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Wordnik.com - All About Words

As any other linguist, I am fascinated by words. Something that has me thinking constantly is the actual number of words an English speaker employs habitually. Experts say that English speakers nowadays have a repertoire of words that amounts to 2,000 – 3,000 at best. Now, compare it with the numb...  read more

VerbaLearn.com - Learn Up New Vocabulary

A visit to this site is an interesting proposition for those who want to improve their language skills in a direct way. In essence, VerbaLearn is a web-based resource that empowers its users to broaden their vocabulary in a dynamic fashion.
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The site’s approach involves building up langua...  read more

UnforgettableLanguages.com - Learn a Foreign Language

Children have the ability to absorb knowledge and learn languages quickly and without much effort due to the fact that the brain is in a stage of language cognition development. As adults our brains move away from that stage in order to develop other functions, making it more difficult to acquire an...  read more

Forvo.com - All the World’s Words Pronounced

If you’ve ever spent time studying a phrase book to try and get a basic understanding of a country’s language before you travel there, you’ll know that often what you’ve learned is not helpful because you don’t know how to pronounce the words you’ve learned. Forvo is a site that allows ...  read more

English-zone.com - English Learners Site

To be able to confront the world you need to be a literate person. And that no longer only means to know how to read and write, but to have the chance of understanding the world and make wise choices. But because in order to do that you have to learn the basic stuff first, on the English Zone web pa...  read more

HowJSay.com - An English Pronouncing Dictionary

The English language is notorious for being difficult to pronounce—not so much in the way of guttural sounds or rolling R’s or even unspeakable consonances but rather in the divide between spelling and actual pronunciation. HowJSay, however has come to help sort out English sounds. HowJSay, yo...  read more

www.Spanishdict.com - Spanish Language Resources

It seems that each time you find a good dictionary on the web, especially if you are somewhat related to working with words and language, is like winning the lottery. Today might be your lottery-wining day. Spanishdict.com is a simple, dummy-proof dictionary and language resources site, but it is us...  read more

Chuala.com - Language Pronunciation Community

When learning a language, one of the most difficult obstacles to overcome is pronunciation. Sure you can say the words, but can you do it without having all of backwater Tennessee gushing out of your vowels and diphthongs? All isn't lost though. New comer Chuala has dev eloped a user-generated ...  read more