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Linguist Rick Aschmann spent years creating this painstakingly detailed map of regional American and Canadian dialects. Aschmann has been steadily adding to it as people from all over the U.S. send him audio samples of themselves speaking. In addition to the videos people send him, Aschmann says he made the map from information he found on several language websites, from the Atlas of North American English, and also by watching a lot of online videos of people who he says retain their local dialect well, like politicians, gospel singers and NASCAR drivers.

Entrepreneurial linguists Judy and Dagmar Jenner blog about their multinational languages business and share useful tips and insight into the translation and interpreting business

Internet for English is a free online tutorial to help university students develop their Internet research skills.

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Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK

Infografiche con sintesi di spiegazione dell'uso dei tempi verbali inglesi

This useful online guide to Renaissance pronunciation is provided by John M. Vinopal as part of his Renaissance Faire homepage. Categories include: Pronunciation; Pronunciation Drills; Vocabulary; Grammar; Forms of Address; Insults and Cursing; and Songs of the Times. The brief pronunciation tutorial and pronunciation guide both feature sound files in a selection of formats and, although the songs page is text only, it does contain a reasonable selection for an introduction to the Renaissance balla

Here you will find the first version of the English Russian Glossary of terms and expressions pertaining to the Games organization and staging. This document has been prepared by the Organizing Committee 'Sochi 2014' Language Services Department. It includes entries chosen in the course of documents translation for the Organizing Committee in 2010 - 2012. The Glossary is organized alphabetically and thematically. Some sections (e.g., construction, medicine, ecology, technology, finance and legal) will be useful to a wide range of specialists, working in various industries. Other sections (such as Games Management, Olympic Movement, International Sport Federations and Games Venues) are more specific and will be used mostly by the Games translators and interpreters.

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"An intelligent personal memory trainer, Wordiser saves your learning, tracks your progress and prompts you when it is time to study, personally reviewing and testing your English every time you use it"

The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online is an online version of the CD-ROM of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Updated Edition

Il blog di Licia Corbolante centrato sugli aspetti terminologici e di localizzazione della traduzione