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Courses
https://www.50languages.com
book2 https://www.goethe-verlag.com/book2/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/
Intermediate - Upper-Intermediate English Resources
Grammar:
References
Dictionaries & Reference
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/oxfordonlineenglish
Corpora
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Media
YouTube Channels
Cinema
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https://learningenglish.voanews.com
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How to Help an ESL Student with Her Accent?
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https://www.blackcat-cideb.com/en/
Forums
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Lists of links
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SRS & language tools
Language exchange
Wikipedia in Simple English
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Resources for learners of American English
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&p=76985&sid=b318d61f3b820da6f62996aeb1e5ba6d#p76985
Old English
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =19&t=9170
Middle English
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =19&t=2788
English resources
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I thought I might add my favourite resources that I use on a daily basis and noticed the blank space under corpora:
The absolute biggest and a free set of corpora is:
https://www.english-corpora.org/
I paid about $100 AUD to get full access to it for 3 years. So if anyone needs help with anything using it, let me know. Even though I paid, there are still some limitations to what can be searched. In particular, I wish I could run POS variable length queries.
The other much less known, but a wonderful video based corpora is:
https://yohasebe.com/tcse/
The cool thing with this one is that you can do variable length queries with less frequent words.
Finally you may have noticed I still have some frustrations with both of them. This is where creating your own corpus becomes the best solution and tagging it for me is best done with the very sophisticated
CLAWS 7 tagset online for free:
http://ucrel-api.lancaster.ac.uk/claws/free.html
I have used free concordancers like ANTCONC, but find it freezes up for the type of complex tasks I demand.
https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
I have settled now on and am extremely pleased with the free 'notepad++' for all my language research and coding.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
It can do 'search and replace' with regular expressions across multiple files you have open and locate the language you are looking for without crashing
If anyone wants help with regular expressions let me know. I have learnt it as a new language of sorts over the last few years and it is just mind-blowing what kinds of things it can locate and do.
Then there are two must-see learner corpus referenced sites: The English Grammar Profile
https://englishprofile.org/english-gram ... egp-online and the English Vocabulary Profile http://vocabulary.englishprofile.org/st ... about.html
Both of these use the CEFR levels to define the language that is presented.
Hope this helps anyone interested in language exploration from real texts.
ps. I have no affiliations with any of these sites.
The absolute biggest and a free set of corpora is:
https://www.english-corpora.org/
I paid about $100 AUD to get full access to it for 3 years. So if anyone needs help with anything using it, let me know. Even though I paid, there are still some limitations to what can be searched. In particular, I wish I could run POS variable length queries.
The other much less known, but a wonderful video based corpora is:
https://yohasebe.com/tcse/
The cool thing with this one is that you can do variable length queries with less frequent words.
Finally you may have noticed I still have some frustrations with both of them. This is where creating your own corpus becomes the best solution and tagging it for me is best done with the very sophisticated
CLAWS 7 tagset online for free:
http://ucrel-api.lancaster.ac.uk/claws/free.html
I have used free concordancers like ANTCONC, but find it freezes up for the type of complex tasks I demand.
https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
I have settled now on and am extremely pleased with the free 'notepad++' for all my language research and coding.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
It can do 'search and replace' with regular expressions across multiple files you have open and locate the language you are looking for without crashing
If anyone wants help with regular expressions let me know. I have learnt it as a new language of sorts over the last few years and it is just mind-blowing what kinds of things it can locate and do.
Then there are two must-see learner corpus referenced sites: The English Grammar Profile
https://englishprofile.org/english-gram ... egp-online and the English Vocabulary Profile http://vocabulary.englishprofile.org/st ... about.html
Both of these use the CEFR levels to define the language that is presented.
Hope this helps anyone interested in language exploration from real texts.
ps. I have no affiliations with any of these sites.
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