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Funny TranslationZilla Videos

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:38:10 +0000

We had some fun recently shooting some TranslationZilla videos. You can see the result below:

Korean

Spanish

Italian

Chinese

French

Japanese

Portuguese

Russian

TranslationZilla V2.0 released – now you can check your answers

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:04:56 +0000

Dear All,

You may not know this, but the first version of TranslationZilla was brought to you by only three people – a programmer, a marketing guy and a (part-time) language project manager. All of us have full-time jobs and currently run TZ on a part-time basis.

More recently we worked with a number of additional freelancers to improve our product. Currently our team is spread around the globe, working from Australia, China, New Zealand and Italy.

Our vision is to bring you a new kind of language learning experience. To take us one step closer to this vision, we have released our latest language learning platform today. Here are some details:

We have a new look

We worked with a graphics designer to help us create
a new look for TranslationZilla. Please let us know what
you think!

1000+ vocabulary words and 12 languages supported now

We have expanded our word list to 1000+ and now support 12 languages. TranslationZilla now supports English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Hindi.

Avatars and User profiles

You probably all saw the movie Well we decided
to make the user experience more fun as well – you
can now select your own avatars when creating
a user profile.

‘RollingZilla’ FLASH game

Please try our new RollingZilla flash game, which
is our latest language learning game.

Check Answers (VIP feature)

You asked for it and we listened! You can now
check your answers if you become a VIP member
with our website. To become a VIP you either
invite friends to join, or pay us a monthly
subscription. Why have a paid VIP option?
Two reasons: 1) It is expensive to continue to develop
new versions of TranslationZilla 2) Having people
pay real money is a good proof to us that we
are creating a valuable service.

Need your feedback

Please continue to leave feedback at our forum

List of popular internet language blogs

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:54:09 +0000

Here are some popular language blogs on the Internet:

	The Linguist on Language – Steve Kauffman is one of the most well-known language bloggers. Language blog for people who love languages or would, but were discouraged.
	Omniglot Blog – http://www.omniglot.com/blog/
	Der English Blog http://www.der-englisch-blog.de/
	ToFugu – Wonky Japanese language and culture
	The English Blog – Internet resources, news, tips and trivia for learners and teachers of english
	Fluent in 3 months – Language learning tips from Benny the Irish polyglot, who speaks 7 languages, and his story as he travels the world to learn new ones!
	All Japanese all the time – How you can learn Japanese (and many more languages) without taking classes, by having fun and doing things you enjoy—watching movies, playing video games, reading comic books—you know: fun stuff!
	Ingles Online Tips, experiences and websites for people learning or teaching English.
	Grammar Girl - Blog with quick and dirty tips for better writing.
	Larry Ferlazzos’ websites of the day - …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
	The English Experts- Blog on studying english as a second language online for Portuguese speakers.
	Mission to learn - Know Better. Live Better.
	Languagehat - General language blog covering academic language realted issues. Among other things discussing recent developments in the field of language studies.
	Todoele - Spanish as a second language, resources, lessons.
	Teach42 -New technology for language teaching
	Free language - If you’re one of those people who can never have too many resources or links in your quest to learn then this one’s perfect for you.
	Tomisimo – If you’re learning how to speak Spanish this one’s a must read. While not every post has to do specifically with learning the language for the most part there’s a high signal-to-noise ratio here and some fresh ideas

1000 users and counting!

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:26:23 +0000

That’s one small step for a man…..

We just passed 1000 registered users. Thanks all for trying TranslationZilla and please stay tuned for our new version which will come out very soon!

Cheers,

The TranslationZilla Team

What do others say about TranslationZilla?

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:50:49 +0000

“Learning language shouldn’t be this fun”

Slapstart.com

“A translation game where you have sixty seconds to translate as many words as possible”

blog.langalot.com

“I do not recall exactly how I learned about Translationzilla; most likely through my PLN (Personal Learning Network) via Twitter. Anyway, I thought it might be fun for my students. Check it out!”

marcywebb.com

We have 500 users! Busy working on new version

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:00:45 +0000

Hello everybody,

We would like to thank all users who tried our translation game. It is exciting that in just a few weeks we managed to sign-up 500 users to www.translationzilla.com.

We are currently working on the next version, which incorporates many of the feature requests from all of you. There will also be some user interface changes, making us look ‘more like a game’.

Please continue to send us feedback at our forum

Cheers,

The TranslationZilla Team

We need your feedback

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:34:03 +0000

We already had more than 500 game plays now. We need more feedback – please email us in admin@translationzilla.com or go to www.translationzilla.com/forum.aspx .

All feedback is welcome!!

ALPHA version launched

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:22:09 +0000

We launched an alpha version yesterday. Please send us your feedback!!