Fwd: [Icommons] Launching open-dictionary language-learning project (Lingro.com)

May be of interest.

cheers,
Brianna

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From: Paul Kastner <paul@...>
Date: 1 Dec 2007 16:19
Subject: [Icommons] Launching open-dictionary language-learning
project (Lingro.com)
To: icommons@...

Hi all,

We're launching a project to build a compilation of all the available
open-content dictionaries (both same-language and translating /
multilingual dictionaries) as well as develop tools for
language-learners. We're working on expanding the dictionaries through
user contributions (dual-licensed under Creative Commons Attribution
Share-Alike and GNU FDL) and will be submitting updates and
modifications back to the original sources (like Wiktionary). The
project also uses audio pronunciations from the Shtooka project, and
we'll be recording more pronunciations to contribute back to Shtooka.

We're developing innovative tools for people to use with the
dictionaries. The project (named Lingro - http://lingro.com) lets
people read a web page in a foreign language and click on words they
don't know for a translation. Here's an example - it's
CreativeCommons.org for a Spanish speaker learning English. Users can
click on any word in the text for a translation into Spanish: