Category: bi/multilingual

Jun 23 2009

BabelWithMe.com

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BabelWithMe.com is a new method to communicate with people who don’t speak (or write) our same language. It seems very easy to use; just visit the site, choose a login...

Jun 18 2009

bi/multilingual, Education, Tools

UNESCO’s Open Training Platform gathers thousands of existing, free training courses on a wide range of subjects. Currently it offers 3,426 training resources, covering 293 categories (including agriculture, education, languages,...

Jun 09 2009

bi/multilingual, Tools

Google Translator Toolkit

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Today Google announced that they have improved their online translating tool Google Translate, and have come up with Google Translator Toolkit, which should give translations that “human touch” preventing you...

Jun 02 2009

bi/multilingual, Libraries, Tools, World

Pregunte: Las Bibliotecas Responden

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The Ministry of Culture and the Autonomous Communities in Spain have joined forces to offer a new online reference system called “Pregunte: Las Bibliotecas Responden” (Ask, The Libraries will Answer)....

Apr 20 2009

Archives, bi/multilingual, Databases, Digital, Europe, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, Open Access, Photographs, Videos, Web 2.0, World

World Digital Library Goes Live

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Today the World Digital Library goes live! The project has been in the works for about 4 years now, and was initially conceived by James Billington of the USA Library...

Mar 28 2009

bi/multilingual, Libraries, USA

Rare Mexican-American Songs go Online

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The Chicano Studies Center at UCLA has uploaded over 41,000 songs to an online repository titled Musica de la Frontera. A number of these songs date back as early as...

Mar 18 2009

bi/multilingual, Language, Spain, Technology, World

El Castellano.org

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Sometimes is seems like all my friends are trying to learn or improve their Spanish, which I love, and encourage as much as I can. So here’s a tool that...

Mar 13 2009

bi/multilingual, USA

Las Comadres Book Club

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Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club is a partnership between Las Comadres, Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Borders to promote the reading of Latino writers. The group...

Jan 05 2009

bi/multilingual, USA, World

Radio Bilingüe

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I recently ran across this online radio station that offers news in a completely bilingual format. The appropriately named station, Radio Bilingüe, is based in California, with offices in San...

Nov 05 2008

bi/multilingual, Language, Libraries, Open Access, Public Libraries, USA, World

WorldLinQ

by Bilingual Librarian

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WorldLinQ is a site created at Queens Public Library which gathers a wide range of useful websites in a variety of different languages. The site offered link to public websites...