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Phonetic Russian character input on US-keyboards with Google IME in the LRC
Open the application you want to write in, preferably MS-Word (has proofing tools for Russian). You may have to right-click on the language bar on the lower right of your desktop and select “Adjust” t… more →
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Pictolang, another flashcard site for vocabulary learning
wrote 5 months ago: Distinguishing mark: Pictolang is based on the Culturally authentic Picture Lexicon. Here is an over … more →
Phonetics website for learners of English, German and Spanish
wrote 10 months ago: Hone your foreign language pronunciation skills by learning about phonetics: This oft-recommended Un … more →
Spring 2012 Faculty Workshop II: Oral Proficiency testing with Audacity/Sanako
wrote 1 year ago: View screens (best viewed side by side, but note that left and right screen are not synchronized): f … more →
Linguee dictionary lookup based on parallel corpora
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wrote 1 year ago: Support for more languages is planned (Chinese, Japanese): The interesting approach based on paralle … more →
Independent study with free language learning materials from the FSI?
wrote 1 year ago: The Foreign Service Institute language learning materials – consisting of scanned documents and dig … more →
Eva English Word Lookup against Wordnet
wrote 1 year ago: Eva Word Lookup – not listed under the extensions, but run against Wordnet, the lexical databa … more →
How to display Furigana phonetic guide for Japanese Kanji in MS-Word 2010
wrote 1 year ago: Furigana uses Kana (usually Hiragana) to phonetically transcribe Kanji, above (for horizontally writ … more →
How to use Google translate for writing Cyrillic letters with a western keyboard, pronunciation help, and text-to-speech
wrote 1 year ago: Go to Google translate and do like so. Useful for learning, as well as typing when teaching. … more →
Sanako comparative recording exercises using Moodle
wrote 1 year ago: Comparative recordings are one of the best-established practices in SLA with technology. We can impl … more →
Treffpunkt Deutsch Companion Website with Online Exercises
wrote 1 year ago: This first-year German textbook comes with a Companion Website with free online exercises, organized … more →
Transcribe sounds into Arabic letters on the web using Yamli
wrote 1 year ago: How do you compare this to Microsoft Maren and Google Arabic keyboard input? … more →
How to use the online Spanish pronunciation help to generate phonetic alphabet transcriptions and text-to-speech
wrote 1 year ago: Go to http://showroom.daedalus.es/es/tecnologias-de-la-lengua/phonetictrans/phonetictrans.php, enter … more →
Microsoft Contextual Translator
wrote 1 year ago: Certainly an advance over the MS-Word thesaurus (unlike the MS-Word 2007 and up spell check, still n … more →
MS Universal Language Input Tool offers correction and transliteration on any web page
wrote 1 year ago: Using the UIME, you can “type any language with any keyboard on any web page, using only the R … more →
MS-Engkoo glossing of Chinese newspaper text
wrote 1 year ago: Learners of Mandarin can increase not only their cross-cultural knowledge, when using the English ve … more →
Chinese newspapers
wrote 1 year ago: China Daily is the largest Chinese newspaper available in English. It has a variety of versions: her … more →
MS-Bing Dictionary for Chinese learners of English–and vice versa?
wrote 1 year ago: Link: http://dict.bing.com.cn/?ulang=EN-US&tlang=ZH-CN#%3Ahome, powered by Engkoo: This looks li … more →
Sample of how students use the foreign language TTS (text-to-speech) in the LRC
wrote 1 year ago: Last week, I noticed this student in the LRC working on a speaking assignment in her SLA class. Firs … more →
How to use the online Portuguese pronunciation help to generate phonetic alphabet transcriptions and text-to-speech
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wrote 1 year ago: Go to http://www.co.it.pt/~labfala/g2p/ Write or paste your text into the textbox:“Grafemas” Choose … more →
