Right, I'm sure most of you use on-line dictionaries -today, a couple of suggestions.
First, dictionary.com, an excellent tool to look up words and listen to their pronunciation. There's a lot of extra material, flashcards and quiz style activities to improve and develop your vocabulary.
Second pick of the day, Urban Dictionary, a brilliant slang dictionary written by Internet users. It's really good if you want to find informal and trendy slang words that are often difficult to find in ordinary dictionaries.
If you have a favourite on-line dictionary, please feel free to write a comment and tell us all about it.
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I didn't know these dictionaries. It seems useful. I normally use this online dictionary: http://www.wordreference.com/,
ReplyDeleteit's not a monolingual one, but it includes american and english pronunciation, phrasal verbs, oral expressions, compound forms and so on. Very useful.
Thanks for your recomendation, teacher. The Urban dictionary is cool!
Oh! I like very much The Urban Dictonary. You can find original definitions like this:
ReplyDeleteAlone: What you're not. Although it may seem like there is nobody there who cares about you, who is like you, or can be a friend to you, there is someone miles and miles away who would like to be there with you if they knew you were calling.
This is a message to all of the lonely and depressed people out there on their computers, reading definitions of words they're feeling in hopes to find some comfort, if only for a short while. Regardless of whether you're reading this in five weeks or in five years, and regardless of whether I'm still browsing this site regularly or dead in a car crash, just know that tonight, I was feeling very lonely, crying out for you.
Hello!
ReplyDeleteI often look up new vocabulary words in Cambridge Dictionary,
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/search/british/?q=&x=42&y=9
I like so much it because I can hear the UK and US pronunciation of words and also I can read the phonetic or phrases with those words.
I strongly recomend you this dictionary:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.visualthesaurus.com/
It provides you a visual map with the words which are in contact, so you can improve your vocabulary faster and easier.
Enjoy it.
I like Anabel's dictionary too, very useful and totally free and made by Cambridge Editorial!. I didn't know it. Thanks
ReplyDeleteTry looking up your name on UrbanDictionary. They have funny definitions for names too.
ReplyDeleteWow, thanks for your contributions and comments. I really feel on-line dictionaries are really powerful tools to improve vocab.
ReplyDeleteOne more link: British Slang now.
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm