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Visual Dictionary, to learn by way of image with thematic, clear and precise pages, with concise and rigorous texts, multilingual, the InfoVisual will become an academic resource. Different from an encyclopedia or from a traditional online dictionaries, thesauri and glossaries because the images replace the words.

JRC-Acquis Multilingual Parallel Corpus is a collection of European Union legal texts, in 22 of the member state's languages, that has been aligned and coded in XML, providing an invaluable tool for linguistic research and a resource for computational linguistic applications. The corpus consists of a selection of texts from the Acquis Communautaire (AC), the total body of European Union (EU) law, applicable in the the EU member states and contains some 636 million word tokens. The languages included are, Bulgarian; Czech; Swedish; German; Greek; English; Spanish; Estonian; Finnish; French; Hungarian; Italian; Lithuanian; Latvian; Maltese; Dutch; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Slovak; Slovene; and Danish.

The Survey of English Usage is one of the first corpora of the English language, started in 1959 by Prof. Randolph Quirk. It contains a million-word corpus of written and spoken English collected between 1955 and 1985, originally available on paper, now computerised

"The British National Corpus 2014 is a large collection of samples of contemporary British English language use, gathered from a range of real-life contexts. The BNC2014, which contains millions of words of spoken and written English, is being gathered by Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press, and is a new resource for research and teaching on contemporary British English. It is the successor to the original British National Corpus, which was gathered in the early 1990s. By comparing the two corpora, researchers will be able to shed light on how British English may have changed over the last two decades."

This Web site, from the Trésor de la langue française au Québec, provides a freely accessible, online database of the linguistic differences throughout the francophone world. Countries and regions featured here include Belgium; Burundi; Louisiana; Morocco; Quebec; and Switzerland. Users may conduct simple or complex searches for particular words, or browse through the region-specific 'dictionaries'.

The oldest slang dictionary on the web, more than 23,000 real definitions for over 16,000 slang words and phrases from TV shows, movies, news publications, and other sources

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

Dickens Journals Online is a free, open-access resource. The project is based at the University of Buckingham.

Guida all'uso del linguaggio medico scaricabile gratuitamente in varie lingue

Autorevole, pluripremiato e ricchissimo network di siti web dedicato all'esplorazione della letteratura del XX secolo e in particolare agli esponenti più importanti del Modernismo, del Surrealismo, del "Realismo magico" e del Postmodernismo.