Test your social skills by chatting with an AI: Cleverbot

HAL 9000 in Space Odyssey, Optimus Prime in Transformers, C3-PO and R2-D2 in Star Wars - ever imagine what it will be like to have a real conversation with a robot. Too far-fetched? Impossible? Believe it or not, it's now possible. There's no need to get an iPhone 5 or an iPhone 4S to have a hands-on experience conversing with an AI. Cleverbot is an experimental application that can communicate with humans with basic knowledge of social conventions.

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Learn Languages through Songs and Lyrics: Lyricstraining

From the earliest stage of life, humans have already started to murmur and parents even use motherese or baby talk just to get babies to talk. Babies make sounds. They coo with rhythm and pitches to tell that they are hungry. As they grow up, they will be exposed to nursery rhymes and songs like "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" or "London Bridge is falling down" as such. Everything around us in fact are related to sound and music. Research has been done and it is recognised that music can help in children's cognitive development and a recent talk that I had attended by Karen Ludke who presented a little background of her current research, had helped to provide clarity to how effective music is in language learning. With this, all I can say that Lyricstraining is perceptive to use its trump card, music, in order to get a place in language learning field.

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Love Podcasting and Thinking of Making One Yourself?: Vocaroo

Every student has different capacities to comprehend a new language. Some students are visual learners, some will require hands on experiences just to grasp a concept others might be auditory learners. Accordingly, teachers need to be tactical and stay attentive. It is this what known as cognitive abilities that can be the deciding factor of how effective a lesson is regardless of other factors. Multiple intelligence as put forward by Howard Gardner do deserve a place in learning. After all, what is a teacher if there is no student?

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Instant Presentation? No Problem: Bubblr! it

In a rush? Lesson does not go as according to plan? Fear not. Bubblr! is on its way to the rescue. 

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