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The human evolution is primarily all about developing skills of language and communication. Now, it is a commonly accepted fact that effective communication is all about words. Effective communication that includes proper listening avoids misunderstanding & disrespect and breeds trust & confidence, apart from strengthening relationships and existing bonds.

Learn from real native speakers excited to help you with the language that you are learning. International Community Community members from all over the world make Lang-8 a fun, social experience.

GoingOn provides a fast and cost effective way to build vibrant online communities. Leveraging the best of today's social web, GoingOn Community Platform enables academic institutions to deliver new, more engaging models of knowledge management and social collaboration across their campuses, and to their broad network of constitu ents. The results include increased student engagement, improved faculty productivity, enhanced online learning and broader marketing outreach.

Translation services are used in various aspects of communication, be it for translating a book into another language for publication, communicating with overseas clients who do not understand English, for creating multilingual websites etc.

Educational resource for teaching and learning languages - a community to share and exchange information.

This looks like an active, vibrant learning community!

A Ning community to support the TESOL EVO 2010 session

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.

Online Mandarin class offered in Santa Barbara, CA "Now, in Santa Barbara, 45 students from five local schools have begun taking a high-tech class in Mandarin this semester. With the addition of this new course, Santa Barbara students will converse on a global scale and interact as a digital community."

Companies will definitely increase revenue if they have their presence internationally in multilingual international languages. Most internet users will naturally feel more comfortable and understand a company better if their information, products or services are presented in their native language and will increase the scope of adding new users and customers. If you want to get your website localized ensure that you get the expertise of both a website designer and a cross cultural communications consultancy to have maximum impact on the target audience.

Dead language is defined as a language neither used nor spoken as a native language or mother tongue. Essentially it means no one speaks the language anymore as a medium for day to day communication, some examples of which are Latin, ancient Greek and Sanskrit.

Without clear communication, the whole lot is irrelevant. Imagine being in a foreign country, thousands of miles away from home, where the natives speak a language you barely know.

I've just been trying out a great new tool called Wetoku. Wetoku is a video conferencing tool which enables one to one live communication which can easily be recorded and then saved for comment or embedded into blogs or websites.

"Skribit helps you get suggestions for blog posts from your readers and the Skribit community. "

"Livemocha is the world's largest language learning community with over 5 million members! Designed for all language goals and skill levels, Livemocha offers free and plus learning options that actually work - and make learning languages social and fun!"

Many participants in Livemocha are fellow language teachers, too. Good way to connect with other teachers around the world.

eLanguages is a global online community of teachers sharing ideas and working together with their students on curriculum-relevant projects.

Students of foreign languages, often English and tourists often purchase electronic translators to help them communicate. This article gives the low-down on buying an electronic translator

A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills. Explore the map by selecting what you want to learn more about, to see definitions and activities. Start teaching others how to read, write and participate on the web with these free activities created by teachers, educators and technologists like you. Each featured activity includes step-by-step instructions and has been tested in schools, afterschool programs, libraries and community centers around the globe. Whether learning how to code, understanding why privacy matters, or creating openly-licensed web content, we believe teaching the web should be fun and engaging!

FLTMag article from a Spanish instructor in the Elevate course. Great example of using Thinglink on students own works to narrate them.

Spongelab is an online learning platform with science animations, images, videos and games integrated into a teacher content management system. All at no cost, science teachers, students and thinkers can access our growing database of amazing interactive educational media. Spongelab - where science meets play!