As well as being a dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online has several resources that could be useful to advanced learners,
including a new Top Ten Words
This blog is aimed mainly at advanced students of English as a foreign / second language, although it will hopefully also be of some interest to teachers. I intend it to be a mishmash of lessons, exercises and the occasional opinionated rant about the English language.
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Saturday, September 3, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Political vocabulary on YouTube from the UK parliament's user channel
The UK parliament has its own YouTube channel. Perhaps of most interest to advanced learners is this series of short educational videos. These are, I imagine, aimed at young people in Britain, but they have subtitles and are quite light-hearted, so could be also be used by learners as the source of some vocabulary related to government and politics etc.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Merriam-Webster on YouTube
For queries about British English usage, my first port of call is usually Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, but I'm increasingly becoming a fan of the American Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. I especially like their Top Ten Words features and vocabulary quizzes.
I've now discovered that they have a YouTube channel with very short (two minutes or less) videos on various aspects of English.
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