travlang's web site
has received quite a number of awards
and other publicity. We are quite proud of the response to our pages and
list some of the notable publicity we have received below. THANK YOU!
And we hope that you continue to enjoy travlang!
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Fri, Nov 16 at 06:04 PM EST)
We are proud to have been selected as a Cool Site
by Yahoo! See their
Regional
Cool Sites section.
Our FLfT pages were featured on ZDTV's
The Money Machine television show and web site.
Many of our features have been awarded
Snap! Online Best of
the Web Winners! See their
Review
of travlang,
Review of
our Translating Dictionaries,
and Review
of our International Road Signs and Conventions pages! Thanks, Snap!
Online!
travlang was nominated for a
Webby Award for best
travel site in 1997! We're honored and we enjoyed the party!
This page is the WINNER for the Amateur Travel Site category in
GNN's 1995 Best of
the Net!
"This is a superb site for anyone interested in learning a few phrases
before departing on their next trip abroad."
travlang is featured in
c|net's
CyberTravel section. "If you've decided on an international destination,
you'd best start practicing the language."
Sunday Jan 23, 2000 front page
article "Not so stupid net tricks" includes "Learn how to order a beer in
Spanish" about our iForeign Languages for Travelers
pages.
A nice article about travlang (we're their site
of the week) appeared in London's
Daily Telegraph on May 9, 1998! "THE Web site of Travlang, which
is dedicated to helping
travellers learn foreign languages, is a wonderful example of
how the Internet can foster global fellowship."
Awarded 4 stars (highest rating) by the
Review
in the Magellan Internet Directory.
Awarded 4 stars (the highest rating, "a must see site") by
Excite Reviews.
We're a stop on the
ExciteSeeing Tours!
travlang has been selected as one of
P.O.V. Magazine's Top 100
sites for 1997! Thanks! The story is in their November 1997 issue.
FLfT and our Translating Dictionaries are featured as a
Webcrawler
Select Site! They have written
a nice review of
FLfT and a nice
review of travlang's Translating Dictionaries.
Our FLfT pages are a "best" site in the
Travel Channel at
Select Surf!
We have been selected as a Condé
Nast Traveller
Recommended
Site! Thanks!
We're part of the New
York Times Navigator list of web sites, in their
Reference
section.
Listed as in the top 5% of the web by the
Review
in the Point Internet Directory.
Yahoo Internet LifeFLfT was selected as an
Increadibly Useful Site by Yahoo!
Internet Life's September 1996 issue.
AND our FLtT pages were given four stars by YIL in their
Review
from September 1997.
We have been chosen to be listed in the
Travel and
Reference Sections of
Starting Point.
"What a deal! FREE foreign language lessons for
travelers right here!"
travlang has been selected as a NetGuide
Gold site! They have Reviewed several of our web pages.
"a great spot for the globetrotter"
Yahoo Deutschland>
We're a Cool Site on
Yahoo! Deutschland
"Ihre Web-Site ist cool."
Yahoo Japan
We're a
Cool Site on
Yahoo! Japan for Kids!
London's Sunday Times Travel Section
has a very nice
article about travlang's Currency Exchange Rates and the
travlang site in general. Sunday Dec. 14, 1997.
"The reason travlang prevails is that currency conversion is
only one of dozens of free services it offers to travellers, and
to those learning a foreign language (hence the name)."
We've been selected as one of
HomePC's top 500
Sites, listed in their Dec. 1996 issue.
FLfT has been selected as one of
Your Personal
Net's Top 100 Web Sites of 1996! "Learn to speak in tongues"
travlang was featured in an article in the
New York Times CyberTimes
on July 26, 1997 entitled
"Learning Language the Interactive
Way", by Sandeep Junnarkar.
"... its most notable feature is that it's
designed to be used by anyone who speaks one of the 50
languages on the site to learn any of the other languages available."
Featured in the Los Angeles Times
article "Electronic Explorer;
Learning the Lingo on the 'Net" by Laura Bly. Sunday Aug. 11, 1996, Travel
section, page L-17. Also syndicated nationally.
And featured on March 30, 1997 in
"Road
Maps to the Information Highway", by Laura Bly, Los Angeles Times Special
Report.
AND, we are featured as an
LA Times
Pick on July 9, 1997.
