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Tami Brass

Spanish Phrase Finder - 0 views

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    Over 70 topics from Accommodation to Work. Each Phrase is accompanied by a simple pronunciation guide which ensures that there's no problem pronouncing the foreign words. English words are in black text; Spanish words are in red. Practical hints and useful vocabulary are highlighted. Where the English words appear first, this indicates vocabulary you may need. Where the red Spanish words appear first, these are words you are more likely to see written on signs and notices. Where appropriate, possible phrases you may hear in reply to your questions are indicated under You May Hear.
Claude Almansi

Learning technology teacher development blog: Using Word Clouds in EFL ESL (Nik Peachey) - 1 views

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    I've just discovered Wordle, which is a really useful site for creating word clouds. The word clouds are created by entering either a text, URL or del.icio.us username into a field. The site then generates a word cloud based on the frequency of key words in the text or webpage.
Fred Delventhal

VerbaLearn - Study vocabulary for free - 0 views

  • VerbaLearn is jam-packed with great features to help you study more efficiently, track your progress, score higher and simply save you time! 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.
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    VerbaLearn is jam-packed with great features to help you study more efficiently, track your progress, score higher and simply save you time! 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.
Stéphane Métral

Mnemonic Dictionary - Fun and easy way to build your vocabulary! - 0 views

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    helps in learning and remembering word and it's meaning easily by providing memory aids (called mnemonics) for each word. Mnemonics connect to-be-remembered meaning of words with a systematic and organized set of images or words that are already firmly established in long-term memory and can therefore serve as reminder cues.
Rob McTaggart

Chinese Tools - Online tools to learn chinese - 0 views

  • Chinese Order Stroke
    • Rob McTaggart
       
      Great for IWB's!
  • Hand Writing Recognition
    • Rob McTaggart
       
      This is a good way for students to check if their Chinese writing is legible. If the computer can't guess at what it may be, maybe they need to keep working at it. Built for success and great for interactive whiteboards.
  • Chinese Annotation Tool
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      This tool takes a sentence in Chinese (not pinyin unfortunately) and gives an English or French translation for every word individually. Very good for breaking up sentences into small parts, for analysing word-order and for students to check their writing.
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  • Chinese Annoted News
    • Rob McTaggart
       
      Great for more advanced students. This site gives small news stories and any word that is hovered over is translated into pinyin and English.
  • Chinese Dictionary NEW
    • Rob McTaggart
       
      This is one of the best Chinese-English dictionaries on the internet, when you consider that so many of the words have audio and an animation of the stroke order for writing.
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    This is a fantastic resource for any classroom learning Chinese or about China. The dictionary pinyin with tones as well as simplified and traditional writing, an animation of the order stroke for many words and audio of how the word should be spoken. There is also other resources such as practice sheets for writing, a translator, and other stuff for kids and the classroom.
Maggie Verster

Word Spy - 0 views

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    Online dictionary of new words and phrases with example citations for each term. You can search for new words by using the WordSpy's search engine or browse by category such as business, culture or technology. Read definitions and view the context those new words were commonly used in the media.
Martin Burrett

Memrise - 7 views

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    An amazing language learning site which helps learners of MFL remember words for over 200 languages by associating them with visual clues/mnemonics and score points by showing you remember the language in a variety of ways. You can listen to audio of the words you are learning. The site tracks your progress and analyses where you need improvement and it will adjust the words you are shown accordingly. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects
Martin Burrett

Word Invasion - 8 views

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    A great English game where players shoot the correct word when given the word class, such as noun, verb, adjective etc. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Martin Burrett

Unused Words - 7 views

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    This is a fab literacy site where you can find interesting and rare English words. Browse for words to make children's work stand out from the crowd and play 'guess the meaning' with your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Isabelle Jones

