Season's Greetings

Busy to appreciate beauty

In his 2003 book, Timeless Beauty: In the Arts and Everyday Life, British author John Lane writes about the loss of the appreciation for beauty in the modern world.

If we can't take the time out of our lives to stay a moment and listen to one of the best musicians on Earth play some of the best music ever written; if the surge of modern life so overpowers us that we are deaf and blind to something like that -- then what else are we missing?

There was a musician playing at the top of the Metro station at L'Enfant Plaza station in Washington D.C.



But no one knows that he is the best classical musician in America!

Tired of using technology

I'm tired of using technology
I need you right in front of me

From Milow blogging in English

Basic needs of animals

Basic Needs of Animals
Students will learn to identify the basic needs of animals, including shelter and living space through animations, definitions and games.

Top 200 University entries

To see the 2009 UNIVERSITY RANKINGS with the TOP 200 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD click here

Next banner includes 9000 Colleges and Universities ranked by web popularity in 200 countries.


But also you can see that today I publish into this blog the entry no. 200 and now I want to say THANK YOU!!! once again to all 8,878 visitors that have readed 15,743 pages of this English Portal in the last 6 months.

To celebrate I thought to share with you the top 10 most visited entries:

1) The Stranger - Orson Welles (151 reads)

2) Answers (139 reads)

3) Tibet Spirituality (117 reads)

4) Nice Translator (113 reads)

5) Notepad (111 reads)

6) Collins Mobile Dictionaries (107 reads)

7) 3D Alien Worlds Avatar Chat (107 reads)

8) View the Earth from Space (106 reads)

9) The weather in my city (105 reads)

10) Google News (104 reads)

I look forward to sharing many more entries with you, and hope that you keep reading!

Science songs

Science songs are a fun effective way for kids to learn about Science and the world around them.

Dover - Serenade

Dover is one of Spain's most important groups from the '90s.

Dover's next release will be in January or February 2010.

Lyrics | Dover lyrics - Serenade lyrics

Lyrics | Dover lyrics - Devil Came To Me lyrics

Double-click ANY word on these song's lyrics to read its definition and to hear its pronunciation.

Dover - Serenade lyrics

And I relate to my best friend, she would advice me 
She broke our code and she put on her jacket 
Now it scares me because she's really gone. 
And I relate to my best friend, do you remember? 
She was so young and now that we're burning 
They're scared because she's really gone. 

And if it's going to be my destiny 
I don't want to wait till it comes to me 
I will work so hard, my hands will hurt 
I will pay my sins, if so in hell. 
Serenade, serenade me 
They say and dry but I'm just sick 
Serenade me 
They say I'm cold but I'm just sick 
Serenade me 

And I relate to my best friend, she would advice me 
She broke our code and she put on her jacket 
Now it scares me because she's really gone. 

And if it's going to be my destiny 
I don't want to wait till it comes to me 
I will work so hard my hands will hurt 
I will pay my sins, if so in hell. 
Serenade, serenade me 
They say and dry but I'm just sick 
Serenade me 
They say I'm cold but I'm just sick 
Serenade me 

And if it's going to be my destiny 
I don't want to wait till it comes to me 
I will work so hard my hands will hurt 
I will pay my sins, if so in hell. 
Serenade, serenade me 
They say and dry but I'm just sick 
Serenade me! 
They say I'm cold but I'm just sick 
Serenade me! 
Serenade me! 

They say and dry but I'm just sick 
Serenade me! 

Lyrics | Dover lyrics - Serenade lyrics

New English Google Dictionary

I conceive that English Portal as the entry to other sites with helpful tools to learning the English language. Today I've linked to the new Google Dictionary with synonyms and a lot of links to Web definitions. Very useful!

Read Print

What is Read Print?

Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.

Over 8,000 online books by 3,500 authors at your fingertips!

Online Graphical Dictionary

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.

3D AVATAR FILM

The Third Dimension has come to get into our retinas.

It is a revolution on the Internet with virtual worlds such as Second Life where we move the avatars in a 3D world.

But December 18 Worlwide, in cinemas everywhere and also in Digital 3D the new film AVATAR, from James Cameron, that transport us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination.

Avatar Movie Clip - Thanator Chase

Avatar at IGN.com

Watch the AVATAR trailer:



Tell me if you like 3D movies, 3D worlds and 3D avatars.

ANIMA: a novel about Second Life

Ben Tao is the avatar of a fired programmer who hacks Second Life. As the digital and real worlds merge in his mental interchange, he uncovers a secret that affects all of humanity.

anima (n.) Psychology. Jung's term for the feminine part of a man's personality.

