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Tools
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The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator
This application, downloadable only for genuine licensed installations of Windows, enables you to modify or completely change the configuration of your keyboard.
It is useful for those needing to write in a different language, whether for work or study, and who require customised keyboard configurations.
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Magictyper
This magical online utility enables you to write in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian or Greek using your current keyboard without
requiring you to re-configure anything or download and install any additional software.
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Lingro - not just a dictionary!
Lingro is a free service that allows you to integrate an interactive translation dictionary into any web page, once the URL of the page has been entered into Lingro.
The bilingual dictionaries, all with audio, provide translation from and into English. The languages included are: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Swedish.
A Swedish-Polish dictionary is also available. The service is useful for anyone who needs to read web pages in a foreign language and who wishes to avoid having to consult
a dictionary for every unknown word.
Lingro also automatically creates a list of all the words consulted that a user can then adapt for learning purposes.
Language games with flashcards can be created from this list in order to help memorize new vocabulary.
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Dictionaries and Glossaries
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In two months the 29th Olympic games will take place in China.
In honour of this event we have prepared pages of all the dictionaries and glossaries available online for many of the Olympic disciplines.
Click on the name of a discipline below to obtain the list of resources indexed at lexicool.com.
The Olympic disciplines are:
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Archery,
Athletics,
Badminton,
Baseball,
Basketball,
Boxing,
Canoe-kayak,
Cycling,
Equestrian sports,
Fencing,
Field hockey,
Football,
Gymnastics,
Handball,
Judo,
Modern pentathlon,
Rowing,
Sailing,
Shooting,
Swimming, Synchronised swimming, diving and water polo,
Taekwondo,
Tennis, Table tennis,
Triathlon,
Volleyball,
Weightlifting,
Wrestling.
Still on the subject of the Olympic games, here are some other resources currently available in our directory: English-Chinese dictionaries, Tibetan language dictionaries and a few dictionaries and glossaries on Buddism and on human rights.
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New site features
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In the last few months we have added four new languages to the lexicool dictionary directory:
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Bengali: language spoken by more that 200 million people in India and Bangladesh
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Kurdish: a language that is similar to Persian and is spoken in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Armenia
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Tagalog: spoken mainly in the Philippines
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Tibetan: the language of Tibet, spoken by more that six million people.
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Lexicool Online Shop
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In our online shop we currently offer CD-ROMs for acquiring the basics of the languages cited above.
Why not try and learn a bit of Bengali, Tagalog or Tibetan?
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