Other Useful Sites



AltaVista Translation Service
This site offers a computerized translation service from English into French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. With a few simple commands, it can also translate a website from English into another language. The translations are largely comprehensible, but often amusingly unidiomatic.

Blackwell's Bookshops
You can purchase books online from Blackwell's in Oxford, England. Blackwell's describes itself as the "world's finest academic bookseller."

Canadian Site: Canada
A web page with many links to information about Canada organized thematically: Government and General Information, History, Geography, Famous Canadians, Natural Resources, Industry and Business, Culture, Education, Travel, Communication, Sports, and Wildlife.

The ESL Cafe Bookstore
Dave's ESL Cafe together with Amazon Books take orders for ESL/EFL materials from around the world, and deliver them anywhere in the world.

Canadian Site: Multilingual Translation Technology Centre
The website of the MTTC of the University of Toronto provides access to on-line translation software, many electronic multilingual dictionaries, and other translation tools.

Canadian Site: Ontario Ministry of Education and Training
This site provides information about the ministry and its various agencies, news releases, statements of the minister, statistics, directories, course guides, useful addresses, and publications. Links to some of these publications allow you to read the items in their original format by means of Adobe Acrobat software.

The Virtual CALL Library
This site aims to be a central point of access to computer assisted language learning (CALL) software on the internet which is available for downloading.

A Web of On-Line Dictionaries
Excellent English dictionary as well as links to more than 350 on line dictionaries of over 100 different languages, including multilingual and specialized dictionaries and thesauri. A very useful site!


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