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Getting bored again at school, especially during languages? Forget it, Hi.net gave
your devoted servant Eliot a mission to go on the World Wide Web and find new ways
of learning languages. After surfing without respite or regard for life and limb
he came back exhausted from his quest and went straight away to the office of Mrs Krzywinski,
our smiling but merciless editor. After hours of tension he came out with a smile:
he had succeeded! Here is his report.
After my long trip I'm now in a position to help even the worst dunce to reach new heights
of perfection. Let's go to
English for Internet
a virtual school created by the University of Berkeley. You get three levels:
beginner, intermediate and advanced . The best pupils can even take Toefl. Eight
teachers are at your disposal to answer all the questions you want to ask.The only
inconvenience is that it's very successful and thus it takes quite a long time for you to
get a place. Be patient, It's worth waiting for!
The University of Syracuse
has a similar project with the difference that the course is based on a series of
CD-Roms you have to buy to take part in it.
If you're good enough and don't need a teacher, just assistance, Travlang
is probably for you. It's committed to providing a variety of useful tools for the
traveler and all those interested in learning a foreign language. You just have to
input the source and target languages and you get a choice of useful words, idioms
and expressions. You can even hear their pronunciation, isn't that wonderful?
Nothing is more necessary for linguists than a good dictionary. On-line Dictionaries ,with more than 350 dictionaries of over 100 different languages have been given
an award by the Los Angeles Times and is exactly what linguists need.
The same principle
but only for English (no translations) is to be found at Onelook Dictionaries. Type in your word, click look it up and you get a list of the on-line dictionaries with this word. Dictionaries of synonyms, of abbreviations, etymological dictionaries ... 147 dictionaries in all to give the best answer.
Now that you have mastered Shakespeare's tongue, I encourage you to do The Keirsey Temperament Sorter
. It's a personality test which scores results according to the Myers-Briggs system.
The test has 70 questions that all require an A or B answer and should help you to
know yourself better.
A bit of sport does you good after such a lot of intellectual effort, so let's go
to BikeSite
. After this visit you'll know everything about bicycles.
Finally, some music with Alanis Morissette
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