21. For AMBITIOUS ESL-Students (4)

Compare the different English speech accents.
That´s a very scientific approach. Audio + Text.
Browse by atlas/regions

Georg Mason University
The Speech Accent Archive, Huge Database
http://accent.gmu.edu

The Audio Archive, Audio/Text
http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml

BORED ???
Answer These Questions. NOW !
http://iteslj.org/questions/

Sentence Diagrams
http://www.geocities.com/gene_moutoux/diagrams.htm

14. For AMBITIOUS ESL-Students only (3)

Don´t hesitate, GO THERE and read and grasp this. Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking
http://www.uefap.com/listen/listfram.htm
University of Hertfordshire

11. For AMBITIOUS ESL-Students (2)

Tip for ambitious ESL-Students who are looking for collocations or concordances to improve their "English" or to do some lookups by using a text related context.

http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/?dict=en

For each word, the most significant words appearing

1. as immediate left neighbor
2. as immediate right neighbor
3. anywhere within the same sentence

are given.

There is also a free download version (mSQL) http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/download.html


Do some lookups at The Collins Wordbanks Online English corpus. It is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text. Check up some word, idiom or phrasal verb in rhetorical contexts. Notice the settings !. Take your time.

http://www.collins.co.uk/corpus/


BNC British National Corpus (100 million words)
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
+
BNC Information about multiple word queries:
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/using/index.xml.ID=simple


Webster (1913)
http://www.ibiblio.org/webster/#search_form
Notice the query syntax

Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/
Site is sometimes temporarily shut down

http://www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kmatsum/corpus/myconc.html

8. For AMBITIOUS ESL-Students only (1)

Do you prefer a holistic and systematic approach ?. You like it to see the big picture first and then fill in the details ?, Learn, comprehend it here from scratch, from the real functional structure. The real BIG Picture.

Analyze Memorize Rise

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/Roget/contents.html
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Words Related and Opposite in Meaning
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition, 1995

http://www.bartleby.com/62/31.html
http://www.bartleby.com/62/