Longman-HAT Language Portal Website

[News 2023: Please use the following new address for these online dictionaries and other content: https://mml-hat.co.za/ ] We're pleased to announce the addition of the recently launched Longman-HAT language portal website (and online publishing / content platform) to our development portfolio.

The website features online dictionaries, games and activities, downloadable worksheets and activities for teachers for the classroom, crossword puzzles, a user-contributed photo gallery, videos, and much more new content being added regularly. Please feel free to explore the site. The website is available in both English and Afrikaans.

From the site: "It is with great pleasure that we introduce our new website to all who love language – a growing collection of dictionaries that you can refer to online, right here on your computer, tablet or cellphone. Plus: a language portal with all kinds of surprises and interesting features, especially for Afrikaans and English teachers, for learners and for every language lover."

Contributors and editors to the website include leading language specialists such as Dr Herman Beyer, Prof Rufus Gouws, Jana Luther, Tom McLachlan, Fred Pheiffer, Dawid van Lill and Marina van Lill.

The TLex dictionary authoring software and TLex online dictionary publishing system are being used for the online dictionaries, with the TLex "instant-publishing" functionality: New dictionary content updates can be published straight to the website by Pearson from within TLex, with just a few clicks.

Online Dictionaries [longman-hat.co.za]

Online Dictionaries [longman-hat.co.za]

Main Page [longman-hat.co.za]

Longman-HAT Website in Afrikaans [longman-hat.co.za]

Games and Activities [longman-hat.co.za]

Games and Activities [longman-hat.co.za]

Games and Activities [longman-hat.co.za]

New 'Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal' ('Dictionary of the Afrikaans Language') Online Dictionary Website!

Last month we completed and launched the new online dictionary website for the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (Elektroniese WAT Aanlyn). This huge work contains nearly 200,000 entries, spans 13 volumes covering letters A to R, and is also available in CD-ROM and hardcopy formats.

Following is the announcement from the WAT's Facebook Page:

Nuwe internetweergawe van die Elektroniese WAT (11 Junie 2010)
Die gebruikers van die Elektroniese WAT op die internet sou op Dinsdag 8 Junie 2010 gesien het dat ons woordeboek nou effens anders lyk as die afgelope sewe jaar.

Die Folio Views-sagteware waarmee die Elektroniese WAT oorspronklik in 2003 geprogrammeer is, word nie meer ondersteun nie. Die maatskappy TshwaneDJe Human Language Technology het die data vir ons omgesit na die TLex Online Dictionary Publishing System (kort vir TshwaneLex Online Dictionary Publishing System). Dit beteken dat nie net die inhoud van die Elektroniese WAT trots Suid-Afrikaans is nie, maar ook die program waarmee soektogte daarin gedoen kan word!

Die huidige intekenaars word nie geraak deur hierdie veranderinge in die agtergrond van die Elektroniese WAT nie. Hulle intekening gaan gewoon voort.

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English Translation:

New Version of the Online WAT Website (11 June 2010)
As of 8 June 2010, users of the Electronic WAT may have noticed that the dictionary now looks a bit different than it looked for the past seven years.

The Folio Views software used to build the original Electronic WAT in 2003 is no longer supported. The company TshwaneDJe Human Language Technology converted the data to the TLex Online Dictionary Publishing System (short for TshwaneLex Online Dictionary Publishing System). This means that not only are the contents of the Electronic WAT 'proudly South African', but also the software for using the dictionary!

Existing subscribers will not be affected by these changes taking place in the background.

Feel free to contact us if you have any comments.

More new features for the site are 'coming soon'.

Newly Revamped 'Pharos Dictionaries Online' Website

We are pleased to announce the recent completion of the new Pharos Dictionaries Online website:

This impressive and useful resource contains over 580,000 entries spanning 20 titles, and is a 'must-have' for translators and other language specialists working with Afrikaans. The website was developed by TshwaneDJe using the TLex Dictionary Production System and our Online Dictionary Publishing system for Pharos Dictionaries, a division of NB Publishers (Media24, Naspers).

The website is fully localized into both English and Afrikaans, and includes the following titles:

Frasewoordeboek/Phrase Dictionary
Klassieke Eiename/Classical Names
Groot Tesourus van Afrikaans
Groot Woordeboek/Major Dictionary
New Words/Nuwe Woorde
Verklarende Afrikaanse Woordeboek
Brug/Bridge
Classical Names
Eiendomsekonomie/Property Economics
Bouwoordeboek / Building Dictionary
Ekonomiese en Bedryfswoordeboek/Dictionary of Economics and Business
Oseanologiewoordeboek/Dictionary of Oceanology
Wiskundewoordeboek/Mathematics Dictionary
SA Musiekwoordeboek / SA Music Dictionary
New Business Dictionary/Nuwe Sakewoordeboek
Polisiewoordeboek/Police Dictionary
Tegniese Woordeboek/Technical Dictionary
Teater-TV-Radio-Rolprentwoordeboek/Theatre-TV-Radio-Film Dictionary
Verklarende Biologiewoordeboek
Woordeboek van Regs- en Handelsterme

Added Afrikaans and Swahili

Two more new languages on our website: Afrikaans (Professionele Woordeboekmaak-oplossings and corresponding PDF) and Swahili (Zana za Kitaaluma za kuhariria Kamusi and corresponding PDF)