ANIMA: a novel about Second Life
by Dalian Hansen

R&D Investment Scoreboard

The 2008 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard presents information on 2000 companies from around the world reporting major investments in R&D.

European (8.8%) companies outpace American (8.6%) counterparts in R&D investment growth for the first time. The world's biggest investor in R&D in 2008 is Microsoft, with €5.6 billion. the first EU company is Nokia, in 5th place, with an R&D investment of €5.3 billion.

Read Press release in DE, EN, ES, FR

The pharmaceuticals & biotechnology sector reinforced its top position, accounting for more than 19 % of the R&D investments made by all Scoreboard companies together.



Page 1: Click on Read a transcript
Videos: Click on show captions

Watch the best on page 2 of GM Crops: Click the numbered countries on the map and after on all question mark (?) to know about tolerance and resistance of GM crops.

This interactive feature, an accompaniment to Science special issue on plant genomes, explores how advances in plant genome research are contributing to our understanding of plant biology and evolution and translating into tangible benefits for society such as improved crop varieties.

What are some of the arguments against gene patenting?

WHAT ARE WE EATING? Consumers hungry-for more information about Genetically modified (GM) food.

Natural Selection

On the Origin of Species (USE ONLY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE)

Darwin, C. R. 1859. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 1st edition.

Right click the mp3 links below and select Save for downloading free audio mp3 files of Darwin's works onto a computer or portable mp3 player.

In 21 mp3 files: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

Google automatic translate

Google's free online language translation service instantly translates text, web pages or document on the fly.

Hello my friends, enter text, a webpage URL or upload a document (submit your file as a PDF, TXT, DOC, PPT, XLS or RTF)

If you're learning English, you can click the speaker icon to hear a spoken version of your translation. This feature is currently only available for short translations to English.



Google Translate is an automatic translator -- that is, it works without the intervention of human translators, using state-of-the-art technology instead. Most commercial machine-translation systems in use today have been developed using a rule-based approach, and require a lot of work to define vocabularies and grammars.

Google Translate system takes a different approach; feed the computer billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation model.

Google Translate currently supports translation between any of 51 languages.

Virtual Waitress

My virtual bartender is at your service. All you have to do is to type in your commands into the white text box above, sit back and watch. Our virtual bartender does a lot more than just serve you beer.

Mind that the content, as far as I've seen, is decent and family safe.

Onion News Network

The Onion News Network is a daily web with satirical articles and videos.


Ford Unveils New Car For Cash-Strapped Buyers: The 1993 Taurus

Snow Mountains

Move your mouse over the mountains and you can fly. To stop the music and the flight click on ELECTRIC OYSTER below.

Which English Survey

Computer Dictionary

Welcome to the Digital Generation

Dive into the Future of Learning

Sync up with the new generation of connected learners. The Digital Generation Project presents video portraits of the lives of young students from around the country who are using digital media to learn, communicate, and socialize in new and exciting ways.

A free English lesson updated weekly

This lesson is aimed at all the people who are interested in the English language - mostly English as a Second Language (ESL) learners and teachers, but also people who would like to test their reading comprehension or their knowledge of English grammar (students, children, travel agencies...).
This lesson will feature either a test or a grammar page with exercises or a vocabulary page to expand one's vocabulary. There will be easy, intermediate and advanced lessons. Updated weekly! FREE!

Verbix Verb Finder

Enter any word -- VerbFinder finds out language and infinitive of the word!

TTS Emotional Sound

Powerful emotive cues enable users to customize the delivery of their text, controlling emotional content (laughing, crying, sneezing) and character behavior.

English To Do List

Add, manage and track your daily To Do Lists. Add your tasks and delete them directly from your list as you complete them during the day. Add To Do Lists to your Personalized Google Homepage.

You can use it to write your English vocabulary that you want to learn next days.

Comic Wonder Jokes

Google News

Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.

View the Earth from Space

SpotGallery from space to home.

Is a website produced by Spot Image, one of the world leaders in satellite imagery, offers the best images taken by Earth observation satellites.

Multilingual translation dictionary

Source language	Target language
English	Spanish
Translations by Majstro Aplikaĵoj

Foreign Exchange - Currency

Cross convert major foreign currency exchanges such as the dollar, euro, sterling, yen, yuan, and peso using the latest exchange rates. A simple interface that remembers your last conversion. Over 80 different types of currencies and trade items with graphs, charts and forex noci, exchange rates are updated every minute. Forex Currency Converter.

