Memorizing new words is easier when you see them used in a real world context. VocabSushi lets you do just that. It is a free interactive vocabulary builder, which lets build your vocabulary by seeing word usage in the daily news. You can practice words by filling out the sentence completion questions and learn the [...]
If you come across a symbol or a sign and don’t know what it means, head straight to Symbols.com. It is a web resource where you can easily look up symbols and read their meanings. The site currently lists around 2500 western (both modern and ancient) symbols organized in 54 categories. There are four ways [...]
BabelWith.me is a real time chat translation app that lets you instantly communicate in multiple languages (up to 45). It automatically translates every message you type in into the language selected by the receiver in real time. Now you could enjoy real-time conversations with friends without language barriers. Just enter your name, language and start [...]
Sometimes we don’t have access to our favorite browsers or word processing applications to do simple things like spell and grammar checks. AfterTheDeadline solves this problem easily. It is a spell and grammar checking site where you can paste the text you are working with and check for spelling errors, grammar mistakes or get style [...]
Wordnik is a comprehensive word search tool similar to a dictionary but provides a lot more than what a dictionary does. Whenever you search for a word, it not only provides its definition from four different dictionaries but also examples (sentences where the word is used), related words- not only synonyms antonyms, but words that [...]
GoogleTranslatorToolkit is a new webpage & document translator by Google. It lets you translate any document or article into any language you want to and also adds a human touch to the process. After you sign up, just upload the document or type in the URL of the web page, select the language and you’ll [...]
There are quite many words in English language that are confusing in their usage, so many people make mistakes using them. This site contains a list of common misused English words and phrases like affect/effect, amoral/immoral, adviser/advisor etc. and explains the correct way to use these words along with examples in different sentences. The site [...]
Every day new words and phrases enter our daily lexicon (retweeting, flash mob, crowdsourcing etc). If you hear some new phrase repeated over and over but never really get what it means, you should visit WordSpy to find out. It is a dictionary of new words words and phrases with example citations for each term. [...]
Have you ever come across some text or documents and not sure what language it is written in? Here is a language detection tool for Google which is capable of identifying the language the text is written in. It gives you the ability to quickly and easily identify the language of any submitted text. To [...]
PronounceNames.com is a website for those moments when you find yourself in the situation where you look at some name and have absolutely no idea about how to pronounce it correctly. On PronounceNames you can lookup different names and learn correct name pronounciations. If the name you’re looking for is not listed there is an [...]