and so we find ourselves with this simple, two-pronged truism: firstly, we are a community of people speaking the same language and, secondly, speaking it is one of the ways of marking us as human beings Octavio Paz

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Logos Foundation

Logos Foundation Highlight of Free Resources at a glance:

The Dictionary: Featuring 251 languages currently and genesis of the Logos Foundation
Logos Library: more than 700 million words within a library search resource, featuring multilingual novels, technical literature and translated texts.
Children’s Dictionary: 180 languages featured with words specially targeted to encourage children’s interest in language. Images and sounds are provided to stimulate the learning process.
Children’s Library: Popular tales, fables and texts specially selected to stimulate children’s interest in reading one or more languages.
Logos Conjugator: Verb conjugation resource in 36 languages currently.
Logos Quotes: Famous quotations from many of the world’s finest minds translated daily into up to 155 languages.
Anagrams: Check out words, whose letters may be re-arranged to create new ones.
Glossaries: Search and download from 1244 subject specific glossaries.
Crosswords: The crossword facility enables you to query the Logos database for partially completed words.
Arcoiris: Free on-demand internet TV resource with more than 11,000 films to view.
Professional Translation Course
Crosswords: Search partial words to find your crossword solutions.
Vox Populi: on-line audio project, play and share on-line multilingual audio archive.

The Vision of the Logos Foundation

If we consider the Internet as the central nervous system of humanity and look at the construction of a multilingual dictionary from an organisational point of view, there are no obstacles, since all of us can search and add words to our dictionary freely online. In building a living dictionary that is universal and free of charge, we are constructing a tool and resource to maintain cultural diversity. Rodrigo Vergara, CEO and President of Logos Group

As a knowledge-oriented non-profit making company, the foundation embraces all forms of media to enrich our understanding and sharing of knowledge, language and culture within communities that would not otherwise have the opportunity to connect.

Our support of many of the world’s languages helps to preserve linguistic and cultural diversity. This comes at a time when many minority languages and cultures are at risk of extinction, with consequential loss of knowledge and human identity. The preservation of language captures the multifaceted expressions of human identity for generations to come.