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Introduction to Swedish - home. Swedish is a member of the Indo-European family, to which almost all European languages belong (with the exception of the Finnish-Ugrian, Basque, and Caucasian languages), and has many features in common with all of these. Its closest relatives are Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic. The latter has due to its isolation remained remarkably intact from the Viking Age and therefore is very difficult to understand for other Nordic speakers. Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes usually do not have any difficulties in communicating with each other.

Even though Danish is slightly more closely related to Swedish than Norwegian, its "hot-potato-in-the-mouth" pronunciation is the main obstacle when Danes and Swedes speak with each other, whereas Norwegian in that respect is very similar to Swedish. All in all, the differences between the languages are not very big - most Swedes would probably even find it difficult to tell whether a text was written in Norwegian or Danish.

Google Language Detection Tool. Have you ever come across some text or documents and not sure what language it is written in? Here is a language detection tool for Google which is capable of identifying the language the text is written in. It gives you the ability to quickly and easily identify the language of any submitted text. To detect the language, simply paste the text into provided field and click the “Detect Language” button. It will analyze the text you have provided and tells you which language matches along with reliability of the result. Features: Language identification tool .Quickly and easily identifies the language of your documents.Provides results along with its reliability.Free and easy to use, no registration required.Similar tools: LangId Check out Google Language Detection Tool @ www.google.com/uds/samples/language/detect.html.

Go-go Google Gopher... Go! Google invents its own programming language. In exciting, but not unexpected news, Google has has put its name behind the brainchild of three of their in-house genius programmers. But it's not a web app, nor is it an enterprise solution -- it's not even a downloadable tool like their Chrome browser. They've actually gone and invented a new language. It's called Go. (That's their mascot, the Go-Gopher, over on the right.)

Citing difficulties with existing languages and arbitrary restrictions that prevent them from making the Google services as good as they could be... they did the only really sensible thing they could do: they made their own superior language. To put it into simple terms: imagine trying to communicate with grunts and squeals.

And in true Google style, they've done it right. I don't want to bore you with specifications -- they're all there on their site if you're a developer and want to get going immediately (it's open source, of course!) We haven't seen a new systems-oriented language for over a decade. What Language Is This? 5 Tools to Identify Unknown Languages. ̝´ 웹사이트에 환영. 이것은 보기 원본이다 What language is this? Chinese? Japanese? It’s Korean actually. Detecting this manually would have taken me a lot of time. Fortunately, I found some very accurate tools that can do this automatically.

The experiment: I tested the websites using sample text (1-2 sentences with 8 words) from the following languages: Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, Azerbaijani, Slovenian, Macedonian, Dutch, Filipino (Tagalog), Greek, Galician, Czech, Belorussian, Finnish, Tatar and Norwegian. Overall, I tested 20 different languages. 3 Tools to Detect Unknown Language Text 1. Pros: Overall, great online tool. Cons: Their engine is based on Google API but they seem to have better results than the Google detector described below. 2. Pros: Google has one of the world’s best API for language detection. Cons: I was quite surprised they didn’t pass the Portuguese test. 3. 4. 5. Thoughts Image credit: Kanko* Free Foreign Language Lessons (Download to MP3 Player, iPod or Computer) How to learn languages for free?

This collection features lessons in 48 languages, including Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and more. Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go. Amharic Foreign Service Institute Basic Amharic – Audio – TextbookLessons with dialogues, drills, exercises, and narratives will teach you the basics of this language spoken in Ethiopia. Ancient Greek Ancient Greek Introduction – Web SiteThe UT-Austin Linguistics Research Center provides an overview of Ancient Greek and 10 lessons based on famous Greek texts. Arabic Bookmark our free Arabic lessons section.

American Sign Language Introductory American Sign Language Course – YouTubeBy the end of this course you should have a basic bank of ASL words that you are able to use to form simple sentences. Bambara Bambara in Mali – Web SiteLessons from the Peace Corps. Bulgarian Foreign Service Institute Bulgarian – Web siteTwo textbooks (PDF) and 75 audio lessons (MP3). Beautiful Word Clouds. Language Identifier – Polyglot 3000 :: Likasoft. gTrans 3 - Google Translator Interface 3, official website.