Multi Lang Dictionary and Translator + Text to Speech with English Spanish Chinese French German Korean Russian and more! (Lite)

MLD is a language dictionary. With over 40 languages, MLD provides users with a resource to learn how to communicate with individuals from across the world. To engage MLD, users must first select the language they want to use to as their language. Secondly, users must select the language that MLD will use to translate the word. For example, if users are native English speakers and want MLD to translate the word “apple” into Spanish, they must select English as their input language and Spanish as the second language. Then, they input the word “apple” into the search box using English. Once they do, MLD provides them with the Spanish translation of “apple” and English definitions for “apple.” Additionally, features of MLD include tracking words that users have starred (“favorited”), keeping a history of words users have searched, allowing users to email definitions of words, and providing users with a Word of the Day.

Instructional Ideas

1. Teachers can have students look up the correct foreign spellings and meanings of words.
2. Teachers can have students read a passage in a foreign language and annotate the passage for words that they do not know. Then, teachers can have students email a classmate the definition of the word. Next, the student who received the definition must reply to the student who emailed the definition with an email that correctly uses the new word in a sentence. Finally, the student who sent the original email must decide if the student who wrote the sentence used the word correctly  and provide that student with feedback. Finally, that feedback must be emailed back to the student, and the teacher must be copied on it. The teacher can then grade both the students’ usage of the word and feedback provided.
3. As students progress through an advanced foreign-language course, they can be required to keep a log of new words they learned by looking up the words and starring them. At the end of the course, teachers can require students to have starred at certain number of words. Or, teachers can require students to use a certain number of words they starred in a piece of writing. An example writing prompt for this activity is “Compose a 150-word response to Pablo Neruda’s Leaning into the Afternoons in Spanish that includes at least five starred words from your list. Please underline your starred words.”

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