Bookmarks for learning and using English
Page updated on: May, 14 2008
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Online dictionaries
- English-English dictionaries
- Cambridge Dictionaries online
- You may choose from Cambridge International
Dictionary of English (CIDE) and American
English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International
Dictionary of Idioms. Provides the pronunciation.
- AskOxford
- An online dictionary resource from OUP. Provides phrases, origin and derivatives. New words.
- Dictionary.com
- Gateway to dictionary, thesaurus or Web search. Words, grammar, language questions or pronunciation. Misspelling.
- See also: Roget's Thesaurus.
- DictSearch
- Gateway to several English-English dictionaries : Wordnet, OneLook,
WordSmyth, Newbury House, Cambridge English, NetLingo, Oran's Law,
Lawyers.com, Acronyms/Abbrev, Foldoc, PPP, MedTerms,...
- Also gateway to foreign languages (WordReference, ...).
- WordNet
- A Lexical Database for English. Its design is inspired by current
psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns,
verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each
representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations
link the synonym sets (frequency, similarity, hypernym - kind of, familiarity, ...) (form).
- Wordsmyth: Welcome!
- Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT) is the premier online American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. WEDT contains 50,000 headwords, and very precisely defined and hyperlinked synonyms. And the search engine allows for very flexible searching. Provides pronunciation. Lexicographic neighbors are available. Misspelling.
- Hypertext Webster Gateway
- Provides a point-and-click client interface (for non-linemode browsers) for accessing various dictionary services on the Internet. Misspelling.
- DICT
- A gateway to freely available natural language dictionary databases (Webster, WordNet, ...).
- Several search type (match prefix, suffix, substring, regular expressions, match with errors,...). Misspelling.
- A cooperative project: FILE (Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia) which allows you to help fill in the gaps which exist in other large freely available dictionary databases.
- Merriam WWWebster Dictionary and Thesaurus.
- Provides pronunciation, etymology, links between entries. Misspelling.
- Webster's Dictionary : English
- Works with UNIX style regular expressions. I strongly recommend the "Floating Search" option!
- The Phrase Finder
- A phrases thesaurus and searchable database of English phrases and sayings.
- Freeality
- A gateway to online thesaurus, phrases & quotations (Rodget, ARTFL, Bartlett, lexical FreeNet, ... ).
- Encyclopedia.com
- 14000 articles online.
- Cobuild Home Page UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC
ACCESS WITHDRAWN
- Online dictionary, access to Bank of English demo and information, catalogs, ...
- Based on a corpus of modern English text on computer to
analyse language usage: word meaning, grammar, pragmatics, idioms, pronunciation
and so on. Misspelling.
- English-to-American Dictionary
- The Best of British
- The American's guide to speaking British.
- LookWAYup
- Dictionary, thesaurus, translation.
- OneLook
- Gateway: search for dictionary or translation web sites that include a word. Reverse dictionary: describe a concept and get related terms.
- Urban Dictionary
- Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions.
- French-English dictionaries
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- Dictionnaire
Bilingue Anglais-Français
- Bilingual French-English dictionary.
- WordReference.com
- English, French, Italian and German translations. Shows
neighbor words, pronunciation.
- travlangs
- This dictionary database is from the freeware multilingual program Ergane (contains over 10,000 terms).
- English-French
- French-English
- ARTFL
French-English and English-French Dictionary Form
- Accents:
- grave, è: e\\ (homoge\\ne )
- aigu, é: e\/ (cine\/ma)
- circonflexe, ê: e\^
- 75000 terms.
- ALLwords.com
- English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search
- Eurodicautum
- a multilingual terminology databank created by the services of the European Commission to assist translators, interpreters and other staff of the European institutions to handle the ever-expanding vocabulary of science, technology ....
- DictSearch
- Search in > 100 dictionaries on the Internet.
- (belongs to foreignword).
