Zen And More » Languages

GoEnglish.com Pocket English Idioms

bengt — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:26:54 +0000

GoEnglish.com Pocket English Idioms is a nice site and the site has an Idioms index. I like the way the site looks, take a look at Birds of a feather flock together or You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover.

BBC Languages offers many online courses

bengt — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:30:21 +0000

The BBC website has a really interesting section titled BBC Languages. You find courses in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese as well as some other languages.

There is an online course titled Mi Vida Loca which is Spanish for beginners, I think I will try that one.

Take a spelling test

bengt — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:05:25 +0000

Daily Writing Tips has created Spelling Test 1. I tried it and got 95%, I am pleased with that since English is my second language.

Definr fast dictionary

bengt — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:58:46 +0000

In a post at dailybits.com I found Definr, ‘definr – incredibly fast dictionary’. Definr is a neat and fast way to find out what words mean.

There is also a search extension to Firefox, that makes it even easier to use Definr.

Using Google as dictionary

bengt — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:32:19 +0000

I often use Google as an English-English dictionary, there is an easy way to search dictionaries. Simply type

define: thewordyoulookfor

then click and you get a list of text from dictionaries.

The Phrase Finder

bengt — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:34:57 +0000

While searching for some phrases I found The Phrase Finder. There presentation says:

Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over how a saying or phrase originated or whether you just enjoy words, you’ll probably find something here to interest you.

There are also Well-known misquotations and Popular Fallacies.

Acronyms and abbreviations

bengt — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:07:41 +0000

Have you ever wondered what the … an acronym or abbreviation stands for? Go to Acronym Finder which contains more than 3 million acronyms and abbreviations.

Sniglets

bengt — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:05:47 +0000

Sniglets are defined as words that don’t appear in the dictionary, but should. I have a book with Sniglets and I found a website with Sniglets. Have fun

Idioms and phrases

bengt — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:04:49 +0000

Idioms and phrases is a great place. It is compiled from the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms. The Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms explains over 7,000 idioms current in British, American and Australian English.

The Idioms-dictionary is part of TheFreeDictionary.com.

Spelling differences between British and American English

bengt — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:53:45 +0000

Spelling differences between American and British English is a really useful page for those who need/want to get the spelling correct.