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, [...]
5 essential tools to learn a language
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 19th, 2009
- Comments: 2
Creating a simple multi-lingual website
If you want to create a simple webpage for yourself, listing who you are, how you can be contected and what you do, you might want to add a few languages in there. You could use Google Translate, but that does not yield the best (and professional) results, so it would be best to translate [...]
Convert Between Alphabets On The Fly
If you ever had to use a computer for writing text in two different languages that do not share the same alphabet you might have experienced that you wanted to write the text in one language but missed to switch to it which resulted in writing the text, or part of it, in the wrong [...]
Learning Software Teach 2000
I started learning two new languages this week which are Japanese and Swedish. While Swedish is pretty easy for someone who is speaking English and German (and a little bit of Danish), Japanese is not. The main problem is that you have to think around two corners at the beginning. You can read every letter [...]
Learning English With Yappr
Yappr is an online community that brings users from all over the world together to improve their English language skills. It’s a community driven website with a strong focus on community and social aspects. The user begins by selecting his native language from 14 available ones including English itself which is probably there for native [...]
Another round-up for English (not only) learning freaks
Hardly anybody does without English nowadays, especially when dealing with tech stuff, and it’s therefore quite a good idea to at least keep it up or possibly even elevate your current language skills if you’re not lucky enough to be a native English speaker. While some ways of learning the language may be obsolete and [...]
BBC Languages
BBC Languages is a website by the BBC that is providing language courses for several popular languages such as German, French, Spanish and Chinese. A language portal was constructed for each language that is used as the main hub for that language. From there students can get a quick fix of the selected language which [...]
