Language-related links on the Internet are endless. Below is a minute sampling of useful sites. You are encouraged to add your own favorite websites by writing to our webmaster.
English Monolingual Dictionaries
www.merriam-webster.com
dictionary.reference.com/ (Dictionary.com)
https://ahdictionary.com (American Heritage Dictionary)
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com
Reference Sites that List More Dictionaries
www.proz.com/glosspost
www.lexicool.com/
www.yourdictionary.com/diction5.html#medicine
www.bikinfo.com/HTML/Langlink.html
www.angelfire.com/ga2/transcription/translinks.html (medical resources)
www.onelook.com/ (OneLook dictionary search)
Glossaries
See archived copies of the ATA Chronicle for an excellent series of articles containing a very large selection of glossaries on a host of topics: 6/06, 8/06, 9/06. 2/07, 3/07, 6/07, 7/07, and 9/07.
Technology Resources
• CAT tools
www.omegat.org/en/omegat.html (open-source)
www.sdl.com/campaign/lt/sdl-trados-studio-2014
www.wordfast.net/
anaphraseus.sourceforge.net/ (open-source, for translation memory)
• Software
www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/ (Dragon Naturally Speaking)
www.nuance.com/pdfconverter/standard/ (PDF Converter)
www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/efaxPlus (for faxing)
www.practiline.com/features.htm (for text counting and invoicing)
www.practicliine.com (for word count and line count)
www.internationalwriters.com/toolkit and www.internationalwriters.com/toolbox (Jost Zetsche’s technology tool biweekly newsletter and computer primer for translators)
www.openoffice.org/ (complete, open-source office software suite)
Term Searches
www.linguee.com (searches in different languages)
www.proz.com/?sp=ksearch#glosspost (search for specific terms by language)
www.wordreference.com/ (search for specific terms by language)
www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng (Termium term search in English, French, Spanish)
iate.europa.eu/iatediff/switchLang.do?success=mainPage&lang=en
Miscellaneous
www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html (Chicago Manual of Style Online)
www.acronymfinder.com/
www.metric-conversions.org/conversion-calculators.htm
www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk (British National Corpus, a 100-million word collection of samples or written and spoken language from a wide range of sources)
