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Foreign Language Instruction
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Learning languages in Duolingo is completely free – now and forever – with no ads or hidden fees. Wondering how that can be? Give it a try!
Sponsored by the British Broadcasting Corporation, this website offers a course for beginners for French, Spanish, German, and Italian. Offers limited material for about 30 other languages.
Dictionaries
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More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine. You can define, translate, and find words in the web-based dictionaries.
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A beta site for "exploring "potential new features for online dictionaries, which allows free access to rich language resources after users establishe an account.
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Erudite and wonderfully eclectic, this website is a good source of information on words both too new for the dictionary and those vanishing from it.
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Free online dictionary search, translator, word of the day, crossword puzzles, word games, and vocabulary learning resources for many languages.
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Urban Dictionary is a Web-based dictionary of slang words and phrases that documents the language of urban cultures and subcultures. Users are encouraged to submit new words and definitions covering every aspect of their daily lives. Submissions are regulated by volunteer editors and rated by other users. Urban Dictionary's slogan is "Define Your World".
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