Who do we want to interview?

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• Someone whose family speaks an indigenous language

• Someone familiar with web interfaces and tech in general eg s/he must NOT be someone who can't download an app from play store

• Experts

  • A language instructor/teacher
  • An expert in that particular language
  • People who already know newari and check to see if they resonate with data being shown
  • Professional who can provide us feedback on making the app user-friendly and engaging.

• Learners

  • GenZs
  • Student who are learning or interested in learning indigenous language
  • Someone who doesn't already know the language
  • Newari people who feel it's difficult to learn newari language
  • University students who are learning languages as part of their curriculum or for personal interest.Eg: students from TU

• Others

  • Some parents who want their children to learn such language.
  • Person who has no experience in web development

What are some questions we want to ask them?

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• Understanding the problem

  • User Motivations
    • Do you want to learn an indigenous language, if so why?
    • What has prevented you from learning before?
    • Have you ever tried learning a language?
    • What is the most difficult part of learning a language for you?
    • What motivates you to learn an indigenous language?
  • Learning Methods
    • What learning methods seem more useful for you when learning a new language?
    • If you have learned a language, what was the most useful thing you did?
    • Have you tried learning an indigenous language before? If so, what methods or resources did you use?
  • Do you believe you can learn a language through an app?

• Prior to test

  • What do you expect to see first when you open the app?
  • What do you expect from Nepalingo?

• Feature Ideas

  • What type of content would be most helpful for you?
  • Do you prefer learning through audio, visual, text or interactive exercise?

• Final Questions

  • What was the hardest part of Nepalingo app/website
  • What was the easiest part of Nepalingo app/website
  • What features do you want us to add
  • Did you enjoy using nepalingo
  • What part of this app feels awkward or unintuitive to use
  • What did you expect from nepalingo and what didn't you get?
  • Would you recommend your friends and family to use our application?
  • What are the things you enjoyed and liked about nepalingo? You can be very honest.

What are some tasks we want to observe them complete?

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• Sign up/Login

• Quotes and sentences

• Easily navigate to the search bar.

• Go through the flashcards quiz

• Figure out navigation on home screen. Like what do they see? What do they expect when they click a certain button

• Change language

• Learn to pronounce some words

• Increase their streak value (we can go in the database and to change last date to the previous day)

• Questions for Future features

  • Use voice recognition to practice and get feedback on their pronunciation.
  • Review their previous lessons.
  • Give reviews/feedbacks through the app
  • Learn some newari/tajpuriya/maithili words