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Chinese - Learn Online - A directory of online resources to help with

learning
11 Rules of Writing - This site is a concise guide to some of the most
commonly
Darling's Guide to Grammar: habla sobre cmo e!itar el biased
lengua"e #con pre"uicios$ p% e"$ para las mu"eres: PARA USAR EN
VARIEDADES DEL INGLES)
1% &lements of 'tyle - by William 'trun(
)% &nglish and its *istory - a loo( at how the &nglish language has changed
o!er time$ from Old &nglish to the present%
&nglish as a 'econd Language *ome +age
&tymology of ,irst -ames$ The - This site loo(s into the meaning and history of
common first names
.% &!olution of Alphabets - e/ploration of early alphabets uses animation to
demonstrate the transformation of written characters o!er time%
0% ,oreign Languages for Tra!elers
1% -on!erbal 2ictionary of 3estures$ 'igns 4 5ody Language Cues - 6tems in
this 2ictionary ha!e been researched by anthropologists$ archaeologists$
biologists$ linguists$ psychiatrists$ psychologists$ semioticians$ and others
who ha!e studied human communication from a scientific point of !iew%
&!ery effort has been made to cite their wor( in the te/t%
7% On-line Chinese Tools - 8These pages hope to pro!ide tools to assist people
in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language%8
Omniglot: A 3uide to Writing 'ystems -This website pro!ides a guide to o!er 119
different alphabets$ syllabaries and other writing systems including a few you will
find nowhere else% 6t also contains details of many of the languages written with
those writing systems and lin(s to a wide range of language-related resources$
such as fonts$ online dictionaries and online language courses%
:% O/ymoron List ; +alabras contradictorias% The Largest List of O/ymorons
&!er Collected Online%8
<% +aradigm Online Writing Assistant - guide to writing$ composition$ rhetoric$
editing$ and style%
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19% +edro>s 2ictionaries
?ahoo@ - 3rammar$ Asage$ and 'tyle
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/linguistics_and_human_languages/languages/specific_languages/english/
grammar__usage__and_style/
MUY UTIL PARA VARIEDADES PR!UE TE DI"E "M EVITAR
DIS"RIMINA"I#N$ SE%ISM$ ET"
Tongue Twisters - the 8world>s largest collection of tongue twisters8 features close
to )$999 international entries
11% &e Do Languages "ome 'rom - We don>t as( oursel!es where languages
come from because they "ust seem to be there: ,rench in ,rance$ &nglish in
&ngland$ Chinese in China$ Bapanese in Bapan$ and so forth% ?et if we go
bac( only a few thousand years$ none of these languages were spo(en in
their respecti!e countries and indeed none of these languages e/isted
anywhere in the world% Where did they all come fromC This Duestion is
e/amined by this site by &/ploratorium EagaFine%
Ta(e Our Word ,or 6t - Archi!e of etymology Duestions
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html COOL PAA CO!
LAS "#S"AS L$%AS &$ '!A PALA(A )O"A O%AS.
http://www*personal.umich.edu/+cellis/antagonym.html ant,gonimos: pala-ras .ue pueden
significar una cosa y su opuesto
Glossar( o) "li*+,s -+tt-.//uto-ia01no2are0nl/users/s(3e4/*li*+e phrases to
say in times of trouble
2e!il>s 2ictionary$ The TGrminos de lo oscuro%
1)%2ictionary of 'ymbolism - This dictionary lists common literary symbols and
their connotations%
2ream 2ictionary
ETYMLGY SITES:
5ehind the -ame H &tymologyically 'pea(ing H ,un With Word Origins H Origin of
+hrases H +hrase ,inder H Roots of &nglish: an &tymological 2ictionary H Ta(e Our
Word for 6t H Wilton>s &tymology +age H Word 2etecti!e$ The H Word for Word H
Word with ?ou H Word 'py