- Le grand dictionnaire terminologique
- Recense plus de 3 millions de termes français et anglais, dans 200 domaines d'activités. Traduction automatique français<=>anglais.
- Gerard van Wilgen multilingual translation dictionary.
- Word translations in several languages.
- PetaMem.
- Multilingual translation dictionary.
- Bab.La.
- A Wikipedia-style language portal: collaborative dictionary, language quizzes and language forum.
- Specialized dictionaries
- TechEncyclopedia
- More than 13,000 definitions of computer terms and concepts.
- Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology. Removed.
- Harcourt and Academic Press. Over 130,000 terms defined in 130 fields of science.
- FOLDOC
- Free Online Dictionary of Computing.
- Note pour la traduction des documents du W3C en langue française.
- Traduction de nombreux termes informatiques en anglais.
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- Acronym and Abbreviation Server.
- NetGlos
- Internet terminology (multilingual glossary).
- Webopedia
- Dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.
- APFA
- Les mots des affaires, de l'informatique et de l'Internet.
Learning
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- BBC Learning english
- Grammar, audio exercises, business english, ...
- One Stop English
- (subscription required for some resources)
Pronunciation
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- English Club : ESL Learning Centre
- Grammar, pronunciation, word stress, vocabulary, ... with auditory examples.
- ESL Pronunciation Work Page
- Word stress, emphasis, intonation, linking, ... Also provides a lot of links.
- American English Pronunciation Practice.
- Minimal Pair Practice & Quizzes.
- Sounds of english.
- sounds are explained and illustrated by examples. Also: exercises, handouts,...
- Ameircan pronunciation.
- Consonants, vowels, silent letters, homophones, ...
- Pronunciation Strategies
- from Univ. of Toronto.
Grammar
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- Tense chart
- This chart shows the positive, negative and interrogative (question) forms of all the principle tenses in English with a brief description of the principle usage.
- English Grammar The Easy Way
- This site has a comprehensive collection of brief grammar explanations for students.
Online translation
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- LOGOS
- Multilingual translations.
- Altavista
- translates Web documents,
- or: Altavista,
- translates texts.
- SYSTRAN.
- Online translation.
- PROMT-Reverso.
- Online translation. You can choose among several dictionaries.
- Handyserv
- Translation.
- Free Online Translation Services
- A collection of links.
Online catalogs for ordering english books
- Oxford ELT
- Oxford University Press: English Language Teaching
- Cambridge ELT
- Cambridge University Press: English Language Teaching
Other resources
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- FRONTIERS IN
BIOSCIENCE; DICTIONARIES
- an extensive list of dictionaries.
- babel.el
- An emacs mode for using Internet translation resources.
- YourDictionary.com
- Contains an Index of On-Line Dictionaries in a lot of
languages as well as a list of multilingual
dictionaries, or english grammars
Web pages.
- ELT
- English Language Teaching
- Yahoo
- http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/English/
- Netscape index
- Search - Dictionaries
- Galaxy
- Dictionaries (Reference)
- Sapristi!
- Les dictionnaires et encyclopédies.
- Acronyms
finder
- Over 150,100 acronyms/abbreviations.
- The
Star*s Family
- Multilingual database of abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, symbols.
- Liste de dictionaires à l'ENST
- Dictionaires en ligne de langues (pas seulement anglais), et dictionaires techniques.
- Voycabulary
- Process any Internet document with the tool of your choice (dicionary, thesaurus, translation,...).
- Word2Word.
- Language Dictionaries and Translators. See also Free Online Translation Services, a collection of links.
- DICNET
- Annuaire des dictionnaires
- Oxford English
Dictionary: Word of the Day
- Features a different word each day, including comprehensive etymology and usage.
- World Wide Words
- World Wide Words is devoted to the English language - its
history, quirks, curiosities and evolution.
- Oxford English
dictionary
- Subscription required.
Many thanks to Mary O'Connell for all the useful references and explanations.
email to letondal@pasteur.fr for any suggestions.