We have realized that a huge chunk of RealGeek readers come from countries where English is not the primary language and thus we have tried to keep the language of blogposts simple to decipher understand. The primary purpose of web is and has been sharing knowledge and efforts have been made by websites of varied statures to make the information as accessible as possible.

I’d like to mention about two websites which might help you in getting more out of your daily web activity.

Common Craft is a blog which posts videos on various internet related stuff in “plain english.” The Common Craft guys have been making videos on stuff we know and interact with daily like blogs, social media and phishing etc. I recommend you watch the video below to get an idea about the work Common Craft is doing.

The other site I wanna talk about is Wikipedia which is, as we know, the greatest free encyclopedia on web. Most people just search on www.wikipedia.com which is the standard site and carries comprehensive articles. The articles on www.wikipedia.com are although written in a easy-to-understand manner but there’s a wikipedia sub-domain, www.simple.wikipedia.com which provides articles in relatively easier English.

The simple Wikipedia uses simple english and grammar which can be easily understood by people who are studying english. Since many people use Wikipedia as a reference site and learn from it so this simplification of english should help many folks.

I hope this would help you in year 2009.

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