UniLang TourGetting to know what UniLang is all about!

UniLang is an on-line Language Community, uniting language lovers from all corners and cultures of the world on our website. We offer a huge amount of on-line language resources, made by our members and freely offered to all of our members and visitors. In addition, we provide the means of communication, in whatever language, between those who share the same passion for language, linguistics, translation, or any aspect thereof. Together we can learn and teach a vast amount of languages!

Introduction

The above introduction already gives a short but thorough description of what UniLang is all about. This Tour will guide you through the website and explain how UniLang functions. We will make you acquainted with all major areas on the website, and will provide you with the necessary background information

Table of Contents

• Five Pillars and a Magazine
• A Multilingual Website
• Language Resources
  • Licensing
• Development
  • The UniLang Wiki
  • The Development Centers
  • The Project Center
  • The Of Course Project
• Communication
  • The Forum
  • The Chat
  • The Member Search and "Help me with this Language!"
  • Blogs
  • Contacting us with questions
• Gadgets
• Organization
  • Membership
  • Credits & Awards
  • History
  • Organizational Structure
  • Funding
• Funding
• Technical Issues

Five Pillars and a Magazine

UniLang consists of five important aspects, which we call pillars, each has its own distinctive color which can be found throughout the website. The main menus are ordered according to these five pillars:

1. Organization - All formal aspects of UniLang fall under this category, including our member administration.
2. Language Resources - A vast amount of language resources, such as on-line courses, grammar references, pronunciation guides, phrasebooks, dictionaries, etc.. fall under this category
3. Communication - This category houses sections that enable our member to communicate with each other and learn and teach about languages together. Our Forum and our Chat are the most important aspect of this category.
4. Development - This category is like a big construction bay, here there are several "Centers" where material can be produced and translated. An important core of this is the Wiki System, which enables everybody to edit pages.
5. Gadgets - Here the focus is on extra gadgets, which do often not directly relate to language, but enhance the feeling of community.

The menu, representing the pillars

Last, but certainly not least, UniLang has its own E-zine, called Babel Babble, an on-line magazine that releases interesting news and articles on a monthly basis.

We will take a deeper look into each of these pillars, as well as into Babel Babble.

A Multilingual Website It probably comes as no surprise to you that the UniLang site itself is multi-lingual in many ways. Our members constantly enable translations to a broad variety of languages, such as Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish...

A drop-down menu in Chinese

UniLang TourGetting to know what UniLang is all about!

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