Tag Archives: thesaurus

Word Guessing or Synonym Game for Two Tutorial

The reminder of just how brilliant is the … WordReference website … the reminder occurring when we presented the recent Italian French Spanish Verb Conjugation Emoji Image Tutorial … combined with … the search for a web application with synergy, … Continue reading

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HTML/Javascript Homonyms Game Tutorial

ESL (or “English as a Second or Foreign Language”) is a term for the study of English as a Second Language, and is of particular relevance to immigrants to English speaking countries from non-English speaking backgrounds. One of the most … Continue reading

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Language Word Association Game Tutorial

Yesterday we created English Word Association Game Primer Tutorial as shown below, to show a draft English only version of a Word Association game good for ESL purposes. Today we build on that functionality by allowing Word Associations in French … Continue reading

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English Word Association Game Primer Tutorial

With yesterday’s Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial, using Yahoo Web Services called YQL, as shown below, building on previous ones here at this blog, we effectively signed off on the final (supplementing recent PHP/CSS Sentence Auxiliary Verb Game … Continue reading

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Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that might be re-introducing you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous ones here at this blog. The name is the way it is because it simplified the API aspects of its functionality … Continue reading

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PHP/CSS Sentence Auxiliary Verb Game Tutorial

The easiest English games to design are those that involve discrete words, because then dictionaries and thesauruses can be used. Learning English (for students whose first language is not English (ESL)) is obviously more useful when the student can piece … Continue reading

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Mac Dictionary Primer Tutorial

Are you ever stuck for a word, or a word with the same meaning as some other word? … you need a dictionary, or a thesaurus. If you are on a Mac laptop, try the desktop application Dictionary, as shown … Continue reading

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