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Translating Dan Brown into French

Fascinating interview in French on the excellent Fluctuat.net web site with the translators of Dan Brown's latest blockbuster. They managed to translate all 600 pages of The Lost Symbol into French in...

READ MORE | 19 Feb 2010
German railways shunt English into sidings

BBC News - German railways shunt English into sidings. Good to see that the Germans are doing something about the onslaught of English in Germany....

READ MORE | 18 Feb 2010
Twitter Dictionary

This is fun: Bab.la, a wiki-style language portal, has created a real-time translation dictionary Twitter app. Follow bab.la dictionary on Twitter (@babladict), send a tweet in the form of an @ mentio...

READ MORE | 18 Feb 2010
War and Peace on DVD

War and Peace, one of the greatest Russian films of one of the greatest books of World literature is now available on DVD with English AND Russian subtitles. In our opinion, the addition of Russian su...

READ MORE | 17 Feb 2010
Internet-based language learning products

Good comparative review in the New York Times of the latest Internet-based language learning products....

READ MORE | 17 Feb 2010
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Welcome to the Languages Direct Blog. Here you'll find posts dedicated to foreign language learning, vocabulary acquisition, grammar, linguistics, accents, dialects, pronunciation, philology, language...

READ MORE | 14 Aug 2008