dictionaries & glossaries

• Millenium překladové slovníky (A-Č, Č-A)
  
• seznam slovníků a glosářů Jednoty překladatelů a tlumočníků (JTP)
  
• Cambridge
  
• Longman Web Dictionary
  
• Macmillan online dictionary
  
• American-British, British-American Dictionary + related links
  
• Brief American-British, British-American Glossary
  
• 155,000 acronyms and their meanings

  look up words on the web

• Search the world wide web with WebCorp
• Simple Search of British National Corpus-World
  
• MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English)
  
• Just the Word - developed by Pete Whitelock of Sharp (UK). This gives you a detailed description of the company which a word keeps in modern-day English ... It combines the advantages of thesaurus and dictionary. Read the easy-to-use Getting Started, and get started. Enter a word and it returns significant data on collocations and colligation which we need when learning vocabulary thoroughly. This data is especially valuable in that it is preprocessed: we normally go through many separate steps to arrive at this. Furthermore when you click on the word combination in the list, concordances appear in the so-called KWIC format (key word in context), which allows you to observe further features, such as the domains and genres in which this is used. (Quoted from: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~thomas/EAP/concordancers.htm)

  when translating, check your Czech

• Český národní korpus, veřejný přístup ke korpusu PUBLIC
  
• Jazyková poradna Ústavu pro jazyk český AVČR (možno zaslat dotaz emailem – velmi dobrá služba)

  find out more about English

• Web Concordances
  
• This Web site is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases.
  
• English Synonym Dictionary with a multidimensional map
  
• Visual Online Thesaurus (take the guided tour first)
  
• Homophones by John Higgins, University of Stirling
  
• Homographs by John Higgins, University of Stirling

  download software to help you study English

• Concordance – software for text analysis
  
• MicroConcord – free software for text analysis
  
• A-Č, Č-A slovník ke stažení
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Study practical English online and have fun

• Interesting Things for ESL Students - a fun study site: word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more
  
• Business English Exercises
  
• Free resources for teachers of English
  
• Monash University English Learning Centre; web-based activities for ESL learners
  
• British Council webpage with lots of online exercises, songs, games, etc.
  
• Sounds of the world’s animals
  
• On this day (people and events, NY Times)