Disclosure: HelloTalk is an advertiser on one of my other blogs, FreeTech4Teachers.com HelloTalk is a service designed to help students learn a new language. The service operates through free Android and iOS apps. On the HelloTalk apps you can find flashcards, text to speech tools to help you understand how words should be pronounced, speech […]
Try Duolingo for Learning a Language Online or Offline

Back in May Duolingo released an Android app designed to help students learn a new language. The app provides lessons in Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese. The most recent update to the app makes the learning activities available on your Android device even when you don’t have a connection to the Internet. The […]
Memrise – Study Languages, Math, and More On Your Android Device

Memrise is a service designed to help you learn a language, develop math skills, and study topics in social studies. Like a lot of services in the language learning market Memrise offers flashcards for studying words. What makes Memrise more than a flashcard service is that they also offer audio pronunciations of the words and […]
Duolingo – Learn a New Language On Your Android Device

Duolingo is a free language learning service that I have written about a few times on Free Technology for Teachers. Today, Doulingo released a new Android app designed to help students learn a new language. The app, like the website and iOS app, provides lessons in Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese. To learn on […]
For Better or Worse Google Translate Now Works Offline

Google Translate is known for occasionally producing some unintentionally hilarious translations (I’ve experienced this many times when translating Icelandic into English). Last week Google announced that those translations can now be made offline on your Android device. The Google Translate Android app supports fifty languages. To use the app offline you do have to download […]

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