Christine Burgmer | Blog

Listen to or read the VOA’s words and their stories – this time fish expressions.

I posted a link to Paul Smith’s One-Word-A-Day some time ago.  If you would like to learn a new word every day, why not follow the following Twitter accounts?:

http://twitter.com/wordaday

http://twitter.com/awordaday

http://twitter.com/awad

http://twitter.com/offaehrte

According to its authors’, you can use Linguee.de to “search for words and expressions in many millions of bilingual texts in English and German.  Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences.”  I looked up the phrase “thank you for your” and came up with some nice examples…

The BBC’s Learning English website can help you understand the “Words in the News” and keep you up to date with world affairs and latest research results.  For example, did you know that tall people earn more?

Subscribe to One-Word-A-Day and receive a new word or idiom every weekday.  Test yourself immediatey with Paul Smith’s amusing mini-quiz, check the German translation and then listen to the pronunciation.

Another lovely little tool.  Wordle generates ‘word clouds’ out of text which you provide.

Just to give you an idea, here’s the Wordle of the first two verses of the poem “What is Life?”…

… and here’s the Wordle of my website’s homepage.