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English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 3 | American English
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Localingual: listen to the voices of the world
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- David Ding, a former Microsoft software engineer, has created Localingual to showcase the full range of these voices and highlight the globe's language diversity.Its premise is simple: a world map shows each country and breaks it down to regions as you zoom in. When you click on a region, if sound has been uploaded the dialect and voice from that location will play.The website launched on January 8 and has already had around 500,000 visitors recording 18,000 different voices. Anyone, on Android or desktop, can click on their region to record their voice if it's missing. The iOS APIs don't allow it to work on Apple devices. "I was wandering around Ukraine when the idea came to me to put all the different languages and dialects I was hearing on the web," Ding told WIRED. "One of the more difficult aspects of the project was acquiring the flag and emblem image for every region and city in the world. I had to write a primitive data-mining bot that scoured search engines and Wikipedia for these images."READ NEXTStartling air pollution maps reveal the true extent of rising emissions in the UKStartling air pollution maps reveal the true extent of rising emissions in the UKBy ALEXANDRA SIMON-LEWISDavid DingDue to its infancy, Ding has plans to continue developing the website to let people post linguistic questions about the dialect in a specific region, for example. If you want to know what the Danish slang is for getting a drink, a native speaker will be able to answer. Eventually, Ding wants Localingual to become a "Wikipedia of languages and dialects spoken around the world".
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Most Important English Proverb List and Expressing –
"“Two wrongs don’t make a right.” "
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