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Writing for the web My language test I recently ran a test using a optimizer tool.  It was a  A / B test that compared two different versions of my home page. 50% of the time people would look at one version and 50% the users would see another version. This morning, I completed it.  [...]

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Russian free email If you want to have a free Russian e-mail account, I use mail.ru  In fact I have mbiernat@mail.ru   Why do I have this? Well, first it is kind of cool. Second, I have a real interest in the Russian language and all things Russian as I consider myself a Slavophile.  That is [...]

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Google translate for Polish I just noticed that Google now has translate for Polish. This is something I have been waiting for. Now you can easily translate Polish web pages into English. In the past it was only Spanish, then French, then Russian, but now Polish. You can try to read anything in your target [...]

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Top 10 Russian language websites What are the Russians surfing? I think what people are surfing in a language reflects the collective unconsciousness of the people speaking the language.  Sometimes they similar to English language Internet surfers and sometimes they are not.  Here are the top 10 Russian language websites. 1. mail.ru  Russian language mail [...]

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Which languages – counties are the biggest geeks If you look at Alexa, the site which ranks popular sites on the Internet, you can look at the top 500 most popular sites in the world.  I will not list the ranking out as that is something that you can explore.  But what I noticed was [...]

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English has invaded other national languages. Trends in business and demographics is like global warming, often there is little that can be done to reverse these trends. So is the case with the English language. “English has already invaded the languages of Moliere, Cervantes and Goethe, dominating the fields of technology and business and even [...]

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Internet resources and language learning Internet resources and language learning one of my pet peeves with the internet is the amount of spam and useless junk that exist connected to language learning. The internet is the largest receptacle of recylced information in the world. I created a site

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English is the world language Experts say English still world’s language from The Brunei Times-English will remain the global language in the foreseeable future, even with the fast paced changes brought about from the forces of globalization, experts said. Trends in technology helps to further spread English as the global language, thus most people tend to [...]

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