MHC Languages

A little demo of a program that pronounces words in various languages. A good quick reference and definitely fun to play around with!

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written. Type a word or phrase in the search box and press the Return key on your keyboard to see up to 50 random hits from the corpus.

WebCorp - uses the whole internet as a corpus. Can limit by domain, language, etc.

BBC has some great online resources for basic French. Check it out!

The BBC website offers short online steps to learning basic conversational French.

Search the Web directly for concordances of words and phrases in 34 different languages. This new release (last update: 24 May 2010) adds support for selecting which documents to include in the zipfile, preselection based on document metrics, combining all textfiles into a single document for importing into kfNgram or a concordancer, and conversion from UTF-8 into more widely-supported encodings.

Welcome to the Logos context search facility LOGOS LIBRARY. The LOGOS LIBRARY is a powerful interface with a massive database (currently 707.737.941 words) containing multilingual novels, technical literature and translated texts. Hits are highlighted in context windows that can be expanded up or down. To go to the source web pages (novels, etc.) click on the title - to run a dictionary search click on the highlighted word or phrase.

Mannheim Corpus: A very big - and free - corpus of German texts maintained by the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, including a choice of corpora and a lot of search facilities:

"OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii) developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources. "

"Welcome to the ItalNet publication of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) textual database. The production database contains 1849 vernacular texts (21.2 million words, 479,000 unique forms) the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The beta-test installation of the database under PhiloLogic3 contains 1960 documents (see below). The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. The OVI database was created to aid in the compilation of an historical dictionary of the Italian language, the Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini, (portions of which are now available online). The fully-searchable ItalNet implementation of the OVI database presented here has been produced in order to enable scholars around the world to benefit from this rich textual resource. "

This FREE program lets you create word lists and search natural language text files for words, phrases, and patterns. SCP is a concordance and word listing program that is able to read texts written in many languages.There are built-in alphabets for English, French, German, Polish, Greek, Russian, etc. SCP contains an alphabet editor which you can use to create alphabets for any other language.

The Sketch Engine (SkE, also known as Word Sketch Engine) is a Corpus Query System incorporating word sketches, grammatical relations, and a distributional thesaurus. A word sketch is a one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summary of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour.

The Chambers-Rostand Corpus of Journalistic French [Electronic resource] (Le Corpus Chambers-Rostand du français journalistique) This resource is freely available, you should be able to download it now.

This page contains some examples of how the BNC (XML edition) can be used in combination with non-corpus based activities and exercises to study the English language. The exercises are intended as illustrations of what can be done with access to the corpus. Refer to the sample search results provided or perform your own searches.

"Action research can inform teachers about their practice and empower them to take leadership roles in their local teaching contexts. Mills (2003) provides the following definition of action research:" (Donato)

It contains links to all the acta apostolicae sedis(AAS) published from 1909 till 2007. AAS is the official gazette of the Holy See, appearing about twelve times a year.

Free Online Magazines from the Middle East and North Africa

A set of how to videos for basic computer functions, like "copy & paste," "make text bigger", etc. Set up in a fun "form letter" format to allow you to send these videos to others.

"Welcome to the online text analysis tool, the detailed statistics of your text, perfect for translators (quoting), for webmasters (ranking) or for normal users, to know the subject of a text. Now with new features as the anlysis of words groups, finding out the keyword density, analyse the prominence of word or expressions. "

March is the month of La Francophonie. This site lists events in celebration of French language and culture in New England.