Dictionaries (top of page) |
Focusing on Words |
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web: www.wordfocus.com/index.html |
This advanced English-vocabulary language site is here as a guide so you can experience the wonder of words and the English language. As a distance learner (of any age), you can enjoy words and their fascinating histories and enhance your English-language skills.
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Longman Dictionaries |
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web: www.awl-elt.com/dictionaries/ |
Dictionaries listed are “Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English”, “Longman Basic Dictionary of American English”, “Longman American Idioms Dictionary”, “Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture”, “Zak’s Wordgames”, and “Longman Interactive American Dictionary”.
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Merriam-Webster Online – The Language Center |
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web: www.m-w.com/ |
Pedro’s Dictionaries |
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web: www.public.iastate.edu/~pedro/dictionaries.html |
Select dictionaries for generic/English, multilingual, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Japanese, Norwegian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Urdu, or Vietnamese.
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A Web of On-line Dictionaries |
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web: www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html |
Now linked to more than 1,000 dictionaries in 200 different languages |
Grammar (top of page) |
Adult Literacy  |
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web: http://www.studyweb.com/Grammar__Composition/ |
An Elementary Grammar |
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web: www.hiway.co.uk/~ei/intro.html |
A comprehensive index of English grammar.
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Grammar Help |
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web: www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/help/grammar_help/ |
Extensive listing of grammar help pages, interactive language exercises, miscellaneous grammar resources, and on-line writing labs. |
Grammar Safari – LinguaCenter |
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web: http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html |
The “grammar safari” activities suggested here are just that, suggestions for “hunting” and “collecting” EXAMPLES of specific words as they are used in documents accessible to anyone on the WWW — a vast, ever-growing, always up-to-date “corpus” of language ranging over an inexhaustible range of topics, geographic areas, and users.
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Spanish Grammar Exercises |
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web: www.trinity.edu/mstroud/grammar/index.html |
The exercises are on adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, verb forms, verb usage, and general verb review.
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Miscellaneous (top of page) |
Caslon Books |
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web: http://slangman.com/ |
Specializing in books on slang and idioms. Presenting the newly released classroom series and self-teaching guides on American, Spanish and French slang & idioms.
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Comenius English Language Center |
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web: www.comenius.com/ |
The Comenius Group developed this site so that students, teachers and speakers of English from around the world can have on line access to relevant materials, lessons and products. |
Daily Page for Students of English |
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web: www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/daily/ |
The page usually contains only 1 or 2 of the following each day: Proverb of the Day, Slang of the Day, Word of the Day, Idiom of the Day, Mystery Word Puzzle of the Day, Anagram of the Day, Sentence Pattern of the Day, Link of the Day, and A Link to a Quiz for the Day.
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Fluency Through Fables |
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web: www.comenius.com/fables/ |
This site uses the following fables to improve reading comprehension of English: “The Donkey and the Grasshopper”, “The Father and His Sons”, “The Kingdom of the Lion”, “The Musical Fisherman”, “The Tortoise and the Hare”, and “The Thirsty Pigeon”.
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The International Phonetic Association |
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web: www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html |
This site is a reproduction of the International Phonetic Alphabet. It contains the full chart as well as sections of the chart.
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Multilingual Web at the ACF – New York University |
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web: www.nyu.edu/acf/usg/multi-l/indereal.html |
This web site provides links to worldwide multilingual computing resources on the Internet, gives an overview of the technical issues, and offers tools for browsing and publishing on the Web in dozens of languages.
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1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters |
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web: www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ |
This web site provides 1430 tongue twisters in 61 languages.
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