Interesting Things In Cases #2 : Language Learner

Another interesting thing in a case - a Language Learning system.
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[@Techmoan]

@DRDCC added the following info under an earlier edit of this video: _The system was sold like this (in a case) by commercial language learning companies. There were 2 versions. Home study (like this) and a version that would allow to send tapes back to the tutor (organization). They were also used at schools. Then called Language Lab. I have installed many of them back in the day. You could use several recorders at once as a teacher, all connected to a teacher desk with a main recorder. Each student would have their own recorder and all tapes, containing the student answers would have been collected at the end of a class. They would all be evaluated by the teacher later._

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Thankyou for your work, You go the extra mile and make things like an old tape player interesting.

[@meandmyEV]

I am so glad this commenter added this and that you mentioned that you didn't understand how it was used because I was thinking I was missing something that was supposed to be obvious. Very interesting. I remember having something similar but much more simple in school where a teacher would read a story on a standard cassette and then read questions. We were supposed to pause the tape and write our answers.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

was this worldwide? because i recall using a similar kind of language tape in the US for Spanish in 2001/02

[@thabudmaster]

Have you ever played around with any of the Tascam 4 -Track recorders from the late 80s- early 90s? I used to love messing about with them when i was learning guitar in my bedroom

[@WhiteErFox]

Holy Moly!!! NOW I remember! Those wooden desks with headphones hanging on the side!! That was this system!! I had almosten forgotten! :o Thanks! :D lol, French was never my favorite language. Although it is considered as a second language here in Belgium. (as we have the Flemish part and the Wales part and a tiny bit of German.) Maybe that is the reason I "forgot" about it. Mind you, we didn't use this system all the time, mostly as a supplement to the books. No, English was my preferred language and the one I was (and still am) most fluid in. Thanks to MacGyver and The A-Team... oh, and Airwolf! wow lol, what a flashback.

[@Zveebo]

2:05 The bit about being very careful to get a matching set of batteries never fails to make me laugh 😂

[@bobblum5973]

It's like my socks: I have a pair with one black sock and one navy blue sock. And then I have another pair identical to that, one black and the other navy blue! 😁 Obviously the issue is to avoid mixing old used batteries with new ones, or rechargeable ones with single-use, or alkaline with lithium.

[@Code7Unltd]

I know you're joking, but many people have exploded batteries by mixing alkaline AAs and 14500 cells together in the same unit, particularly an VTxx 'console' made out of a tube TV-looking clock by a gibberish micro-brand on Amazon. Of course, Cathode Ray Dude Gaiden did a video on his and found that the unit had a BL-5C cell instead.

[@dougbrowning82]

@@bobblum5973 Even mixing different brands is often frowned upon.

[@bobblum5973]

@@dougbrowning82 True, because Each manufacturer can have a slightly different formula for the chemical makeup of each cell, which results in a different voltage and current output capability over time. You'll see variations even between batches, although they should be negligible in practical use.

[@lafcursiax]

a MaTcHiNg SeT!

[@joethompson11]

Thanks Patrons! Really appreciate you making Mat's life easy without having to deal with sponsors ❤

[@kd1841]

You’re welcome! 😉And I appreciate Matt giving us credit at the end of every video in a slow enough outro format where one can actually find their name, lol!😂❤ btw, my name on the credits is different than this account name.

[@enlamainyokohama]

It only costs $1 a month (or more if you like). There's a few extra videos now and then.

[@AussieTVMusic]

That stereo test tape sounds like a couple in a car arguing which way to go.

[@adampope5107]

The very last sound on the right track is "left...dammit when did they change the intersection? "

[@jul1440]

Lol...Matt once said that very thing about it on one of his videos.

[@Code7Unltd]

Try watching that Amazon boombox review. That black stereo unit had a tape deck so wonky that it was funny.

[@robertjpayne]

Trust Matt to shoehorn a karaoke feature into almost any device...

[@chillstar]

And some 90s Rap

[@belstar1128]

he clearly loves karaoke despite denying it lol

[@mattgreen5351]

Yep, we need to ready our fingers over the Unsubscribe button in case it keeps happening. 😂

[@robertjpayne]

​@@mattgreen5351I don't think the 'we' is appropriate as I won't be unsubscribing. This is by far the best channel on YT .

