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Word Reference - English/Italian, Italian/English
Cambridge Dictionary - Monolingual
Urban dictionary - For urban/slang terms (some quite offensive)
PhraseUp - a clever tool that helps you find missing words. Particularly good for checking prepositions.
1000 most common nouns - Do you know all of them?
Phrasal Verbs Demon - List of common phrasal verbs and corpus, to see them in context.

engVid - hundreds of free video lessons, taught by native English-speaking teachers.
TED - inspiring talks by experts from various fields. Subtitles and script are available for most videos.
Do Lectures - Lots of interesting videos similar to TED
Channel4News - video clips from channel with lots of free mini-lessons on English sounds and grammar.
Planet Word - A five-part BBC series by Stephen Fry about language. Carefully created and passionately presented, this series covers linguistic diversity, language death, identity and language, writing system and literature.

Speech Accent Archive - hundreds of English accents for you to listen to, from different regions of the UK and around the world.
BBC Desert Island Discs - entertaining series from BCC Radio 4, which has been going since 1942.
BBC Word of Mouth - Micheal Rosen shares his love of words and looks at our lives past and present through the prism of language.
BBC Podcast - subscribing to a weekly podcast is a great way of maintaining contact with spoken English. All BBC podcasts can be downloaded automatically and fro free or on i-Tunes. Here are some suggestions: Grammar Challenge - The English We Speak - 6 Minutes English - English at Work - One to One
Lexicon Valley - A very entertaining Washington DC-based podcast about the oddities of a language, free on i-Tunes.
Our Language in Your Hands - Linguist Mark Turin visits Nepal, South Africa, and New York to explore the fate of the world's endangered languages.

The Guardian - English newspaper with a great website, containing articles about World News, Sports, Politics, Culture and beyond. It also has a section dedicated the learning English
On this day - articles from key events in the past, from BBC's archives

Random Idea English - Fantastic resource for teachers and advanced students.
A-Z of ELT - Insightful blog in teaching methodology and English Language in general, by Scott Thornbury.
The Round - An independent collective of creative individuals in English language teaching'. They have a particularly interesting section on how to be a Subversive Teacher, which support their book.
Mind your language - Guardian blog on language use.
On language - The New York Times column about language
Games with Words - Research, findings, and controversies in language.
Fluent Language - Collection of more academic language blogs. Ben Zimmer's writing is particularly interesting.
Word routes - Great blogsfrom the Visual Thesaurus site.
Oxford Words - a blog by Oxford Dictionaries.
The Visual Linguist - Interesting blog about language by the writer Susan Harvey.
Take Our Word for It - A free monthly webzine dedicated to etymology.
Sentence First - Independent English language blog by an Irishman called Stan Carey.

Word shake - how many words can you find?
Vocabulary list - All sort of lists relating to works of literature, historical speeches and more bizarre groupings (e.g. 29 words to do with 'smell' or 25 way of walking!)
Wordclouds - Let's you make word clouds.
Word stories - The Etymological part of the OED's content on the 'Aspects for English'.
Fun with words - Fantastic word stats.

Ethnologue - An Encyclopaedic reference work cataloguing all the world's 6.909 known living languages!
Endangered Languages Project - Explore the world's least spoken languages.
Living Tongues - Institute for Endangered Languages
Terralingua - An NGO with the aim of supporting biocultural diversity. They have a great publication called Langscape which you can download for free.
UNESCO - Atlas of Endangered Languages

Butterfly English School è una scuola privata di lingua che offre corsi di inglese ad Aosta per bambini, ragazzi, adulti ed aziende.

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