As more and more persons are seeking high-quality English as a Second Language (ESL) resources, a number of sites have sprung up to provide just such materials. One notable site is UsingEnglish.com, which provides grammar glossaries, reference sheets on irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, teacher handouts, and ESL forums. The forums are particularly useful, as registered users can post...

Words are used as invectives, toasts, and tirades, among other forms of human expression. As a type of artistic experiment, Jonathan Harris of Flaming Toast Productions decided to create this engaging website that documents the 86,000 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. Nay-sayers beware: This is no simple listing of the words, contained within a mundane series of...

For readers interested in learning American Sign Language (ASL), the YouTube channel of American Sign Language University (ASLU) is a wonderful free resource. Launched in 2007, this channel is run by Dr. Bill Vicars, who has taught ASL for over 20 years and is a professor of deaf studies at California State University, Sacramento. Here, visitors will find dozens of videos featuring Vicars teaching...