[@mattgreen5351]

@@robertjpayne Oh I completely agree! I was just joking. Mat is brilliant and I would never unsubscribe. 🫶

[@cargo_vroom9729]

"Teaching French to the Dutch" sounds like some sort of quaint old timey analogy.

[@stevegreen8262]

'a pleasant and easy task', the opposite of 'teaching Dutch to the English'.

[@GustafXI]

we should use it in the channel, just randomly

[@LegoBob4123]

10:15 It's lunchtime at school and you want to listen to your favorite tape while eating, but your Walkman's batteries are empty. You sneak into the empty language classroom and pop your tape into one of these machines. You accidently hit the record button, since it's right next to play, and don't notice since the tape starts playing. The next time you play your tape, you realize that the right channel of your favorite song has been replaced by your chewing.

[@FreezerKing]

"Hello. This is Dr. Marvin Monroe. Let's build your vocabulary. A. Abattoir: Slaughterhouse. The cow was slaughtered in the abattoir"

[@MrMatteNWk]

Freezer King, where's that... metal dealy... you use to... dig... food.

[@gbraadnl]

19:18 from the written Dutch: "Taalpracticum thuis" which means "Language Practice at home" it sounds like it would be the case this was done at home and probably sent in for review.

[@demofilm]

yes it could be some LOI school thing.

[@nimoy007]

Read the pinned comment

[@sjefhendrickx2257]

@@nimoy007 and!?

[@nimoy007]

@@sjefhendrickx2257 Your theory does not match what is written there.

[@GreenJimll]

I always grin at the matching sets of batteries.

[@klaernie]

Now I wonder - is it a matching set of Lidl, Aldi, Tesco, sainsbury's and Amazon ?

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

@@klaernie Well they are all AA's, so there's that.

[@ralphj4012]

And that's why the karaoke sounds awful.

[@dc9662]

Vintage batteries sound the best. /s

[@kenmore01]

I match them to my mood.

[@cheeseparis1]

Technology : here's a language learning system Techmoan : I'll use it for karaoke 🙂 Thanks, great video! I wouldn't use it either for regular tapes, since you can erase one track of a write protected precious recording...

[@rich_edwards79]

Ultimately, everything comes back to karaoke.

[@NeungView]

"une fvoiture". The student was definitely dutch 😂🎉❤

[@BarryWilliams0]

Reminds me of my school days in the 1970's. We occasionally went into the Language Lab, which was a room full of booths. Each student would sit in a booth and don a pair of headphones. Under each seat was a reel to reel tape recorder which you could control with switches to your right - REC, PLAY, FFWD and REW. A French lesson consisted of listening to the recorded teacher and repeating what they said until you got it right. The actual French teacher sat at the front of the room behind an elevated desk and a control panel. She also had headphones and could secretly listen in to any of our sessions, occasionally speaking to us with words of encouragement - or otherwise if she caught us messing about!

[@rolfs2165]

My school still had a language lab around the year 2000, just with cassette recorders. We didn't really use it for its original purpose any more, though. Teachers would occasionally go there for a "this is how we used to do it" lesson, but mostly it was used for large exams.

[@spugintrntl]

I graduated in 2006, and this sounds so futuristic!

[@rich_edwards79]

I'm assuming this was in the USA - here in England, under Thatcher's crumbling education system, we were lucky to be able to share a dog-eared, 'annotated' 1970s Tricolor text book with three others. On the rare occasion that there was a tape deck, it would be *one* ancient Coomber at the front of the class.

