Internet Polyglot Facebook Fan Badge on Your Blog, Web Page or On Your Facebook Profile

Are you are real fan of Internet Polyglot? Do you really think that this is one of the best websites for learning foreign languages?

If yes, you should become a fan of Internet Polyglot on Facebook. This is already a great start. You show our your appreciation and we really appreciate it too!

But what's next? A good way to show that you are a fan of Internet Polyglot is to place the Facebook fan badge on either your blog or your web page or on your Facebook profile. And here are some instructions how to do that.

If you want to put the badge on your blog or web site then simply copy the following html code and paste where you want it:

<!-- Facebook Fan Badge START --><div style="width: 100%;"><div style="background: #3B5998;padding: 5px;"><img alt="Facebook" src="http://www.facebook.com/images/fb_logo_small.png" /><img alt="" width="0" src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/190588904560.737404001.1294343001.png" height="0" /></div><div style="background: #EDEFF4;display: block;border-right: 1px solid #D8DFEA;border-bottom: 1px solid #D8DFEA;border-left: 1px solid #D8DFEA;margin: 0px;padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px;"><div style="background: #EDEFF4;display: block;padding: 5px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><img alt="" src="http://www.facebook.com/images/icons/fbpage.gif" /></td><td valign="top"><p style="color: #808080;font-family: verdana;font-size: 11px;margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;padding: 0px 8px 0px 8px;">I am a fan of</p></td></tr></table></div><div style="background: #FFFFFF;clear: both;display: block;margin: 0px;overflow: hidden;padding: 5px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="middle"><a style="border: 0px;color: #3B5998;font-family: verdana;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Polyglot/190588904560" target="_TOP" title="Internet Polyglot"><img style="border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;" alt="Internet Polyglot" src="http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?oid=AAAAAQAQ4GezRhDBrTD7wSHhi3C5XgAAAAyAgdILA1OzZhMGU8nCiWcc&size=square" /></a></td><td valign="middle" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 8px;"><a style="border: 0px;color: #3B5998;font-family: verdana;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Polyglot/190588904560" target="_TOP" title="Internet Polyglot">Internet Polyglot</a></td></tr></table></div></div><div style="display: block;float: right;margin: 0px;padding: 4px 0px 0px 0px;"><a style="color: #3B5998;font-family: verdana;font-size: 11px;font-weight: none;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/fanbadges.php?page_id=190588904560" target="_TOP" title="Create your Fan Badge">Create your Fan Badge</a></div></div><!-- Facebook Fan Badge END -->

The badge will look like the following:

I am a fan of Internet Polyglot Create your Fan Badge

Super! Now this badge can show everyone who visit your web site or blog that your are a true fan of Internet Polyglot!


Do you have a Facebook profile? Do you want to place this badge on your profile too? this is not so easy unfortunately. For that you'll have to use Profile HTML application. After you go to this page you should click on "Go to application", accept terms and conditions of this application and the follow the instructions on how to place the badge code that is shown above to the profile. After you submit the code, the badge will appear on your profile.

Internet Polyglot API (Alpha)

Public API reference

develop your own app and interact with us

The Internet Polyglot Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners develop applications which can interact with Internet Polyglot. The API returns Internet Polyglot data in a form that can be easily integrated into any application or web site.

The page for Internet Polyglot API is here: http://groups.google.com/group/internet-polyglot-api/web/internet-polyglot-api

Save Fort Ross

The crisis forced California Government to dramatically cut down the funds for the State Parks and so Fort Ross State Historic Park is now in danger of being closed. We understand that this was unfortunate and hard decision that our lawmakers had to make but Fort Ross is not just "another" typical State Park where you can bring your family for a weekend to relax and grill some sausages - it's part of our American History.

In nowadays American and Russian visitors, volunteers, and helpers come to "Fort Ross", the museum under the sky. The park is open for Cultural Heritage Days and is the point where two cultures interweave naturally. There people from many backgrounds meet, and the relaxed and beautiful site of the open air museum helps to promote understanding between nations.

This place is especially important for the young generation. There are interactive educational programs for children. As a part of the overnight trips at Fort Ross, students, dressed in XIX century costumes, adopt the names of people who lived in the settlement and study this page of local and Russian history through enacting various aspects of the life at this time. American youth get to know more about the different people who lived here; and Russian children who live in America feel their roots and their belonging to the rich Russian culture through Fort Ross.

This is our responsibility to preserve the memory about the people who lived in California before us and to pass this information to our children. Please sign the following simple petition to save this beautiful piece of our history: http://makefortrossnationalmonument.us/index.html

Also here you can Learn Russian - Free Lessons Online.

