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Learn Greek Online provides free online courses in both Modern and Ancient Greek, from beginner to advanced levels. User registration is required to access the materials (in a Moodle learning environment), which consist of audio files and complementary lecture notes which illustrate and practice particular grammatical structures and develop vocabulary. An online Greek-English and English-Greek dictionary, and a Greek spell checker are also available here. Updates to the site are listed, and feedback is invited. The site also features a user discussion forum, where difficulties with the Greek language, as well as using the website, are discussed. All in all, this site should provide learners of Greek with useful practice material.

A self study tool for students that allows to listen and study each individual sentence within a videos: students can take and save notes about the vocabulary within the script and listen and record themselves saying sentences from the script then compare to the original.

In the eighteenth century, a linguistic big bang spun off a new etymological universe: the language of sensibility. "Sensibility" and its related terms either appeared for the first time, took on meanings unique to the period, or gained enriched connotations. The denotations of these new linguistic planets have proved as elusive as the rings of Saturn, however. This hypertext offers a new approach to understanding the language of sensibility, one that accounts for the multiple possibilities of meaning. Rather than attempting hard-line definitions, this project offers the tools for recognizing the multivalent connotations of such sensibilious words as "virtue," "sense," and "benevolence." Our hypertext groups excerpts from major words of sensibility according to 24 primary words; we imagine the sensibilious reader exploring these passages to glean a new understanding of the vocabulary and the literature of the period.

ESLvideo.com provides educational resources for English as a Second Language Students to improve their listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills. The quiz activities and lessons are created by teachers, and are free to use in class, lab, or at home. Teachers are welcome to build a library of favorites, assign quizzes, view student scores, and create new quizzes. For more information about how to use this website, please click below:

Efficient game-based study of literacy skills using any word list

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

VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up in a dictionary or other word-reference-site of your choice, by simply clicking on the words. Anytime you find yourself reading a webpage with words you wish to look-up, try running the page through VoyCabulary and just click on the words