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.