A 3-part guide to academic reflection from Edinburgh University

A 20-question exercise to help you practise which language can be used in certain cause and effect sentences.

A fun app (also website) to help you learn a new language through structured courses. The free version is limited but still useful.

Useful language for cause and effect with a short online exercise to check grammar and meaning.

An organised list of useful language for cause and effect with two online exercises to practise.

A collection of useful language for various functions of English (see tags).

Explanation of the the different ways that ideas are connected in a text with some useful language.

As he studies the languages of tribal South America, the return from military service of his more worldly brother Gustav fails to break him from his daydream, but day-to-day living in Prussian feudal society means that his dreams have to be put on hold.

*Link to library catalogue* "Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from the experts at Cambridge English Language Assessment."

*Link to library catalogue* "Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from the experts at Cambridge English Language Assessment."

*Link to library catalogue* "Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from the experts at Cambridge English Language Assessment."

Writing academic prose in English is especially difficult for non-native speakers, largely because the standard vocabulary used in this genre can be quite different from colloquial English. Expand Your English: A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary is a unique and invaluable guide that will enable the reader to overcome this hurdle. It will become the favourite go-to reference book for both beginners and for intermediate learners struggling with the complexities of English-language academic writing. Steve Hart covers 1,000 vocabulary items that are essential for good academic writing. The first section describes 200 key terms in detail, grouping them into logical sets of 10. Through careful repetition, the reader will find it easy to retain, retrieve, and reuse these essential phrases. The second section explains a further 800 terms, grouping them according to function, meaning, and the areas of an essay where they are likely to be used. The expansive scope of Expand Your English gives non-native speakers all the vocabulary tools they need to master this difficult style of writing.

A comprehensive A to Z of grammar words from simple ones like 'noun' to more technical like 'anaphora'.

A list of grammar terms from UCL. Click a letter to see words beginning with that letter.

A language exchange app where you can talk to native speakers of other languages. You need to pay for some features.

A free language exchange app where you can talk to native speakers of other languages.

Makes every word on webpage clickable and linked to dictionary - enter the webpage you want to read in Box 1 and select whether you want English explanation or translation of the words into other languages.

Make Spanish Your Business is a television and web resource for people using their language in a business environment

A fun app (also website) to help you learn a new language through structured courses. There is a pay version, but the free version still has a lot of content.

A vivid and well-mounted German-language drama imagines what it was like in the Wittenberg of 1517 for young monk Martin Luther and his friends. It does a fine job of getting across the corruption of the church at the time: one scene sees a (literally) fiery preacher using every theatrical trick in the book to extort money from the poor. Meanwhile Luther is prevailed upon to paste his rebellious pamphlet on a church door and so lights the touchpaper on centuries of religious conflict

7 online exercises to learn and practice replacing informal with academic language.

Haunting German legal thriller in which defence lawyer Friedrich Kronberg aims to tip the scales of justice in favour of those he represents as he probes complex cases that span various timelines. Strong Language,Violence and scenes of a sexual nature. Not suitable for younger viewers.

A married couple dream of inviting a third party into their bedroom. But when fantasy becomes reality, what seemed like harmless fun soon spirals out of control as one encounter has dire consequences. Strong Language,Violence and scenes of a sexual nature. Not suitable for younger viewers.

In the heart of Berlin, a police raid uncovers a drug-selling operation based in the apartment of a lonely old man. Evidence suggests he's guilty of involvement, but things are not quite as they seem. Strong Language,Violence and scenes of a sexual nature. Not suitable for younger viewers.

A wife and mother endures years of physical and sexual abuse inflicted by her husband, but when he threatens to raise the stakes further, she decides to fight back and soon finds herself in court. Strong Language,Violence and scenes of a sexual nature. Not suitable for younger viewers.

Alienated by the students at his boarding school, shy teenager Henry tries to be accepted into their inner circle by participating in a mysterious satanic ritual, but there are fateful consequences. Strong Language,Violence and scenes of a sexual nature. Not suitable for younger viewers.

Maria, a cleaner with a drink problem discovers she is pregnant by her brutish boyfriend. Strong language. In Spanish with English subtitles. [1999]

*Link to library catalogue* "Speakout is the English language course that includes video content from the BBC to engage students and make teaching easier."

*Link to library catalogue* Speakout is the English language course that includes video content from the BBC to engage students and make teaching easier.<br />

"Speakout is the English language course that includes video content from the BBC to engage students and make teaching easier."