Leximo is a multilingual user collaborated dictionary that lets you search, discover and share your words with the World.
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- The link between language and music, Dr. Oliver Sacks on The Daily Show 4:12pm Jun 30
- Back in Sarajevo: Music jolts memory and language learning 1:04am Jun 23
- 999,998... 999,999... 1 Million? 6:59am Jun 12
Music must be one of the most powerful forces of nostalgia!Yesterday, I had a lot of fun dancing to the gypsy music of Goran Bregović, a Sarajevo-born musician and composer...
How many words are there in the English language? According to the Global Language Monitor, a website that has developed a mathematical formula for determining the rate of creation of new English words recently featured in an article on CNN.com, the count has just reached 1,000,000 this Wednesday...
There’s proof that music leads to learning!Last week, I was helping my friend David Mathison at his booth at Book Expo America. David was selling his book, Be the Media, a guidebook for authors, musicians, film makers, radio hosts and other creative people to create their own media companies...
Note: No experience required.Do you love learning new languages? Whether you do it just to learn a bad word...or because you need it for a job; maybe you're just interested in learning new things. We all learn new languages for our own reasons...
We have added a cool new feature to Leximo. You can now add videos along with each word submission.All you have to do is paste the YouTube link for the video and it will be embedded along with the submission...
When we learn a foreign language, we may have an accent bearing light traces or strong semblances of our native tongue or we may be able to pick up on out instructor’s accent or that of a native speaker...
Are you trying to learn a new language? Are you aware of the Matrix. Being a Matrix fan, I loved the analogy that this blog presented when it comes to learning new languages, and entering The Matrix.Learning a language is a little bit like being in love...
The past week has been a strange Chinese filled adventure...
To follow up on one of our most popular posts, World's Hardest Languages to Learn, I decided to do a quick survey or what people think is the easiest language in world to learn.Their responses where quite surprising, there was a clear consensus that Spanish is the easiest language to learn...
Okay, we need to clarify this before it gets out of hand. Leximo has not been bought by Google. It was that time of the year, April Fool's Day and Leximo joined in on the action...
Since this blog focuses on learning languages and forming a community around languages, I am bringing up the topic of why politicians change foreign language education policy to put new political alliances...
We have some great news for everyone.Leximo has been bought by Google!Okay to elaborate, we pitched Leximo to Google Ventures, which is Google's new Venture Capital Fund...
Are you a spy?Jokingly, people ask me this question when they hear me speaking in other languages...
We should all be tickled to learn that the Dictionary of American Regional English project has come to fruition with the publication of the final volumes. According to a rumor some years back, the project died for lack of funding, but apparently that information was either false or out of date...
In 1955, the bombshell book Why Johnny Can’t Read disturbed a few nesting hornets...
My wife and I just returned from France.Don’t worry. I haven’t gone native. I’m not going to lecture you on the superiority of French culture...
Not only am I a language lover but I'm an animal lover as well.So thinking about languages and pets triggered a memory in me. About three years ago I was on the subway when a charming young lady sat down beside me, a cat bed in her arms...
A guest post by Michael J. O'Neal, author of Crazy Bett, a historical novel published as an e-book by Smashwords.Here's a column I wrote for the local newspaper that's applicable to Speaking in Tongues:Before I proceed, let me establish my bona fides...
What occurs when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages?Translation software is nearly good enough to turn grammatically correct, slang-free text from one language into grammatically incorrect, hardly readable guesses in another.Recall the old...
We have some great news to announce.LexiBlog has officially been added to Alltop...
I've come across some cool linguistic documentaries that would be great for all language lovers out there.Speaking in Tongues "Alone among the educated world, the U.S. remains resolutely monolingual, despite how decidedly international the world has become...
With today being Valentines Day, Leximo would like to share with you 14 ways to say 'I love you' in different languages.The English form of 'I love you' translates to the following:1 - French - Je T'aime2 - Spanish - Te amo3 - German - Ich Liebe Dich, I mog Di ganz arg...
I've been receiving several questions about how successful the Leximo revolution has been so far...
Leximo did an interview with The Daily Colonial Newspaper.“We’re not just building a dictionary. We’re building a community around it,” said Balina, a computer engineering major...
I’ll go out on a limb and say that most avid travelers probably keep a travel journal. Depending on the time spent traveling, this may be some thoughts and itineraries scribbled into a notebook or detailed pages of experiences and memories. My journals tend to overlap in both categories...
During the opening ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, I was fascinated by references to the Sami people in the region. Being only 11 at the time, I promptly forgot about these mysterious (well, mysterious to me) people.Then today an AP article caught my eye...
Ever since Leximo opened up to everyone 2 weeks ago, we've been receiving a lot of coverage all over the internet.Leximo has been recognized by TradeVibes, a website forecasting site, as the 2nd most popular website profile on their site for last week...
I've spent a lot of time studying languages. The sad thing is I've spent much of that time studying languages incorrectly -or inefficiently, which is just as bad...
Marylaine Louise Viernes of the Manilla Times wonderfully describes language:"Language is also one of the greatest powers in this world; it can never be contained for it is diverse and fluid. It can move, inspire, destroy and build with just a few words unleashed...
Tim Ferris of the 4 Hour Work Week is at it again...
Or Gong Xi Fa Cai if you speak Mandarin. ("Gung Hay Fat Choy" is Cantonese).It's the Year of the Ox and here's hoping this year is a little more uplifting. My husband is half-Chinese so I spent the weekend enjoying delicious Malaysian Chinese food...
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