[@duncan-rmi]

our 'langy lab' was like that too, probably either tandberg or revox (A88); it was difficult to tell because it was all abstracted away under custom control surfaces. even to those of us who were familiar with such things (I was surrounded by tape decks at home from infancy), it was all a bit star trek. this would've been 1975ish. I have several 'JMO' walkmans from the 90s & 00s that have language learning facilities as well as timer/recording/radio/auto-reverse/varispeed; one of them has two different ways of looping a bit of audio- an IC for small chunks & an A>B>A auto-replay-rewind based on the counter. how they got all of this into a walkman is testament to sony's ingenuity- these are not at all bulky machines by walkman standards.... have a quick google for wm-gx822. it does have proper electric erase heads, & is auto-reverse record, but the erase heads are not stereo-split like in this sanyo. & yeah- they missed a trick not giving it a stereo line-out; that would be a ridiculously simple mod, just tapping off the two volume controls when in LL mode.

[@meetoo594]

@@rich_edwards79 I was at a very run down comprehensive in the early 80s and we had a language lab classroom with a setup very similar to Barrys but it used compact cassette decks built into the desks/kiosks. I only ever used it twice and got the impression it was too much hassle for the teachers to bother with it very often.

[@jimgrippin1670]

I enjoy all Techmoan's content, but when he sings it increases my joy twofold.

[@abrehmc1]

Yes, with the ramp up in karaoke frequency, I kinda expect him to make it a regular feature! ... and the fact that he clearly knows he is not Micheal Jackson, makes this even more joyfull

[@PopCultureFan_]

Yes, lol

[@dong6839]

That stereo test tape is straight out of my nightmares! I imagine being tied down to a chair with this being played at high volume into headphones that I can't remove for days and days until I slowly start to go insane! LEFT, RIGHT,LEFT,RIGHT,LEFT, RIGHT,LEFT..

[@bezare9728]

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[@steve.b.23]

On the bright side, you'd never forget how to walk.

[@DeathInTheSnow]

An interesting follow-up to "Weird Stuff in a Can". I like it!

[@PeterCamberwick]

Wrong channel. 😀

[@Tnenamrep2]

Very interesting indeed. It's amazing how well things could be done pre-mainstream computer era. On the side: At the start of the video, I was almost expecting "Good morning, Mat. Your mission, should you choose to accept it...".

[@AaronOfMpls]

😆😁 Indeed! Though I think he's only done _that_ in his "Mission Impossible tape recorders" series.

[@Thiesi]

6:54 - Oh, we're back to "would have took". 😂

[@StackOverflow80]

Similar language learning tape recorder was produced in Czechia in 70s, but it was reel to reel-based. Teacher's track was write protected with the lock. Teacher had a key, could unlock the track and record his/her track for the student. Or could use pre-recorded language tapes. Such a hi-tech learning systems were a hit in 70's here. I still remember language classroom in my secondary school being equipped with isolated booths for students, with these tape recorders and with headsets. Students could use the tapes individually or they could have their headphones fed centrally from teacher's tape machine. They would repeat what they had heard in their headsets. The teacher had a switchbox on her table and could listen to the student she switched to and could instruct him/her throught their headset. I was impressed by the system and wanted our teacher to use it on us, but they didn't use it anymore - they didn't know if it was still working, didn't have new tapes for it or even didn't know how to use it.

[@adamlipsky8010]

My mother was learning French in a newly built clasroom like that in Prague in 70s. She said the audio quality was so bad she couldn't understand a thing and generally the system was offputting to anyone who wasn't a geek. She described that when she signed up for the class, she was looking for a social interaction while speaking French and learn the language in the process; instead, she was isolated into a glue-smelling faux wood box with massive, uncomfortable headphones and some buttons. Needless to say, she hated that. As a bonus, it was all for nothing - the communist system did not allow her to travel to a French-speaking countries

[@StackOverflow80]

@@adamlipsky8010 Thanks for your input, that's interesting. As I said, I didn't experience it. Maybe the idea was fine, but in practice such over-technicized approaches could be contraproductive. No tech can replace personal human contact and interaction between teacher and students. Moreover non tech-savvy teachers just dismissed the new tech and went on with more traditional methods.

[@mackpines]

I don’t know why but, that intro was so satisfying.

