WizWorldOnline.com by 8D World is an online virual world which aims to teach English as a Foreign Language (EFL) as it’s primary focus.
 
The company raised $7 million in March 2008 from Spark Capital and Gobi Partnes to launch the site first in Chinese language, then other languages such as Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian in the [...]

Moonshoot.com is website that specializes in helping children learn English by providing fun and interactive games for children to play online.
Launching first in Japanese, Mooshoot will exapand to cover other languages. The first product released by Moonshoot will help children build a vocabulary of 600 words, 200 phrases, that will enable them to read up [...]

The F-word seems to be mainstream in the USA. It started several years ago with “friggin” or “frickin” being socially acceptable and heard often on reality TV and talk shows.
 
And now it appears (at least in Boston) that many radio stations don’t censor out cuss words. One station dedicated to hip hop was leaving in [...]

Ever wonder about the origins of the word O.K.? Here is an excerpt from Word Wide Words that explains it.
OK is without doubt the best-known and widest-travelled Americanism, used and recognised even by people who hardly know another word of English. Running in parallel with its popularity have been many attempts to explain where it [...]

Facebook is attempting to patent the idea of crowdsourcing language translations, an idea that Phrasebase.com put into practice back in 1999.
Facebook filed their patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office back in December 2008, but it is now only recently making it’s way into the public knowledge.
 
The application is currently going through the [...]

An exiciting new website outlining the sterotypical racial differences of white people has shown studying broad to be a common trait amongst white people.
 
Further up the list, they so poigniantly call out the notion of raising multilingual children as yet another trait associated with white folks.
 
It gets better. Further up and securing a spot at [...]