York, Maine - Language

Language

Dictionaries
Grammar
- LOGOS Universal Conjugator
Translator
- Automatic Translation of text, including Web sites (Babelfish)
Specific Languages
- Hirgana Tutor
  Hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana and kanji; the Latin alphabet is also used in some cases. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana
- Treasury of the French Language (University of Chicago)
  The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of the Laboratoire ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.
- Goethe Institute (German)
Linguistics
- Languages of the World
- MIT's OpenCourseWare
Foreign Languages and Literature
- MIT's OpenCourseWare)
Online Etymology Dictionary
- Etymology
English Usage
- Language Corner
  Columbia Journalism Review
- Johnson
  The language blog of The Economist.
- The Economist Style Guide
  This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist.
- The Guardian Style Book
  (386 pages, 1.2 Mb pdf file)
Dictionaries of Idioms
- German Dictionary of Idioms: German-English/English-German (by Hans Schemann and Paul Knight)
  With idioms drawn from contemporary and classic texts, the mass media and from professional observation of the spoken language, the German Dictionary of Idioms is the most comprehensive dictionary of its kind. The vast array of phrases, clear presentation, and the new English-German supplementary volume make this unique dictionary indispensable for linguists, translators and learners needing an authoritative work on contemporary German idioms.

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