Neat. I guess those 4 track Portastudio recorders doing the same, just with a four track head, and of course, halving the record time of the tape by only making it usable in one direction.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

interestingly, as audio technology evolved into digital media and doing multiple track recordings became much easier, these types of language learning systems disappeared completely. Modern systems rely more on image/word associations as it's been proven that it is easier to retain a vocabulary if you're able to associate words with concepts that are familiar to you

[@graham581]

Presenting, 'Sing along with Matt'. A 6LP set of all the best Karaoke songs sang by Mr Techmoan himself. You'll hear classics like Mack the Knife, Bohemian Rhapsody, Don't go Breaking my Heart, Sweet Caroline and Never Gonna Give you Up. This set consists of a whopping total of 65 songs and is not available in any store.

[@hatpeach1]

I've been watching your videos for years and still have no understanding of why they're so compelling. But they really are. Merci Monsieur; vous êtes très apprécié !

[@AshGCG]

My daughter works in a charity shop that doesn't or can't sell electrical products. She brought me a briefcase that was dumped outside and, on opening it, I found tapes and a player. Sadly, the player in this one was a basic, standard, mono tape deck. Now, having seen this vid, I'm strangely disappointed. Ha ha

[@Instrumentals4Sale]

To answer your question at the end, from my own experience I can say atleast in my school they were used in the languages classroom as an aid to learning (ahem, mostly). there would be normal class lessons, and one to ones, but these were also used. There were prerecorded lessons (which I think were part of the carriculum books we used), and they worked pretty much as you used them, you play the section you need, listen over and over till you can hear all the neuances, and then record the given phrases or words and at some point a teacher would make their way to your machine and listen and give you feedback. In my school the languages department rooms has all its walls lined with them (different model, black and kind of wedge shapped) as well as a few that would be placed on desks, so they have definately been used (atleast in scotland) until 2000 or beyond. The other use was to listen to music on them (which the teachers were okay with as long as the work was finished), or.... learning insults that were definately NOT on the curriculum and recording them at random points in the tape in the hope that some clueless first year would find it and ask what it means ;)

[@hankw69]

Mack the Knife? I really don't think Satchmo(or Bobby Darren) have much to worry about...great show!

[@WilliamHaisch]

In the mid 1990s, I took Spanish classes at university. The language department had tape machines like this in the language lab where students could record their practice sessions. The instructor (or probably a graduate student) would listen and then make notes for the student so they can improve. When the pronunciation became complex and swift, I would mumble sounds that would sound correct enough. There was no guarantee that your tape would be selected for review by the instructor that particular week. However, if you didn’t turn in a cassette tape, that counted against your score. Therefore, it was to your benefit to turn in a tape, even a blank one, to avoid being docked. I always hated doing those tape and hearing the sound of my own voice. Good times! 😂

[@dashcamandy2242]

Meanwhile, at approximately the same time (graduating high school in '96), my Concert Choir director often required all students to submit tapes of them singing all the songs we were currently rehearsing a cappella. Well, my voice is NOT good enough for a cappella work, nor is it good enough for solo work. I blend well with other voices, manage to stay in tune more or less, but overall not the best tonality, and I was incredibly insecure about recording these tapes. I never actually submitted one, and the director was also my homeroom teacher, my homeroom was actually the band room, and I was also in Marching and Concert Band, so I guess she let me slide. And yes, in a room with suitable acoustics, you CAN pick out singular voices from a choir, when she spoke to me one day about not submitting a tape, she told me she knew I knew what I was doing, and that's why she placed me right next to a monotonous tone-deaf Baritone. There's no way I would have been able to give her a proper recording with a screaming parrot in the background anyway, there's no way to set a good recording level with 100+ dB of Greater Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo providing unwanted accompaniment! (The Auto Gain on my boombox couldn't keep up, and using a mic and my budget Home Shopping Club karaoke machine just caused feedback howl every time Sinbad let loose a lungful. I don't miss that noise at all, so thankful to not be Australian where they have wild flocks of the buggers!)

[@theactualnic]

Not much has changed other than the tapes. I'm a third year Chinese student and we have to submit a recording like that every week - I hate the sound of my own voice too 😂

[@MM.]

Aside from mixing, it seems like you could do quite some tape jockeying with two of these and carefully prepared cassettes.

