February 2012
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Seventh Grader Suspended for Saying "I Love You"... →
This still happens? *sigh*
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An Awesome Chrome Extension for People Studying... →
[Note: If this extension doesn’t work for you, try Mind the World]
If you use Chrome (and you should, because it’s awesome) and are learning a foreign language, you should definitely install this extension. What does it do?
Polyglot [the name of the extension] translates randomly selected words on the sites you visit into a language of your choice, allowing you to learn and practice...
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Daily List of Free Kindle eBooks for Foreign... →
Earlier this week I published a list of free Kindle books that were related to language learning. I’ve decided to make that a thing, and I’ll be updating the list every day. Today there are materials in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Hindi, Indonesian, and English. Go check them out and download them ASAP. Most of them are free for today only.
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How do you become fluent in 11 languages? [BBC... →
This 20-year-old is fluent in English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan, and Italian.
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Today's Free Language-Related Kindle Books...
These ebooks from Amazon may be free only for today (and only in the US), so grab them while you can. They can be read on Kindles, in a web browser, on a Mac or PC, on an iPhone or iPad, and on Android devices.
Every day there are new free Kindle books in or on a variety of languages. If this type of list is something you’d like to see more often, please like it or reblog it so I know.
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Dotsies: An Alphabet Designed for Reading, Not...
Dotsies is a font/alphabet designed to help us read more efficiently. Its letters look like this:
As the Dotsies site says:
Since latin letters (a, b, c, etc.) are optimized to be written by hand, they take up a lot of unnecessary space. Your eyes have to move at a frantic pace from left to right to read. Use screen space more efficiently! Have a more relaxed reading experience!
So in other...
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Do You Need to Know a Foreign Language to Major in...
Someone asked me this question recently:
Hello! I’m interested in pursuing a degree in Linguistics in the near future. Would you have any advice on the usefulness of knowing a second or third language (and to what degree - how would four years of GCE ‘O’-level German stand)? Did your course focus on English or were you to choose a specific modern language to study (e.g....
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Hundreds of company name etymologies →
Very cool Wikipedia stating the origins behind hundreds of companies’ names.
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Language experts to help identify internet... →
From the BBC, so it’s legit.
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Why You Should Always Keep Learning Vocabulary →
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Urban Dictionary: Herro →
Definition: The standard greeting of Engrish, as in, “Herro! How are you?”