The start of a new calendar year comes about mid-way through the school year. While everyone else is setting new goals, making new resoluti...
Story Elements/Story Grammar - Important Language Skills
Once students have the ability to sequence events in their daily routines and have moved on to providing personal narratives about their exp...
THE LONDON STORY
Visit London, the official visitor's guide, offers us The London Story, a collection of videos where Londoners tell us their stories abo...
Mavericks Update Fixes Japanese Input Problem
The glitch with the Japanese Kotoeri IM reported here has been fixed in the OS 10.9.1 update released 12/17/2013. Kotoeri Preferences (foun...
Typing Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician
I recently came across a source for fonts for Paleo-Hebrew and other ancient semitic scripts on this page. Input for most can be via the OS ...
Language Map of the US
I recently came across this map showing details of where languages other than English are common in the US. Results I found somewhat surpr...
Non-Unicode Tamil Fonts
While it is strongly recommended that only Unicode fonts be used for writing Tamil, sometimes you have to work on documents which were creat...
Bug In Apple Devanagari Font
A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the font Devanagari Sangam used for iOS (and also available in OS X 10.7 and ...
TOP 100 FREE EDUCATION SITES
Help Teaching offers us a compilation of free sites to be used teaching or learning English. As they say: "Need some new inspiration fo...
Keyman App For iOS Now Installs Fonts As Well
The Keyman app which vastly expands the screen keyboard possibilities for iOS devices, reported here, now also installs a font if one is mis...
Multilingual Mac Web Site Updated
I've updated the reference web site, Unleash Your Multilingual Mac, to reflect OS 10.9. Comments and corrections by viewers are always ...
Alternative Bengali Keyboard for OS X
A poster in the Apple discussion forums (ASC) recently brought the "Bangla-onkur" Bengali keyboard to my attention, which may be o...
Language and Literacy: The iPad in the Special Ed Classroom
I have been talking about some specifics of using the iPad and apps in the special education classroom for developing language and literacy...
Adding Custom Fonts To iOS Devices
Beginning with iOS 7, it is possible to add custom fonts to an iOS device via a mobile.config file. The reference doc for how one creates ...
New Keyboard App For iOS Covers Vast Number Of Languages
Tavultesoft has released an iOS version of its Keyman multilingual keyboard app, which they say can cover over 600 languages. For info see ...
Guided Reading with Story Book Apps
So, I suppose the next logical discussion is about using iPad storybook apps in guided reading sessions. So many of the kids I work with ha...
OS 10.9 Mavericks: New Arabic Fonts
To the 7 Arabic fonts provided with OS 10.8 (Al Bayan, Baghdad, Damascus, Decotype Naskh, Geeza Pro, Nadeem, Kufi) Apple has added 11 more i...
iOS 7 Offers Added Languages Display In Some Apps
One of the somewhat hidden features of iOS 7 is the vastly expanded list of extra fonts which can be downloaded by certain apps when necessa...
OS 10.9 Mavericks: Language Glitches
Some major language problems found so far in the new OS X: +You can no longer set the keyboard layout for Kotoeri Japanese input in its pre...
Fonts Included In OS 10.9 and iOS 7
For OS X Mavericks (10.9) the list is at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5944 For iOS 7, you can find it at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5878
TWITTEEN'S NEWS
Let me introduce you a new blog where you can practice reading and listening comprehension activities through real tweets. The blog is stil...
Guided Reading for Special Education/Language Learners
Shared and guided reading are great ways to build language skills and build engagement. Building interactions around books also can encour...
Pages 5.0: Significant New Language Features
The long awaited update of Pages 09, Pages 5.0, was released Oct. 22, 2013. It requires OS 10.9 Mavericks, and my initial testing indicates...
OS 10.9 Mavericks: New Language Features
So far I have the following: +3 new system localizations: Vietnamese, Malay, Indonesian (for a total of 33) +11 new Arabic fonts +New refer...
iWork For iCloud Beta: Still No RTL Or Indic Support
As far as I can tell, the update for iWork for iCloud Beta announced by Apple October 22, 2013, still has totally broken support for RTL and...
Phonological Awareness Skills for AAC Users
Sometimes teachers are unsure how to teach or evaluate phonological awareness skills in students who can not speak - and therefore cannot “s...
iOS 7 Language Glitches
I have seen the following reports in the Apple Support Communities of problems with language support: +Greek keyboard missing at some stage...
iOS 7 Language Specs Published
It looks to be the same as for iOS 6 except for the addition of keyboard and dictionary support for Tamil, English (Canadian), and English (...
Bug in Apple Devanagari Fonts
A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the fonts Devanagari MT and Devanagari Sangam used for OS X and iOS produce t...
iWork for iCloud Beta: No RTL or Indic Support
Apple has released the public beta of its new iWork for iCloud, which provides a web version of Pages and other iWork apps. My initial tes...
