Useful links
My Blog about English or Tricky Questions
www.helpforenglish.cz - Help For English – Internet English for free
English-English Dictionaries:
- Longman - www.ldoceonline.com/
- Macmillan - www.macmillandictionary.com/ - here one can also hear noises of some words, e.g. grunt, whine, shriek, yap nebo purr.
- Oxford - www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/
English Pronunciation Guide to the Names of People, Places, and Stuff
Czech names in English:
Male names
Female names
Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia
News in Levels - listen to the news written in 3 levels of English
English with BBC with Czech commentaries
MeetUp – you can look up English speaking people who share the same interests like you in your area. You can meet them when hiking, running, going to lectures, cooking, marketing, programming…)
Ororo TV – you can watch TV series and other videos in English for free.
Duolinguo – learning languages through translations, downloadable into a mobile phone
Conversation Exchange – you can find a partner for conversation or correspondence all over the world, in English or other languages, at the website
Social networks for languages where people share videos, texts, study together and help each other:
Busuu
Rosetta Stone
More tips how and where to practise conversation
www.visuwords.com - Visuwords – Online Graphical Dictionary – key in a word and you get a visual display of that word and a series of related words
www.wordsift.com - you paste a text into the tool, it takes the most common word in your text and shows you pictures related to its meaning, you can also select another word from your text; it includes the Visual Thesaurus
www.telescopictext.com - by clicking on different parts of the text, you can make the sentence expand to become a more complex text. You can review the process by which the final text was constructed.