Looking for online English lessons? It’s winter and it’s perfect time for outdoor activities, right? So, you can start your learning from the lesson that will teach you basic vocabulary about winter sports. For example: skiing, snowboarding, or apres ski. This video is provided by english-online.org.uk then visit the website for English language lessons.

I found this site lingo24.com is offering online translation service during 24 hours.
I’d like to try it – looks interested.

I’ve found great site for learning foreign languages.
http://www.busuu.com/
7 days free trial.
You can choose to learn English, French, Spanish, German, Russian.
You start from simple level, execute exercises and up to the next level.
you are learning vocabulary, writing text, could choose somebody online from native speakers to talk with, answer on questions. You also get texts to edit in your native language and get starts for that.
Very friendly designed site with option to meet new people and to practice in conversation.

Strongly recommended!

This term is using when you want to describe something that spreads swiftly via the Internet. Meme is a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation); “memes are the cultural counterpart of genes”. So any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another can be called as Meme.

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The British scientist Richard Dawkins coined the word “meme” in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, beliefs (notably religious beliefs), clothing fashion, and the technology of building arches.

Is it possible to learn language on You Tube? Did you try? There are many ways to learn language then no doubt You Tube is one of them.

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The author of these 6 amazing video is And Khaled, who has done a great job in presenting the Arabic for the beginner learner of the Arabic alphabet.

There are many online source you can find the help on the way to learn contemporary written and spoken English and the, for instance one of them is BNC, very large corpus, where you have chance to learn and check yourself. Now it has only recently been released for distribution to North America but it can be accessed by (purchased) CDROMs (not what we are talking about here), on a trial basis using the downloadable interface SARA, and in a simplified way, online, where you get the first 50 lines using the queried word or phrase (unless there are fewer in all the corpus–then you get all). Each word of the corpus is tagged for Part of Speech (produced using the CLAWS automated tagger); the “parts of speech” used are several times more numerous than the schoolbook 8 or 9; the largest set of tags (144) gives the fewest ambiguous taggings. The entire corpus is tagged with TEI markup and has a very thorough and useful guide to corpus analysis written by xx and Lou Burnard. This is online and can also be downloaded for study or purchased as a book from Oxford University Press. Just check http://corp.hum.ou.dk/corpustop.html

WordNe is also an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.” It is a “thesaurus” on psycholinguistic principles developed by George A. Miller and others at Princeton. The on-line version takes words as input and returns synonyms, hypernyms, (if nouns) coordinate words (words with same hypernym); if verbs, it also returns troponyms (instead of hypernyms) and entailments. computes lexical spaces for different types of texts and reduces those spaces statistically to locate the key vocabulary in a space of (usually) several hundred vectors. It follows that what is a related word in one domain of discourse (say, Cardiology) will not necessarily be related in another domain (MesoAmerican History or Literary Criticism). Try, for example, heart. (Databases for only a few domains are available on line.)

If you are interested in computes lexical spaces for different types of texts and reduces LSA is spaces statistically to locate the key vocabulary in a space of (usually) several hundred vectors. It follows that what is a related word in one domain of discourse (say, Cardiology) will not necessarily be related in another domain (MesoAmerican History or Literary Criticism). Try, for example, heart. (Databases for only a few domains are available on line.)

Any sample of text can then be matched against the normal vector space and the degree of its “standardness” can be computed. LSA’s developers, headed by Walter Kintsch and Thomas K. Landauer at University of Colorado, claim that it is able to “recognise” student papers as proper to a particular disciplinary domain, and hence can function as an automatic paper grader. LSA goes far beyond a simple measure of the different lexical frequencies of words in different domains (i.e. a simple jargon-matcher) to measure the dependencies of word sets and chains. They claim to grade essays in the disciplines studied as reliably as ETS-trained graders. You can submit a paragraph and have it analyzed and graded. LSA inspires many who teach writing in the disciplines with extreme fear and loathing.

LSA will also compute the degree of lexical cohesion between pairs of sentences in connected text. Again, this is relative to a discursive domain, so that a text that may be quite cohesive in one domain, or in a general college-freshman reading level, may be less or more so in other domains.

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