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Citizen Science at GamesWithWords.org: The VerbCorner Project
What do verbs mean? We'd like to know. For that reason, we just launched VerbCorner, a massive, crowd-sourced investigation into the meanings of verbs. Why do we need this project? Why not just look...
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Focusing on the patient - ISPOR 2013
The annual meeting of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) is currently underway in New Orleans. ForeignExchange is well represented by Janis Shea and Sonja...
View ArticleEat at [Verb]
These Bay Area restaurants don’t just take orders: If their names are any indication, they give them, too. Melt! (San Francisco) The exclamation point is part of the name, and melting is the raison...
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Clouds in the head: New model of brain's thought processes
A new model of the brain's thought processes explains the apparently chaotic activity patterns of individual neurons. They do not correspond to a simple stimulus/response linkage, but arise from the...
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Learn Cantonese with Android Apps
More Cantonese Android Apps than you can Handle! Anyone with an Android gadget most likely knows about Google Play, as it's become the go-to source for Android apps. That said, I wanted to point out a...
View ArticleOnline Learning: ALMOST a Perfect System
I am a fan of online learning for languages. Without the Internet I could not have advanced so quickly in Romanian and Czech, for example. But online learning can have its problems. For three or four...
View ArticleCartoon: Apple Avoids Corporate Taxes
© Chappatte in "International Herald Tribune" BACKGROUND This cartoon by Chappatte from the International Herald Tribune relates to Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before the U.S.Senate's Permanent...
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18 Shades of White: Spanish Slang for WHITE PERSON
This article is part of the series Top 5 Spanish Slang Words Searched on Google where we feature a full list of examples for: 1. Spanish slang for friend 2. Spanish slang for weed 3. Spanish slang for...
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Eurovision is letting language learners down
It's the best song in Europe, honey!What were you doing last Saturday night? If you are like 125 million Europeans, you may have spent a few hours in front of your television following one of the...
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Free Thai App and Games for Learning Basic Vocabulary (Online, Android,...
Free App and Dozens of Online Thai Games Internet Polyglot offers fun and free games for learning basic Thai vocabulary online. They also offer free Thai apps for Android and iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod...
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Learn Thai with Android Apps
More Thai Android Apps than you can Handle! Anyone with an Android gadget most likely knows about Google Play, as it's become the go-to source for Android apps. That said, I wanted to point out a...
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VerbCorner: A Citizen Science project to find out what verbs mean
Earlier this week, I blogged about our new VerbCorner project. At the end, I promised that there would be more info forthcoming about why we are doing this project, about its aims and expected...
View ArticleIs the English Language Going to Take Over France?
The French parliament is debating a new road map for French universities, which includes the proposal of allowing courses to be taught in English. For some, this amounts to a betrayal of the national...
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As healthcare goes mobile, lots of questions emerge around mHealth
These days, mobile health (mHealth) seems to be everywhere. As the use of health text messaging, mobile phone apps, remote monitoring, and portable sensors has expanded, they have changed the way...
View ArticleTransparency Watch: Federal ELL Clearinghouse Remains in Limbo
The U.S. Department of Education is reviewing, for a second time, whether it followed federal contracting rules in a competition for a $1.5 million contract to manage the National Clearinghouse for...
View ArticleVote for Fritinancy!
I’m pleased to announce that, for the fifth consecutive year, this blog has been honored with a nomination in the Lexiophiles Top Language Blogs competition, “Language Professional” division. Support a...
View ArticleAll The International Film Resources You’ll Ever Need
Here are the only resources you’ll ever need: Best festival calendars Most film lovers will already know when the next Cannes and Berlinale are due. But how about the upcoming Brussels Cartoon and...
View ArticleLanguage Log #1 – active Russian translating, French word lists
The refreshing of neglected languages continues. Russian, French, I’m looking at you two, and you’re lovely; and I’m sorry for ignoring you so. Russian When I first started with Russian years ago, I...
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Ben Yagoda, Evan Davies and me
I'm afraid to say that this is more of me not getting around to blogging. So many things on the list, but my day job has been taking over my nights. But several people have asked to hear the interview...
View ArticleAsymptote
I recently discovered the journal Asymptote, which is dedicated to literary translation. As they say on their website, “Though a translation may never fully replicate the original in effect (thus our...
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