Simpson's Millionaire Game

How good is your Simpson's knowledge? Try the Simpsons Who wants to be a millionaire game.

Virtual Earth Maps

Browse our Earth using the latest maps from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Flash Map. See the world!

Move the map: click & drag, press the arrow keys or click on the compass points.

Rotate the map: turn the compass wheel with lick & drag.

Zoom in and out: press the + and - keys or drag the slider bar up or down.

Steve Ballmer: Opportunities in Difficult Times

Read the transcript of this speech here.

Partner: Stanford University
Speaker: Steven Ballmer

Tina L. Seelig, Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Entrepreneurship Center at Stanford School of Engineering, with Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer. Ballmer spoke to a crowd of approximately 1,700 students and others as part of the university’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture Series. Stanford, Calif. May 6, 2009.

MacMillan Dictionary

Macmillan Dictionaries are used in over 140 countries. Here we present a free online dictionary and thesaurus with pronunciations, created from the Macmillan English Dictionary, with definitions available for both British English and American English words. This dictionary was crafted by teams of lexicographers who studied real spoken and written text, revealing exactly how and when words are used today.

Brave New World by Google Wave

Google Wave - a Brave New World?

Is Google Wave trying to assimilate the internet?

The search engine giant seems to think it has the right to do with the world's data as it wishes, without asking permission, and now it's trying to build Web 3.0 within Google Wave to give it even more control.

Now is the time to re-read this classic book about a world so close and not like science-fiction.

3D Alien Worlds Avatar Chat

Oddcast's 3D Worlds technology lets multiple users chat and interact with customized avatars in a full 3D environment.
With 3D Worlds, users can even speak to each other using Text to Speech. Characters lip synch automatically. Real time VoIP technology, as well as text chat.

Now go into this chat room to talk with an alien!

Saragossa Pilar Zaragoza 2009 Webcam

Watch now the Zaragoza Pilar Square Webcam

Today in my city, the offering of flowers is the main celebration of the Pilar festival. On October the 12th, the day of the Pilar, the great floral offering to the Virgin is one of the most significant events in the Spanish calendar. That same night the city celebrates the prayer of the Rosario de la Aurora. On the following day, the festivities begin with the Fruit offering. As night falls, the streetlamps are replaced by lanterns that illuminate the passing floats of The Crystal Rosary.

Saragossa touristic information

View more documents from Saucepolis .

ImTranslator

ImTranslator delivers online translation for English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish languages. ImTranslator offers easy and convenient access to the following translation servers: Promt Online Translator by PROMT Ltd., Google language translation and AltaVista Babel Fish translation

About.com blog

Learn English with the About.com guide to English as a 2nd language (ESL / EFL). Learn English using resources including English grammar explanations, quizzes, pronunciation help, reading, listening and writing and esl free lesson plans.

Agora Movie Trailers

This stylish gadget has a large collection of upcoming movies i.e. movie trailers showing up each time you load this gadget. Don't blame this gadget, if you end up going to the cinema very often or spending a lot of time in front of your TV watching movies.

Select "A" letter and next "Agora" to watch 5 trailers of this new Amenabar film.



Hypatia of Alexandria was a Greek scholar from Alexandria in Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She lived in Roman Egypt, and was killed by a Christian mob who falsely blamed her for religious turmoil. Some suggest that her murder marked the end of what is traditionally known as Classical antiquity.

The Royal or Ancient Library of Alexandria, Egypt, was probably the largest, and certainly the most famous, of the libraries of the ancient world. It functioned as a major center of scholarship, at least until the time of Rome's conquest of Egypt, and probably for many centuries thereafter.

Language and Thought

Hot English Magazine

Hot English 200610

National Geographic Video

CBS Breaking News

OneLook Dictionary Search

Search online dictionaries
(Powered by OneLook® Dictionary Search)

Enter word or phrase:

Enter a word to search for dictionary web sites that include that word.

Enter a pattern consisting of letters and wildcards to search for words.
Valid wildcards are * (matches multiple letters) and ? (matches one letter).

Wonderbra by Dita Von Teese

Wonderbra Party Edition:
Multi Teese. Tulle, sequins and velvet adapt to your party dress.
Satine Teese in red. Feel festive in flaming red satin and lace.
Satine Teese in mauve. Go retro in metallic mauve satin and lace.
Sparkle Teese. Boost curves with the jewel of the collection.

by Dita Von Teese

The Science of Sexy by Dita - The full Wonderbra Film

The Perfect Pet

The StoryPlace Pre-school Library is full of great activities for you to explore. Choose a theme to start the fun!

