Here are ten of the best language learning apps for 2015, updated to include those with social dynamics, like HelloTalk, recent entries like Rosetta Stone, and stalwart Duolingo. We’ve also made an effort to include multiple languages, including Mandarin, French, …
Apps that Keep You from Getting Lost in Translation
There are plenty of translation apps for smartphones, but sometimes they speak better than they listen.
Speak Foreign Languages with Google Translate
You can use the free Google Translate service to instantly translate text from one language to another and in some language pairs, you may even listen to the translated text.
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Dead Sea Scrolls coming to your couch, thanks to Google
Google and the Israeli Antiquities Authority have teamed up to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls and make the scans accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Several million dollars will now fund a special implementation of the technology, as the
Showdown: The Wikipedia Dictionary (Wiktionary) vs Urban Dictionary
Those of us who spend a lot of time online have a slightly different vocabulary than the rest of the world. We use words like blog, webinar, and meme on a daily basis (and actually know what they mean). There …
All National Anthems
All National Anthems is a map, built on Yahoo Maps, that makes it easy to find the national anthem of almost every country in the world. Along with each country’s national anthem, users will find some basic almanac-style information. Each …
DocTranslator: Free Tool For Translating Documents Online
DocTranslator is a nice web based translator that can translate your documents, such as Word documents, spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations and text files, to and from more than 50 languages. It uses the Google Translate API to convert documents.
Read the Words – Hear Your Text Spoken
Read the Words converts your text (word, pdf, html, websites, and more) into spoken words. Users of Read the Words can select from fifteen different voices and three languages in which to hear their text spoken. The conversion of text …
Arabic websites make history with native script addresses
Internet addresses written in Arabic are making history as the first online domains in non-Latin characters, with Chinese and Thai expected to follow close behind.
75 Free Language Learning Resources Online
Whether you’re trying to learn English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Italian –you get the picture – it’s good to get free help along the way. Luckily, there are tons of free online resources out there. Here are 75 to …
Lingt: Webtools for Language
Lingt helps people learn the massive number of vocabulary terms required for basic competency in a foreign language. We think the biggest problem with learning a new language is simply giving up, so we’ve built something that we think makes …
Forvo – All the Words in the World Pronounced
Forvo can best be described as an audio wiki for word pronunciations. One of the problems with learning to speak a language that is not phonetic is trying to figure out how to pronounce the words. Forvo hosts hundreds of …
Digital Dialects – Activities for Learning 55+ Languages
Digital Dialects has a large selection of educational games and activities for learning 55 different languages. Most of the games are designed to learn and practice the basics of each of the 55 languages listed on the Digital Dialects homepage.…