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Recents comments about Forvo in websites and TV. - On Mexican TV: Noticieros de Televisa at 07:15. - In ReadWriteWeb: 5 great translation tools . - In a Polish aggregator: Wykop - In MetaFilter: You say poe-tay-toe .

Have you tried to use Forvo from a mobile device? It works pretty fine, but when it comes to listen to pronunciations... oops, you won't hear anything. We are introducing some changes to give a better mobile experience. So depending on...

Categories or tags are a different way to learn pronunciations in Forvo. We let users add them so they are creating very interesting groups of words, like these categories: Greetings , Opera or France with hundred of words in many languages....

1. Schiphol 2. Dijkstra 3. Godverdomme 4. Gouda 5. Scheveningen 6. Dirk Kuyt 7. Hoegaarden 8. Hiëronymus Bosch 9. Utrecht 10. Piet Mondrian

1. Ronaldinho 2. João 3. Paulo Coelho 4. Rio de Janeiro 5. Paulo Freire 6. Caipirinha 7. Eu te amo 8. Merda 9. Saudade 10. Ronaldo

We have introduced a new lovely feature: translations for each word . Thanks to the Google Translate service , now from every word page you will see that word translated from the original language (more than 50 languages in google's tool)...

We have redesigned the language page to help you find who are the best pronouncers in every language. We called these users " The A-team ", so "If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can...

1. Ermenegildo Zegna 2. Gnocchi 3. Bvlgari 4. Lamborghini 5. Dolce & Gabbana 6. Versace 7. Moschino 8. Salvatore Ferragamo 9. Caprese 10. Bolognese

The spanish bank BBVA is running a contest for innovative projects . We are competing there, well, we are competing in tons of them ;) but this time we are lucky enough to be selected for the voting phase. So, if you want to help Forvo a...

Have you ever said " it sounds like greek to me "? It's a common phrase when you don't understand something. But what does a greek speaker say? Or a spanish one? There's sort of a solution in this graph created by language...

This time in German: 1. Gewehr 2. Arnold Schwarzenegger 3. Schadenfreude 4. Friedrich Nietzsche 5. Ich liebe dich! 6. Goethe 7. Porsche 8. Johann Pachelbel 9. Michael Schumacher 10. Beethoven

These are the 10 words most listened in Forvo: 1. Hermès 2. Je t'aime 3. Yves Saint Laurent 4. Peugeot 5. Carrefour 6. viognier 7. L'Occitane 8. Au revoir! 9. Louis Vuitton 10....

This is an amazing milestone: 100.000 pronunciations . The #100.000 is a dutch word: Nu of nooit . Next step is 1.000.000. There are also 118 languages with at least one pronounced word and 52 with more than 100 pronounced words .

Forvo is a language site so, as you could imagine, we are translating Forvo to more languages in 2009, starting with Forvo in spanish ... right now . Es un placer para los que hacemos Forvo sacar la versión en este idioma, que al fin y al...

It's been a long time since we made changes so we have selected some really frequently asked questions to include them in Forvo's FAQ . Main topics are: 3. What do you mean with "all the words in the world"? 7. What...

The number of pronunciations continues growing faster and faster and there are more than 80.000. The 80.000th word is Lieutenant Governor .