{"id":49107,"date":"2012-05-03T10:39:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T08:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49107"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T09:30:19","slug":"google-helps-you-learn-foreign-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49107-google-helps-you-learn-foreign-languages.html","title":{"rendered":"Google helps you learn foreign languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> have launched Language Immersion,\u00a0 a new extension which translates portions of text into a foreign language.<\/p>\n<p>The add-on is different to that of Google Translate, as it focuses on helping users learn a different language.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, the extension translates random words in an article, which are then highlighted.<\/p>\n<p>The words can be clicked, giving the pronunciation of the translated word.<\/p>\n<p>The add-on supports 64 different languages and has an immersion level, where users can use a sliding scale to select how fluent they are in the language.<\/p>\n<p>The extension is currently available for Google <a title=\"Chrome\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/368084-Chrome\">Chrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/05\/02\/google-language-immersion-chrome-extension\/\">Engadget<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Google add-on assists you in learning a foreign language through web browsing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":26793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1567,11287,11139],"class_list":["post-49107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-chrome","tag-google-language-immersion","tag-google-translate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}