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Facebook Widgets - Audio Word of the Day

We have rolled out our new Audio Word of the Day Facebook Widgets. These are the Facebook versions of our Google and Vista Sidebar gadgets which we have aggregated here.  Here is an screen shot of the Japanese Word of the Day Facebook app:

  

 The Facebook applications URL are:
Japanese: http://apps.facebook.com/japanese_word
Chinese: http://apps.facebook.com/chinese_word 
French: http://apps.facebook.com/french_word
German: http://apps.facebook.com/german_word
Spanish: http://apps.facebook.com/spanish 
Italian: http://apps.facebook.com/italian
Korean: http://apps.facebook.com/korean_word
Arabic: http://apps.facebook.com/arabic_word
Russian: [...]

Japanese Writing - Kanji Radicals

Today we ask:  What are kanji radicals?
All kanji contain a classifying radical that is a component of the kanji. Often the radical imparts meaning to the kanji - for example the radical for hand 扌 appears in both of the kanji that combine to form the word “grasp” (把持)** and the individual kanji for “throw” [...]

iPhone FlashCards App - Coming Soon

Here is sneak-peek of the upcoming iPhone version of our Audio FlashCards application. First to be released will the French version and here are a couple of screen shots.

 

First the Start Window: 

 

 

The Review Words window: 

 

 

The Words multiple choice exercise: 

 

 

The Listening multiple choice exercise: 

 

 

The Wordfile load window. So far we have 98 wordfiles totaling over 4400 [...]

Remembrance Day 2008

Remembrance Day 2008 - Eglise Saint-Louis des Invalides, Paris

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TheYeogiyo.com

TheYeogiyo.com has a very nice implementation of our free Korean Audio Word of the Day widget/gadget. See the right-hand column of the site.  TheYeogiyo.com is a new community site targeted at expatriates living in Korea.

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Sunday Photo 09 November 2008

Avignon back streets - Autumn 2008

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Hi5 Audio Word of the Day Applications

We have just put the finishing touches on our suite of Audio Word of the Day Applications for the social networking site Hi5. If you are interested in added them to your Hi5 profile page just search the applications page for the language you are interested in.

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