english semantics

Learn Natural English Phrases that People Really Use

Phrasemix is an excellent website for learning useful English phrases. We're not talking phrasebookish phrases like "Where is the toilet?", but real phrases that people actually use everyday. Things like "They set a pretty high bar for me" and "Can you fit me in this afternoon?".

Phrasemix has put together expressions and phrases that are used all the time by English speakers, ones that are incredibly helpful both for understanding what's going on around and being able to express oneself in new, varied ways ("To mix it up a bit!").

The website interface is clean and easy to navigate. All of the more recent phrases have a unique, specifically-designed cartoony image to illustrate them, which is great for committing them to memory. Currently the database has over a thousand English phrases and is growing steadily.

Phrasemix is highly recommended for more advanced English learners and also very useful for English teachers seeking practical materials for their lessons. Commenting is easy and encouraged, and questions are answered promptly about the phrases as well as in the Ask a Question section.

Altogether a great resource! Keep up the good work, Aaron :)

Summary

Study English News is a useful site for learning English by reading the news. Every day the site is updated with new content for beginner, intermediate and advanced English learners. Bascially, the same article is taken and written in three different ways to properly match the reading and vocabulary skills of these three levels. It's great!

The site also has an English proficiency test and grammar files. The latter provides the basics for many important English grammar points including present simple, possessive pronouns, adverbs and adverbs of frequency, comparatives, superlatives, present continuous, past simple, past simple irregular, future, 1st conditional, present perfect, past continuous, phrasal verbs, 2nd conditional and 3rd conditional.

From Website

Study English News is for anyone who wants to enjoy learning English. Read our interactive news articles, and resolve your grammar problems with our grammar files.

Use this site for fun, to study for exams or practise for important conferences. Visit us once a day and watch your English improve!

Study English News è un sito interattivo scritto tutto in inglese che ti permette di leggere le ulitime notizie in inglese al tuo livello. Clicca sulle parole che non conosci per ricevere subito una definizione. Visitaci ogni giorno e guarda come tuo inglese verrà migliorato!

Study English News est un site interactif entièrement rédigé en anglais qui vous permet de lire les dernières actualités à votre niveau d'anglais. Cliquez sur les mots que vous ne connaissez pas afin d'en lire la définition.

Study English News es un sitio web interactivo escrito todo en ingles que te permite leer las últimas noticias en tu nivel de inglés. Haz clic sobre la palabra que no conoces para ver su tradución.

Study English News 是個全新的互動網站，讓你依個人程度閱讀新聞。 點選反白的生字以獲取簡單易懂的解釋。

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Summary

If you don't know about Wikipedia, now is the time to find out! Especially since it is so useful in learning languages.

Wikipedia is the "Free Encyclopedia", a collectively-authored, dynamic, online encyclopedia that is free not only as in price, but also as in freedom. This means that the content you find anywhere on Wikipedia is free and open in the Public Domain. You can reproduce, redistribute and rehash the information there. This is empowered by the GNU Free Documentation License. This same license protects and empowers the content on Free Language! (How?)

This particular resource links to the Wikipedia entry on the English language. This entry contains loads of information for the curious reader as well as for the serious English language learner, including historical and linguistic data.

Use this resource to become familiar with the English language and its context in today's world, to discover facts and linguistic data about English and its many varieties, access further information about and resources for learning English, and much more.

From Resource

English is a West Germanic language originating in England, and the first language for most people in Australia, Canada, the Commonwealth Caribbean, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America (also commonly known as the Anglosphere). It is used extensively as a second language and as an official language throughout the world, especially in Commonwealth countries such as India, Pakistan and South Africa, and in many international organisations.

Modern English is sometimes described as the global lingua franca. English is the dominant international language in communications, science, business, aviation, entertainment and diplomacy. The influence of the British Empire is the primary reason for the initial spread of the language far beyond the British Isles. Following World War II, the growing economic and cultural influence of the United States has significantly accelerated the spread of the language.

Because a working knowledge of English is required in certain fields, professions, and occupations, English is studied and spoken by up to a billion people around the world, to at least a basic level. English is one of six official languages of the United Nations.

Visit "English Language" on Wikipedia.

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GNU Free Documentation License