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Several tools for writing (in English). Story idea generator, conflict generator, word count meter, readability analyzer, half title generator, cliche buster.

Enter English text or a website to get simplified English. Original words are available as pop-ups.

Counts word frequency in a text. Limitations: Designed to work with English only.

100-million-word Spanish corpus of text from 1200-1900s

Videos with English subtitles. Click on unknown words, see their translation, add them to your library for further study and practice with people from all over the world.

HTML5 collaborative word processor and whiteboard. Students do not need to make an account to collaborate.

How to add vowels when typing in Hebrew. "To type Niqud in the Hebrew versions of Windows and Word, place the cursor after the letter you wish to add Niqud to, enter Caps Lock mode, and press shift in conjunction with one of the following..."

Enter a text (up to 500 words) in the box. Textivate automatically generates activities related to the text, such as scrambled paragraphs and typing the missing letters.

Corpus tools and word cloud. Enter a text or URLs.

Web app (and browser extension for Chrome) that lets you double-click any word to get a translation. It adds the words you click to a vocabulary list and quizzes you on them when you're ready. A wide variety of language available.

This website contains a corpus of the modern Russian language incorporating over 300 million words. The corpus of Russian is a reference system based on a collection of Russian texts in electronic form. The Corpus is intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and various associated fields: professional linguists, language teachers, school and university students, foreigners learning the language.

For language grump Harry, Germany is like Sauerkraut: you can only love it if you grew up with it. But when he suddenly finds himself in a time warp while on vacation in the Black Forest, he's forced to learn German. "Harry - gefangen in der Zeit" is a bilingual, multimedia course composed of 100 episodes. You'll find 400 interactive exercises online, a vocabulary trainer with more than 3,500 words, as well as geographical information and ideas for lessons for all of the episodes.

Create multimedia flashcards. Enter words or an entire text. You can also access pre-made flashcards. iOS and Android apps also available for using flashcards only.

An Egyptian Arabic dictionary A Levantine Arabic dictionary, including words from the Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian dialects A Classical Arabic or Fusha Dictionary Search feathers: Arabic-English by root Arabic-English by word English-Arabic This site is an effort to show Arabic as a living language by allowing users to search in both a Classical Arabic dictionary and a dialect dictionary at the same time.

Italian language word scramble and other exercises to help you learn Italian.

Share words and definitions you've learned, and read those that others have shared.

Enter a Chinese word and it will be converted to Japanese katakana. Useful for Japanese teachers who need to provide katakana for students' names.

Classroom Salon is a document and video annotation system. All your course documents and videos can be annotated by students using salon's annotation tools. They can comment on specific words, sentences and paragraphs and also comment on video frames. Salon aggregates all these annotations to provide amazing insights into student thinking.

Create HTML5 content on a WordPress site, Moodle, or Drupal. The types of content are Course Presentation Interactive Video Memory Game Accordion appear.in Arithmetic Quiz Chart Collage Column Course Presentation Dialog Cards Documentation Tool Drag and Drop Drag the Words Fill in the Blanks Find the Hotspot Guess the Answer Iframe Embedder Image Hotspots Impressive Presentation (ALPHA) Interactive Video Mark the Words Memory Game Multiple Choice Personality Quiz Questionnaire Quiz (Question Set) Single Choice Set Summary Timeline True/False Question Twitter User Feed

H5P empowers everyone to create, share and reuse interactive content - all you need is a web browser and a web site that supports H5P.

A great resource!

Create and play games based on lists of words. Flashcards, memory, matching, spelling, etc.