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Languages matter! says Unesco on its website, thus introducing the International Year of Languages. Governments, organizations, associations or individuals are invited to increase their activities to promote and protect all languages, particularly endangered languages. Unesco gives a list of all projects currently undertaken, and we are happy to say that Freelang is among the selection!
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/...
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On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop for a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by. Diego and Susy Goldberg have been doing it since 1976, for more than thirty years. At the time there was only the two of them, then they had children, three boys, whose pictures are posted each year also. They are plain, small black and white head pictures, yet there is something poetical and deeply moving about this website. Check it back every June 17th...
zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html
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Have you ever heard of bookcrossing? It's simple: when you've done reading a book, you leave it somewhere and you log on to the website to indicate where it is, so that somebody can come and pick it up. The person reads it, and then leaves it somewhere else, in a different city, maybe, or even a different country. You never know where your book might travel next, but you can track its journey. And of course you can also go and pick up a book yourself. Isn't it brilliant?
www.bookcrossing.com
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You have downloaded or received a file and you want to make sure it is virus-free? You may have an anti-virus already, of course, but many sources of advice would be better, and unfortunately it is not recommended to install several anti-virus software on a single computer. This is why Virus Total is useful: you can upload a file and have it analysed online, for free, by no less than 32 anti-viruses, including AVG, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Panda and Symantec.
www.virustotal.com
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Playing in the same field as last month's selected website, The Tech Faq provides technical answers in a way the average person can understand. Many fields are covered: Internet, telephony, science... If you have time to kill, just browse this website and improve your knowledge!
www.tech-faq.com
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Easy-to-understand explanations of how everything actually works: circuit breakers, invisibility, lasers, cockroaches... really everything! The site is organized by categories and also provides how-to guides.
www.howstuffworks.com
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A catalogue of languages, listed alphabetically or by family, with basic but detailed information, and even a few quizzes to test your knowledge. This site is provided by the NVTC (National Virtual Translation Center), a US Government agency.
www.nvtc.gov/lotw/languageList.html
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Pandora is not just another free Internet radio, with Pandora you can create your own stations, according to the style you like. You enter one or a few artists, and Pandora will play them for you, and make you discover other artists with similar musical tonality.
www.pandora.com
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Vaccination, diseases, or simply jetlag or insurance, International travel and health is a WHO publication that offers guidance on the full range of health risks likely to be encountered at specific destinations and associated with different types of travel – from business, humanitarian and leisure travel to backpacking and adventure tours.
www.who.int/ith/en
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Now Matt is quasi-famous as "That guy who dances on the internet. No, not that guy. The other one. No, not him either. I'll send you the link. It's funny."
www.wherethehellismatt.com
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Fun-with-words.com is dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language. Over 500 pages of word puzzles and games (hangman, tongue twisters, palindromes, puzzles, funny signs...).
www.fun-with-words.com
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