[@c3pu333]

We used a computer based version of this concept in college. The English class i took, I'm from french Canadia, was about learning how to speak English properly.(Using correct word stress and such) Most of the tests where done with it. We would go into the computer room and record ourselves talking between the prerecorded tracks and the teacher would listen to those recordings to grade us.

[@mrjsv4935]

Interesting language learning device. Me being Finnish, at school we had things called "language studios" for learning English and Swedish, which also used cassettes. This was in the 80's to early 90's. Everyone had their own booth, headset and cassette recorder, where you'd listen the words and speak them to the tape, and I guess teacher had a way to listen and evaluate your work at her desk.

[@bobby666666]

Matt has had plenty of practise singing. Surely it's time for him to bring out an album😊😊.

[@theatheobhv]

Right. But exclusively on Tefi please.

[@bobby666666]

@@theatheobhv Definitely.

[@SUPRAMIKE18]

Need him to make a Cuba Baion version with vocals 😂

[@DrunkenDemon]

That kinda reminds me of my scondary schools ....language room? A room with individual stalls, individual headphones and the teacher had a controlboard for the casette with the lessons on it. It was strange

[@chillstar]

Sounds cool! Which country was that and roughly when? I never came across anything like this at school in the UK in the 80s.

[@microknigh7]

I remember the language labs as well. But it was only for people taking a language as a GCE/CSE/A Level (this was the early-mid 70s) subject and since I didn't take a language I never got to use it.

[@mankepoot9440]

@@chillstar We had such a room in middle school in the Netherlands in the eighties. It was just that the language teachers were not technical enough to use the equipment and all the lessons were "normal".

[@DrunkenDemon]

@@chillstar it was in the late 90s early 2000nds in germany. And that room was old by then. I think the headphones were actually Headsets for the teacher to communicate with you(imagine big overear headphones i cant remember if they had padding or just rubber. Never used it a lot for language stuff, but it was a good room for Tests xD)

[@DrunkenDemon]

@@microknigh7 yes! Sprachlabor! Language Lab.

[@johnstark1322]

The Tandberg ‘Language Lab’ my school had, dating from 1975, worked on the same principle but it had soft touch transport buttons and the teacher could take control of the recorders from the console and also speak to the whole class or individuals through the headsets. It had gone when I went back for a reunion in 2000.

[@robbybobbyhobbies]

I used a system from the same manufacturer at school in ‘84. It was possible to do a very passable impression of a steam train by blowing into the mic, as I recall. How my teacher laughed.

[@FooPanda]

I swear there was a room like this when I was in high school circa 2010 for many languages. 😮

[@fhwolthuis]

Very nice! It appears the suitcase was manufactured by a company called Presikhaaf, which was a sheltered workspace located in Arnhem, the Netherlands

[@AlRoderick]

I love it when you do these case studies.

[@sebuls]

Now all we need is some interesting thing in a can and weird stuff in a case for the ultimate crossover.

[@adampope5107]

I'm pretty sure this channel is just a stealth way of Matt showing off his singing voice. I was also not expecting dead prez. They're awesome.

[@truelazerlight]

I've been waiting for I.T.I.C. to continue for a while

[@zippy-zappa-zeppo-zorba-etc]

Matt, I'd like to see you explore the 4 track port-a-studio. Maybe it's not dated enough for your liking but it would be interesting to get your take on them.

[@carlgreen4222]

Thank you Patrons!

[@moottori_paa]

My aunt gave me samekind system in 80's to learn english (finnish is my native language). I think it have much poorer quality that videos machine. I learn my very modest english speaking skills listening Iron Maiden.

[@jeffk7734]

Very nice, this looks like something that was once used by the blind for talking books back when they were on cassette. There were also recorder units for the blind that could record on all four sides, and at either speed.

[@rich_edwards79]

He's covered a lot of tape-based technology for the blind, including various talking book players, in past videos :)

[@Jerbod2]

Mat, I suggest putting everything in the case in seperate plastic bags, that foam is starting to deteriorate. I had something from the 60's which completely melted and became sticky goo. Best thing would be to replace the foam but I can see that not being an option. This suddenly becoming a sticky mess in a few years could possibly leave you with a great deal of cleaning to do.

