executing a foreign language learning method by a computer, said foreign language learning method comprising the steps of:

• receiving sentence speech information, the sentence speech information corresponding to speech produced successively by a learner when the learner utters a sentence including a plurality of words, and accordingly separating said sentence speech information into word speech information on the basis of each word included in said sentence;
• evaluating degree of matching of each said word speech information with a model speech;
• and
• displaying, for each said word, a resultant evaluation of each said word speech information.