FLfT is one of the Mining Company's
Business Travel Best of the
Net! And we are one of their
Southern Germany for Visitors Best of the Net!
"Learn a few
phrases and impress your foreign client. "
We are listed as top sites on
Hachette Net Junior's listings for
French kids! Read their Review of FLfT,
as well as their Review of our Translating Dictionaries.
Both are in their top 20 for Languages and Globe-Trotting sections. Merci!
Our FLfT pages have been
selected as part of Heritage
Newspapers's The News-Herald's Cool Links (under the Travel category)!
Greater Hampton Roads
has selected us to be their Non-Regional
Site of the Week for Sept. 15-21 1997. Thanks!
"This is a great place to learn the basics of a foreign language prior to traveling."
Selección de las mejores
webs hispanas.
FLfT was Planet Internet Belgium's
Site van de Dag for July 25, 1997!
We are a "Top 5 Site" on Suite 101!
We are featured in the Brazilian web magazine
Blue Book!
We are a 2 Hot 2
Handle site at The CyberMom Dot
Com!
Thanks!
Our site was featured as the
Highlight
of the week for Jun. 30 - Jul. 6, 1997 in the Venice Italy Index!
We have been Reviewed
in WebScout's Index of the Net's coolest
sites!
"This web site is an excellent foreign language resource center."
travlang and our FLfT pages were listed in
MC&A's Internet
Crib Sheet for June 1997!
"If you are going somewhere other than the good ol' USofA, then take
a look at this site and learn some words/phrases to get you through your trip. It's fun to do with your
kids too. "
travlang is featured in Third
Age's Essential Web Guide with a nice
Review.
We are featured in Third Age's 701 Special Sites under the Travel category.
Selected as an EZ Connect Best of The
Net site. We're listed under Travel Tips & Advice.
FLfT is a runner up
Best Global
Site selected by Accent
Software and Byte Magazine.
Thanks!
FLfT is chosen as a US
News Student Travel Site.
"Before you head off on your world tour, stop in here to learn useful words
and phrases in almost three dozen languages."
6th best (out of 25) in the
Iway 500
top web sites,
Consumer/Personal Resources category.
"The kind of site
you'll show friends to get them on the Net."
We are proud to be the Languages of the World pavilion in the
World Cultures Pavilion
of the Internet 1996 Worlds Exposition. It's
also listed in the U.S.
Pavilions.
Our FLfT pages have been reviewd as one of
The WEB Magazine's
HOT 5 sites in their Jan. 1997 issue. And we're featured in their
Travel section of the Mar. 1997 issue too!
FLfT has been selected as one of
PC Magazine's
Top 100 Web Sites in their Oct. 1996 issue. They have written a
Nice Review
of our web pages.
travlang's Translating
Dictionaries have been awarded the
Ranebow
Award for a great "Science and Edutation" web page for May 1, 1997.
Europe's Coooool Site
of the Day for April 9th, 1997!
UK Plus's
Editor's Choice award!
travlang's
Translating Dictionaries are featured as the #1 site in
Chartnow's Internet Top 10
for the week of March 25, 1997. Thanks!
We've been awared
Komputer
Klinic's Kool Site Award for the
week of Feb. 21, 1997 (it's also found in their
travel
Kool Sites).
travlang's Translating Dictionaries have been presented with the
Key to the Web Award for
Feb. 20th, 1997.
Atevo has selected travlang as their
FIRST Cool Travel
Site of the Week for the Week of Feb. 17-24.
"It is a true traveler's friend!"
travlang has been selected as
an Editor's Choice site by Bonus.Com,
the supersite for kids! Thanks!
We've been
awarded the
Yggdrasil Award
of Excellence. "Foreign Languages for Travelers is very cool indeed."
We've been selected to be a part of the
BigBook ShortList
of useful web sites.
Our Internet Handbook
of German Grammer has been awarded the
Doktor
Faustus Award for excellent German language web site. Thanks
We're Home PC's Site
of the Day for October 7, 1997! "Brush up on your basic
phrases on the Web
before making that next
trip abroad. Foreign
Language for Travelers
makes it easy."
Our site is part of the Russian
All Stars Site.
We've been selected as part of the Best of the Internet by
www.top.de in Germany!
