Have you tried Forvo in your iPhone? Now it’s the time because we have reduced the price for our Apps until the end of 2011. The apps for Spanish, English, French, Chinese, Portuguese and German are completely free while the Full Forvo Pronunciation App with all the languages and more features it’s only $0,99.

You can check all the information at our iPhone website. Hope you like them and use them to help you learning and pronouncing words in many languages.

Last weeks have been very interesting for Forvo. During our travel to San Francisco and the Bay Area we have been lucky to meet great friends, colleagues and entrepreneurs. We also enjoy the standard tourist highlights :) We would like to thank to many people that has help us there: Raffaello, Eduardo, Antonio, Fernando, José, Juan Pablo.

We could also meet some companies very related to Forvo that I would like to recommend to you all:

- Wordnik: Thanks Erin for arranging the meeting. Wordnik is a huge English dictionary, but that’s not all. They want to know everything about those words, how to use them, relationships and… pronunciations.

- The Rosetta project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. Laura Welcher is a passionate linguist leading this project at The Long Now Foundation.

We hope that more collaborations keep emerging from those great days.

Update: User asdfforvo is the winner. Congratulations!

Have you planned your holidays? Well, you already know that you can count on Forvo to improve your pronunciation of those typical travel words but this year we want to help you even more.

Thanks to our friends at Alquiler Costa del Sol we are giving away a full week stay in a nice apartment in Algarrobo Costa, Málaga (Spain). Yes! The heart of the sunny Costa del Sol.

Do you want to participate? Just follow these two steps.

1. Send a “participation tweet” including your Forvo username, i.e. with my username in brackets “[israel] I’m going to the Costa del Sol with @forvo More info: http://tinyurl.com/36utn43“.
Click on this button to make it faster:

2. Add or pronounce a word in Forvo.
Every single word will count as a participation, so the more you collaborate the more your chances to win are. For example, 3 pronunciations count as 3 participations, it’s easy to understand.

The contest will be held between 07/14/2010 (16:00h*) and 07/21/2010 (16:00h*). The winner will be contacted and announced in this website after all the words and pronunciations are reviewed and validated. Give us a few days to do it. The participation tweet could be sent anytime from now on so we recommend you to join as soon as possible and start gathering words you want to add when the competition starts.

The prize includes:

- Apartment rental for 4 persons.
- Dates: A week of your election between 10/01/2010 to 12/15/2010.
- Features: Shared swimming pool, Shared garden, Fitted kitchen, Television, Air conditioning, Bed linen, Parking, Terrace.

The prize does not include:

- Transportation.
- Any other cost associated to your stay as meals, deposit to cover damage, etc.

The prize is available for any person older than 18.
The prize would not be refunded or changed in any way if the winner can not make use of it.

We hope you have a nice stay and a happy pronouncing!

* Time is UTC+2.

We have introduced a new lovely feature: translations for each word. Thanks to the Google Translate service, now from every word page you will see that word translated from the original language (more than 50 languages in google´s tool) to the interface language (spanish and english at this moment).

So if translations are not perfect blame Google :)

All Forvo members hope you will enjoy and learn more with this new feature.

“The annual European Day of Languages will take place on Monday 26 September. With hundreds of activities taking place throughout Europe, this year’s event will demonstrate the creative ways in which languages can be learned. It will be a celebration of Europe’s linguistic diversity and a major part of the campaign to encourage more language learning across the continent.”

We are happy to see that forvo.com is growing and helping people to how to pronounce languages, not only this day but every day.

Visit europa.eu site for more information and check your local information because there are related events in Europe´s major cities.