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Alfredo Pereira

Meedan | Arabic-English Current Events - 1 views

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    The Arabic word 'meedan' - ميدان - means 'a town square' or 'gathering place.' Meedan.net is a digital town square where you can share conversation and links about world events with speakers outside your language community. Everything that gets posted on meedan.net is mirrored in Arabic and English - whether it's the headlines you read, the comments you write, or the articles you share.
Alfredo Pereira

Twitter | Langology - 0 views

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    Fun with #language, language and linguistic news, links, events, research and more.
Alfredo Pereira

Lingro | The coolest dictionary known to hombre! - 0 views

shared by Alfredo Pereira on 14 Mar 10 - Cached
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    Lingro lets users read Web sites and click on any word for a translation. The new Web-based service works in English, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Polish. The site uses open dictionaries, so users can help fill in missing words.
Alfredo Pereira

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - Dictionary that uses an interactive map. - 0 views

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    The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.
Alfredo Pereira

Facebook | Greek Language - 0 views

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    "It is the language of the Greeks! It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of the Christian Bible."
Alfredo Pereira

Facebook | Cantonese Language - 0 views

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    Spoken in: China; Vietnam and countries with overseas Chinese originating from Cantonese-speaking parts of China Region: the Pearl River Delta (central Guangdong; Hong Kong, Macau); the eastern and southern Guangxi; parts of Hainan; Malaysia (Sandakan, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur); United Kingdom; Vancouver; Toronto; San Francisco, New York City, Honolulu Total speakers: 105 million Rank 16 in Top 100 Languages
Alfredo Pereira

iLengua - 0 views

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    Ilengua is a social language maintenance site designed for users who possess foreign language conversation skills and are interested in maintaining or polishing them. By providing a platform to use your language in live conversation, read news articles in any language, download and listen to music from around the world and keep your slang up to date, Ilengua provides a comprehensive set of tools necessary to maintain a language...and it's free.
Alfredo Pereira

Language on the Move - 0 views

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    Portal about language and communication in multicultural and transnational contexts | Ingrid Piller & Kimie Takahashi
Alfredo Pereira

Disappearing languages impact cultures around the world | Worldfocus - 0 views

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    "Linguists predict that over half of the almost 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will disappear by the end of the century. According to Ethnologue, 473 languages currently are close to extinction. In the Americas alone, 182 are endangered. The Rosetta Project created this map to highlight the near-extinct languages in Africa and the Americas. They are working to update the map to include the entire world."
Alfredo Pereira

10 Modern Cases of Linguistic Genocide | Listverse - 0 views

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    "Linguistic genocide has frequently been used throughout history to systematically eradicate languages for one reason or another. Sometimes it's to assert the authority of a ruling power, sometimes it's an attempt to assimilate an ethnic minority, and sometimes it's to provide "linguistic unity." In modern times (the past 200 years, for this list) it has been a major cause for the decline of a number of languages"
Alfredo Pereira

Art of Words | Translation - 0 views

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    Specialists rendering translations and first language solutions. Getting the message through, in English, Español, Français & Nederlands.
Alfredo Pereira

Myngle - Learn languages online - 0 views

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    Myngle is the pioneer of online language lessons! Qualified online classes and personalized packages. Learning new languages has never been this effective!
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