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You can enter any text that you would like in the form at the left -- for example, a paper that you've written, or a newspaper article that you've copied from another website. After inputting the text, you can then see useful information about words and phrases in that text, based on data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). First, it will highlight all of the medium and lower-frequency words in your text and create lists of these words that you can use offline. This frequency data can help language learners focus on new words, and it can allow you to see "what the text is about" (i.e. text-specific words). You can also have it show you the "academic" words in your text. Second, you can click through the words in the text to see a detailed "word sketch" of any of the words -- showing their definition, and detailed information for the word from COCA -- collocates (which provide meaning into the meaning and usage of the word), re-sortable concordance lines, and the frequency of the word (overall, and by genre). Finally, you can do powerful searches on selected phrases in your text, to show related phrases in COCA. In this way, this resource is like a "collocational thesaurus" to see what related phrases are most likely in different styles of English. For example, if you click on the words potent argument in the text that you enter, it will suggest alternate ways to express this (e.g. powerful or convincing argument), and it will show you the frequency of those phrases in COCA -- overall, and by genre. This will help you use "just the right phrase", based on a huge collection of native English texts.

Create phrase lists in multiple languages, including links back to where you found the phrases on the web. For ideas for using this in the classroom: http://nikpeachey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/creating-social-phrasebooks-with.html

Tool for searching for words or short phrases in a corpus. Provides the frequency of that word/phrase versus similar ones. Also provides alternatives based on learner errors. Limitations: English only

Allows you to click on words and phrases in text and get a translation. Upload the text, or the extension allows you to use text from any website. Limitations: Free version only allows you to translate 10 phrases per day. The number of single word translations is unlimited.

Visual English dictionary and thesaurus. Shows relationships between the word you search for and other words/phrases using a diagram. Hover the mouse over a word to see its definition.

Language lessons, grammar tips, vocabulary, phrases, language tools, and audio files to listen to or download. A wide range of languages are represented.

Basic vocabulary and phrases in Nepali.

This site allows you to see detailed information on the top 60,000 words (lemmas) of English, based on data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). You can see the overall frequency for each word, as well as the frequency of words in different kinds of English -- spoken, fiction, magazines, newspapers, and academic writing. For each word you can also find the 20-30 most frequent collocates (nearby words) and see 200 or more concordance lines (words in context). You can also see a list of synonyms and (from WordNet) words with more specific and more general meanings, and in all of these cases you can click to see the entries for those related words as well.

ASL (American Sign Language) free self-study lessons including an ASL dictionary, signing videos, a printable sign language alphabet chart (fingerspelling), Deaf Culture study materials, and resources to help you learn sign language. Good for homeschool students, parents (baby signing), interpreters, and people who just want to learn fun ASL phrases like hello, thank you, I love you, etc.

Add speech bubbles to your own or stock photos.

Learn essential vocabulary, phrases, and grammar concepts through various games.Contains lessons based on real life situations including flight and hotel reservations, dining out, shopping, exploring and meeting new friends.

A comprehensive, online GermanEnglish dictionary including translations, inflexion tables to help with pronunciation, and audio recordings of words and common phrases. The Forum and Trainer options provide the chance to network plus ask/answer questions.

A list and recording of key words and phrases in Danish

This resource includes videos with transcripts in both Greek and English that cover a variety of basic tourist-centric phrases and situations. Examples include: shopping, the airport, eating out, asking for directions, and basic greetings. In addition to language material, there is pertinent cultural information included at the top of each sub-page.

The Hebrew phrases and expressions

Learn Hebrew fast and easily. Free online courses. Basic words and useful phrases you will need for your trip.

This resource includes videos with transcripts in both Italian and English that cover a variety of basic phrases and situations. Examples include: shopping, the airport, eating out, asking for directions, basic greetings, doing laundry, and transportation. In addition to language material, there is pertinent cultural information included at the top of each sub-page.

Expressio is a dictionary that offers the significance, history, origin, and etymology of French phrases and tells you how commonly used they are as well as their connotation.

Mp3 Park is free youtube to mp3 converter, There you may download mp3 from youtube to Mp3, Mp4, f4v, WebM etc. Our youtube converter shows you mp3 download list based on your search phrase.