Oxford Brookes UniversityLanguage studies and linguistics on the Internet
Many free internet sites are available to help with language learning. A selection is listed below.
Don't forget that Brookes staff and students also have access to subscription services such as Oxford language dictionaries online. Connect to these via our list of Electronic dictionaries and language databases
1. Dictionaries and thesauri
2. Translation services
3. General language and linguistics sites
4. Sites for specific languages
1. Dictionaries and thesauri
Bibliomania has a research
section which allows you to search various language reference
books, including dictionaries, books of quotations, synonyms, thesauri,
and literary sources.
Dictionary.com : an online
dictionary with links to many other tools.
I Love Languages
is a database listing language-learning materials available on the
Internet. It includes has a good listing of online dictionaries.
The Internet Dictionary Project
provides access to free online dictionaries.
OneLook dictionaries
indexes over 600 online dictionaries.
Roget's
Thesaurus : the experimental online version provided by the
ARTFL Project
Thesaurus.com : another
online version of Roget's Thesaurus
2. Translation services
FreeTranslation.com
WorldLingo
online text translator
3. General language and linguistics sites
Association for Language
Awareness
BAAL The web site for the
British Association for Applied Linguistics, which provides a forum
for people interested in language and the applications of linguistics.
Bab.la language portal includes links to many online dictionaries.
The BBC languages
site offers resources in French, Spanish and German and
there are links to English as a foreign language materials through
the World Service Pages.
BUBL is a web-based national information service for the
UK higher education community. It has an online catalogue of over
12,000 selected Internet resources, including the following subject
categories:
- BUBL link for Language Learning
- BUBL link for Linguistics
Cercles: European Confederation
of Language Centres in Higher Education
CILT: Centre for Information on
Language Teaching and Research is the UK's national centre of
expertise on language teaching.
ELRA: The European Language
Resources Association
IALIC: International
Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication.
I Love Languages
is a database listing language-learning materials available on the
Internet. It currently contains over 1800 resources covering more
than 100 different languages.
Kidon Media
link has a news sources from Europe index which includes radio
stations and newspapers within Europe.
Lingu@net has a "virtual
language centre".
Logos Multilingual
E-translation Portal. An italian site which offers various transation
and language services.
The Literary
translation section of the British Council Web site includes
examples of translated texts and details about events.
LTSN Subject Centre
for Languages, Linguistics & Area Studies has links to a variety
of language-related resources.
PALA: Poetics and Linguistics
Association is an academic organisation for people interested in
language, stylistics and poetics.
Travlang contains
details of online and CD-ROM language learning materials.
WELL - Web Enhanced Language
Learning. The WELL Project aims to promote wider awareness and more
effective use of the World Wide Web for Modern Languages teaching
across Higher Education (HE) in the UK.
Word2Word gives access
to a wide range of online dictionaries and other language services.