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14 New Destinations for Studying Languages

January 8th, 2010

Abroadlanguages.com is launching 14 new destinations where people can travel in order to study a foreign language. Among the 14 new schools, 11 of them are in destinations for learning English, 1 for learning French and 2 for learning Spanish.

These new destinations are among the most popular around the world for studying languages and for experiencing new cultures. Now you will have information available from this website to cities such as London, Brighton, Oxford, Cambridge, and Bournemouth in the UK, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Honolulu in the US, Cape Town in South Africa for studying English.  In addition, the company has included Nice at the French Riviera, Tamarindo, Costa Rica and Malaga, Spain for people interested in learning other languages besides English.

All of these language schools offer different activities and sceneries for the students, but all of them guarantee quality education. Students will have the opportunity to be immersed in wonderful cities where they can practice the knowledge they have acquired in the courses, make new friends, enjoy and learn about new cultures and taste a variety of dishes of their traditional cuisine.

These new language schools were added to the website on mid November of last year, after trying to fulfil the demand that the website has had from visitors asking about courses in these cities. Now the company hopes that the visitors they receive per month will increase with these new additions.

Chinese-English Online Learning Website Nciku Redesigns and Revolutionizes

July 2nd, 2009

Popular Chinese-English dictionary nciku has outdone itself again, this time with a visual makeover of its website and big improvements on its widely-used learning features.

Known for its refreshingly modern interface, nciku has revamped the website to look even sleeker and more user-friendly. Instead of having to search for links to different features, they are now all prominently displayed on the home page in clearly designated sections so users can search and find exactly what they’re looking for.

Among the improvements made to enhance user experience is the main navigation links to the top of the home page. In addition, some links that were previously hidden within other links, such as personal Vocabulary Lists, have now been brought to the forefront for easy access. More dynamic content has been showcased on the home page such as daily conversations, Chinese character animations, video and dictionary notes, recently updated content, popular vocabulary lists and more.

Major changes have also been made to the search bars on the Conversations and Q&A pages so that users will get results from the section they’re browsing instead of the main dictionary, so your results are more relevant. nciku’s groundbreaking handwriting tool has also been modified to reflect larger character sizes for easier recognition, particularly for those characters with a large number of stroke counts.

“These enhancements are just the latest in the ever-improving user experience at www.nciku.com,” said Dustin Choi of nciku’s marketing department. Previously, nciku wowed users with their technologically savvy website and innovative features such as nciku mini for mobile devices and flashcards for iPhones.

And despite the wealth of features, nciku remains a free site for its users. It’s no wonder it has user base reaching nearly 100,000 international visitors per month, and growing.

Currently, Nciku is known for being more than a dictionary with other features such as iPhone flashcards, Sentence Mode, Handwriting Recognition Tool, and Nciku Mini for mobile devices. Nciku was founded in April, 2007. Currently, Nciku is available in English, Mandarin and Taiwanese, but development is in process to add more languages in the future. The official website is www.nciku.com. For inquiries, please contact marketing@nciku.com.

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