Langology

We are a Language Exchange Platform that lets you learn from your peers. Help people learn your native language while they help you!

Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality

A dictionary aiming to collect all the words in the English language: more than 4 million so far! Examples, pronunciations, user notes, and more.

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.

"MetaGlossary harvests definitions from the entire web, the world's largest, constantly-updated repository of information. Hence, it surpasses traditional dictionaries, which grow more out of date with each passing day. MetaGlossary is as dynamic as the web, offering the most current information out there on the most contemporary topics. "

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.

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.

The Mixxer is a free educational site for language learners hosted by Dickinson College. The Mixxer is designed to connect language learners around the world so that everyone is both student and teacher.

"Welcome to the MERLOT World Languages Portal, an educational resource for teaching and learning languages. You are invited to join and contribute to this growing learning community by using the online materials and submitting your own modules for inclusion in the collection. You will find a wide variety of materials for use online and in the classroom."

One of the most advanced language learning websites in the world will launch later this year.

"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"

"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."