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The platform helps you learn the meaning of words and synonymy rows and keep track of how close in meaning words that are equally translated in English-Russian dictionaries are. It is good for expanding vocabulary while solving language problems: creating thoughts and texts and listening or reading comprehension.
Pros
- User-friendly interface
- Word of the Day feature
Cons
- For IPA transcriptions you need to go to the dictionary site
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This text editor is ideal for self-studying students as well as for language users who often automatically make the same mistakes in writing. The free version will help you proofread text and point out gross structural errors. The extended paid version also helps you get into stylistics: develop your intuition and "sense of language" and trace contextual features of speech.
Pros
- Works not only when text is uploaded to the site, but also checks spelling in other applications on your computer
Cons
- Insufficiently detailed explanation of errors
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A great podcast for general development and for practicing listening skills. Gives a wide range of topics, gives you cool topics for discussion!
Pros
- Varied, interesting topics
- Fluent, natural speech
Cons
- You need to make sure that the skill of listening to spontaneous speech has already been formed.
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I don't know a single person who listens to music and doesn't strive to get emotionally involved and feel what the performer is singing about. Knowing and understanding the lyrics helps bring the meaning of the song to life and give it meaning. On the platform, you can explore not only the text itself, but also, valuablely, user comments about what's behind a particular metaphor. The comments are usually taken from interviews with the authors and performers themselves. Using Genius, you can not only sing along competently, but also avoid the awful awkwardness of using your favorite quote from a song anywhere :)
Pros
- User-friendly interface
- Ability to learn idiomatic speech and new words
Cons
- The resource is intended for users who are confident in the language. For learners it is necessary to use the dictionary in addition
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A great resource for students who already have a certain knowledge base about the structure of the language: memories (albeit not always pleasant) of previous learning, for example, at school or university. The simulator helps to arrange the basic concepts in the shelves and contributes to the formation of intuition in the construction of sentences in English. More suitable for independent work or to accompany the lecture classes with practice and consolidation.
Pros
- There is both presentation of skills and practicing them
- Works on natural language material
- Allows you to monitor the acquisition of skills
- User-friendly interface
Cons
- For students with an experimental method of cognition - too theoretical and monotonous a resource
- For students with an analytical method of cognition - too much emphasis on repetition