Word Thrill English Dictionary

English Dictionary

This English Dictionary has over 200,000 word and phrase definitions, listed along with their synonyms. It is based on WordNet© by Princeton University.

Free word games and content for your site by English Dictionary.

Free word games and content for your site by English Dictionary.

I will read it

I will read it!

I want to introduce a new text to speech service in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanísh.

Just type a word or a phrase, or copy and paste any text, and I'll say it back for you. You can also translate your text to any of the available languages, and I will read out the translation.

You may want to master a foreign language by practicing the pronunciation. Just repeat after me! It will be fun!

The City of Life and Death

Nanking! Nanking! trailer, also known as The City of Life and Death in English, directed by Lu Chuan.

Someday we will learn from the horrors of all wars?

babylon translator

Traductor de

Traductor

Read Books Online: The Innovative Mind

The Innovative Mind

TV: Sky News

Sky News

Live Translator

Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

Lyrics | Beyonce lyrics - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) lyrics

Barack Obama Bio: "A Mother's Promise"

Obama's Tribute to his Mother

Frequent English Words

A video to help memorize the pronunciation of the 3000 most frequent english words.

Choose video playback speed from 0.5x (turtle) to 3.0x (rabbit) and wait a moment, please.

Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation

With Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation, you can translate passages of text or entire Web pages among 12 languages, or you can quickly translate your page into the language of your choice.

Some Films

A dictionary & translator with All Words

Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:     Search Language: English Dutch French German Italian Spanish  Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish

Allwords Basic Search:
1. Choose one of the find options. You can find an exact word or words that start with, end with, or contain a specified string. Hint: Use the default Words Starting With option to avoid potential problems finding the exact match for foreign words that contain articles as part of the dictionary entry.
2. From the Search Language drop-down menu, select the language you want to search in. The default is English. Note: Only the AND Concise Dictionary contains foreign words.
3. Under the Translate Into heading, check off any languages in addition to English in which you want to view the results of your search. Note: The definitions and pronunciations always appear in English.
4. In the text field in front of the Find It! button, type the word or string of letters you are looking for. Note: Wildcard characters are not available.
5. Click on the Find It! button or press the Return key. The number of matching entries for the first dictionary appears and the first five entries are displayed below, followed by the number of matching entries in the second dictionary and the first five entries for it. Use the Next Page button to view subsequent entries or refine your search string.

Word Ahead Videos

WordAhead Widget has videos for only 50 words, and the site currently features videos and Flash cards for more than 660 words.

Click here to see the vocabulary video list.

WordAhead.com is focused on explaining meaning of difficult english words through short videos. Wordahead seeks to make learning tough words, especially those that appear in SAT and GRE or similar standardized tests, extremely easy.

Core of the site can be found in the 'Study Room' tab.The idea behind 'Study Room' is an area for learning new words in sort of a study mode without any form of distraction.

Comedy Central TV

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Space Module: Colbert - Democracy in Orbit
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest

Exclusive - Bill Clinton Extended Interview Pt. 1
In this complete, unedited interview, Bill Clinton explains the focus and goals of the Clinton Global Initiative.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Exclusive - Bill Clinton Extended Interview Pt. 1
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Healthcare Protests

Pandemic Flu Information

Thanks a lot to all my visitors, because this blog has just passed the 10,000 mark in visits to this humble English Portal...

The last 6 months I've written 142 entries that have been read by over 4,000 unique visitors worldwide.

Recently I added "My Blog List" (below these entries) with the blogs related to the English language that I follow daily.

My intention in the near future is to continue collecting interesting tools for all of us as Permanent English Language Learners (P-ELLs) like myself.

My best wishes to see you here soon and that you find what you want in only one site, into this English Portal!

Have a nice day!

English Dictionary

Gives the meaning of the word entered in the same gadget. click on the more link to see more meanings from dictionary.com in a new window.

Create a Speaking Character

Pronunciation Test

Water test

You can answer some fun questions about water.

Watching TV

When you are tired, it is time to stop and have a break, watching TV?

The Water Cycle

You can watch a video and learn about the water cycle in this Fun Easy English Kids page.

Source: Environmental Protection Agency

In the News

Click In the News to see the full newspaper notice.

