Add your Better Word!
Complete the form below to add your better word to our dictionary and gallery.
Should you or your family prefer to join in a fun community video chat meeting and share experiences of language with other participants, then please click here instead and let us know your preferred times. The meetings will be scheduled for groups of four or five household and will take only 1 hour.
Thank you for joining us. The more information we’ll receive about your Better Word the more fun will be to learn about them for those who never heard it before… but don’t worry if you can’t fill in all the fields. Only few are compulsory.
Here below there are a few website that may help with finding information about your Better Words. I have indicated which Step’s number they are relevant for.
Wiktionary.org
Find words in 175 different languages
(useful for steps #5, #6 and #8)
Easypronunciation.com
Transcripts words into phonetic characters for 11 language Cantonese, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
For other languages, you can try and click here to reach Wikipedia’s page dedicated to the International Phonetic Alphabet IPA). There are many languages and available resources.
(useful for step #9)
Please click this link or copy and paste it in your email app daniele@forwantofabetterword.com to email me with attachments.
3 easy steps for recording your better word
Frame your lips in the camera’s middle and centre, start recording and hold your lips closed for 1 second
2. Say your word
3. Pause with your lips still for 1 second before sopping recording. Done!