Ever needed example sentences translated into lots and lots of languages? Here you go. Tatoeba (http://tatoeba.org/) is a database of sentences translated into many (over 40) languages. It’s in beta, which means […]
Google Translate Gets More Text-to-Speech Options
The Official Google Blog announced yesterday that Google Translate was getting more text-to-speech translation options. English and Haitian Creole were the initial languages, and French, Italian, German, Hindi, and Spanish were added […]
Foreign Language Courses, Free Online
Thanks to Lifehacker for the pointer to the U.S. Foreign Service Institute langauge courses online. They’re free and available at http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php. Unfortunately I wasn’t the only one who saw this announcement — […]
Forvo: Get Your Pronunciation On
Thanks to Smashing Magazine for the pointer to Forvo, an online dictionary of pronunciation. The Web site at http://www.forvo.com/ says “We want to have all the words that exist in the world […]
Quick Look: Getting the World with Google Translate
This week Google announced some new features for its Google Translate offering that makes it more immediate and even more useful. Google Translate is available at http://translate.google.com/. The site now translates as […]
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