ABBYY Lingvo Live - social service for foreign languages

ABBYY is well-known to anyone who has to deal with translations and foreign languages. In the 25 years of their products have become standard tools for working with translations. Yesterday, the company's product line gained another wonderful tool - ABBYY Lingvo Live. It krossplatfomenny social networking service with free access to online dictionaries and other useful features. It is available as an iOS app, and the web version.

Service aims to facilitate the task of finding the meanings of words, easy access to a huge database of dictionaries, as well as the possibility of obtaining assistance from professionals from the community. There is iOS-application service, which is useful when working with mobile devices and the web version, which provides cross-platform, and usability of the PC. In both versions, you can register by email or log in with Facebook and VK account.

As in any social product, Lingvo Live concept is to use the tape where you can view recent events in the life of the community. They are divided into three categories: "Translations," "Questions" and "Notes." Question - this is actually a user requests with the words and phrases that have caused their doubts. Translations - it answers, any participant can invite his answer that will appreciate other users to choose the best. Notes let you publish your posts, you can share something important with colleagues, ask the community or ask for help.

To add a question, translation or floating notes a button used to advantage in the bottom of the screen. Filter events by category, you can select the appropriate section on the panel. Each entry (whether it be a question, answer or note) is subject to assessment using likes, and users can add comments to it.

And, of course, there is a search for a dictionary that is useful to you, if you open the application to find the translation of unknown words. It is located at the top, and next to it there is a button that allows you to configure the languages ​​you are interested in - the content of the selected language will appear in your stream.

Web version of Lingvo Live functionality is similar to the application, so the choice is entirely up to you, choose the one with which you prefer to work at the moment. Web version of the interface and design is very well chosen, they provide easy navigation and do not cause clutter feelings. search field panel to add new records, tapes, filters - all in place and you're unlikely to get stuck.

Potential audience Lingvo Live is wide enough and it can include anyone who has to deal with foreign languages: pupils, students, teachers, translators and all those who study foreign languages ​​or, on the contrary, ready to share their Knowledge.

The main advantage of the service is that in addition to dictionaries and a simple "machine" translation difficult to understand the words and phrases, you can get advice by specialists, who will help to translate your text as much as possible exactly.

Currently Lingvo Live has the status of beta, but it is available in more than 130 dictionaries for 14 languages, apart from the dictionary database of the "People of the dictionary," which is satisfied community. Now Lingvo Live is available as an application for iOS and the web version. In the future, the company plans to create a full-fledged desktop client for OS X and Windows, as well as applications for mobile Android and Windows Phone platforms.

Use Lingvo Live online can be reached at lingvolive.ru. Get the iOS-version is a little more complicated (it is still in the approval of the censors App Store), for this you will need to click on the button "Download for iPhone», enter your email, on which you will be sent the download link. Downloading ipa-file, it should open in iTunes and sync with your iPhone.