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yourDictionary.com This is the most comprehensive language site on the Web. It has numerous English dictionaries and thesauruses and over 280 dictionaries of foreign languages. There are specialty dictionaries like medical and legal, multilingual, crossword, reverse and rhyming dictionaries. There are glossaries, antonyms and synonyms, information about courses and about linguistic research. And more.. One Look Dictionaries Freelang.net
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About.com Free online lessons in French, German, Italian and Spanish may be found here. Type the language's name in the search box. No audio content. Annenberg Media Learner.org
Learn English, French, German and Spanish with these free, high-quality video courses. BBC World Service From the US Department of Sate's Foreign Service Institute, free language instruction, both written and audio in more than 25 languages.
This has free, online courses for nine languages, plus free ESL courses for speakers of Spanish, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese. It also has a language translator for short texts. Some audio. Additional materials are for sale.
Enjoyable podcast lessons mainly for beginners in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Irish, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Polish and Russian with more languages and levels coming soon.
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Chester County Night School
Read about foreign language lessons for adults in the area. International Phonetic Association Wikipedia - International Phonetic Alphabet Peter Ladeforged A Course in Phonetics Omniglot
A collection of phrases in many differenet languages with sound files for some of them.
Yahoo Babel Fish The site translates up to 150 words at a time. Enter a Web page address for translation of the page. Applied Language Solutions
Find free text, email and Web page machine translators. SDL Free Professional Translation
This site translates up to 1000 characters. It's easy to enter special characters. It translates Web pages. Google Translate
Translates short text you provide or an entire web page when you type the URL. It translates from many languages to many languages. ipl Languages
Find over 500 high quality sites on all aspects of language. Open Directory Project
Search languages or a particular language to see articles and lessons by volunteer contributors. Ex. Czech language, Greek language lessons Yahoo Search Directory Ethnologue.com Eurolang, Minority Languages of Europe Portals of the World MLA Modern Language Association Language Map
Click a location on the interactive US map to see which languages are spoken there and by how many people. Also, search by state, county, city, town or zip code to learn which languages and how many speakers of each are found there. The site is limited to the 30 most common languages. ipl2 Newspapers & Magazines
Find international newspapers arranged by region then by country or state (US). TravLang Travel & Language Center
See online news, magazines, journals and other electronic print formats worldwide. Information is arranged by language then by country.
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Find radio station Web pages by city, zip, state, call letters or Internet streaming radio. Also find World radio lists arranged by country, station format or frequency. Search Engine Colossus Live Television from Around the World American Sign Language Browser
See video clips of thousands of ASL signs. Center on Hearing & Deafness, Inc. - West Chester The Alpha Dictionary Site Voycabulary.com
Type a URL in the text box, select the dictionary or thesaurus you wish to use, click process. Once the page has loaded, click a word to see its definition (if you have chosen a dictionary) or its synonyms and antonyms (if you have chosen a thesaurus). This is very useful for medical and legal Web pages. One Across OneLook Dictionary Search WriteExpress Look up end rhymes, double rhymes, last syllable rhymes, beginning rhymes and first syllable rhymes. Rhymezone
Find rhymes of numerous syllables, related words, similar sounding words and related words. Thesaurus.com
This is Roget's online thesaurus. Find synonyms (similar words) and antonyms (opposites) for words. OIC Literacy Program - Exton Chester County OIC
Offering four levels of instruction with both day and evening classes, CC-OIC instructs non-native English speakers from the very beginner to the advanced student who is thinking about entering post-secondary education. Volunteer English Program in Chester County - many locations
Volunteer tutors teach the English language and American culture to adult immigrants. Sessions are twice a week for 1 ½ hours/session for a year. ( Chester County Intermediate Unit) Adult Education Programs
This links to a list of organizations that teach English as a second language, how to read English, help prepare for the GED (high school diploma), and acquire the skills of Adult Basic Education. Chester County Department of Health and Human Services: English as a Second Language Dave's ESL Café
Students will find links to tutors who will answer questions, idioms, verb phrases, pronunciation, slang and more. Teachers will find links to ideas, jobs, advanced degrees, certification and more. ESL Pod
Subscribe to free, daily English as a Second Language podcasts. Additional materials are available for sale. Voice of America
VOA is an international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the US government. Listen online to informational, educational and cultural programs in English and 43 other languages. Voice of America Special English
The Special English used by Voice of America consists of 1500 words. Stories are made up of simple sentences using no idioms or passive verbs. They are read at a slow pace. Text for each story is on the Internet. BBC World Service Learning English
Learn grammar and vocabulary. Listen to radio programs and download supporting material. Watch videos, do interactive exercises and get tips about pronunciation. Use the links to other sites about learning English. Online Etymology Dictionary AskOxford.com
Read about English as it is spoken in Great Britain , the US , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Africa , India and the West Indies . Read which foreign words have been adopted by English. Answers.com English Language
This site includes statistics, geographic distribution of the English, list of countries where English is the official language and variants of English (Airspeak, Policespeak, European English, Simplified English used by the Voice of America). The Standard Language of a country is the official or "most correct" language that is found in dictionaries, taught in schools, used in courts and in literature. Varieties are forms that are different than the standard in a systematic and coherent way. Ex. Slang, Jargon, Cockney, African-American Vernacular English, etc.
A variety of English used by a group living in the same region is a dialect. People speaking the same dialect are using the same pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar as one another. Ex. Caribbean English, Canadian English, Australian English, etc.
Accents develop in particular geographic areas, within socio-economic or ethnic groups or by those speaking the language as their second language. Hearing people from around the world reading the same passage conveys their accents.
Answers.com American English
Read about American English Phonology, Differences between British English and American English, English Words that Arose in the US , Words that are Obsolete Outside the US and Regional Differences in the US . Do You Speak American? Topics on this site include American Varieties, Standard American, Official American, Correct American, Language as Prestige, Language Prejudice, Mass Media and Technology Spotlight. Listen to the audio quiz and see if you can identify where the speaker comes from.
Answers.com Regional Dialects of English Speakers
Read about British English, Indian English, South African English and other English dialects worldwide. Answers.com Regional Accents of English Speakers
Some examples of regional accents are the New Zealand accent, the Jamaican accent, the Hiberno-English ( Ireland ) accent. Hear over 680 accents and dialects from Great Britain .
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Grammar Slammer
This is a help file for English grammar with a table of contents. Libraryspot.com
There are lots of links to grammar sites here. Owl Online Writing Lab
This site from Purdue University has handouts, exercises and Power Point presentations on grammar and writing. The Word Spy
Learn new terms that have appeared multiple times in books, the media and the Internet. antimoon.com Learn English effectively Peter Ladeforged A Course in Phonetics
Hear the sound for each phonetic symbol. Urban Dictionary
Browse or look up slang, chat or blog about it. ETS TOEFL Learning Express Library - Test of English as a Foreign Language Home Access requires a valid library barcode.
Register with the site (free) and then practice for the TOEFL.
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