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American Rhetoric.com

A well-maintained archive of speeches and rhetoric. Its online speech bank contains over 5000 speeches, in format of mp3, text, and/or original manuscript when available. The Rhetorical Figures in Sound contains 200+ brief audio (mp3) clips illustrating 38 different speech techniques.
(Added: 6-Oct-2003 / Hits [2007- ]: 93)

AskOxford.com

Launched by Oxford University Press, this site has some additional features, such as, word of the day, quote of the week, language and writing tips, question and answer, word games, a jargon buster, and education resources.
(Added: 9-Nov-2001 / Hits [2007- ]: 60)

AT&T Labs Text-to-Speech: Demo

A speech synthesis tool to convert English (US & UK), Spanish, German or French text into voice in .wav format.
(Added: 15-Oct-2008 / Hits [2007- ]: 55)

British National Corpus

A 100 million word collection of written and spoken English Language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current English. After a search, 50 sample sentences would be displayed. Useful for learning the English usage.
(Added: 15-Jul-2002 / Hits [2007- ]: 82)

Collins Wordbanks Online English Corpus

The corpus is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text, both British and American. Randomly selected lines would be displayed in pop-up windows.
(Added: 15-Dec-2008 / Hits [2007- ]: 20)

Common Errors in English

Online version of "Common Errors in English Usage" written by Paul Brians.
(Added: 30-Apr-2007 / Hits [2007- ]: 85)

English Grammar Guide

Describes most of the common errors in English made by speakers of Chinese. One can get general advice as well as specific hints. Many audio-visual clips included. Very useful for improving English accuracy, fluency, style, and pronunciation and understanding the rules of English grammar. A UST project.
(Added: 7-Apr-2009 / Hits [2007- ]: 37)

Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Gives definitions of important grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic terms.
(Added: 3-Mar-2006 / Hits [2007- ]: 64)

IELTS: International English Language Testing System

This is the website of IELTS, a test of English Language Proficiency designed to assess the English of non-native speakers of English for study in the medium of English. Includes information about 206 centres in 105 countries and sample test papers.
(Added: 11-Dec-1997 / Hits [2007- ]: 77)

iLoveLanguage ^[Meta-Site]

A directory of resources related to language learning, education, and use. Includes links to online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, etc.
(Added: 12-May-2006 / Hits [2007- ]: 64)

Omniglot : A Guide to Writing Systems

A guide to over 200 writing systems in the world, with examples and details about the languages written with the writing systems. There are also links to a wide range of language-related resources, such as fonts, online dictionaries, translation tools, and online courses, etc.
(Added: 10-Sep-2002 / Hits [2007- ]: 57)

Online Etymology Dictionary

Information about the history and evolution of more than 30000 words, including slang and technical terms.
(Added: 28-Apr-2003 / Hits [2007- ]: 54)

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

This free multimedia site, with over 150 audio and video activities, is designed to help English learners improve their listening comprehension.
(Added: 4-Sep-2006 / Hits [2007- ]: 47)

Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics ^[Meta-Site]

A well organized directory lists links with anotations.
(Added: 10-Sep-2002 / Hits [2007- ]: 65)

Unihan Database

An important database that contains information regarding the CJK Unified Ideographs (Unihan) which are a part of the Unicode Standard. Information provided for each character includes definitions, codes, phonetic data, variants, etc. Searching is currently limited to the definition field and six phonetic fields. Individual characters can also be accessed through the index.
(Added: 23-Jan-2008 / Hits [2007- ]: 24)

Verbix : Conjugate Verbs in 100+ Languages

A database containing verb conjugations for hundreds of languages, ranging from national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages.
(Added: 14-Mar-2003 / Hits [2007- ]: 49)

Word Neighbors

Many word combinations in English are difficult. This frequently updated database gives you access to large collections of English texts, allowing you to search for contexts and grammatical patterns. Dictionary definitions and Chinese translations of the target word are provided. It is useful for improving the accuracy and fluency of written English. Better used with IE. Developed by the Language Center, HKUST.
(Added: 15-Dec-2008 / Hits [2007- ]: 25)

WordNet

Developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University, this interesting lexical reference system organizes English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. An example sentence is given for each "sense".
(Added: 15-Jul-2002 / Hits [2007- ]: 52)

Yahoo! Babel Fish

A handy translator of text and Web pages with many language options, including conversion between traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese.
(Added: 6-Jul-2006 / Hits [2007- ]: 253)

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