According to the results of our Poll of the Month, this article is about online tools that you can use to learn a language. There are many sites where you can find tools, but this article does not cover them all. We will only discuss some tools that we believe to be innovative and that use a practical methodology to learn languages on the Internet. All of these tools are completely free to use.

The first tool that we will discuss can help you improve your English pronunciation and knowledge of phonetics. The website has a variety of educational activities such as cards, games, pictures, etc., that will allow you to learn and practice the language using fun and entertaining resources. This website has been nominated by British Council ELTON awards in 2008.
You can visit this site @ http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/.

The second site is that we will talk about is www.bbc.co.uk/languages/. Here you will be able to find courses for beginners in various languages. Some of these languages are English, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Greek and Portuguese. In this site, you have the option to study grammar, vocabulary, and you can freely download or listen online to key phrases of the language. This site is ideal to begin studying any of the languages that they have available.

Another cool website is www.vocabulix.com. In this site you can go through different exercises on vocabulary and verb conjugation with Vocabulix. The languages you can learn here are German, English and Spanish. So for people who already speak one of these languages, this site will be useful, since it uses one these three languages to translate the verbs and vocabulary you are studying. This site can track your progress, so as you go through the vocabulary exercises, lessons become more complex and advanced in each language.

Also, we would like to recommend the online translator: http://www.nicetranslator.com/, which is developed by Tumble. This is an effective translator, since it uses Google translation API, which is one of the best online translators available. The main difference with Google’s online translator is that Nice Translator has an improved interface for translating text on the Web and you can translate one language into several languages at once. Tumble also has available several web widgets and plugins that you can download and install on your Blog or web.

I hope these tools will be useful for you in learning other languages. We will continue to search for more information about other tools on the Internet. If anyone has used any of these online tools can give his/her opinion about them or if you want, you can recommend other tools as well.

Please read our article about a tool that automatically translates conversations in chats -  meglobe.

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