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Vocabulary study program for SAT or GRE. VerbaLearn's patent pending system will automatically remove words as you master them so you don't waste time studying like you used to. You can learn your words by listening to customized mp3 files or practicing examples online, track your progress, and even review all your words from your homepage whenever you need a brush-up. Free mp3 Vocabulary Lessons: All you need is iTunes or any other podcast aggregator and VerbaLearn will instantly download your new mp3 Studylists to your computer. From there, the podcast is automatically transfered to your iPod or mp3 player. Try our new motivational program VerbaLearn2Earn that helps students stay motivated by earning cash rewards (donated by a friend or family member) on a pre-paid debit card as they study! It's free, just like VerbaLearn.

Copy and paste text to get a vocabulary glossary for your reading. Does bilingual lookup for Japanese-English, -German, -Dutch, and -Slovenian, and -Spanish. Can also analyze text for vocabulary and kanji level (for JLPT) and structure.

FreeRice is a multiple choice quiz site. Users can choose from a limited range of subjects, including English Grammar, English Vocabulary, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The vocabulary quizzes are questions such as "Il dentista means..." with four possible answer choices. For each correct answer, the organization donates 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program.

Provides new daily Italian vocabulary with native pronunciation.

"I am a researcher and Associate Professor at the College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Japan. My current research interests are vocabulary selection, vocabulary learning, e-learning, and the pedagogical applications of corpus linguistics."

'Más arriba' is an online interactive workbook of introductory Spanish language exercises, based on the pictorial contextualization of fundamental vocabulary and language points. The exercise material includes full-colour drawings, sound clips, instant feed-back, vocabulary help and a new, significant feature: a voice recorder! 'Más arriba' is freely accessible and is designed to be used with any introductory approach.

Site that posts cartoons and information about vocabulary words. (English)

""Julius" is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers. Based on word N-gram and context-dependent HMM, it can perform almost real-time decoding on most current PCs in 60k word dictation task. Major search techniques are fully incorporated such as tree lexicon, N-gram factoring, cross-word context dependency handling, enveloped beam search, Gaussian pruning, Gaussian selection, etc. Besides search efficiency, it is also modularized carefully to be independent from model structures, and various HMM types are supported such as shared-state triphones and tied-mixture models, with any number of mixtures, states, or phones. Standard formats are adopted to cope with other free modeling toolkit such as HTK, CMU-Cam SLM toolkit, etc. The main platform is Linux and other Unix workstations, and also works on Windows. Most recent version is developed on Linux and Windows (cygwin / mingw), and also has Microsoft SAPI version. Julius is distributed with open license together with source codes. Note: you should prepare a language model and an acoustic model to run a speech recognition with Julius. "

A site containing Kanji flash cards with JLPT vocabulary. Levels separated from N5 to N1. Free registration and use of the cards.

Website for Arabic learning with fun videos that will help learn vocabulary effectively

Social learning platform focusing on vocabulary and dictation. Learners can sign up for free, does spaced review and tracks progress. Can use "courses" already created by the company or create your own.

Series of 5 courses on 1220 vocabulary words important for reading newspapers and other media in China. Includes options for studying with traditional, simplified or Pinyin characters.

What is Kanji Tester? A research project which generates randomized vocab and kanji tests for JLPT levels 3 and 4. It generates tests full of random questions asking about the meaning of vocabulary and the readings of kanji. What's it for? Most people use Kanji Tester in one of two ways: * To drill themselves, as a form of vocab study. * To test themselves regularly after other forms of study, to measure their progress.

Online collection of websites, scholarly papers and presentations, and other resources for teaching classics. Includes webquests, interactive vocabulary and grammar activities, online dictionaries, etc.

Links to study materials for MIT's Japanese courses, 1st-4th year. Includes interactive practice quizzes, kanji study and quizzes, readings with audio, and photographic vocabulary aids.

"Welcome to DIALANG where you can test your language abilities in 5 skills in 14 European languages. DIALANG is a language diagnosis system developed by many European higher education institutions. It reports your level of skill against the Common European Framework (CEF) for language learning. DIALANG's skills are reading, writing, listening, grammar and vocabulary DIALANG's languages are Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish-gaelic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Instructions as well as tests are available in all these languages."

Different games to help French language learning, including vocabulary and grammar.

"Have you used all of the features of the nciku Japanese dictionary? Apart from looking up English or Japanese words to see their translation, kana pronunciation and romaji, you can also draw kanji characters with your mouse to look up words you don't know how to type, take memorization tests and view flashcards based on prebuilt word lists or your own custom vocabulary lists, and highlight words in dictionary definitions to see a quick translation. "

The Berkeley Language Center has created a library of foreign language clips, each tagged for the vocabulary in the target language and for English descriptors (culture, linguistics, speech acts). Instructors are able to search the library for a clip of interest and then 'order' the clip (a URL is created linking to an mp4 file; the URL stays active for two weeks). Currently we have 5200 clips in 15 languages, and those numbers continue to grow.

Audiria offers you freely: * An original daily audio file in spanish with its transcription. * Different chapter "channels" along the week. * Chapters organized by difficulty level. * Different exercises associated to each chapter. * A forum for practicing your Spanish writing and get corrected. * Personal stats to follow-up your scores. * A collection of complementary learning resources. * A completely free book of grammar, vocabulary and a conversation guide. * Brief grammatical lessons in audio-text format. * A free iTunes podcast