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Yammer is launching with Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. What's interesting is that they're going to crowdsource the other languages.
Even the generational gap is less severe in today’s society. With more and more older people accessing the internet, languages can be passed through pictures and audio files to younger,...
If this model works, it could potentially be extended to the more than 3,000 languages across the world that are projected to disappear in the next century. Granted, this method has holes; the more...
Duolingo gives you foreign language phrases from actual pages around the web. It only gives you phrases that match up with your level – like beginner, intermediate and advanced. You then go to...
They’ve seen a lot said about the use of technology in the Middle East and beyond, the use of technology in the Occupy Movement, and how it has influenced and shaped these events. These events,...
The site launched as a private beta at the end of November—currently, English speakers can get on the waitlist to learn and translate Spanish and German. If Duolingo takes off, it could...
Path's new additions, which were added using the crowdsourced model, now take the mobile-based social network up to 16 languages, as the their post explains: " That’s in addition...
Nouchi.mobi thus works quite simply like a dictionary whose words or idioms are added by the members. It is a social application based on the concept of ‘crowdsourcing’ where collective...
Now Smartling will offer an app to all Cloudflare users that enables these translations along with securing and stabilizing their site. This is the first partnership of this kind for Smartling,...
Religion’s advantage in garnering community translation support is evidenced by the many unofficial translation world records tied to religion. For example, the most translated book is the Bible...
Mark Graham looked at Wikipedia in the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa in the November 2011 versions of the Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, English, French. Interestingly, this doesn't...
By opening its platform to encompass Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu languages, Twitter is truly working towards making its service available to the 7 billion people on earth.
The system is also crowd-sourced, in which the community starts the courses while the Memrise staff also edits to ensure quality. To date, there are almost 200 languages. The teaching process...
Today, Twitter is available in 28 languages, thanks in large part to their community of nearly half a million translators around the world. They’re grateful for the work you’ve done thus far, and...
If you are learning, or want to learn, a foreign language, or you have been frustrated in the past by websites that would be useful... if only they were in a language you spoke, the answer to both...
Duolingo is “much more ambitious,” Luis von Ahn said in an interview . “Here we have to create a very compelling Web site for people to come back to. In the case of reCAPTCHA, people were forced...
Babelverse officially unveiled its public beta during The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam last April. It even powered the live interpretation of The Next Web’s conference panels into Spanish and...
Twitter has been using a crowdsourced translation model to publish the site in languages from around the world. As of this week, the total has risen to 30 with the addition of Ukrainian and...
By crowdsourcing the assistance of willing, multilingual volunteers, it is able to launch in new languages more quickly. Last September, shortly after announcing it had reached 100m active users...
at Collins Dictionary we have leveraged the intersection of language and social media by opening up CollinsDictionary.com to crowdsourcing for new dictionary words. Our editorial staff thoroughly...
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