New Language Features in OS X 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7
There seem to be only a couple new language features in OS X 10.9 and iOS 7 as announced June 10, 2013. Thanks to blog readers I have so fa...
Indic Script Bug in Final Cut Pro X
A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that it's not possible to create Tamil language titles in Final Cut Pro X via ...
IDN Email Bug in iOS Mail
If you happen to have an email address that uses an International Domain Name (IDN), i.e. one which includes non-ASCII characters (like info...
Bug in Apple Devanagari Font
A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the font Devanagari Sangam used for iOS (and also available in OS X 10.7 and ...
Typing Runic
In addition to its historic uses, the Runic script appears in the recent Hobbit movie and the Tolkien book on which that is based. To type ...
OS X: Glitches With Traditional Chinese Cangjie Input
A poster in the Apple Support Communities recently pointed out that some Chinese characters cannot be made with the Cangjie sequences they w...
OS X Specialized Language Fonts
Various fonts provided with OS X have the necessary characters so they can be used for multiple languages. For example, Arial can do Englis...
Apple Opens Chinese Language Support Community
Apple has just opened a Chinese-language set of user-to-user discussion forums (the Apple Support Communties), which you can get to at http...
Alternative Text-to-Speech App for iOS
For those who want different voices than what Apple provides via the Speak Selection function in iOS, I have recently come across an app Vo...
Bug In OS X Azeri Keyboard Layout
The Azeri keyboard layout provided by Apple with OS X has no question mark, which can be very inconvenient. Possible remedies are a) Creat...
Reading and Typing Traditional Mongolian Script
Traditional Mongolian is perhaps the most difficult script to display on a computer. Much like Arabic, Mongolian characters are connected an...
Typing Nuoso Yi in iOS
An earlier article provided some info on how to input Nuoso Yi in OS X. Thanks to Dennis Walters you can now find a way to do the same on i...
Reading And Writing Syriac
Syriac, a major literary language in the Middle East from the 4th to 8th centuries, is not yet included in OS X. In order to read Unicode te...
Apple Online Store Adds Keyboard Language Choices
Apple's US Online store traditionally has only offered English, French, (Western) Spanish, and Japanese keyboards when you tried to orde...
Cuneiform Script Cyrus Cylinder Touring US
The Cyrus Cylinder, a clay tablet from 6th century BC Babylon, inscribed with a declaration in the name of Cyrus the Great, began a tour of...
Bug in Apple Kannada Font
The font Kannada Sangam displays the wrong glyph for the sequence RA plus Virama (U+0CB0, U+0CCD). Instead OS X users should switch to the...
Play & create video trivia with friends
A great way to practice English while having fun alone or with friends. You can challenge your friends with the existing trivia or you can c...
Bugs In iOS Cyrillic Font
A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the font Market Felt Thin, one of the three available for the Notes App, uses...
Language Capabilities of Adobe InDesign/Illustrator
This blog page provides some useful info on maximizing the language capabilities of these Adobe products.
Free English video lessons
Engvid offers more than 490 free English video lessons for beginners, intermediate and advance students. There are a lot of topics, from Eng...
Chinese OCR in iOS Devices
One of the coolest features of the iPhone/iPod/iPad for Chinese users is the ability to simply photograph signs and texts and use the device...
New Chinese Fonts in OS X 10.8
One of the added features in Mountain Lion promoted by Apple is "eight new fonts, from modern to classical, for Chinese users". I...
Japanese-English Dictionary Missing in iOS 6
For some reason the Japanese-English dictionary that is available in OS X and was present in iOS 5 got lost in iOS 6.0 and is still missing ...
Font Variation for Japanese Hiragana "ri"
Mac OS X users who input Japanese may notice that the Hiragana character for "ri", U+308A, can appear in two different forms, sho...
iPad Turkish Keyboard Bug
Since iOS 6, there is a Turkish F screen keyboard layout available on the iPad. Unfortunately it is not really usable, because the key for ...
New Mac Font Editor
Type Light 3.2x, a new free font editor for OS X, has just been released, and a paid version with additional features is expected later this...
Adding Dictionaries to Dictionary.app
As of OS X 10.8.2, Dictionary.app has modules for reference dictionaries in US English, British English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, ...
Emoji Notes
Emoji symbols were added to Unicode in its version 6.0 of October 2010, and Apple incorporated font support in iOS and OS X 10.7 shortly the...
iOS Word Processor for Arabic/Hebrew
Because Pages for iOS has bugs which make it largely unsuitable for writing Arabic/Hebrew, I have been looking at other word processor apps ...
Secrets of Unicode Sorting
Recently a poster in the Apple Support Community pointed out some odd OS X sorting behavior for Latin accented characters, at least when ...
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