3 Free Android Apps That Can Help Improve Your English
Whether it's your first or second language, English can be tricky. Many of us use our smartphones mainly for reading and writing -- not to mention our tablets, of course. So what do you do when you come across an unfamiliar word, or when you need to write an important message on the go without making embarrassing mistakes? Today I'd like to share three free and useful apps that can help with both reading and writing English: Two dictionaries, and a keyboard.
It's Fine To Rhyme - 7 Online Tools For Rhyming Words & Writing Terrible Poems
I am sure you know that creating rhyming poems – though high on the cheesy scale – has its uses. From birthday cards to classroom assignments, from Valentine endearments to Facebook status updates, rhyming words to make a poem is an "in-demand" art form. I reckon that if aspiring poets can have their poetry apps and poetry get-togethers on the web, we amateurs can do with a bit of rhyming help.
What’s The Good Word: Here Are 6 Ways To Use Google As An Instant Dictionary
We Google for stuff anyway, and perhaps it has almost become a sub-conscious habit to Google for a word meaning as well. Google certainly makes it easy with the different ways it gives us to look up words. Google actually had a Dictionary service earlier but it was later integrated into Google Search and other services. Now, it works behind the scenes but gives the same sort of results.
Write More Good: 7 Free Online Tools To Ensure You Use Proper English
Improper use of English is one of my pet peeves. I’m not a full-blown "grammar nazi" (a colloquialism for someone very strict with grammar) but it does irk me. An exception can be made for those who don’t use English natively, but blatant disregard for the rules of language can be seen all over the Internet - and it can be quite annoying. Language is meant to convey ideas through a common medium that obeys a set of rules.
A Word A Day In 140 Letters Or Less: Follow These Twitter Dictionaries To Be A Logophile
You might think that 140 characters just doesn’t cut it when you have to pick a word apart, and get to its meaning and usage. But let’s leave some room for surprises because Twitter and the Twitter dictionaries bring real-timeliness into learning new words. Here are a few usual and a few unusual dictionaries on Twitter. Follow them and wax lexical.
A Roundup Of 5 Online Video Dictionaries You Can Have Fun With Or Use To Look Up Words
We have already seen some examples of online dictionaries that give us one-click access to meanings, synonyms, antonyms, usage, and more. Now in another helpful twist, we see the arrival of video dictionaries. Are video dictionaries really helpful, or are they mere entertaining video memes? You decide as I give you a roundup of five online video dictionaries to make use of.
Vocabulary Challenged? Try 8 Things On Dictionary.com To Improve Your English
Dictionary.com and its resources make it almost a portal that takes you on a journey of word discoveries. Word has it that it is probably the most frequented of online dictionary and reference sources on the web. Why not – after all you can do much more than merely look up a word here. Try these 8 for starters.
Vifine ALL The Things With Vifinition, The Crowdsourced Video Dictionary
A while back, I wrote a little bit about Tagdef, an online Twitter hashtag dictionary. Just as a recap, it's a whole lot like the old Urban Dictionary, something that most of us have visited at one time or another. However, what if you could take the original Urban Dictionary and bring it to life? Enter Vifinition, a spiritual successor of the original Urban Dictionary.
Learn Common English With This Online Video Dictionary
Search any word or phrase and get relevant video examples to undertstand their meaning with the help of this English video dictionary.