Effective online tools which can improve your vocabulary
Last week WordSteps.com, personal online vocabulary service, offered a new feature. Now users can hear the pronunciation of main English words. All the words are recorded by native speakers.
Online, June 27, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The developers say that they also add Russian sounds in a few days.
WordSteps.com has the primary objective of giving users effective online tools for creating vocabularies and learning new words. With this aim, WordSteps offers six exercises. Among those there are popular flash cards, choosing of correct translation, spelling of words and others. Most of exercises have correct answer keys. The feature of creating new dictionaries is also simplified. For each English word WordSteps.com offers an auto transcription feature, for all words - auto translation feature. This way users spend less time for creating new dictionaries.
The service for learning words is absolutely free and for using additional features you need to register. Registered users can experience the advantages of some additional features. Among them there are: tracking the learning progress, sending private messages to your friends, voting system and others.
It is amazing how many languages are available at WordSteps. And each of them can be studied in your native language. For example, if you are a Russian native speaker and would like to learn English, the service offers Russian translations of your English vocabulary. But not just Russian: there are also translations of your vocabulary into French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Japanese, Italian and Portuguese languages. Would you like to start learning French or Chinese words? You still have the same list of languages available to help you study them. Learn any of nine languages in any of nine languages that you speak.
WordSteps.com believes that online learning services can complement traditional ways of learning a language to make it more interesting and inspiring.