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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
This site has definitions and translations. If you misspell the word you're
looking up, a list of possible correct spellings appears.
Oxford Reference Online
Home Access requires a valid library barcode. On the POWER Library page look under the Literature Heading. Click Oxford Reference Online.
Consult bi-lingual dictionaries in French, German, Italian, Latin and Spanish. Read about language, linguistics, semantics, etc. in many of the dictionaries.
Freelang.net
Download free fonts for foreign languages from this site.
Textcat Language Guesser Demo
Type some text. The site replies with the name of the language the text is written in. Seventy-seven languages are available.
Xerox Research Centre Europe Language Identifier
Type a sentence of five or more words. The site suggests which language the text is written in. Forty-seven languages are available.
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.
Learn English, French, German and Spanish with these free, high-quality video courses.
BBC World Service
Some free lessons in Chinese, French, Gaelic, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish are on this site. Click World Service to link to BBC broadcasts in 43 languages.
Read about foreign language lessons for adults in the area.
International Phonetic Association
See the International Phonetic Alphabet, the symbols that represent all the sounds of the world's languages.
Wikipedia - International Phonetic Alphabet
Learn about the symbols that represent the sounds of speech.
Peter Ladeforged A Course in Phonetics
Hear the sound for each phonetic symbol.
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.
Find free text, email and Web page machine translators.
This site translates up to 1000 characters. It's easy to enter special characters. It translates Web pages.
Translates short text you provide or an entire web page when you type the URL. It translates from many languages to many languages.
Find over 500 high quality sites on all aspects of language.
Search languages or a particular language to see articles and lessons by volunteer contributors. Ex. Czech language, Greek language lessons
Yahoo Search Directory
Search languages in the directory to see recommended Web sites.
Ethnologue.com
Read about each country's languages, both living and extinct, how many people speak each language there and each country's official language(s). View world sign languages for the deaf. See Web links.
Eurolang, Minority Languages of Europe
Learn about the minor languages of Europe , such as, Gaelic, Breton, Catalan and Welsh. How many people speak each language? What is the language's legal status? Is it used in public services, schools
and the media? Read news concerning language controversies.
Portals of the World
Librarians from the Library of Congress have selected these Web sites for their in-depth, authoritative information about the nations and regions of the world including their languages.
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.
Find international newspapers arranged by region then by country or state (US).
See online news, magazines, journals and other electronic print formats worldwide. Information is arranged by language then by country.
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
Here are links to search engines used in other countries.
Live Television from Around the World
Find online TV in 13 major languages
See video clips of thousands of ASL signs.
Center on Hearing & Deafness, Inc. - West Chester
This group offers sign language classes. To reach them by phone call 610-918-6250 and by fax 610-918-6249.
The Alpha Dictionary Site
Search over 900 online dictionaries at once. Find the most often mispronounced or misspelled words, games and featured words.
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
Type a clue and a word pattern to see a list of possible words.
OneLook Dictionary Search
Describe a concept; get back a list of possible words.
WriteExpress
Look up end rhymes, double rhymes, last syllable rhymes, beginning rhymes and first syllable rhymes.
Find rhymes of numerous syllables, related words, similar sounding words and related words.
This is Roget's online thesaurus. Find synonyms (similar words) and antonyms (opposites) for words.
OIC Literacy Program - Exton
E-mail: oic.at.ccl@verizon.net
Learn English pronunciation, spelling, office skills, TOEFL preparation and more using computer programs. The Chester County OIC Program sponsors this computer-assisted instruction at the Chester County Library. (610) 280-2618
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 tutors teach the English language and American culture to adult immigrants. Sessions are twice a week for 1 ½ hours/session for a year.
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
Here is a list of organizations in the county offering instruction in English.
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.
Subscribe to free, daily English as a Second Language podcasts. Additional materials are available for sale.
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.
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.
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
What is the earliest written record of an English word? What are its origins?
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.
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.
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 .
Read about British English, Indian English, South African English and other English dialects worldwide.
Some examples of regional accents are the New Zealand accent, the Jamaican accent, the Hiberno-English ( Ireland ) accent.
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
This is a help file for English grammar with a table of contents.
There are lots of links to grammar sites here.
This site from Purdue University has handouts, exercises and Power Point presentations
on grammar and writing.
Learn new terms that have appeared multiple times in books, the media and the Internet.
antimoon.com Learn English effectively
Click a phonetic character and hear its sound as an American or as a British person would
pronounce it.
Hear the sound for each phonetic symbol.
Browse or look up slang, chat or blog about it.
ETS TOEFL
Learn about the test. Prepare for the test by practicing questions from the site. Find a test center. Register for the test. Learn about getting your score.
Last Modified: 1/21/10