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		<title>Google Translate Adds As-You-Type Translations, Pronunciation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Translate added a few features to its main web home, including instant translations as you type. What&#8217;s really helpful is a bit more tucked away: phonetic pronunciations for non-Roman alphabets, like Chinese and text-to-speech pronunciations for translating to English.
Heading to a country with an alphabet nothing like yours is intimidating, so Google&#8217;s Roman-ised pronunciation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supplement Your Language Learning By Using Common Sites In A Foreign Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask anyone who&#8217;s achieved proficiency in a second language and they&#8217;ll tell you submersion is key. While most of us can&#8217;t pick up and move to another country just for our language-learning benefit, you can submerse yourself on the web easily enough.
Weblog MakeUseOf suggests changing your browsing habits with popular web sites like Amazon, using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lingoes Defines And Translates Text, Converts Numbers, And More</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows only: If you need frequent access to word definitions and text translation, Lingoes is a portable application that does everything from dictionary word look-ups to translation of over 80 languages.
Lingoes integrates in a variety of ways including definition-on-mouse-over&#8212;a great feature if you&#8217;re learning a new language and want a quick way to check words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PicTranslator Uses Your iPhone Camera To Translate Languages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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iPhone only: Whether you&#8217;ve found yourself in a foreign land or you just need a little help with a foreign-language menu, snap a pic with PicTranslator and let it translate for you on the fly.
As you can see in the demo video, just take a picture of the text you want translated, choose the language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Your Kids Learn To Speak</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angus Kidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ability to learn a spoken language without formal training is one of the most astonishing (and defining) human characteristics. That doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t help the process along a little with your kids.
Picture by seandreilinger
Our sibling publication Babble has a useful roundup of the latest research on how parents can help their kids with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LangId Tells You What Language A Text Is In</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have a written work on your hands you can&#8217;t even identify for translation purposes? LangId analyses a snippet of the text and tells you what language it is written in.
You can input text into LangId in a multiple ways. The screenshot above shows the results from simply cutting and pasting text into the dialog box. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn New Phrases By Tweaking Your Gadgets&#8217; Language Settings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azadeh Ensha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re heading off to a foreign country and want to quickly familiarise yourself with its language, try changing the default language on your favourite gadgets to help jump-start your education.
Photo by permanently scatterbrained.
Tech weblog Geek Sugar reminds us that you can tweak the settings for everything from your smartphone and television to your favourite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Wolfram Alpha As A Writing Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wolfram Alpha, the &#8220;computational knowledge engine&#8221; that&#8217;s steadily updating, has a good but hidden use as a word and language tool for use while writing. In other words, it can be a smart and snappy thesaurus/dictionary/translator/anagram tool.
Wolfram Alpha&#8217;s own blog toots its own language skills horn a bit, but for good reason. If you&#8217;ve ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC&#8217;s Quick Fix Dishes Essential Phrases In Foreign Languages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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If you want to brush up on a few important phrases before heading abroad on holiday (you know, because you&#8217;re all about good travel etiquette), the BBC&#8217;s Quick Fix site is a crash course in useful phrases in foreign languages.
The site covers 36 languages, from Albanian to Ukranian, and includes printable phrase-sheets and audio snippets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But Slower Shows Simplified Wikipedia Pages And Their Originals</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia&#8217;s a great resource for learning more about complex or esoteric subjects, but sometimes the dense, insider language can be a bit off-putting. Free mashup tool Again, But Slower compares original Wikipedia entries with their simplified re-writes.
Those rewrites come courtesy of Simple English Wikipedia, a site with over 59,000 Wikipedia articles written for those at [...]]]></description>
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