Aug 28, 2008

Lingoes, a free spanish dictionary software


When I'm surfing the net and reading spanish website, I don't want to fire my browser to look for a word, or a software and write the word down, and hit a button search to get the definition.

I was using Babylon on his early appearance, and wonder why there's no personl free license... Yeah, I know I can always get a cracked copy of a workable version...

It's wonderful how easy was to use Babylon, it fires and hides itself after display with a simple click.

On a recent search, I found Lingoes. It gets a same working schema as Babylon, but the dictionnary is not exhaustive. We can cope with this 'lacune' as it's free..

Though it was working great, I'm now getting some problem with it, when launching it on a word in Firefox page...

You can get it here

Aug 22, 2008

Learn vocabulary, no easy way

After a long moment on getting Spanish grammar ( estar & ser duet, par/para paradigm), I moved on to learn vocab. A lot of tools have been developed to ease the work. Among them, i do use the freewere Anki



From the Anki site :
Anki is a program designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible.
To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that information to optimally schedule review times. With a minimal amount of effort, you can greatly increase the amount of material you remember, making
study more productive, and more fun.


I can always share my Anki spanish vocabulary (Yeah, forget... the flash cards are in Spanish/French-English). Just drop me a comment, and I'll send it to you.

Aug 21, 2008

Lastfm pluggin

How did I miss this ? As a regular user of firefox, I don't know even if I close it, yeah I know...sometimes, for memory reasons....

When ( as always) reading my rss lifehacker news, I stumbled on the mozilla best extensions, and among theses nifty little pluggins, I found lastfm pluggin, called firefm.



A nice pluggin to listen to music when surfing the web
You can get it here

Aug 7, 2008

L'absence

En aucun cas, j'ai abandonné ma passion pour cette langue. Je vous posterai prochainement, le temps d'organiser le tout, une liste pour le moins très exhaustives des podcasts des cours que je suis presque régulièrement.

Donc, voilà juste une petite mise au point, avant de revenir des vacances et de vous livrer mes découvertes.