Have you ever been faced by a situation where you've received some text in a strange language but you can't identify what it is?

Polyglot 3000 (despite sounding like some kind of wall filler!) is a language recognition package which recognizes more than 400 languages. Simply paste in the text that you need identifying and P3000 will immediately throw up suggestions as to what it could be. The program is lightning fast at detecting the language of the text and it also gives you an estimate of how accurate the results are (which is usually 100% although if the language shares similar words with another language, it may be slightly lower). As far as customisation goes, it's very limited though with the only real option being that of setting it to check for only popular languages. However, with so many languages in use over the internet, this program is an excellent starting point for anyone trying to identify the origin of a blog language or website that they don't understand.

If you're just looking for a one stop, simple way to identify the language of some mysterious text, Polyglot 3000 will do it in a flash but note that it doesn't perform any kind of translation.

Download Polyglot 3000 3.22 in Softonic

iWisdom is a desktop program that will help you manage and maintain a list of quotations and insightful ideas. Besides allowing you to store and manage your quotes, the program offers a number of tools to help you publish them.

Key features:

• A number of related fields, including title, category, author, source, year of initial publication, and rights
• Storage of your wisdom in an open, non-proprietary XML format
• Multiple sorting and selection fields
• Multiple files with remembered viewing options for each
• Multiple levels of categorization, with a tree view to let you see your items within categories
• Automatic Web Publishing
• Automatic XML publishing (to create RSS feeds, for example)
• A Find function
• A Category Mass Change function

Download iWisdom 1.60 in Softonic

WikSpeak is a phonetic dictionary that allows to analyse the correlation between pronunciation and spelling of the English words.

It's basically a simple and fast graphic interface to retrieve either the phonetic transcription (IPA) or play the sound from any English word avoiding the annoying process of browsing dictionaries.

The most important features are the time reduction to determine the pronunciation from an English word based on the spelling and the facilitation of the phonetic transcription understanding.

It's a language tool highly recommended from beginners to advanced non-native english
speakers practising english phonetic.

Download WikSpeak 0.3 in Softonic

Kana no quiz is an educational tool which enables you to memorize the transcription and pronunciation of Japanese kana (hiragana & katakana) in a quick, easy, and flexible fashion.

This program features several methods and options to teach the complete beginner or test even experts on kana recognition and pronunciation.

This package works both on Unix (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD), Windows and Mac OS X using the same GTK+ interface.

Download Kana no quiz 1.7 in Softonic

Chuala is free software that combines an audio player, search engine and audio recording tool with special features for language learning.

It can help improve your pronunciation and comprehension skills. Help your students improve their pronunciation and comprehension. Get ready for tests like TOEFLTM, TOEICTM, IELTSTM and HSK and help preserve a language in danger.

Get involved in the most exciting linguistic community on the web!

Download Chuala ESL 0.8.7 in Softonic

WordBanker is a unique and fun method of helping you to improve your English Vocabulary. Adapted from the multi award winning "WordBanker Foreign Language Vocabulary builder" WordBanker VB is offered completely free of charge. Do you have trouble memorising new words or phrases ? WordBanker's "Visual Clue" method of testing means you learn without you even realising.

WordBanker is incredibly easy to use. Just view the word and then click the button you think is the definition of that word. That's all there is to it. Whether you are a complete beginner or already speak another language WordBanker has something for you.

Download WordBanker 4.0 in Softonic

Language Reader takes advantage of existing speech technologies, provides a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled. You can select text using your mouse, and hear the selected text being read by pressing a key on your keyboard.

Features:

• Read text (word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, document) using Microsoft Text-To-Speech technology.
• Provide a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled.
• Supported languages/voices: American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.
• Interface language: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch.
• Supported document formats: Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Microsoft Word (doc, rtf), Microsoft Excel (xls), Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt), HTML (htm, html, shtml), Text (txt).
• Cartoon characters, Merlin, Robby, Peedy, and Genie, who serve you as Assistant powered by Microsoft Agent technology.
• Easy-to-use built-in editor to edit text to be read aloud.
• Download and install required Microsoft Speech, Avatar components when needed.

Download Language Reader 1.0 in Softonic

VocabOne 02 is a vocabulary training program. It provides rich possibilities for learning and editing vocabulary libraries. A smart card box system makes you learn the difficult parts of your libraries better, while the easier parts are not repeated too frequently. Further on, there are many options in order to make the program fit all your needs, such as the flexible handling of multiple answers or the possibility to change the display font for languages using a different character set. Like this, vocabulary learning gets efficient and satisfying.

Download VocabOne 02 4.29 in Softonic