When do people learn languages? - 0 views

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    Advice for language learners General warning: what follows may or may not apply to you. It's based on what linguistics knows about people in general (but any general advice will be ludicrously inappropriate for some people) and on my own experience (but you're not the same as me). If you have another way of learning that works, more power to you. Given the discussion so far, the prospects for language learning may seem pretty bleak. It seems that you'll only learn a language if you really need to; but the fact that you haven't done so already is a pretty good indication that you don't really need to. How to break out of this paradox? At the least, try to make the facts of language learning work for you, not against you. Exposure to the language, for instance, works in your favor. So create exposure. * Read books in the target language. * Better yet, read comics and magazines. (They're easier, more colloquial, and easier to incorporate into your weekly routine.) * Buy music that's sung in it; play it while you're doing other things. * Read websites and participate in newsgroups that use it. * Play language tapes in your car. If you have none, make some for yourself. * Hang out in the neighborhood where they speak it. * Try it out with anyone you know who speaks it. If necessary, go make new friends. * Seek out opportunities to work using the language. * Babysit a child, or hire a sitter, who speaks the language. * Take notes in your classes or at meetings in the language. * Marry a speaker of the language. (Warning: marry someone patient: some people want you to know their language-- they don't want to teach it. Also, this strategy is tricky for multiple languages.) Taking a class can be effective, partly for the instruction, but also because you can meet others who are learning the language, and because, psychologically, classes may be needed to make us give the subject matter time and attention. Self-study is too eas
Gramarye Gramarye

How to learn English vocabulary - which words? - 2 views

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    If you want to learn how to learn English vocabulary, you need to know which words to learn.\nIf you are a teacher, you also need to know which words your students need to learn.\nCambridge English Lexicon was first published in 1980, and the fifth printing was in 1991. There might have been further printings, but it seems to be out of print now.\nTHE GOOD NEWS is that Amazon does have a few second hand copies available at very cheap prices, so get in quick if you want to buy one of these rare gems!
julianna07 julianna07

one word. so little time. - 0 views

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    oneword is a site for writers. A simple writing exercise in which one word is given each day and the user is given sixty seconds to write whatever that word inspires as quickly as possible.
Fiona Boughey

Word Dynamo - Free Study Guides, Quizzes, Games and Flashcards | Word Dynamo - 4 views

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    A superb English vocabulary site from the makers of Dictionary.com. Test your knowledge of words and their meanings to build your word power. The site also has levelled sections and resources for learning French, Spanish and Latin. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Maggie Verster

Instant Grammar Check - Online Proofreading | Grammarly - 6 views

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    "Grammarly is an automated proofreader and your personal grammar coach. Correct up to 10 times more mistakes than popular word processors. Instant proofreading Instantly find and correct over 150 types of grammatical mistakes Context-optimized vocabulary suggestions Improve word choice with context-optimized vocabulary suggestions Plagiarism detectorAvoid plagiarism by checking your texts against over 2 billion documents"
Claude Almansi

Daily English Activities: Sitemap (Nik Peachey) - 1 views

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    This page shows all the previous activities.\n * Play Games and Improve Your Vocabulary\n * Write a Music Video Review\n * Improving Your IT Skills and Vocabulary\n * 1 Minute Listening Activity\n * Learn a Song in English\n * Try a TOEFL Reading Test\n * Listen and Write the News\n * Improve Your Vocabulary and Make Friends\n * Exercise Your Ears With Authentic Film Clips\n * Record Yourself Reading a Poem\n * Using a Word Cloud to Remember Words and Texts\n * Take a Quiz Adventure Journey\n * Create an Online CV in English
Sarah Thatcher

Sight Words Snakes & Ladders (Chutes & Ladders) | SightWords - 5 views

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    Create your own Chutes and ladders board for sight words or to practice target language vocabulary pronunciation at any level.
Fiona Joyce

YouTube - Radiolab and NPR Present Words - 5 views

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    Fabulous video to show the power of words and their multiple meanings.
Claude Almansi

Official Google Blog: "In their own words": political videos meet Google speech-to-text... - 0 views

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    With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube's Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget you can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. Additionally, since speech recognition tells us exactly when words are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most relevant parts of the videos you find.
Claude Almansi

LOGOS - Multilingual E-Translation Portal - 0 views

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    Single words. The coverage depends on what users have added. Words are linked to a thesaurus where they can be seen in context, and sometimes to images, conjugations etc. Always worth a try.
Isabelle Jones

WordItOut - Transform your text into word clouds! - 15 views

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    This here is a word cloud. >> It's an attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others.
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