Technology and language learning

Computers, MP3 and other high tech ways to learn a language

Mark’s voice to text – digital voice recorder speech recognition experiment – failure. I detailed my productivity breakthrough I achieved with a voice to text program that comes with Windows -> Speech recognition. It is basically an automatic transcription program that comes with Windows that frees you from typing.  You can just speak to your [...]

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Technology and language learning is one of my interests.  Baby TV is a program for kids to help them learn a language.  I think it is for children who are two years old and younger. Why I am interested in Baby TV and learning a language I recently got an upgrade to my satellite TV. [...]

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What is voice to text A voice to text program allows you to speak into a microphone so speak, and what you speak will appear in your word document or notepad or where ever. Think of the possibilities you do not need to type any more. Chat by speaking instead of typing. You can lay [...]

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This post is about a curious girl from Russia named Marina Orlova who has a website called hot for words. Despite some bias comments in this blog post about her I would give Marina and her blog and Youtube channel HotforWords two thumbs up.  I think she promotes languages and gets people into language learning, [...]

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Viewing a Russian website in English I surf the Russian Interent a lot. I even have a Russian e-mail and a few accounts.  I need to learn Russian better as I often get lost.  But if you as an English speaker want to learn how to view a Russian website in English it is easy. [...]

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Google help fund Firefox and in return the defualt search box was always Google in Firefox.  However, Russian Firefox dumped Google in place of its rival the Russian search engine Yandex. Russian language search With Russian language users Yandex is the most popular search engine with 44%  using this and Google being number 2 at [...]

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Learn a language on YouTube The fact is today there are many resources to learn languages online. You have webages, radio, online TV and even YouTube.  At this juncture it is not a matter of finding resources, but finding resources of value that will help you learn.  It’s a matter of efficiency. The best way [...]

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translate tool firefox The translate tool I use in firefox is ‘gtranslate’. It uses google’s translate page to translate text.  It works fine with an auto detect button for the language. However, I have always been luke warm about translate tools. The translations are always very funny and if you know even an intermediate level [...]

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iphones do not like. I do not like the iphone. In fact I gave up my cell phone.  I do not like the idea of being on call at all times.  During my lessons, most of my students take 2  duing the hour.  Most people do not even realize how disjointed their lives have become. [...]

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Foreign language videos I think reading a book is a better way to learn a language then watching foreign language videos, because learning a language from a book is very focused and easy on the eyes. However, watching foreign language videos is still not bad. There are many foreign language videos on the internet from [...]

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