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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.

OJAD is an online Japanese accent database for learners and teachers of Japanese.  The goal of this tool is to enhance the awareness and understanding of the Japanese pitch accent with a suite of four features.   The words in the dictionary encompass over 9000 nouns and 3500 declinable words including verbs, i-adjectives, and na-adjectives, making it possible to search approximately 42,300 conjugations of words.  What's more, each conjugated form given in the dictionary is accompanied by both male and female audio.  This suite provides three other useful tools in addition to word search.  With Verb-Suffix Search, you can look up the accent type for a verb followed by a suffix.  With Text-Search, you can look up the accent types for words in an excerpt of text.  Lastly, with Suzuki-kun, you can predict and display the pitch contour for an excerpt of text.  We hope that you will be able to make use of these tools in your future language lessons or language studies.

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.

Play Shiritori against the computer. In this game, you have to type a word that begins with the character that the previous word ended with. If you type a word that ends with "ん", the game ends--because no words begin with ん.

Play Shiritori against the computer. In this game, you have to type a word that begins with the character that the previous word ended with. If you type a word that ends with "ん", the game ends--because no words begin with ん.

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

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.

Spelling & Vocabulary Website This works for English only. The user enters a list of words. The computer speaks and spells the words. It also uses the words in sentences. Various games and quizzes are available.

A text editor is a simple & plain online word editor software. It supports to edit your word files in Mac, Windows, and Android platforms for free

Word cloud generator. Creates visually appealing Word clouds with features like rollover text and in HTML 5. Limitations: As of 3/4/2013, the service was working extremely slowly.

Marketed at "Word Clouds for Kids," but is similar to any Word cloud. Limitations: No options for embedding.

Generate word clouds that also allow you to see KWICs (key word in context). Limitations: No embed option.

Word games in English, including "Grammar Gorillas," spelling games. A few foreign language games.

Word game that tests your ability to match definitions to Words. Limitations: Only available in English

Explains etymologies of Spanish words, in English. Includes relationships between Spanish and English words.

Learn Arabic has short, free lessons on basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary. While the transliteration system from Arabic words to English pronunciation is not the best, each vocab list features recorded audio of the word.

Paste in text to get a variety of analyzes, including readability measures, word and sentence length distributions, and a word cloud.

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.

This French website created for native French speakers is full of dictées - dictations. This site is divided into grade levels based on the French school system. (For a brief run-down of the grade levels in France visit the blog from Transparent Language entitled À l'École!: French and American Grade Levels Compared at http://blogs.transparent.com/french/a-lecole/) Since the ladictee.fr website is targeted toward elementary aged children, the language level works well for beginner and intermediate French L2 learners. Even though a dictée isn't what people would call a "communicative" activity, it does serve the purpose of helping students make connections between spoken language and written language, especially since French spelling is not phonemic. The site includes various dictées for each level, along with a PDF of the written text so student's can check their work. Doing dictées can help students improve their spelling, recognize spelling patterns, and learn to listen for cues in spoken speech that indicate whether the person is speaking in the plural or singular (often tricky in the French language). Note: When doing a dictée, students are focused on writing down what is said word for word, and NOT on comprehension. It would NOT be effective to give a student a dictée and then immediately ask them specific comprehension questions about what they just heard.

A free text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word