[@seanobrien7169]

Right...right...you're bloody well right...

[@AtheistOrphan]

Yay Supertramp!

[@Larcansil]

It reminds me of the ones we had embezzled on the desks of our language laboratories, back in 1995.

[@PlaywithJunk]

We had a language laboratory in school that worked like this machine. The difference was that a full class of students used it and the teacher could switch monitoring to all students and listen what everyone does. The students didn't know when he was listening. And everything was installed into the lab desks. 🙂

[@mvanburen953]

Altijd leuk om nederlandse dingen te zien in een Techmoan video. Succes met vertalen!

[@mark-andrews]

Really enjoyed this specific video, yeah aside from the extra controls, the basic player reminded me SO much of the tape player that was needed so as a kid, so I could load and play ZX Spectrum games, and something I still like to do, nowadays via emulation. Bit of a trigger for me, the ORIGINAL content, in the context of GCSE French lessons! I did eventually get a decent grade but I struggled, great teacher, very supportive. Bobby Darrin, performing 'Mack the Knife,' I absolutely love the original version of that song. Guess your voice might be, slightly different, from the narrative sections, but hopefully you'll be returning to 100% soon.

[@MrButtonpresser]

I can still see our language teacher's face at high school, when a bunch of us said we only wanted to learn German so we could understand war films.

[@spugintrntl]

I had a friend in college who only wanted to learn German so he could understand Rammstein lyrics.

[@cheeseparis1]

I'm happy to know a little bit of German so I can understand Wagner opera lyrics

[@PopCultureFan_]

1:54 well that definitely adds to the authenticness of fit..😂

[@joshm7769]

Wow... I loved that jab at sponsors, well done, love that your videos are still sponsor free! Thanks for the great content as always.

[@markrowe8824]

2:04 techmoan being a rebel by using five different makes of AA batteries. 😀😀

[@EdWensell]

I seem to remember using a similar setup during the final exam for advanced placement German (AP = college level class in high school). It was for the spoken part of the exam. The tape would speak a sentence and I was to respond as though we were having a conversation.The tape would then be submitted with the rest of the exam materials Do not remember if the player was this exact model, but now I have an idea of how it probably worked.

[@MartinFarrell1972]

In high school we had a system in a room built into the desks. I remember the French teacher saying we couldn't record over her voice when we had to do it a second time. Couldn't figure why until now. I remember her at the control desk listening in. Guy next to me was crapping himself as he was recording abuse.

[@sf-dn8rh]

They had a version of this tape deck on the series bobs burgers with Tina learning spanish. I remember these systems in high school in southern california

[@sonijam]

Thank you, Patreons!

[@solsol1624]

Ah the write protect tab, brings back memories. Bit of tape and you're sorted😂

[@Alex-vr8gw]

Thanks to the patrons!

[@Apocalypz]

Absolutely adored your intro to this video. Certainly it took some time, and in my opinion, well worth it. Loved it!

[@hudde814]

Never thought we'd get another ITIC, thought there would only be one episode

[@CallicoJackracham]

Has Matt ever done a video on the Cassette Deck he uses in his personal hifi setup? (that modern looking silver one)

[@frankmurphy5]

I could see Matt selling his own hip hop mix tapes out of that briefcase on a street corner.

[@viktorakhmedov3442]

THE PARODIES ARE GOING TO HAVE A FIELD DAY WITH TECHMOAN SINGING ALSO, TECHMOAN PLEASE PUT OUT AN ALBUM THAT WAS ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD!!!

[@patrickjohnson5658]

I remember my father had a reel to reel recorder with a language reel to learn Italian. It began "I am going to Italy" "Vado in Italia". then continued " For my summer holidays" "Le mie vacanze estive". It droned on in that manner for I think about an hour.

[@abdelali9279]

11:18 yes, more karaoke shenanigans!

[@GeirEivindMork]

You went from not wanting to meddle with karaoke players to making karaoke with devices not intended for it. ;)

[@woeshaling6421]

Presikhaaf is a neighborhood in Arnhem Gelderland. It stands to reason it was issued from there

[@PrankZabba]

I would so use that as a 2 track recorder and make demo tapes. It sure would've make a cool ghetto blaster (lol) to tape to my bike as a kid.

