Language

 

        
  • European Center for Modern Languages - has 33 Member States
  • Friends Abroad - We want to help people from all countries to connect with each other; to send messages, to chat, to understand each other's lives and cultures and of course, to practice their language skills!
  • The Museum of Human Language - A place to learn about the greatest asset of the human species, LANGUAGE. Now a virtual museum, which hopefully will grow into a physical museum in New York City. You are viewing the foundation, a site under construction, with only text and links so far. Audio and visual features will be installed before completion.
Courses
  • Learn English - Learn English guide, all about how to learn english and how to speak english.
  • American English Institute - all courses are University Accredited with a wealth of online games, idioms, Business English, audio dictionaries, glossaries, Vocabulary, culture magazines and more. FREE Online materials in these areas: Grammar, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Reading, Sentence Structure, Vocabulary, Idioms, Business Idioms, Slang, and more!
  • Barnes and Noble - information on books, music, magazines and a variety of free online courses.
  • BBC World Service - English Learning Home Page
  • Business English - different types of exercises to practise your Business English.
  • Cambridge Center for English Studies - Active English Summer Course:This course is a combination of study and fun - a great way to spend your summer holiday. In the lessons we build your confidence to use English in real-life situations. The focus will be on communication skills: speaking, listening and activities such as language games and role-plays. Your grammar and general level of English will also greatly improve although you won't have a headache after the lessons!
  • English exercises on line
  • English Gateway - online vocabulary lessons (with audio) for intermediate and advanced ESL learners. Exercises on idioms, phrasal verbs and collocations. Student/teacher blog and worksheets.
  • English maze - a British-Australian web-based learning system for ESL students, teachers and schools worldwide. It combines leading language learning theories with cutting edge technology to bring users a unique approach to learning English. With the English Maze, students can improve their pronunciation, speaking, reading, listening and writing skills. The site contains hundreds of hours of material, much of which is free. Comprehensive free lesson plans are also provided for ESL teachers.
  • Englishpage - English as a Foreign Language : free online english lessons, the premier Internet resource for intermediate and advanced learners of English as a foreign language.
  • Englishtown - the perfect solution for busy people to learn English.
  • English to go - a very interesting site for teachers but also for students. Every week  you get an 'instant lesson'.
  • Languages Website of the EU - this website is all about language learning. It provides you with useful information about the languages spoken in the European Union and gives some advice about learning languages in the EU. It also provides details about the European Union's actions and sources of funding to promote language learning, particularly those managed by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture. Useful documents to view or download are also available here.
  • Learn English - vocabulary, grammar, sociocultural background, exercises and tests. From a teacher in Belgium. Beginners level.
  • Learn Languages Abroad  - Abroad Languages gathers the top in-country language schools in the industry to offer you excellent foreign language courses
  • Netl@ngues - some english lessons (5 levels).
  • Parlo - a destination for language learning and cultural exchange.
  • Project X - the site contains a lot of interactive exercises for English which were made with the free software of Hot Potatoes and offers a free tutorial (Koen Van Cauwenberge and Jan De Smedt)
  • Teacher Muriel EFL website - offers Hot Potatoes and other exercises, flashcards, links, seasonal activities for lower to upper intermediate students (focus on adult learners).
  • Word Central - one of the "web Oscars" of this year. Beautiful site where children learn to play with the English language.
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Dictionaries
  • American Business English - an alphabetical listing of American Business English. (selected material online)
  • Babylon - Your personal translator - a cool translator (from English to: Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Hebrew, and English) on your desktop whenever you need it, on any browser, any word processor, any application on your computer.
  • Cambridge Dictionaries Online - you can choose from :
    - Cambridge International Dictionary of English
    - Cambridge Dictionary of American English
    - Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs
    - Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms
  • Chemnitz  - supported search methods : Translation English - German or vice versa; English Dictionary: explanations, synonyms; English proverbs, aphorisms, quotations; German proverbs, aphorisms, quotations.
  • Dictionary.com - meaning and spelling of words, computer and Internet terms, chemical elements, Bible terms and terminology, U.S. cities and Zip Codes, information on the countries of the world.
  • Eurodicauton - Eurodicautom is the European Commissions multilingual term bank
  • Foreignworld.com - The Language Site: dictionaries and free translation tools.
    Over 200 online dictionaries, over 20 machine translation systems and over 1000 glossary links.
