Our review of the Free Dictionary

The Free Dictionary

1. What skills can you practice on this site? The Free Dictionary is a good website for to develop some important skills like vocabulary, spelling words, pronunciation, reading, a little bit of grammar, idioms, and more that can help you with your knowledge. Also, you can explore articles and links including an English language form a continuous spelling bee, a word of the day news links and much more.
2. How do you practice these skills? You can develop this skills in different ways, for example for to know new vocabulary you can search any word that you don’t know and the site spell the word and it give you the definition. For pronunciation, there’s a play “spelling bee”, in this play you have to figure out some words and the site allow you to listen them too. For reading there are some and different articles everyday that you can read and in the same time it help you to develop your knowledge about famous characters, history, news, and some more. If you need help with vocabulary in grammar, the free dictionary give you examples like how to make good sentences and it help you how to use the word inside the sentence. The side contain idioms also and you can read the different meanings and to read some examples too.
3. Who should visit this site? All student in the ELC with different levels should to use this website, because there are a lot of good and advanced information for to practise English, and an important advantage is that they can use this website in any languages that they need. Also, you not only know how to use the words at once but also learn a new word and use it well in your daily life. It will helps you in English a lot.
4. What does the website look like? The side look like very interesting because the amount of information that you find in the home page. There are a lot and different sections for click and learn. Read section occupies the greater part of the screen, and the first that you can see also is all languages that you can use in this page. In addition, the games that the page have look likes funny and in the same time you are learning.
5. Who created the website? The website “freedictionary.com “ is owned and operated by a company called Farlex Incorporated. They are a privately owned independent company based out of Huntington, Pennsylvania. Farlex Inc owns many online reference products to include the free-dictionary, the free-library, and the definition-of.com. We can trust the knowledge we find on “freedictionary.com” because information found on the website is cross-referenced with the Columbia Encyclopedia, Hutchinson Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, among other reference resources.
6. What do you like about the site? I like this website because it has a variety of different online tools that I can use to find information I need to understand words and how they are used. I can search for definitions in the search window. After reading the definition if I still don’t understand the word I can use the translator tool to change it into my language to read it more easily. Also has fun things like the word of the day that help me to learn new ways to express myself. Also it has links to the news and weather so I can watch the world around me while I work on homework and study.
7. What do you dislike about the site? I dislike the format that the site is presented in. The website is too busy and it’s hard to find what I’m looking for sometimes. If I’m only looking for definitions it’s easier to use dictionary.reference.com because it’s easier to operate. If I need to translate anything I can use the tools built into my computer or use the google website translator tool. Also that I can’t write my language to do a search makes it hard to find the right words to express myself.
8. Would you recommend this site to other students? I recommend this site because have different ways how to develop all the student’s skills. Also, it`s good way to improve my English skills , They give me some new words ,and can use them well in daily life.I recommend it because the more important thing is that there are a lot of international students, so they need to use it in their own language for understand all very good.