A Wetpaint Wiki I can recommend

Tim Howe is the perfect antidote to Frank Newman.
He's started a wiki, but you won't find anything about baseball in there or other American topics.

Tim covers the British bases, so to speak.

My first impression is a positive one. Tim's wiki is brand-new and full of interesting articles, links, comments, ideas, tips, and Britishness (Tim detests Americanisms, for example).

After surfing his wiki and blog for a few minutes I came to the following conclusions:
1. He seems to be a huge fan of the Daily Telegraph.
2. He has worked as a tramslator and interpreter (German<->English)
3. He is into Brit Pop.
4. He seems to be based in Munich.
5. He has a Polish wife (to "polish" up his English, I'm sure ;-)...

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Do you understand this perfectly grammatical English sentence?

Well, I didn't either at first.

But if you read the wikipedia article and try really hard you will see the light...


And here's a link to the spoken word version (read by a native speaker, NOT a computer!)

If a non-American can read the Declaration of Independence, then I see no reason why an Austrian should not read any article he or she wants to read. In English I mean.

Here is how you are supposed to record the article you have chosen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia


Why not start with the one about Arnie for example? If you are from Styria, you may even sound just like him!! On second thought...that one is a bit long and has a lot of big words, like California...


So why not try a shorter article like the Grazer Schloßberg

Wikis in Plain English with German subtitles

Now you have no excuse at all for not understanding just what a wiki is and can do because someone has provided German subtitles for this very informative video.

If you already know what a wiki is and can do, why don't you evaluate the quality of the translation!?

Blogging for Beginners

There are so many people out there trying to be helpful and give useful tips to new bloggers like me. Maybe that's why it's really hard to find advice that is up-to-date and relevant for the kind of blog I am working on.

I have managed to find one wiki however that was created in 2007 and is kept updated by English teachers who are basically trying to blog with their students like I am. It's called Blogging for Beginners.

I especially like the tutorials.
And the glossary.
And free essential tools for bloggers.

If you want to learn more about blogging, have a look.
I can also recommend you read some of the Weekly Readings!