FLfT has been reviewed by the Family Friendly
ZIA Resources.
"A great site."
Kaplan's Student Choice
Award for best educational site for language help for international travel.
FLfT has been selected for Program One's
WWW Hall of Fame!
We are part of
the Web@Work Association
(under tools).
Our site has been selected as a
Citizen 1
Top Site!
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travlang was selected to be a featured site in
Virtuocity's
Travel Tips
section.
FLfT was chosen to be part of the
Dean's List
as an outstanding resource for college students by
The Main Quad.
We've been selected as the
Cool Site of the Week
for Dec. 30 - Jan. 5, 1997! "A must visit."
Spunky Demon's
Cool Site of the Day for Nov. 22, 1996.
TipWorld's Cool Site of the Day
for Nov. 20, 1996! "This is *so* awesome. I learned to speak
Swedish on my lunch break."
InfoService's SUPER SITE
Award.
Benny Blue Web Wow
Award
Featured in the Chicago Sun Times as a
Connected Pick of the Week
for Oct. 31, 1996. "extremely helpful site".
We have been awarded the
Flying Dutchman Award
for excellent Dutch language service. (November 1996)
Featured in the Japanese Internet and Media Magazine
Wonderful World Women, Volume
4 (August 1996).
Selected to be part of La semaine de France Pratique for Wednesday August 21, 1996.
"Si vous projetez de partir à
l'étranger, TravLang vous sera extràmement utile."
Selected to be part of the PRN Radio
Network's Daily
Report for August 19, 1996.
Selected as an
Andrew's Site
of the Week for the week of Aug. 12.
PC Magazine's choice
for Site of the Day
for Aug. 7, 1996.
Selected as a Culture Choice by The
Web of Culture. This designates Foreign
Languages for Travelers as an online resource providing valuable
cross-cultural information to the Internet community.
This is an Eye On The Web Selected
Site. We're part of their
Education
Center - Language Resources section.
Featured on page 88 of the August 1996 issue of
Pc World Magazine. See their
Review of the FLfT pages.
Named Blue
Web'n Hot Site of the Week and is in the Blue Web'n Learning Applications
Library. "This is an honor reserved for the best instructional lessons,
activities, projects,
resources, references, and tools on the Web."
Selected as a
Blue
Planet Cool Site for July 24, 1996.
Selected as the Wise
Owl Site of the Month for July 1996 in
recognition of exemplary design and educational excellence.
Part of the
Cultures
section of Houghton Mifflin
Education Place.
Selected to be featured for the week of Apr. 29 - May 5, 1996 on
SpyNet.
Newspaper Article: ``For Learning a language, try the Web" by Lori
Hawkins, Austin American-Statesman, Saturday Apr. 13, Page D1.
Selected as one of
the WEB Magazine's top 50 sites
for the April 1996 issue.
Cybertime's site
of the week.
Say `Bon': Featured in "The Cyber Ace",
Home PC Magazine, April 1, 1996,
p. 218.
Featured in Rails Magazine of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch
Railroads), April 1996 issue.
Named Månedens anbefaling (Recomendation of the Month) for
April 1996 by
Mimes Brønn, a
Norwegian web-index for schools.
Selected as one of
MacUser's
101 Must-See Sites, March 1996 cover feature.
Listed in the The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research,
March 1996 issue.
New Scientist's Planet Science
Magazine's
Site of
the Day for March 22, 1996 and we're part of their
Hot Spots list.
"It's a pity there is no way to carry an internet terminal around
with you wherever you go"
Marc's Link of the
Day, Jan. 3 1996.
Selected as
The Coolest Travel Site
of the Week for Dec. 13 1995.
travlang was selected as Web Site
of the Week by Duke-Net for the week of Dec. 3, 1995.
CompuServe Magazine's 21 Web Faves (Nov. '95 Cover Story)
Described in "Be Your Own Travel Agent",
Computer Life Magazine,
October 1995.
Eshnav.com's Click of the Week
for Sept 17-23 1995.
Spider's
Goodies and
.
InfoQuest's
A Free Launch
Gorski's
Cool Site of the Day for May 4th 1995.
Listed in the Travelogue section of
the Cyberguide of NetGuide,
May 1, 1995.
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