FREE ONLINE TOOLS | PRO TIPS
Want to improve your English skills? No time for boring courses? ⏰📚
You’re lucky, because a certified linguist on the blockchain will guide you through the realm of the interwebs, here to share you some online tools you can use to improve your English instantly!
In this video, I tried my best to quickly explain (and not get carried away for 40 minutes) what you can do with my favourite online sites that have helped me with my writing immensely!
Also, I’m going to show you one example sentence where you could apply some of these tools. 💡
And even if your English is impeccable, you’ll have even more fun exploring these sites!
OCCASIONS WHEN THE TOOLS COME IN HANDY
When you want to:
- express yourself more precisely
- write an engaging, exciting Steemit article
- write the best essay possible
- quit your job with a flair
- come up with the best insults (be careful though, the vibes may come back to you)
Hopefully, you’ll get to using thesaurus so often that at one point you won’t even need it!
❗️WARNING: excessive abuse of the-thesaurus-method (swapping every word with a fancier one) may lead to CRAP like this:
the sublime beauty of the purity of line seems very disturbing in light of the remarkable handling of light.
For authentic CRAP, refer to: http://www.pixmaven.com/phrase_generator.html
THE LINKS:
Find out what words mean here:
https://www.dictionary.com
https://www.thesaurus.com
https://dictionary.cambridge.org
https://www.merriam-webster.com
https://www.oxforddictionaries.com
Find out which words go together:
http://ozdic.com
https://skell.sketchengine.co.uk/run.cgi/skell
https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
Find out the true meaning of words:
https://www.etymonline.com
Grammarly:*
https://app.grammarly.com
*free version works fine as well for your basic needs
Have fun and wishing you all the best in your improvement!
Bookmarked.
This is a great summary of tools that I can refer colleagues and students to.
The urban dictionary is also a valuable resource for slang, or terms and definitions that don't exist in most common dictionaries
Hey!
Wonderful that you find them useful and can share with others :)
Yes, urban dictionary opens a whole new level of interpretation. :D
Nice!
Cams, are you insulting me? :o
Moi? How could you think that? ;)
After completing an etymological forensics, I had to suspect that, Cams. But perhaps you were thinking of the 16th century meaning. 😀
Heh heh. Seriously though, this is a great use of the platform! I'm slipping further and further behind with both keeping up and creating so I'm glad I caught this. It's right up my alley. I did TEFL for a couple of years and enjoyed it, but that was before the Internet was really much of a thing. Hard to imagine now! I taught in a state school and private biz school in Odessa, then in a private school in Sochi.
It's funny; I miss languages a lot. I studied Russian for eight years and worked with it for 12 after that. Now I barely use it at all. Seems like a waste in many ways.
My daughter is just going into 3rd year at high school when the kids here choose their subjects. She dropped French! It was her best subject and her teacher is disappointed, as are we, but it's her schooling, right. I dropped French at that age too, so I suppose it's just part of her path.
Anyway; keep the linguistics posts coming if you can. You've got a big fan right here in Scotland!
That's really good inside my dear @art.life and something I have to improve for sure over the next time. Have a lovely day! Greetings from Barcelona
Thanks @hauptmann :) I hope this is useful in any way to you.
Uhh.. What a dusty topic... languages zzz
But you did a very good, nice and fresh way to handle this topic ! Nice nice nice !!! (oops)
I think it is also a pretty creative idea to make this kind of video and to show all these productive tools without wasting time. No we are able to handle our language problems. Yeah!
And you clarified really well why we should consider using a thesaurus to find synonyms or look for prepositions and so on. Many thanks for the etymonline.com tip! Now I will loose so much time by searching for every kind of word also there. Haha
It could be that you changed my english skills more than all my teachers before because you should the interesting and fun way to improve english. Thanks!
P.S. the eggplant is everywhere !
Aw, thanks, I'm so happy to hear that I could raise interest in what some regard as a boring topic - language. :) And it's fantastic that I could give you some useful knowledge. I guess I'm a good blockchain teacher 🤓😄
Yay, that's what I love about these online tools, they make writing much easier!
And I know, etymonline is a jewel. The roots and the initial meanings are so interesting to look up.
Cheers! ✌🏼
Your skills in English are amazing. You speak English almost like a native american, amazing! I studied English during more than seven years when I was student at school. I don't speak as well as you. Congratulations!
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