tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12643559128438441832008-07-19T13:30:41.429-05:00Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-45843116117501543592008-07-13T22:00:00.003-05:002008-07-13T22:04:30.910-05:00

A new audio feature is being trialled in the French phrasebook section of the site. The audio is currently available on the following pages: French greetingsBasic French adjectivesPeople and family membersOn these pages, you can listen to the computer pronounce the various words and phrases. If feedback from this trial proves positive, then similar audio will be added to other phrasebook

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-27602667564553437762008-07-10T21:03:00.004-05:002008-07-11T00:52:23.675-05:00

Along with its sister Spanish dictionary and language site, entries in this site's on-line French dictionary have now been augmented with terms from the EU DGT Multilingual Translation Memory. The latter is a set of translated terms, phrases and sentences extracted from translations of EU documents. It thus covers translation of various legal and technical domains. At present, approximately

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-81529116201787182152008-06-12T17:14:00.003-05:002008-06-12T17:26:20.946-05:00

The following shows % of bookmarks by social network made over the last month (figures include the French Linguistics site plus its sister Spanish site).

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-54303279061461247432008-06-12T16:32:00.006-05:002008-06-12T17:32:28.568-05:00

The following table shows the top 5 source counries of visitors to the French Linguistics site and to its sister Spanish site. Figures are for the previous month. Visitors to the French Linguistics site:Visits to French Linguistics Country% VisitsUS32 %UK24 %Canada15 %Australia3.9 %France3.2 %Visitors to the sister Spanish/English dictionary and resources site (Español-Inglés) are shown below.

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-78283314720635697512008-06-12T15:43:00.002-05:002008-06-12T15:47:11.315-05:00

You may be interested in the new French conjugator widget, which you can use from this site or add to your Google desktop, web page or blog etc. To use it, see the widgets and gadgets page.

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-79606652211479112982008-06-03T17:42:00.004-05:002008-06-03T17:58:51.997-05:00

You can now discuss things French on the new forums section of the web site. A number of forums are currently proposed, but I'm open to suggestions for new forums as appropriate: The Dictionary Forum is intended for general discussion about the dictionary content that isn't focussed on one particular entry; for the latter type of suggestion, use the feedback option from individual entries as

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-62838916133338358002008-04-11T09:36:00.001-05:002008-04-11T09:37:45.273-05:00

An unexpected error caused parts of the site to be down today 11 April. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-28339089619302482452008-03-26T23:43:00.001-05:002008-03-26T23:44:58.785-05:00

A bug has (finally...) been fixed in the French/English computing glossary which meant entries were appearing on screen mutliple times!

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-7334135500254972202008-02-26T10:14:00.001-06:002008-02-26T10:15:49.136-06:00

A beta version of this site's new bilingual search engine is now available.

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-13411438178037630402008-02-21T11:42:00.003-06:002008-02-21T11:47:25.934-06:00

An initial mobile phone version of the French dictionary is now available: The mobile version is designed to work on phones that support WAP 1.1The mobile version contains some stripped-down entries to cope better with the smaller screen of mobile phonesAt present, only French-English lookups are supported. (English-French coming soon!) It is free to access (other than your mobile operator's cost

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-72552623963884332052008-01-04T20:16:00.000-06:002008-01-04T20:18:33.304-06:00

Some French crossword games were recently added to the French Linguistics site. They are playable on line. Note that your browser must support Java 5 (or later) for these games to work.

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-24326379424455475072008-01-04T09:00:00.001-06:002008-01-04T09:02:22.636-06:00

It is planned that some upgrades will be performed on the French Linguistics site over the weekend of 5-6 January. During this time, there may be occasional periods when the site is down. This work is needed for some new content that will be added to the site over the coming weeks. In particular, some new features will allow users to personalise the way they use the site.

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-55171159160709852872007-11-20T15:34:00.000-06:002007-11-20T15:39:07.077-06:00

Many thanks for all the feedback that you've been providing over the last month. All feedback up to the beginning of this month has now been dealt with, and as a result numerous typographical errors have been corrected in the dictionary and in the French phrases section of the site.

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-86503905604757386962007-10-12T16:21:00.001-05:002007-10-12T16:24:43.191-05:00

The French-English and English-French dictionaries have been updated. The update includes improvements to various French-English entries, plus various corrections to English-French entries suggested in recent feedback (including entries for basic words such as house and good).

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-82040364870707221852007-10-10T22:46:00.000-05:002007-10-10T22:48:11.960-05:00

Apologies to a few unlucky users who, having entered some feedback on the site, were presented with the message "Sorry, an error has occurred". This is an intermittent problem and a fix is being worked on.

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-23281906106310184082007-10-10T22:07:00.000-05:002007-10-10T22:13:12.408-05:00

A number of users have requested that pronunciation information (e.g. in the form of IPA transcriptions) be provided alongside dictionary entries. Pronunciation information is already in the pipeline, and will initially be added for words whose pronunciation is "difficult": i.e. not predictable given some general knowledge of correspondence between sounds and spelling in French. In the meantime,

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264355912843844183.post-66725785580735218352007-10-10T22:02:00.000-05:002007-10-10T22:06:24.176-05:00

Audio recordings have been added to the Spanish greetings page, as well as the page on directions in Spanish.

Neil Coffeynoreply@blogger.com