Barra de Español was a Firefox toolbar for students of the Spanish language. It provided tools and links to resources useful to students, such as word definition lookup and links to native Spanish material.
Sun, Jun 7, 2009
Update: Barra de Español version 1.1 has been released
Sun, Jun 7, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
I’ve just released an update to Barra de Español, version 1.1. The new version has some new features that I believe make it a necessary upgrade for those of you currently using version 1.0. You can get the new version from https://addons.mozilla.org/.
Update: Barra de Español version 1.1 released!
Sun, Jun 7, 2009
Just a quick update to announce that Barra de Español version 1.1 has been released. For more details, see my post on babelhut.com about the release.
Mon, May 25, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Every once in a while, we all run into a word that deceives us about its meaning. Often it is because the word looks similar to a word in your native language, which happened to me today on twitter. I had just discovered an excellent blog called ReVerbSpanish and I had tweeted about it. The author of that blog, Eleena, sent me this tweet:
Barra de Español: A new Firefox toolbar for Spanish students
Fri, May 22, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Ladies and gentlemen, Spanish students across the globe, I’d like to introduce you to my latest creation! It’s a Firefox add-on called
Barra de Español. It lets you find word translations and definitions using
wordreference.com
by typing the word in the toolbar, or by highlighting the word and right-clicking on it. It helps insert the special characters that Spanish uses that may not be on your keyboard. It provides links to native Spanish web sites which can help you in your study of the language, including news, reference, and video sites. But the best part is that it’s free!
Barra de Español: The making of a Firefox extension
Fri, May 22, 2009
I have just released a new Firefox add-on called Barra de Español, a toolbar for those who are studying the Spanish language. It makes it easier to find definitions for words in Spanish or English, it helps you insert special characters that are specific to Spanish into any textbox in Firefox, and it provides links to native Spanish websites useful for learning the language. You may install it from addons.mozilla.org.
We have hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Joining Twitter has become the trendy thing for bloggers to do, and while the non-conformist inside of me tells me to go against the trend, I think there may be some value in Twitter that I haven’t totally realized yet. With that in mind, Thomas and I have both signed up for Twitter experimentally, and we hope that our readers will follow us there!
Wed, Apr 29, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
I had once assumed that if I were to learn a constructed language, it would be Esperanto. It seems to be the most popular conlang out there, with several studies done on its effectiveness on improving language-aquisition skills. But last week my brother reminded me what assuming does and convinced me to start learning Lojban with him. Lojban is described as a logical language with unambiguous grammar, so it should be easier to learn than a natural language.
Thu, Apr 16, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Last night I found Spanish-dubbed versions of a couple of American television shows online, and I was watching them while doing laundry. I was doing this until about 1am, when I crashed and fell asleep. I don’t remember much about what I dreamt, except that everyone in the dream, including me, was speaking Spanish. Sort of. Some of it was Spanish. Some of it was gibberish that my mind made up and pretended to be Spanish. I think this was because I still am not good at comprehending spoken Spanish, so that’s what it sounds like to my mind. This is the first time I’ve had a dream that wasn’t in my native tongue, and now I’m curious if this is common for language students.
BibleFeed Project: Consuming a SOAP web service
Mon, Mar 30, 2009
This is the third post in the BibleFeed Project. If you haven’t already, read the first and second posts.
In my last post I stated the difficulty I was having finding a python library to handle the SOAP web service which I’ll be using to get the data for this project. I gave up on using a library for SOAP and decided to use urllib2 to send the SOAP request and retrieve the response, and ElementTree to parse the response. Both of these are standard libraries in Python 2.5 and higher, so you should not need to install anything extra to use these libraries.
The difficulty of consuming a .NET Web Service using Python
Fri, Mar 6, 2009
This post is not part of my Biblefeed series of posts, but it is very much related. For the Biblefeed project, I was hoping to consume this web service in order to get the data I need to make the project work. The web service appears to be a SOAP web service written in .Net.
Mon, Mar 2, 2009
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
This past Christmas, I received Huevos verdes con jamón, which is the Spanish translation of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. I’ve read the book a few times now, but I just read it again, this time adding quite a bit to my SRS as I went. By total coincidence, this post is in time for Dr. Seuss’s birthday.