  • Free Translation  
  • Gheos Lexicon  - offers a simple way to translate words into several different languages. The database consists of more than 100,000 words
  • Merriam-Webster OnLine - the richesness of the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary with an interesting guide of English and American pronunciatin. The WWW Webster Dictionary  and the WWW Webster Thesaurus completes this genuine institution.
  • One look - a list of dictionaries. Special subject dictionaries (e.g. dealing with international law) and general dictionaries. First decide on the subject, then choose your dictionary and then type  the word you want to look up.
  • Roget's Thesaurus - alphabetical Index, Categorial Index, Word of the Day, Fun and Games.
  • Translation Service  - English - Deutsch.
  • Wordsmyth - meshes the functions of a dictionary and a thesaurus with powerful and flexible search capabilities. At the foundry you have access to the Glossary Maker, a handy way to create your own mini-dictionary.
  • Whatis.com - The leading IT encyclopedia and learning center. Definitions for thousands of the most current IT-related words
  • WordReference.com Online  - German, Spanish, French and Italian Dictionaries.
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Encyclopædia
  • Britannica - the world's best Web sites, plus magazines, books,  and the complete Encyclopædia Britannica.
  • Columbia Encyclopedia - contains nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references. The current Sixth Edition is among the most complete and up-to-date encyclopediæ ever produced.
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Grammar
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Listening
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Reading
  • True Stories - tip for improving your reading! This one: Corrie Ten Boom ‘The Secret Room’. True Holocaust war story from Nazi occupation of Holland.
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Teachers' corner
  • ALO - academische lerarenopleiding (KULeuven).
  • Breaking News English  - All of these current events and business English lesson plans contain a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF. There is a new lesson each day at two different levels.
  • English Language Teaching - an Oxford University Press website
  • English-Zonefun site for english students and teachers.
  • European Schoolnet  - an international partnership of more than 20 European Ministries of Education developing learning for schools, teachers and pupils across Europe. Teachers find resources,news, practice examples and opportunities at eSchoolnet, our educational portal for schools in Europe.
  • LearningPlanet - fun, educational activities and games! A free education portal where teachers, parents, and students find invaluable resources, research, and grade-specific activities in one convenient place.
  • Oxford Teachers' Club - One of the best places to find English language resources and up-to-date information regarding teaching.
  • Parlo - a destination for language learning and cultural exchange.
  • Teachnet - teachers network for lesson plans, networking opportunities, professional development and more.
  • The amazing picture machine - a searchable database of images.
  • The New York Times Learning Network - connections for teachers, students and parents.
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Tests
  • Dialang - Welcome to DIALANG, where you can learn about your strengths and weaknesses in a foreign language, and find out what level you are at. 
    You can test yourself in reading, writing, listening, grammar and vocabulary. 
  • GCSE BITESIZE - the first ever revision guide via TV, books and the Internet. Use our Revision Bites to brush up your skills, then check what you know in the Test Bites. Choose a subject.
  • Mister Mertens Online - very useful for everyone involved with EFL studying and teaching. Vocabulary, grammar, sociocultural background, exercises and tests. From a dutch teacher. Intermediate level.
  • Test your English - a test designed by Netl@ngues.
  • Tests Civilisation anglo-saxonne - History, Geography, Social Life, Economy, Literature, Arts & Cinema and Sciences & Technology. 7 thèmes comportant chacun 10 questions. 
  • Tests d'anglais - évaluez votre compréhension orale et écrite en anglais.
  • TOEFL on line - the official site of testing English as a foreign language.
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Vocabulary
  • Babelnet - Theme Park : educational activities and games for learning english.
  • English Club - if you want to expand your (business) vocabulary, you can find  the most useful words in different areas of business (for example banking, import-export, presentations etc) on these pages.
  • English Exercises - Business English, English for Law, General English, Medical English, Language Games, Geography, Telecommunication and Electronics and Mathematics on the site of the University of Picardie.
  • English for Travelers - basic words, numbers, shopping, dining, travel, directions, places, time and dates. 
  • Test your vocabulary - 100 tests : Nederlands - Engels.
  • Test your vocabulary - 100 tests : Français - Anglais.
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Writing
  • Lengua Translations - Professional translation to and from all languages
  • ALS Translation Service new- Some free services (website translation, sentences) . Translation of articles and Professional translating services.