Learn The Basics Of Markdown in 10 Minutes With This Video Tutorial
If you've heard about markdown but not yet had chance to try it out, this short video should get you up to speed with the language that makes creating content for the web easy.
Learn A Language By Talking With Real People Using WeSpeke
Learning a language is hard when you're not immersed in the culture and surrounded by people who speak the language. WeSpeke connects you with fluent speakers of the language you're trying to learn
Want An iPad App To Improve Your Grammar? Grammar Pop Will Help
Do you know the difference between an adjective and an adverb? A verb and a participle? If you — or your children — need to brush up on your grammar skills quickly, Grammar Pop can help.
4 Hidden Benefits Of Learning A Foreign Language If You Are A Geek
English is overwhelmingly the language of the Internet. And yet, there's never been a better reason and a better time to learn a foreign language. It opens up the world, and opportunities.
Net Neutrality, Cuban Twitter, Brendan Eich, Open Source .Net [Tech News Digest]
Net neutrality in Europe, Cuban Twitter plot revealed, Brendan Eich resigns, open source .Net, new Kinect for Windows, Lingua.ly on Android, and the advanced Bitcoin simulator.
Learning A New Language Gets Easier With Lingua.ly On Android
Lingua.ly took a different route with its language learning. It combined self-learning with a daily habit – browsing the Web. Now, it has launched an Android app to help you learn on the move.
Dumb Grammar Mistakes You Shouldn't Make, But Probably Do
It may sound correct when you're speaking it, but in the written form, your grammar mistakes makes you look plain dumb.
How To Learn A Language Using The Kindle Paperwhite
With the built-in dictionary and Vocabulary Builder on your Paperwhite, reading in another language is as convenient as it will ever be.
Study a Language From Your PC, Phone or Tablet With Babbel
There are all sorts of reasons to study a new language. For learning to write and speak conversationally, an online tool like Babbel provides some obvious benefits.
Clip, Save, And Tag Your Way To A New Language With Phraseum
Phraseum is a simple but handy browser tool that turns your day-to-day browsing into a language learning class.
Duolingo Gives A Fillip To Free Language Learning With Crowdsourced Lessons
Duolingo has launched a new initiative that aims to crowdsource new lessons and new languages with the help of the website’s growing community of ten million and counting.
How You Can Learn A New Language While Browsing The Web With Lingua.ly
Lingua.ly is another innovative language learning tool that helps you become familiar with foreign words while browsing the Web. Lingua.ly turns the entire Web into a "language learning platform".
3 Free Android Apps That Can Help Improve Your English
Whether it's your first or second language, English can be tricky. Many of us use our smartphones mainly for reading and writing -- not to mention our tablets, of course. So what do you do when you come across an unfamiliar word, or when you need to write an important message on the go without making embarrassing mistakes? Today I'd like to share three free and useful apps that can help with both reading and writing English: Two dictionaries, and a keyboard.
Stop For A Grammar Check: 4 Areas Where You Can Improve Your Spelling & Grammar
Being a freelance writer or journalist isn't easy, particularly if you write in a language that isn't your mother tongue. Yet, many foreign speakers are tempted to write in English because it promises a greater audience and thus better opportunities to earn a living. The drawback is that we are constantly struggling with the details of the little devils in the language.
How To Use Chrome To Learn A Foreign Language While Browsing The Web
One of the more natural ways to learn anything is to immerse oneself in that environment. In fact, if you stay in a foreign country for any length of time, you naturally pick up some of the colloquialisms. Well, the best way to save yourself the price of a plane ticket is to use the browser to travel. Travel the web with Chrome and take the help of these Chrome extensions for learning a foreign language while you are simply browsing.
5 Tips & Tools To Help You Learn Japanese
Japanese is an incredibly difficult language to learn, and I should know having lived in Kyoto for 8 years. While nothing beats learning a language by being thrown straight in at the deep end, there's certainly some great tips and tools I can pass on that should benefit anyone just getting started with Japanese. If you're not particularly into Japanese, then check out all our other language learning articles too.
Babbel: An Interactive Tool for Budding Linguists
Learning a language is challenging once you've left school. As a child your brain should still be receptive to new information and able to retain data, but once hairs start appearing on your chin and makeup on your lips you're already past the point of optimal learning. Babbel is another tool that promises to make learning a language easier than simply burying your head in a textbook by providing interactive lessons to learn as you go.
Learn A Language And Translate For Practice With Duolingo (Now Open To All!)
The internet has given us some fantastic tools for language learning, and Duolingo is the latest site to give it a go. It's just come out of closed beta and is now available for everyone to use, after being the talk of language learning communities online for months. Duolingo is currently teaching German, Spanish and French for free to anyone who wants to learn.
Are You A Terrible Speller? With These Apps You Don't Have To Be [iOS]
Are you terrible when it comes to spelling? It’s okay, plenty of people out there cannot spell to save their lives. Of course, computers did not help matters since everyone has a professional-grade spell checker at hand whenever they are unsure how to spell a word. Still, there is something to be said for knowing how to spell properly on your own. At some point, you may have to write words with pen and paper.
Practice Your Foreign Language Pronunciation With Listen & Speak [Android 2.1+]
In our globalizing world, the ability to speak more than one language is one of the best things you can have. Whether your second language is English, Spanish, Chinese, German, Russian, Japanese, or anything else out there, you're more marketable when you can speak more than just your mother tongue.