Archive for the ‘Language’ Category
Monday, June 14th, 2004
The Globe and Mail: Bilingual older adults found to stay sharp longer Being fluently bilingual may help stave off the forgetfulness and inattention associated with aging, according to a new Canadian study. Interesting. I suspect any intensive mental exercise would be good for you though. But it's nice ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2004
MDBG free online chinese english dictionary Further to my last post on the Taiwanese online dictionary and learning Taiwanese - this whole thing started basically because I had been recently using a pretty cool online Chinese dictionary based on CEDICT for my mandarin studies, and I wondered if there ...
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Sunday, June 6th, 2004
台語詞典 (Taiwanese dictionary) Learning Mandarin has been an off-and-on pursuit for me over the past ten or so years. One would think that after this long and with so many friends and family members that speak the language, I would have learned more by now. But where to find ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2003
Dreamweaver MX 2004 was just recently released, and I have given it extensive road testing. My overall feeling is that there are some exceptional improvements and features in this product overall, but there are some bugs to be aware of. First of all the big feature: Dreamweaver has been ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2003
My new favorite project under the Mozilla umbrella is Thunderbird. Thunderbird takes what is good about Mozilla's email capabilities and making it work as a standalone application. I always wished that Netscape, and later Mozilla, were a separate suite of applications. I am always changing my default browser and ...
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