Heart Words in Spanish

The page “Heart Words in Spanish” on ReallyGreatReading introduces a resource of videos that review high-frequency English words, explained in Spanish. 

The idea is to help students with words that are hard to read or irregular: by showing how they are spelled, highlighting the tricky parts, and then providing follow-up practice activities. Teachers can use these videos before doing the exercises.

The site is part of Really Great Reading, which offers tools and methods for helping with reading instruction, especially for students who struggle with decoding.

https://www.reallygreatreading.com/heart-words-spanish

Swear words and profanities from around the world

Swear words and profanities from around the world is a resource dedicated to collecting and explaining curse words, insults, and profanities from different languages and cultures.

It serves as a reference for linguists, travelers, or those simply curious about global slang, and it generally highlights the diverse ways people express strong emotions or frustration across languages and regions.

Find this multilingual resource on:

https://profanity.acatcalledfrank.com/

Word Webs

Word Webs is an interesting tool for generating brainstorming sessions based on words. Each word entered automatically generates new words related to it, facilitating the suggestion of new concepts. New nodes can be created by clicking on a word or separating nodes. It is also possible to save them. 

This is a free project developed by Studio Bros. 

You can access it through this link:

https://wordwebs.app/home

Infinite craft by @nealagarwal

Neal Agarwal is known for creating interactive and creative web experiences. His projects often involve unique and engaging visualizations, animations, and interactive elements. Neal Agarwal has launched what he calls the first version of Infinite Craft, a procrastination game that involves combining elements in pairs to create new ones. Simply drag what is on the right side onto the main screen, overlapping what you want to combine. The fun part is that the effect is cumulative, and the newly created can be recombined to add more and more objects.

Although you start with basic elements like water, fire, and wind, soon others like plants, trees, and sand appear, and gradually, more elaborate and specific versions can be created, such as cacti, flowers, or cigarettes. According to Agarwal himself, there are more than 20,000 combinations.

https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ 

The Oxford 3000™

The Oxford 3000 is the list of the 3000 most important words to learn in English, from A1 to B2 level. An amazing online free resource. 

Find it on:

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/external/pdf/wordlists/oxford-3000-5000/The_Oxford_3000.pdf 

Semantris. Engage in AI-powered word association games

Play word association games with the help of semantic search. When you provide a clue, the AI examines all the words in play and selects the ones it believes are most closely related. Since the AI was trained on diverse conversational text, it can make various types of associations.

In Semantris' Arcade mode, the AI organizes the list, placing the most related words at the bottom. For instance, in the example given, it suggests that "Moon" is a more fitting response to "Sun" than "Teacher."

Semantris operates similarly to other word association games, where a person offers clues to assist their teammate in guessing the correct words. The unique aspect is that, in Semantris, you provide hints to an AI. As the AI might respond in unexpected ways, it's beneficial to experiment with different types of clues to understand its thought process and achieve the highest scores. Try using slang, technical terms, pop culture references, synonyms, antonyms, and even complete sentences.

https://research.google.com/semantris/

OneLook® Dictionary Search

This web site is a search engine for English words and phrases that shuttles you to the web based dictionaries that define the words for which you'd like a definition. 

More than 19 million words in more than 1000 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine. (Source: OneLook® Dictionary Search) 

https://www.onelook.com/ 

inogolo.com

Website devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people, places, and various things. The site contains thousands of pronunciations (most including audio clips) in English. The site can be searched or browsed alphabetically, by tag, or through topical pronunciation guides. 

inogolo.com provides an easy to use tool to help pronounce common English names and helps speakers pronounce difficult and commonly mispronounced names.

An inogolo name pronunciation app is available for iPhone 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inogolo-name-pronunciations/id1469322605 

Find it on:

https://inogolo.com/index 

SongsAndWords

Canciones de todos los géneros musicales en inglés con sus letras. Pueden buscarse a través de estilo, artista, etc. e incluso añadirse nuevas canciones al listado. 

Esta página incluye numerosos ejercicios de diversos tipos para mejorar el conocimiento de la gramática y el vocabulario en inglés. 

También se permite añadir nuevas palabras a un diccionario de creación personal.

Podéis visitar este recurso en:

http://www.songsandwords.com/

Word Search Creator

ABCYa.com Word Search Creator is a very useful template to generate word search puzzles in 3 easy steps. First of all, you name the puzzle, then you type or paste up to 15 words and select how you want to play (online or generating a printable document). 

Visit:

http://www.abcya.com/make_a_word_search.htm

disillusionment of 10 point font by @greg_condon

An amazing video by Greg Condon, filmmaker and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY.

Knoword.com

Knoword is a fast-paced word game that challenges your vocabulary, tests your typing skills, and stimulates your mind. 

Knoword gives you dictionary definitions and the first letter of a word and you have to guess the word within a specific time period to continue. After missing a few, you have to start over.

Funny and addictive.

https://knoword.org/

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/knoword?lang=es

On Facebook: https://es-la.facebook.com/knoword/