Language links

Summary:

LEARNING LANGUAGES

General

  • BBC Languages
  • How to Learn Any Language
  • Language Learning Advisor
  • Unilang - a community of language learners. The site is based on the wiki principle (Multilingual)
  • Omniglot - information about most alphabets and other writing systems, some of the languages written with those writing systems, multilingual texts, tips on learning languages, a book store, some useful phrases in many different languages, and language-related links.
  • Indo-European languages - tutorials for fourteen languages, as well as Linguistics, English grammar, and the History of English.
  • Interlex - Interlex is a free Windows application that helps you learn vocabulary in a foreign language. First you compile a list of words and phrases, then you test yourself until you have learnt them. See also their section Language Links
  • Verbix - a universal Verb Conjugator that shows verb inflections in 100+ languages
  • I Love Languages - resources for learning over 200 languages.
  • Lexilogos (FR) - dictionaries, glossaries for various languages.
  • Language communities in LiveJournal
  • FSI Language Courses - These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. Here you can find courses of Spanish, German, Finnish, Swedish, etc.
  • How to learn a language (Wikibooks)
  • LanguageGuide.org offers free sound integrated resources (pictures divided into thematical groups) for learning languages. These resources are developed collaboratively with the help of volunteers.

General (sites in Russian)

  • franklang.ru - языковой портал Ильи Франка
  • lingvisto.org - "Языковая энциклопедия". Материалы для изучающих иностранные языки (кроме английского, немецкого, французского, японского, итальянского, испанского и иврита).
  • MultiKulti
  • E-lingvo - Каталог файлов (учебники по языкам и др.)

Language exchange communities

English

French

French (Canada)

Spanish

German

Swedish

Finnish

Russian (as a foreign language)

Russian (for native speakers)

SPELLING CHECK

  • Spellify - English, German, Finnish, Spanish, Swedish, etc.
  • Petnoga.se - Online Swedish spell checker
  • Орфограф - Проверяет правописание на русском и английском. Переваривает отдельные тексты или целые веб-страницы.
  • Мемос.ру - Орфография - Еще одна проверка правописания.

TRANSLATION

Human translation

Automatic translation

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DICTIONARIES

Multilingual

  • Your Dictionary - biggest collection of online dictionaries
  • Webster's Online Dictionary with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation - "Earth's largest dictionary with 90 modern and 10 ancestral languages".
  • Woxikon - It consists of a synonym dictionary for German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish and a verb encyclopaedia, which provides a complete conjugation of verbs and inflection forms for English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish.
  • Multitran.ru - this automatic dictionary offers translations for English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Estonian, Latvian, and Japanese languages.
  • JiPort.com - Словарь Ефремовой, Словарь Даля, Словарь синонимов, Энциклопедический словарь, Юридический словарь, Тезаурус Баранова, Англо-русский и Русско-английский словари, The Oxford Thesaurus, Значения имен, Географический словарь, Лечебные травы, Кулинарные рецепты
  • Lexicool.com - links to over 4000 bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet
  • The Alternative Dictionaries - slang, profanities, insults and vulgarisms from all the world
  • English and German glossaries - over 2,500 links to English and German glossaries, as well as general translation-related sites
  • Eurodicautom - the European Commission's multilingual term bank
  • Trilingual Index of Expressions with Equivalent Meanings (EN-ES-FR) An interactive site offering thousands of idiomatic expressions which have the same meaning in English, French and Spanish, but which cannot be translated word for word. Various search criteria can be used to look for expressions. Searches can be by keyword, key phrase or by category (e.g. anatomy, nature, food, etc.). Expressions are displayed in context in a short paragraph in order to help users understand the meaning. The paragraph is also available in audio format (MP3).

English

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Russian (EN-RU)


Электронные словари

© Paragon Software (SHDD)

Russian (monolingual)

Словари русского языка
www.gramota.ru

Swedish

Norwegian

  • Lexin - The LEXIN dictionaries are made especially for immigrants in Norway. In addition to information about word class, inflection and pronunciation, the dictionary includes simple explanations and examples of everyday usage. About 2700 of the entries are illustrated, and the illustrations are divided into 33 picture pages which are arranged according to themes.

Finnish

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