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  2. Google takes aim at Duolingo with new English tutoring tool

    techcrunch.com/2023/10/19/google-takes-aim-at...

    Google says that it recruited “linguists, teachers and ESL/EFL pedagogical experts” to craft the Search language tutoring experience, yielding a mix of human-expert content — e.g. prompts ...

  3. Google's new 'Speaking practice' feature uses AI to help ...

    techcrunch.com/2024/04/26/google-improve-english...

    Speaking practice builds on a feature that Google launched last October that is designed to help English learners improve their skills. While the feature launched last year allows English learners ...

  4. Manually coded English - Wikipedia

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    Manually Coded English ( MCE) is an umbrella term referring to a number of invented manual codes intended to visually represent the exact grammar and morphology of spoken English. Different codes of MCE vary in the levels of adherence to spoken English grammar, morphology, and syntax. [1] MCE is typically used in conjunction with direct spoken ...

  5. Learning English (version of English) - Wikipedia

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    Learning English (previously known as Special English) is a controlled version of the English language first used on October 19, 1959, and still presented daily by the United States broadcasting service Voice of America (VOA). World news and other programs are read one-third slower than regular VOA English. Reporters avoid idioms and use a core ...

  6. Signing Exact English - Wikipedia

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    Signing Exact English ( SEE-II, sometimes Signed Exact English) is a system of manual communication that strives to be an exact representation of English language vocabulary and grammar. It is one of a number of such systems in use in English-speaking countries. It is related to Seeing Essential English (SEE-I), a manual sign system created in ...

  7. Google launches 'Read Along,' a free app that helps young ...

    techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/google-launches

    Like Bolo, Read Along leverages Google’s speech recognition and text-to-speech to help kids learn to read. The app includes a built-in reading assistant named Diya. As kids read aloud, Diya ...

  8. Basic English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_english

    Basic English (a backronym for British American Scientific International and Commercial English) [1] is a controlled language based on standard English, but with a greatly simplified vocabulary and grammar. It was created by the linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English ...

  9. Google Play Books adds new practice feature to help kids ...

    techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/google-play-books...

    Google Play Book is getting a new feature that is designed to help new readers independently improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills. Google announced today that the new feature, called ...