| » bilingual dictionary 1 |
"LEO" - mainly suitable to look up individual words |
| » bilingual dictionary 2 |
"PONS" - see short comment above |
| » monolingual dictionary |
"OALD" - mainly suitable to look up collocations and phrases |
| » a word a day |
for (fairly) advanced students - subscribe (it's free) and you'll get a word a day per e-mail, including its pronunciation and example sentences |
| » pronunciation 1 |
study the letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet interactively - in order to get the pronunciation of any new English word right |
| » pronunciation 2 |
see short comment above |
| » the Past tenses |
explanations and exercises |
| » grammar etc. |
interactive exercises and explanations |
| » skills 1 |
the "Learn English Website" of the British Council: grammar explanations and games, listening comprehension exercises, etc., etc. |
| » skills 2 |
the "Skillswise Website" of the BBC |
| » listening comprehension |
a large collection of excellent BBC radio programmes, which makes it possible for you to listen to passages of your choice again and again at your leisure - no vocab help though |
| » literature (etc.) |
a brilliant website for students and teachers interested in literature (and more), provided and regularly updated by Mr Fischer |
| » British humour |
some of the information (as usual on Wikipedia) is to be taken with a pinch of salt: most texts are very good - some, on the other hand, may be of rather debatable quality |