A nice online dictionary where you can find over 5000 idioms and phrases clearly explained .
You can enter a word or a phrase or you can browse the dictionary by letters.
Do you know the meaning of ..
you don’t ? Well, I guess now, you know where to look them up!
We all know how difficult it is to write, even more in a foreign language. More often than not we look up words in dictionaries only to find that it offers so many possibilities for the translation of the word that we don’t know which one to choose for the context we need. In fact, sometimes it doesn’t help us at all but makes things more complicated as we don’t know which word to use to mean what we want to express and we end up completely frustrated. Here, Linguee can help us as it is a bilingual dictionary but in context.
Let’s see how it works. Click on the word Linguee and it’ll take you straight to the dictionary. Try the Spanish idiom ” darlo por hecho” … see? Helpful , isn’t it?
Now, let’s try a single word such as “terminar” .
Now it works as a dictionary with an expandable list of the words in context and the added possibility of listening to some of the translations.
Give it a try, I’m sure it’ll help you a lot improve your writing skills!
I have found this site only today http://www.what2learn.com/ and I can’t wait to share it with you. It has lots of interactive 
exercises although most of the published games won’t be of any use to you as they deal with Maths, History and some other subjects.
But it has some games devoted to spelling and this is where you can do a lot of practice. I especially like the game below these lines because it trains your ears too. If you feel it’s too easy for you , you can always click here and choose a harder level or play hangman or whatever you fancy.
This site also allows me to create my own interactive games and I’ve decided to try the hangman game first and see what it looks like…. awesome!!! Come on ..what are you waiting for??? Play the game and guess the word before Grandma is abducted by aliens.. Target language : Sports. Level: Pre-intermediate
I’ve been using this pronunciation dictionary for quite a long time and I love it for several reasons:
♥ You can find almost any word here and this includes proper names as it is the world’s largest English pronouncing dictionary.
♥ You enter the word and you submit it. When it appears in pink, mouse over it to hear it spoken as often as you want. You don’t have to wait a second as it is individually pre-recorded!!
♥ You can translate the word into Spanish or any other language using the Google Translate and then get the definition for the word .
I hope you like it as much as I do.
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It is called Visuwords and it’s worth a visit.
Never before have I seen such a display of colours, diagrams and words in a dictionary. It is great for everybody to use ‘cause it’s fun and it shows not only the definitions of words but also the connections between words. What’s more, if you place your cursor over any of the words ,the definition appears. You can even click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.If you ver get lost in this crazy tree of words ,use the colour-coded key on the left to understand the connections between the words.