Emoji Name List

Both OS X and iOS have a very large number of Unicode Emoji characters available, either via a dedicated keyboard layout (iOS) or the Charac...

Unicode Bug in Pages

A poster in the ASC forums recently reminded me of a weird long-standing bug in the Pages app :  You cannot directly input the Unicode chara...

New Mongolian Keyboard Layout

Thanks to the firm Mountain Edge, a new Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard layout is available for OS X.  It follows the MS Windows pattern and can...

Cambridge English TV

Some of you are preparing the PET, the  First Certificate, the Advance or the Proficiency Tests of Cambridge University. These series of vid...

Bugs in Apple's Telugu Font

A contributor to the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the Telugu Sangam font provided by Apple in iOS and OS X has incorrect c...

Twominuteenglish

 At the airport, taking a taxi, ordering a pizza, greeting people or saying goodbye, you can listen, practice and learn English with these v...

New Braille Input Apps Available

For some time now there has been no way to use the standard keyboard to input Braille via the 6-key Perkins Brailler system -- the previousl...

Myanmar/Burmese Bug in iOS 6

It's been reported in the Apple discussions, and I have verified it myself, that trying to view Unicode Myanmar/Burmese webpages, emails...

iBookstore Adds Language Support

The latest iTunes Producer Guide, version 2.8, indicates that a number of new languages are now supported by iBooks and the iBookstore using...

iBooks 3 Adds Support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean

At the Apple event Oct. 23, 2012, a new version 3 of iBooks was announced, including vertical layout and correct page turning for CJK script...

Tools for teachers

The British Council and the BBC offer this place for teachers.As they say: " This is the place to come for tools to help you inside and...

OS X 10.8.2: Japanese Display Issue Addressed

Apple has issued a supplemental update to 10.8.2 which "Resolves and issue that may cause certain Japanese characters to appear incorr...

iOS 6 Has New Reference Dictionaries

I have found that iOS 6 will download reference dictionaries for Spanish,  French and German if you hit the "define" item for a wo...

OS X 10.8.2: New Language Features

In this update released Sept. 19, 2012, Apple has added a French module to Dictionary.app and added Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Korean, Ca...

iOS 6 Language Features Published

(The same as OS 5 except for Siri, I believe) Language Support English (U.S.), English (UK), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Fr...

New Character Map App

Many users have been annoyed by Apple's deletion of the View = Glyph feature in the revised Character Viewer app of OS X 10.7 and later,...

OS X 10.8.1: Chinese Input Issue Addressed

Apple has released an update to Mountain Lion, 10.8.1, which includes a fix to "Address an issue that could cause the system to become ...

OS X 10.8: Chinese Text Converter Problem

Many users are finding that after upgrading to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the service for converting between Traditional and Simplified Chines...

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: New Language Features

OS X 10.8 was released 7/25/2012.  It has no new OS/App localizations, keyboards for additional languages, or spellcheck dictionaries, but t...

iOS 6 Language Features Announced at WWDC 6/11

Siri languages expanded to include English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, German, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. New Chinese Feature...

OS X 10.8 Language Features Announced at WWDC 6/11

New Dictionary.app modules for German, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese Dictation in English (U.S., UK, and Australia), French, German, and J...

Diacritic Variations in Polytonic Greek

A poster in the Apple forums recently asked how he could get a particular form of the circumflex/perispomoni accent to appear in his ancient...

Project Britain

British Life, Symbols, Culture, Events, Customs and traditions, Education, History, Tourist information, hundreds of facts and figures, etc....

Font With New Turkish Lira Symbol

Thanks to Michael Everson, there is now a font available for those who need to display/print the new Turkish Lira symbol.  See http://everty...

Bug In Apple Malayalam Fonts

A poster in the Apple discussions has pointed out the neither of the two fonts provided by Apple for the Malayalam script in OS X and iOS di...

Fixing Custom "English" Region Settings

English speakers living in countries where the native language is something else often wish to have their System Preferences/Language & ...

Fixes For Keyboard Layout Issues When Running Windows on a Mac

If you run Windows on your Mac via Bootcamp or a virtual machine, you may have noticed that Mac and PC keyboard layouts can be quite differe...

Tiching- The global educational network

A great site, dedicated to learning and totally free for teachers, students and families. Their slogan is :"Where the learning communit...

A New Way To Make Custom Keyboard Layouts

An earlier article described how you can customize the new Character Picker introduced with OS X 10.7 Lion, so that the popup menu that appe...

LEARN ENGLISH WHILE HELPING THE WORLD

Let's learn English watching a film while helping the International Justice  to catch one of the world's worst war criminals. Joseph...

Adult learning activities

This website is part of the California Distance Learning Project and the project has been sponsored by  the California Department of Educati...

Word on the street

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-street The BBC and the British Council have co-produced this new English Language teaching pr...

Resources for English as a Second Language

  As they say : "UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for studen...

Going away this summer?

BBC offers " Quick Fix phrases in 40 languages ". You can learn and take essential holiday phrases in 40 languages with you on you...

Breaking News English

Learn English with the latest news from all over the World. More than 1.400 lessons based on Business , Environment, Health, Lifestyle, Tech...

MEMIDEX, free on line dictionary, thesaurus and more

This is the best free  on line  dictionary and thesaurus I have ever seen.  Try it, it's great!! Dictionary/Thesaurus: As they say , Me...

English Speak.com

Learn spoken English for free Englishspeak.com is a free and award winning new system for learning to speak English. The program contains...

100 Sites to learn about Anything and Everything

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies This is an alphabetical list of websites which provide information and/or instru...

Book2 : 50 Languages for free

Book 2 - Learn languages online for free with 100 audio (mp3) files! book 2 contains 100 lessons that provide beginners with a basic voca...

Do you need to teach or learn Maths in English? Here's Math TV.

If you need to learn or teach Maths in English (CLIL) you will probably need to know how to say some terminology in English. Here you have M...

SOZO EXCHANGE-VIDEO ENGLISH LESSONS

Video lessons, 6 episodes , origin and meaning of English Idioms,pronunciation practice, on line listening quizzes, how to improve pronuncia...

Letter Generator.- ReadWriteThink

This website has a lot of free resources for teachers and students , from lesson plans to interactive grammar games and tools. I have chosen...

Lyrics training

A teacher told me about this site after another talk about "Using blogs in the classroom", and it's great. As they say, "...

English Listening Lounge ELL

As they say: "Listening is a natural way to learn English; it is fun and it works. You can study when you want: anytime, and any place....

PREZI - The zooming presentation editor

  Prezi is a new tool to create stunning presentations. It's free for teachers and students and it's really easy to use. I have don...

IT'S WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT BLOG

I have received this award from two different blogs "Mis clases" by Ana Concejero and " Anna's blog " by Anna Moral...

"English Language Listening Library Online (ELLLO)

A colleague from Sitges ( Thanks a lot) told me about this site after one of my talks to teachers on "How to use Blogs in the classroom...

"Learn English while watching videos"

Learn English while watching videos.- A speech recognition platform that allows you to practice SPEAKING with any video you choose and then ...

ESLJOKES.-The funniest way to learn English

Alison Wooder an ESL/ELT teacher, teacher trainer,  writer and co-founder of  ELTpublishing   has created this great site where you can...

Real English video lessons

A great site done with methodology, with more than 50 video lessons, where you can first watch the video without subtitles as a listening ex...