[@neddreadmaynard]

Ahh that voice. Like Dean Martin falling down the stairs. Magical.

[@klipkultur3680]

What an intro, I played it back a couple of times.Thanks Matt, you're the best!!!

[@briangoldberg4439]

I used something sort of like this in college in the 90s to learn French. The machines looked different, but they used tapes that I had to record something onto and our professor checked up on then afterwards. We also had some kind of video based thing on VCR we could use to fulfill our lab time requirements

[@miles11we]

I have an old electronics learning case thingy, similar size case, small breadboard, power supply with switches and whatnot to give you the power you need, few other features. Pretty cool

[@cantybrad]

Thank you patrions with out you we couldn't have matching sets of batteries and odd ball tech to marvel at.

[@hausofhomeaux]

Ma Mat's level of sarcasm is "Master". 🤣 Love the matching batteries!

[@TheParachutePeople]

My mom used one of these in college. She says that it worked quite well!

[@chinabluewho]

A certian ferret on a plane needs an answer on , "I don't have much time, where is this plane headed" in French.

[@AutistCat]

You are very impressive, quite happy to have discovered the channel.

[@drasticmart]

This made me remember stuffing paper into the write protect notches back in the day to record

[@macprofire]

„Most interesting thing in a case“ could be a category on Taskmaster ^^

[@BunnyslippersEUC]

The dry humour. As always😂

[@Soundwaiv]

Never knew much about tape recorders since I was born in the late 2000s. This is very interesting though!

[@SonicBoone56]

Yay the series is back!

[@moonshine3333]

The beginning … the batteries … the ‘singing’ … Techmoan gold. Your German wasn’t bad either.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

I like that. Record simultaneously with a recorded track.

[@Jhud69]

Honestly cool idea to put all your language learning stuff in a case like this. I might do it with my self-learning language textbooks

[@JoshuaRastia]

I really like this Things in Cases series! Hope you continue to do more!

[@altronixvideo]

I remember listening to audio french lessons at school, sadly the only thing I learnt was the intro to the tape when it said écoute, et répète

[@marcin6271]

I one time found a very similar device in a thrift shop. It was a Metz Sita, player only with real stereo output and even dolby noise reduction. Better than most walkmans that i had. Very neat despite the size of a brick.

[@MrBonger88]

Things in a case made me think of the I.T. Crowd stress detector episode

[@jonharvey6277]

I'm sure it was a drink that was spilt on the overview booklet and NOT someone REALLY geeking out over the obscure retro tech

[@Daijyobanai]

Probably just someone trying to pronounce French.

[@moominpapa1980]

Sorry I forgot how much i love this channel

[@jasejj]

Getting definite John Shuttleworth vibes on the Karaoke bit 😂

[@noskatehate]

When you showed the device up close and I saw that it said tone and volume, I thought for sure I was going mad. Then luckily you flipped the switch and I saw teacher and student again and I felt a little more sane 😅

[@CarletonTorpin]

Thanks Mat! Thanks Patrons! Thanks, me, for watching!

[@CorneliusCornfieldjr]

I bought something similar to this the other day. It was a readers digest “at home with French” case from 1984 that came with 16 cassettes on how to speak French, majority still sealed! Didn’t come with a player though, but I got the entire thing plus inserts and a couple booklets for $10.

[@mikequinlan9585]

Thank you Matt for saying no to the sponsors! But if you do need them, by all means use them. The content on this channel is delightful, 😊

[@vincentliew9763]

6:04 I recalled, Karaoke VCD/DVDs has this function, by switching left channel only - you can hear the person singing with music, whereas right channel only - it's only music, whereby you could sing along. Thus both channels are mono. Fyi - some cheap karaoke disc has different rhythm timings if you switch both channels on, you could hear a delay either on one side of the speaker, terrible...

[@TheSportsHammock]

It would've been fun to leave some extracurricular messages on those tapes as a surprise for the next student

[@xzerr]

This matched set of batteries immediately took me directly to my childhood