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1. Improving Your English Skills

• Free English Lessons. As the name implies, this site has free exercises, games, and other stuff to help you improve your English skills.
• Quick Reference to English Vocabulary. This site organizes the study of English vocabulary around common English roots.
• Vocabulary Building. This site allows you to build your English vocabulary by studying the Latin and Greek elements in English.
• Online English Grammar. English grammar source providing English learners with a concise and accurate grammar guide.
• The ESL Cafe. The ESL Cafe is still one of the best American English help sites on the Web: grammar, chat, idioms, teacher's resources and much more.
• Edunet. Edunet may be the most in-depth English learning site on the Internet.
• Improve Your Listening Skills. If you have Real Audio, this site allows you to work through listening exercises similar to those included on the TOEFL. The exercises range from easy to difficult, and there are on-line tests with each exercise.
• Improve Your English Vocabulary. This site contains more than two dozen links to vocabulary building exercises.
• Improve Your English Grammar. This site contains on-line English grammar quizzes designed for English as a Second Language students. You can also receive an evaluation of your overall English skills from this site.
• Other Useful Links. This site provides links to material on such English language skills as listening, grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing. It also contains a section called "Fun Stuff."

2. Translating from English to Other Languages and from Other Languages into English
• On-Line Translation Dictionaries. Covers all the common languages, but also has out of the way languages such as Finnish and Frisian.
• The Basics of the Most Common Foreign Languages. Basic grammar and vocabulary for about 70 of the most common languages of our planet.
• AllWords.Com. An on-line English dictionary which pronounces English words for you and which also gives definitions, synonyms, and equivalent words in major languages such as French, Spanish, and German.
• British English vs. American English. An on-line dictionary of the differences between American English and British English.

3. On-Line Dictionaries, Thesauri, and So Forth

• The WWWebster Dictionary. This is the on-line version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. By the way, the expression "Webster's Dictionary" refers specifically to Merriam-Webster dictionaries.
• The WWWebster Thesaurus. This is the on-line version of Merriam-Webster Thesaurus.
• Roget's Thesaurus. This is the on-line version of the most famous English language Thesaurus.