In the News
provided by The Free Dictionary

Energy Star Kids

Fun Easy English Kids

Join ENERGY STAR in our fight to save our planet by becoming energy efficient.

Answers

powered by Answers.com

Answers.com is your free "one-stop shop" with instant information on over 4 million topics. We deliver useful answers in a snap. Look up any word or phrase for the best definition or explanation on the Web. Not lists of links... just the information you're looking for.

Word Scramble Game

Drinking Water & Ground Water Kids' Stuff.

Visit the US EPA web page - United States Environmental Protection Agency: Classroom Lessons, Games & Activities for Kids & Teachers.

My American Girl Friend

Get a Voki now! to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

It's time to get your own speaking avatar!

Nation's freedom symbol

Help Ben connect the dots to reveal a symbol of U.S.A. nation's freedom.

Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus

Welcome to the free online translation service powered by Reverso translation software

Ben's Word Find

In the puzzle, help Ben locate the words from the word list.

When you find a word, click, hold and drag to the end of the word.

Click on one of the buttons below the puzzle to choose a new one.

Good Luck!

Fun Easy English Test

Shakira - She Wolf - Loba

Lyrics | Shakira lyrics - She Wolf lyrics

Lyrics | Shakira lyrics - La Loba lyrics

Blondie Comic

Notepad

My Defense courses with subtitles

Aikido is a martial art that attacks the opponent's joints and pressure points to defend against an attack and choke them.

New Dojo Aikido Ippon-Matsu next September 2009 in Zaragoza.

Somewhat Universal Translator

Quickly translate from one language to another with the Somewhat Universal Translator.

Irregular Verb Test

Prune Juice Comic Strip

While others enjoy checkers, horseshoes, and shuffleboard, the Gunks are busy going for each other's jugular!

Internet Document Search

GetDocs.com is an internet document search engine providing free access to over million software documents such as project plans, presentations, memos, financial spreadsheets, product requirements, forms, risk assessment reports, employee policies, posters, floor plans, whitepapers, lyrics. File types include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator, PDF, AutoCAD, 3D Studio, Google Earth, Corel, Open Office, CSV, Text, and many more. You can search results with a quick click on the icons that serve up results by document date, keywords in a document title, language; also by one website location or categorically by government, schools, nonprofits, and commercial sites.

Language Bear - Spanish

Random Flash Cards by the Language Bear: English-Spanish Vocabulary.

UnEmployed Comic

Learn Sign Language

Sign Language is best taught in person. The language is a visual / gestural one and requires instruction on the appropriate way to make the signs and how to move them to make sense.

Is Sign Language the same in all countries?

No, just like spoken languages, sign languages evolve and develop within a unique culture. Each country uses their own unique sign language. ASL, American Sign Language, is used in The United States.

Online Scientific Calculator

Excellent calculator with scientific functions, memory, percent, engineering exponent, and keyboard support. The calculator contains a link to eCalc's online scientific calculator for even more features: unit conversion, equation solving, RPN, fractions, etc.

Did you know?

An official update to the original "Shift Happens" video.

Guitar Sight Reading Game

A game that lets you improve your guitar sight reading skills.

National Geographic News

My instant calculator

The fast, easy and shareable online calculator.

Health Care Reform Cannot Wait

Every family unable to keep up with soaring out of pocket costs and premiums rising three times faster than wages. Every worker afraid of losing health insurance if they lose their job, or change jobs. Everyone whos worried that they may not be able to get insurance or change insurance if someone in their family has a pre-existing condition.

All of them need the Health Care Reform!

Send me an e-mail

Earth Recycling

Animal Agriculture Destroys The Planet

Cat comics

We Choose the Moon

Vital stats

Poodwaddle.com

HOME Project

Libros amazon.com

I love books!

Daily Cost Calculator

Poodwaddle.com

Free CliffsNotes

Subtitled Videos

Welcome to dotSUB. See thousands of videos translated everyday here. To translate a video, Click Here to join and enter the world of Any Video Any Language.

The man with beautiful eyes video is from Our Advanced English blog

Tibet Spirituality

Journey with the Explore team to the spiritual city of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. See Potala Palace, the traditional winter home of the Dalai Lama and a pilgrimage destination for thousands of Buddhists. Listen to the sounds of monks practicing the art of debate at the Sera Monastery, and witness the many ways in which new technologies are changing the Tibetan cultural landscape.

Timelines TV - A History of Britain

Into Timelines.tv there is a transcription of each speech in pdf format (see an example here). Click the Transcript left button to open and download the text of the history.