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Has many many many languages French is OK, but Japanese IS NOT AT ALL!

Well like a lot of people I've bought an iPad over the summer and I've been having my first taste of shopping for apps to extend the capabilities of the iPad. I've also been having a look at how some of these can be used for language learning, so I thought I would share with you a little bit of information about the first few apps I've tried.

Many language students like to use electronic translators. I teach English and over the years I have watched them grow in popularity. Students love them, there is no doubt about that. Teachers are not so united. Some think they are great, and others hate them. For me, it has taken some time to befriend them, and work out how to take advantage of them in the classroom.

Sometimes it's difficult to articulate how you feel.We may find ourselves at a loss for words especially during intense situations. People sometimes use more than one language to express their feelings or describe something.

WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Caroline and Pearson Brown give you their English Grammar Secrets

The internet is a colossal repository of potentially almost anything. It has transcended most of the known hurdles in information exchange and social interaction. In fact, the overwhelming popularity of social media fueled the substantial rise of internet usage, drawing participation from different parts of the world.

Script Converter is a Google Labs product that allows the user to read a web page in a script of their choice. For example if the user can understand spoken Tamil but cannot read the script, they will be able to view Tamil web pages in English (Roman) script. We do not translate any content - we transform the words on the page to its phonetic equivalent in the desired script. We also support the conversion from non-Unicode encodings to Unicode, so that users can view pages without installing the custom font otherwise needed. Users will still need Unicode fonts. To start browsing a website, type the url in the text area, choose your preferred script and press convert.\n Currently we support the following scripts.\n\n * Bengali\n * English\n * Gujarati\n * Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali)\n * Kannada\n * Malayalam\n * Tamil\n * Telugu

Englisch-Deutscher Sprachführer Essential German phrases and words for travelling, business and writing letters.

Enter French or English verbs in any form of conjugation.  

The purpose of the survey was to ascertain the level of awareness and openness to mobile learning among English language teachers. I also wanted to find out to what degree and how teachers were already using mobile learning both in their teaching and and professional development and to establish whether they would be willing to pay for and use mobile content. The survey also collected information about the teachers' existing access to mobile services and the kinds of device they are using to get access to mobile Internet.

Katherine Munro's resources for languages including German, Chinese, English (ESL), Indonesian and Japanese., Katherine Munro's suggestions for student group travel to L�beck and Sierksdorf., Katherine Munro's information and links on S�tterlin (German handwriting)., Update of Katherine Munro's gallery of original photos., Katherine Munro's suggestions for student group travel to Saarbr�cken, Homburg and Ottweiler.

Vocabulary is the key to expressing yourself well in any language and the key to learning and improving your vocabulary is constant revision. Luckily there are lots of sites which can help to make this easier and more fun.

ESL Video is a great free site that enables you to create your own quizzes based on video clips from popular sharing sites like YouTube or BlipTV. You have to register and log in and then you just grab embed codes for the video you want to build you quiz around. The site is multilingual so it doesn't just have to be an English language video.

This online translator allows the translation of words, texts, phrases, idioms, expressions in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese. Translation tools include: translation memory like Across, Trados, SDL, Dejà Vu, but also instant translation systems, machine translation like Reverso, BabelFish, Systran. Online dictionaries: Collins, Merriam-Webster, Larousse, LEO, Oxford, langenscheidt.

Headway elt books have been helping English language learners for decades. Now, they have joined the 21st century with Headway iTools for smartboards to compliment your lessons.

Check your English Spelling and Grammar using this free English as a Second Language grammar checker. Simply paste your text in the text box below, hit 'Check spelling' and then 'Check grammar' to see suggestions and links to practice activities. Teachers can help improve its accuracy by submitting new errors and reporting false alarms.

There is an assumption that persists in the educational community that more mature teachers are much more difficult and reluctant to be trained on the effective use of educational technology. To some degree, I think this assumption has been built on by the digital native vs digital immigrant myth. But as someone who has trained teachers of all ages all over the world I would say that, from my own experience, this hasn't been the case.