language

As a blogger, vocabulary is my bread and butter. But I am not the only one who needs to keep brushing up his vocabulary. If you are part of the corporate world, working with professionals and experts, you need to stay at the top of your game.

What language do you speak? Your answer to this simple question might be English, or French, or German, or Mandarin. But do you know Apma, Geez or Rikou? This are also languages among the total of 7000 plus languages spoken today. But outsi

Maybe you’re a traveler and you want to know what’s a written on that banner ad which is probably in a language you don’t know. Or maybe in your hometown, a new Italian food joint has started which has banners printed in their language. Yo

As the mobile learning environment evolves, apps for both smartphones and tablets provide better and more diverse ways to learn just about every subject. Language learning is among the fields that have benefited from this evolution the most, with app

Blame it on the breakneck development speed of mobile software or an obliviousness to the rest, but iOS doesn’t support nearly as many languages as it should.

When it comes to online dictionaries,  Dictionary.com is probably the best of the lot. But when it comes to the ones on smartphones, Dictionary.com’s app never really impressed me. It  needed an internet connection to look for the defin

One of the coolest aspects of the Mac is that it comes with a huge number of languages included by default. That means that you can run your Mac in almost every language out there. However, the advantages of having several languages on your Mac is

Learning a language is perhaps one of the most sought-after learning activities on the web. This is clearly demonstrated by famous paid services like Rosetta Stone for example, that have expanded their offers to the web.

Personally, gaming on the iPhone is not an activity I put a lot of time into. For that, I use dedicated consoles or handhelds, since they offer far deeper, more involving experiences.

There are many dictionary apps that are available for the Android in the Play Store, however most of them require an internet connection to function. We did discuss about two dictionaries that support offline word lookup but still switching between

Word games are perhaps one of the best ways to kill some time while also enhancing your vocabulary . However, it tends to be quite hard to find the truly original ones when so many thousands of them are available on the App Store. So why search for

There are times when I have to open a new tab in my browser while reading an article just to look up the meaning of a word I am not sure about. The Google search inline frame which shows up the meaning right on the search page might have eased some o

In Windows, many programs (especially, writing tools) come with an integrated spell check tool. The best example here would be MS Word. Similarly, many online services and independent tools have tried to feature this behavior. However, there may be

As a blogger, I know how important grammar is for any language. It is the fabric of a language, and when that language is English it becomes especially important because English is the lingua franca – the “mother tongue” – of the world.

The possibilities of a dictionary coming in handy at times are endless. Think about the times when you didn’t understand a specific word.. could have been while reading a book, watching something on the TV or may be in a conversation.. remember t

E

Online translating tools come in handy when you need to talk people of other country on internet who don’t know your language. Also, you need them if you come across an article in a foreign language and want to check out what it means.