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App That Uses Augmented Reality to Translate Phrases

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Angel Brady

New app called Word Lens uses the iPhone’s cam­era to view a phrase in another lan­guage and trans­late the phrase right inside the cam­era, show­ing the trans­lated text and not the orig­i­nal text (that is the aug­mented real­ity part of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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List of Language Learning Materials that Are Free on the Internet

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Angel Brady

The Human­i­ties Resource Cen­ter has put together a list of free online lan­guage learn­ing mate­ri­als that patrons can use to help them learn a new lan­guage. Most of the sites require you to cre­ate a user account. This list will … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Free Web Based Language Learning Lessons

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Angel Brady

The web­site smart.fm offers free lessons about dif­fer­ent sub­jects, but a sub­ject where smart.fm has a lot of lessons is lan­guage learn­ing. On smart.fm, you can hear audio, run through a flash­card like appli­ca­tion, do word match­ing, learn mean­ings of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Typing in Foreign Languages

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Ben Johnston

If you have the need to type any­thing in a for­eign lan­guage which has accents and other strange-looking char­ac­ters, and you only have a US keyboard,this web­site will make your life a whole lot eas­ier! Now, through the mir­a­cles of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Improve Writing Skills in Another Language with Free Online Site

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Angel Brady

Lang8 is a free site that pro­vides a place where you can learn how to write in a for­eign lan­guage. What nice is that it entirely on the web and native speak­ers are the peo­ple cor­rect­ing your gram­mar. You can … Con­tinue read­ing →

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