Dictionaries, Languages and Writing

Courses and Dictionaries, Individual Foreign Languages

Chinese
The complete text of the Chinese-English dictionary 'Chinese characters: a genealogy and dictionary'.
http://www.zhongwen.com

French
Wordreference site
http://wordreference.com/

German
Dictonary on LEO - Link Everything Online site.
http://dict.leo.org/

German
BEOLINGUS dictionary, from the Chemnitz University of Technology. Includes 700,000 translations with examples and hints, explanations, synonyms, sayings, aphorisms, quotations in English and German and browse lists for special topics. You can listen to German and English pronunciations spoken by native speakers.
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/

Greek, Ancient
For ancient Greek, click the check box. Gives words in both Greek script and our Roman script. Also gives links to online Greek course and Greek spell checker. This is the Cyprian Kypros-Net site
http://www.kypros.org/ cgi-bin/ lexicon

Greek, Ancient
Textkit - downloadable Greek grammars, readers and dictionaries and other resources that can help you learn ancient Greek
http://www.textkit.com/

Greek, Ancient
Ancient Greek Online - a useful site for the more advanced student. Gives several extracts from Greek texts, including the opening books of the Iliad, in the original with mouse-over translations, plus brief help on the alphabet, grammar, poetic meter and pitch accent
http://www.ancientgreekonline.com/

Greek, Modern
Filoglossia - a beginners' guide to learning Greek, with sound files
http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/ filog/

Greek, Modern
Modern Greek dictionary (make sure the check box for ancient Greek is not ticked). Gives words in both Greek script and in our Roman script. Also gives links to online Greek course and Greek spell checker. This is the Cyprian Kypros-Net site
http://www.kypros.org/ cgi-bin/ lexicon

Indian Languages
Languages and scripts of India.
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/ %7Emalaiya/ scripts.html

Irish Dictionary
English-Irish and Irish-English dictionary
http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/

Italian
Wordreference site
http://wordreference.com/

Latin
Several specialist tools for Latin. To search dictionary headwords, click 'Dictionary Entry Lookup' to search dictionary headwords. To view a grammar, search for Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ cache/ perscoll_PersInfo.html

Latin
Textkit - downloadable Latin grammars, readers and dictionaries and other resources that can help you learn Latin
http://www.textkit.com/

Latin
Latin dictionary and grammar aid from the University of Notre Dame in the US.
http://archives.nd.edu/ latgramm.htm

Latin
'Getting started on classical Latin' course, part of the Open University's free 'LearningSpace' resources
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ course/ view.php?id=2654

Latin
'Read it right: a guide to Latin pronunciation' on the Classics Net site
http://www.classicsnet.plus.com/ readitright.htm

Latin, Medieval and Later
On the National Archives site, a beginners' guide and an advanced guide to the Latin used in documents between 1086 and 1733
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ records/ reading-old-documents.htm

Romanian
'Romanian lessons' web site giving you the basics
http://www.romanianlessons.com/

Romanian
'Romanian grammar' - a very detailed guide, on the web site of SEELRC, The Slavic and East European Language Research Center
http://www.seelrc.org:8080/ grammar/ mainframe.jsp?nLanguageID=5

Scots - Dictionary of the Scots Language
Electronic editions of "...the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the 12-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and the 10-volume Scottish National Dictionary (SND)...Together these 22 volumes provide a comprehensive history of Scots, and a New Supplement now (2005) brings the record of the language up to date"
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/ dsl/

Spanish
Wordreference site
http://wordreference.com/

Swedish
A dictionary from Sweden's Institute of Language and Folklore
http://lexin.nada.kth.se/ swe-eng.html

Thai
Lessons, audio clips, dictionary entries, images and illustrations and message boards
http://www.thai-language.com/

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