As an English learner, I come across a lot of new words and idioms everyday and looking up every single word in the dictionary is often tiring and slow. So, over the years, I've found myself using online dictionaries more and more to the detriment of paper dictionaries. Why? In a nutshell, using online dictionaries save me a lot of time, as typing a few words in a search box it's much faster than manually leafing through a dictionary. Today, I'll write about two online dictionaries that I ended up using regularly because their tremendous usefulness.
My favorite online dictionaries
Wordreference.com: one of the best and ever-growing bilingual dictionaries on the net.
They support lots of languages, including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese,etc.
Definitions are straightforward, simple to understand and they often include examples.
Spanish, French and Italian verb conjugators are available as well.
There's a forum where you can ask native speakers about your grammar and vocabulary doubts. It's sort of a free language exchange community. You help the others and the let the others help you.
One of my favorite websites is Giveaway of the Day. Every day, they offer a commercial application as free download for 24 hours. Today, the giveaway is Paragon Partition Manager 10 Personal (current retail price: $39.95). For those of you who aren't familiar with the program, Paragon Partition Manager is an easy-to-use and comprehensive hard disk partition management tool. In short, its main features are:
Ability to create, move, resize and backup partitions.
Works on Windows 7, Vista and XP.
Support for a wide range of file systems on Windows (FAT, FAT32, NTFS), Linux (Ext2, Ext3) and Mac (HFS+).
File system conversion: Paragon Partition Manager converts a partition from one file system format to another without having to reformat.
Advanced partition defragmentation and error checking.
With the amount of music styles we have nowadays and new songs coming out every day, I wonder how many of you listen to classical music, a music genre that is certainly not very popular, especially among the young people.
Personally, I'm really fond of songs written in the XIX century, during the so-called Romantic era. And as a classical music lover, I often ask people why they don't like this type of music; the most common response I get is "classical music is boring". Well, if boring means beautiful, emotional, sensitive, calm and refreshing, I agree. :) I understand their view, however. Classical music isn't for everyone. Also, the sad, underlying truth is that our fast-moving society just seems to be incompatible with anything that transmits peace and calm. That said, I believe that by following a few basic steps anyone can enjoy the wonders of classical music.
Learn to enjoy classical music
Classical music is often difficult to understand for the untrained ear, so I'm writing this little guide to help introduce you to this wonderful music genre:
The time of the day matters: the best time for listening to classical music is in the afternoon or in the evening.
Prepare your room: get yourself comfortable (i.e lying down on your bed). Soft lights are a big plus.
Listening to classical music requires a change of mentality: it's EXTREMELY important that clear your mind completely and forget everything in your life before you hit the Play button. Once the music starts playing, close your eyes, breath calmly and open your mind.
Let the music transport to a new dimension.
Today's recommended song Ave Maria, by F.Schubert (beautiful and breathtaking song, often used in weddings and funerals)
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Hello all! Hope you all are fine wherever you are. This is my first post as a university student. :) My classes started last week and I've been busy moving to Barcelona and adapting myself to my new schedule.
My first two week experiences? In a nutshell, living in a big city like Barcelona is far more stressing than in a town, but I'm enjoying it. For instance, you have to keep an eye on all your belongings when travelling on the subway (a habit I don't have btw, having spend all my life in a town). On the bright side, life in a big city is always fun, there are lots of places to visit, hang out, etc. Maybe I will upload some photos later...:)
See you guys and girls!
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