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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Visual Thesaurus VocabGrabber

VocabGrabber is an interesting online service provided by Visual Thesaurus. The online tool can be used to analyze text that can consist of up to 200000 characters. All that needs to be done is to copy and paste text into the form on the Visual Thesaurus website to receive an in depth analysis of the [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Language Translation Software

The Internet has made it easy to translate languages on the fly without the need of language dictionaries or other support tools. The software translations are usually acceptable in quality so that even someone not speaking the original language can understand the meaning of the text. Even better is the fact that all sorts of [...]

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Categories: Uncategorized, Windows, software

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Mar 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

5 essential tools to learn a language

gHacks has a diverse range of editors, living in, amongst other places, the UK, Germany and Hungary. All write in the medium of English, but learning a foreign language is no easy task.
I am currently trying to learn French and German and often find myself using many computer-based resources to ease my learning, some obvious, [...]

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Categories: Knowledge, Misc, The Web, Tools, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 2nd, 2009
  • Comments: 9

Foreign Language Identifier

Does it happen often to you that you receive correspondence in a language that you cannot identify right away? Or that you stumble upon the most exciting website only to find out that you have no clue what language it is written in? If you are on the Internet you might want to try your [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

Learn an alien language with Tork

I don’t usually blog about games, but this one is so great, simple, yet unique and quite a challenge that I just have to show you. The premise in Tork (a play on the word “talk”) is that our antagonist crash lands on an alien planet where everyone speaks in sign language. The basic task [...]

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Categories: Games

  • Author: Tobey
  • Published: Feb 11th, 2008
  • Comments: None

Tips for hard-core English learners

English pwns. Whether you like it or not, we all need it daily. Those who additionally enjoy learning this interesting language could appreciate a few tips on how to improve their skills even more. Since I still need to keep learning as well as revising what I’ve already learned, I’ve been visiting some websites and services of ESL type and I’d like to share a few of those I came to like the best.

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 30th, 2007
  • Comments: 10

Free online language courses

Most online language courses that I have tested so far do not utilize the advantages of the web at all. Those courses simply copy language courses from books. Mango is the first language course that I’m aware of that uses interactive elements to support the language course.

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

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