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Dictionaries |
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Dictionaries - on-line |
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Grammars - on-line |
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Encyclopaedias - on-line |
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Translators - on-line |
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Facts - on-line |
Selecting an adequate dictionary 
Antimoon's
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Online advice on what makes a good dictionary useful. |
| Le Robert & Collins
Senior - Paris, Le Robert. [Most up-to-date; the most
useful to have at home.] Harrap's New Shorter French & English Dictionary - Paris, Bordas. [A classic; more conservative than Robert & Collins] Cambridge Advanced Learners' Dictionary - London, C.U.P. [If you decide to buy a monolingual dictionary, this will be it: your best purchase of the year; there is a CD that can be tried on CUP's web site ] LTP Dictionary of Selected Collocations - Hove, LTP. [This is not a traditional dictionary. Most dictionaries help you to find the meaning of words you do not know. This one helps you to make better use of the words you do know, by showing what words go together with them when you use them in speech.] Harrap's French & English Business Dictionary - Paris, Bordas. Oxford Business Dictionary of Business English for Learners of English - Oxford, O.U.P. |
On-line dictionaries
| Le Dictionnaire International |
Multilingual dictionary including French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, modern Greek and Italian - good to place among your bookmarks! |
| The alternative French Dictionary | Want to know what "bander", "putain!" or "merdeux" are in English? The Alternative dictionaries are a collection of various forms of "bad language" from many languages, readable as web pages or as a PDF document you can download. |
| Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary | Looking for an explanation of an English word? Find it here. |
| Cambridge International Dictionary of English | More explanations about English words |
| Le Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique | Trouvez rapidement le terme spécialisé qu'il
vous faut ! Le grand dictionnaire terminologique est un ouvrage de référence
unique rassemblant un fonds terminologique d'envergure de 3 millions de
termes français et anglais dans 200 domaines d'activité. Il
est le compagnon indispensable de tous ceux et celles qui doivent traduire,
réviser ou rédiger des textes impeccables. Le GDT EXPRESS est une petite application qui s'installe sur votre système et qui permet d'accéder directement au site Internet du GDT et à différents services linguistiques en ligne à partir de vos applications de texte. Avec son menu Services, le GDT EXPRESS est la clé d'une recherche d'information simple et organisée. |
| Babylon is FREE Download, install and translate away whatever appears on your computer screen! Babylon is Faster and Easier than any Dictionary Paper, electronic or CD-Rom. Babylon translates expressions such as "make ends meet" or "more or less" and abbreviations such as "btw"(by the way) or "asap" (as soon as possible), proper names and geographical places AND Computer terms such as "ftp", "smtp" Babylon is currently available from English to Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Hebrew | |
| http://www.dictionary.com/ | Look up a word and you'll get the definition in seconds |
| A set of downloadable dictionaries from and to several languages, English among them. | |
| http://radar.rdues.liv.ac.uk/newwds.html | Neologisms in Journalistic Text We are providing a series of lists of neologisms in context for the benefit of teachers of English language - |
| BritSpeak | "Bilingual" dictionary for both British/American and American/British English. |
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One of the world's major encyclopaedia free on-line |
| Encarta Online Library | Several search f functions will dig out information from what is actually a virtual library: a hoard of digitized articles from many books |
| Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy | Excellent academic encyclopedia |
| http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de:8099/ccsd-set.html |
| Edufind Online English Grammar |
Free detailed online English grammar - offers clear explanations and examples - very handy organisation |
| Daily Grammar | Daily Grammar sends you e-mail messages with a grammar lesson five days of the week and a quiz on the sixth day. You can look at all the lessons in our Archive section. |
| Free one-month trial period of this grammar + exercises tool | |
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| Anthony Hughes' online English grammar |
| Reverso
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Easy-to-use translation help: translate text, web pages or e-mails and mail the result together with the original text - Pop-up available to ease the process. |
| Free
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FreeTranslation.com is an easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages.Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Norwegian to and from English |
| Alta-Vista Multilingual Translator. This remarkable engine translates entire paragraphs back and forth between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with remarkable accuracy. | |
| Machine translation doesn't simply translate text word by word but actually analyzes sentences based on the rules of the language and translates the words and phrases in the context of the original document. |
| This program is a database of statistics for all the countries of the world. It is freeware for you to use as you wish. It contains information including: Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications, Transportation, Military, and Transnational Issues |
