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Presenting at APPI 2015

27/4/2015

I'll be presenting on "Making a Difference... in Pronunciation" on April 30 at the 29th APPI Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
The presentation will be about my e-dictionary.

Here's a part of the abstract:
"Pronunciation Made Easy, an e-dictionary, is always handy whether at the click of the mouse or touch of the screen. It's intuitive and learner-friendly. It's targeted at beginners. But also at intermediate learners. And it's full of useful words."

I will upload the presentation to Slideshare soon after and will share the link here.

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More on e-publishing

24/2/2015

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One of the most useful and user-considerate hints I read was that e-books need to be read across different platforms - pdf and epub formats are the most widely read -, and need to be reflowable, meaning the text size and formatting adapt to the screen size. Reflowability was something that was always in the back of my mind, because I found it so user-friendly, especially when reading in the iPhone. Things have been changing fast lately and many platforms now provide previews across devices such as PCs and smartphones. And many websites that I visit regularly have become reflowable. It’s perfectly obvious when reading in the iPhone.

This concept of reflowability led me to search through many pdf e-books to see if any included the feature. Unfortunately not, not even when reading in the Acrobat Reader app. The font is usually quite small, so what I do is turn the phone horizontally and pinch the screen to adjust the text size. Not practical. Unfortunately, the same happens in my dictionary.

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Comments about PronMadeEasy

17/9/2014

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These are some of the comments that colleagues have made about my e-dictionary. :-)

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PronMadeEasy is out!!! :-)

6/9/2014

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After months of hard, but very enjoyable work, Pronunciation Made Easy is out and just a click away.
It was published earlier today, Sep. 6, on the 53rd anniversary of a four-year move to the States, a life-changing experience for me.
To get a free sample or buy the dictionary, click the e-Dictionary tab (above).
I hope it will be a very useful tool for Portuguese-speaking students to learn to pronounce many common English words in an easy and fun way.
And I hope that other languages will also try to bridge the L1 and L2.
Thank you to my Radical English colleagues and friends for encouraging me to carry out this project! :-)

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Presenting at APPI 2015

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Comments about PronMadeEasy

PronMadeEasy is out!!! :-)

Teresa Almeida d'Eça

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