Swedish is loaded

Today Swedish language lessons have been loaded. They are without audio yet but we are going to start working on audio pronunciation as soon as possible.

Ah, by the way, recently we loaded Amharic sounds.

How to do translation for polyglot vocabulary - Instructions

This is an article that describes how to do the instruction of Internet Polyglot vocabulary.

• You will receive an Excel file, it will contain multiple tabs
• First tab is "Lessons" - a list of all lessons
• Other tabs are particular lessons
• While translating tab "Lessons": each cell contains lesson name and description divided by "|" sign. When you translate - do the same, separate lesson name and description by |. Don't translate word-to-word, make it sound natural for your language. Some humor is useful too.
• Individual lesson tabs (ANIMAL, PLANT, etc.). Each tab will have some words in two or more languages. Let's say you are translating to Spanish from English and French. You have to make sure that your translation works both with English and French counterparts. If you can't find a word that corresponds to both of them - skip it, just don't enter anything.
• On lessons tabs translation should be precise - use the word that is the best (don't give a line of possible synonyms).
• If you don't know how to translate a word - just skip it! It's better to skip it than to give an incorrect translation.
• Articles. Most of languages have articles. For example, in Spanish it is necessary to put articles because they indicate the gender of a noun. Decide what article to put in each case (definite or indefinite) according to your language rules.
• Adjectives - if your language have different adjective forms for different genders, use masculine form.

Most important rule: if in doubt (i.e. there is no exact translation or there are too many translations) - skip it!

First translate a couple of tabs and send me an intermediate result so that I could verify correctness and give my feedback.

Amharic is loaded

Huge thanks to our volunteer Lulit for translating our words to Amharic. Amharic, according to Wikipedia, is "is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara. It is the second most spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia."

Also, "Many Rastafarians learn Amharic as a second language because they consider it to be a sacred language, and even the original language."

If you can't see the font, here is a page that can help you: Can't see Amharic font? , for me personally (I use Windows XP and Vista), the following installation worked perfectly: GF Zemen self install

What's next? This Saturday I am going to meet Lulit and record audio for those lessons. Stay tuned!

Widget for Internet Polyglot - Random Multilanguage Word Of The Day

Here is a beautiful widget. You can see it on the right sidebar of this blog. It shows a random word in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish. You can click a speaker icon and hear audio pronunciation of this word in these languages. Click "Next" and see the next random word of the day.

Place it on your website, or your blog, or your Facebook, or in your iGoogle. Even on your Vista sidebar! For that click "Get & Share" at the bottom of the widget and then follow the instructions.

Also give a good rating and post a comment about this widget here.

Hindi Audio

Hindi audio is recorded, processed and uploaded to the site! Check it out on http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-hi-en

Huge thanks to our long time supporter Baggeroli for organizing and managing this project!

New improvement: Speeeeeed it up!

The latest version that was deployed on last Friday (October 24) had a very small change - we did some optimization using JAWR https://jawr.dev.java.net/

The results are amazing - the speed of loading of all pages improved dramatically - in most cases by 30-50%.

Enjoy a faster Internet Polyglot - learn foreign languages while playing games!

New version of the site

Today our team deployed a new version of the site. The main changes are the following:

1) Improved sidebar - didn't you hate it when it was loading for about 5 extra seconds after the page was loaded. So, not anymore. Now he sidebar is loading quickly and the whole page is loading quickly too. Still, in this sidebar you can see the same information as before: your session game score, last played lessons, the champions of gaming.

2) iPoly widget. Now you and everybody can place an InternetPolyglot lessons on your blog or your site! For that go to http://www.internetpolyglot.com/widget.html , select languages that you like to show on your page in the widget, copy the code and paste it on your site or blog. Afte that your blog or site will start showing lessons directly from Internet Polyglot. And it will look like this:



The code for this widget was:
<br /><object><embed width='425' height='344' id='IPWidget' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://widget.internetpolyglot.com/widget.swf' flashVars='wordLanguage=English&translationLanguage=Russian'></embed></object><br />

but you can change the languages in this code. For example, if you want to show Spanish-French lessons then simply change wordLanguage and translationLanguage parameters in this code like this:

<br /><object><embed width='425' height='344' id='IPWidget' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://widget.internetpolyglot.com/widget.swf' flashVars='wordLanguage=Spanish&translationLanguage=French'></embed></object><br />

and the widget will start showing Spanish-French lessons like this:




So please hurry and place this widget on your site or blog, make your visitors happy with playing Internet Polyglot language games!


What's next. The next couple of weeks our main goal becomes speeding up the site. We are going to work on making site's pages loading faster. Especially it's important for the game pages - iPoly gamers, stay tuned!