The website of the Week!

I know, I know! Holidays are for having fun, going out etc. but in the mean time, it's alright to get a bit nerdy and check out the most interesting websites ever.

This week I've read a couple of nice things on the site below:
The Shakespeare Resource Center. You'll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information on William Shakespeare.

Enjoy your summer holidays...

... and if you have any questions related to grades, re-examinations, etc., please visit the Faculty of Letters and Arts Forum, at LBUS, post them there and... wait for my answer!

In the mean time, don't forget to visit my blog from time to time as I'll continue posting useful and sometimes just funny information on the same old set of subjects, such as student life, learning tools and free literature on the Web.

Online Summer School :)

"An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware." (OpenCourseWare website)

In other words: free education for all. Let's not discuss get into ethical issues here; just run a search and tell me what you think!

Recommended AcademicEarth Course

"Milton", a lecture by John Rogers. Many thanks to Academic Earth!

The Internet Polyglot

The Internet Polyglot provides us with a great example of a CALL system. Funny games/tests on many topics: insurance, medical terms, etc. Just 21 for now but it looks promising!

WordNet

"WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing."
Click HERE to go to the WordNet® webpage!

Linguee.com/Linguee.de

... or the web as a dictionary! I haven't tested this yet, but it basically helps you to check terminology, phrases and sentences in a bilingual environment, i.e. English-German, German-English. Read the authors' description of this FREE service, test it and tell us what you think (use the "comment" option as, unfortunately, we won't have the chance to meet again in our translation/interpretation class this year):

"What is Linguee? With Linguee, you can search many millions of bilingual texts in English and German for words and expressions. Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences.
What is the benefit?When you translate texts to a foreign language, you usually look for common phrases rather than translations of single words. With its intelligent search and the significantly larger amount of stored text content, Linguee is the right tool for this task. You find:

• In what context a translation is used
• How frequent a particular translation is
• Example sentences: How have other people translated an expression?

By searching not only for a single word, but for a respective word in its context, you can easily find a translation that fits optimal in context. With its large number of entries, Linguee often retrieves translations of rare terms that you don't find anywhere else." (www.linguee.com)