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Collections of Web-Dictionaries
yourdictionary.com
Topics: Language Dictionaries, Multi-lingual Dictionaries, Translation,
Language Identifiers, Word of the Day, etc.
Language Dictionaries and Translators
"We have attempted to place as many online dictionaries at your
disposal as possible."
ProZ.com Term Search
Search ProZ.com's extensive glossary resources for translated terms
IATE
"IATE incorporates all of the existing terminology databases of the EU's
translation services into a single new, highly interactive and accessible
interinstitutional database [...] which now contains approximately 1.4
million multilingual entries"
Udos Wörterbuch für Redensarten, Redewendungen, idiomatische
Ausdrücke und feste Wortverbindungen
English and German Services dedicated to Morphology, Grammar, etc.
Morphology
Wortschatz-Lexikon
"... stellt sich zum Ziel, den deutschen Wortschatz so vollständig wie
möglich zur Verfügung zu stellen. [...] Momentan enthält die Datenbank
mehr als 5 Millionen Wortformen sowie fast 15 Millionen Beispielsätze."
German Morphology Browser
"The program knows 1.2 million words, their morphosyntactic features and
their mapping to some 130.000 lexemes." Besides everything about the
inflection of verbs, it provides generation of word formation - and the
translation of german words into english, based on LEO dictionary.
Encyclopaedias
xipolis.net
"Wissen per Mausklick für Beruf, Alltag, Schule und Universität.
xipolis.net bietet Ihnen die wichtigsten Nachschlagewerke bekannter
Verlage auf einen Blick."
ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM
"More than 14,000 articles from 'The Concise Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia, Third Edition' have been assembled to provide free,
quick and useful information on almost any topic."
xrefer - the web's reference engine
Lots of information about english words: "Free access to over 50
reference titles containing more than 500,000 entries"
WWWebster Dictionary
Keywords: Search, Thesaurus, Site Map
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
"Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio
word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes
and word-root appendixes."
Science Dictionary
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
Orthography, Grammar, Pronunciation, Correspondence
Deutsche Rechtschreibung: Regeln und Wörterverzeichnis -
Amtliche Regelung
Stichpunkte: Vorwort, Laut-Buchstaben-Zuordnungen, Getrennt- und
Zusammenschreibung, Schreibung mit Bindestrich, Groß- und
Kleinschreibung, Zeichensetzung, Worttrennung am Zeilenende, Das
Wörterverzeichnis
Die neue Rechtschreibung
Stichpunkte: Amtliches Regelwerk, Amtliche Wörterliste, Anbieter,
BVG-Urteil, Sprachberatung, Wörterbuch: Umsetzung alte auf neue
Rechtschreibung u.u., etc.
Neue deutsche Rechtschreibung
Funktionen: "prüft Ihre Texte auf alte und neue Schreibung - zeigt
die Regeln im Kontext zusammen mit allen betroffenen Wörtern - enthält
über 170.000 Stichwörter und Wendungen inklusive alter und neuer
Schreibung", u.a.
Jobline - Bewerbungstraining auf Englisch
"Jobline LMU is the English-language job application training programme of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
Jobline LMU is for students and school-leavers who would like to do an internship abroad and for graduates who have just finished their studies and want to find a job or a graduate trainee programme in the English-speaking world ? or at a company in Germany with an English-language corporate culture. Jobline LMU also provides teachers with extensive teaching materials for English job applications. "
Das 5-Spalten-System der englischen Grammatik
"Das 5-Spalten-System erklärt Ihnen die komplexen Zusammenhänge der
englischen Grammatik und ermöglicht Ihnen Sätze in allen Zeiten der
englischen Sprache zu bilden und Ihre eigenen Übersetzungen zu überprüfen.
Die übersichtlichen Tabellen und deren Erläuterungen ermöglichen jedem,
die Grammatik der englischen Sprache endlich zu verstehen."
The Internet Grammar of English
"The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar
written primarily for university undergraduates. However, we hope that
it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language."
A Guide to German Pronunciation
"[...] offers a concise explanation of the different sounds which you
will encounter in a German-speaking country. Numerous sound files allow
the user to distinguish between similar pairs of words [...]"
englische-briefe.de
"Die gängigsten Formulierungen u. Mustersätze für Business
English. Auf diesen Seiten finden Sie eine Zusammenstellung der wichtigsten
Floskeln und Tipps für englische Korrespondenz"
vokabelmail.de
"Kostenloser Newsletter, der Montag bis Freitag ein
deutsches Wort, die englische Übersetzung plus Beispielsatz verschickt."
FMM - Frequently Made Mistakes
A list of typical mistakes that occur time and again whenever German native
speakers need to write technical documents in English. The author is a
translator and editor of technical documents, particularly in the field of
information technology.
Learning English with the BBC World Service
This site gives useful tips concerning news English, business English,
everyday usage and much, much more. The "Grammar and Vocabulary" section
gives answers to common grammar questions and vocabulary help on a range
of topics, while the "Quizzes" section allows you to practise what you
have learnt.
One-Word-A-Day
Kostenfreier Internet-Englischkurs
A word a day from wordsmith.org
Wordsmith.org is a worldwide online community of some half-million readers who share a love for words, wordplay, language, and literature.
PHONETIC ALPHABETS
Forum Discussion: "Buchstabieren auf Englisch"
Free resources for learning English online
Learn English online - free exercises, idioms, common abbreviations,
slang, proverbs and much more
Abbreviations, Acronyms, Conversions
Acronym Finder
"A database of over 182,000 acronyms/abbreviations and their definitions
[...] the web's largest acronyms and abbreviations searchable database."
www.abkuerzungen.de
"Die Findemaschine für Abkürzungen"
Acronyms and Abbreviations
"Search a data base, consisting of more than 12.000 acronyms (An acronym
is a word formed from the initial letters of the words of a compound term.)"
Conversion of US/UK Units to the Metric System
Conversions for: Length, Velocity, Area, Volume, British measures
of capacity, American fluid measures, etc.
The Universal Currency Converter
"The Universal Currency Converter[tm] allows you to perform interactive
foreign exchange rate conversion on the Internet." - The site provides
additional topics, e.g. The Interactive Currency Table[tm]: "enables you
to instantaneously create cross-rate tables of major currencies in
the base currency of your choice"
Currency Conversion
Service by Yahoo!, converting from/to numerous currencies; conversion
of most important currencies are shown in a table.
Genealogy
Genealogy.com
Topics: New? Start Here, Search for Family, Online Data Library,
Learn About Genealogy, etc.
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