Tools and resources

DUTCH

News

VRT

De Morgen

De Standaard

Het Laatste Nieuws        

Het Nieuwsblad

NRC

Het Belang Van Limburg

Gazet Van Antwerpen

De Tijd

Metro

De Volkskrant

 

 

Knack

Weekly news magazine published in Dutch-speaking Belgium

Trends

Economic and financial magazine

Express Business          

Independent news portal. Focus on economics and business.

Apache

Mo

Bruzz

KanaalZ

Private economic and financial Belgian television channel of the Roularta group.

For learners

Wablieft

Newspaper in simplified Dutch

NedBox

Website for practising Dutch, with newspaper articles and TV programme extracts.

NT2TaalMenu                 

Website for Dutch language learners.

Wallangues

Wallonia's initiative enabling all its residents to learn languages online.

Babbel

A simple and interactive way to learn languages through practice.

Dictionaries

Mijnwoordenboek           

Multilingual dictionary, translations, sentence examples, synonyms, word scrambles, conjugations...

Woorden.org

Explanatory dictionary

Van Dale

Multilingual dictionary

Synoniemen.net

Dictionary of synonyms

Reverso Dictionnaire

Multilingual dictionary

Woordenlijst

Dutch spelling

Taaladvies

Answers to questions about language and spelling by the Dutch Language Union

Lexilogos

Multilingual dictionary

Various

Vdab.tv

Reports, films about jobs, training courses, companies. Career portraits.

Vlaamse film

Everything about Flemish cinema.

ANBF

Platform of the Association des Néerlandistes de Belgique francophone et de France (Association for French-speaking Dutch teachers).
Dutch for French speakers: scientific journal, colloquia, study days...)

ANA

Free website on academic Dutch for non-native speakers.

CELV                        

European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe.

Universiteit van Vlaanderen

The University of Flanders provides free lectures by eminent scientists for a Dutch-speaking audience through various media channels.

ENGLISH

News

CNN World

 

Newspaper in English     

Every English language newspaper in the world.

 

The Economist

British political and economic news magazine.

Newsweek

American general news magazine

New Scientist

International scientific magazine

Scientific American        

American popular science magazine

For learners

Wallangues

Wallonia's initiative enabling all its residents to learn languages online.

Babbel

A simple and interactive way to learn languages through practice.

EnglishCentral

Website to learn English through videos.

EnglishClass101

Website to learn English through fun and culture.

Oxford University Press

Learning English through interactive exercises.

Memrise

Language learning website.

Learning English                                 

Website to learn English through listening comprehension.

e-Anglais.com

Free online English lessons

BBC Learning English

Interactive learning of English.

EF English learning resources

Resources to improve your English conversation.

Common errors in English Usage

Common mistakes in English (by Professor Emeritus Paul Brians, Washington State University)

Dictionaries

Reverso Dictionnaire

Multilingual dictionary

Linguee

Multilingual dictionary

MyMemory

Multilingual dictionary

WordReference

Online dictionaries

Lexilogos

Multilingual dictionary

Cambridge Dictionary                       

Bilingual dictionary

Dictionary by Merriam-Webster

Explanatory dictionary and encyclopaedia

Longman Dictionary

Explanatory dictionary

Babylon's Online Dictionary

Collection of online dictionaries and encyclopaedias.

Dictionary.com

Definitions and synonyms.

Oxford Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary, reference dictionary, as well as other dictionaries

Various

British Council

Britain’s leading organization for educational exchanges and cultural relationships.

TED Language

Collection of language videos.

TradooIT

Bilingual concordancer.

ECML

European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe.

TIME Magazine Corpus

British-American corpus based on TIME article words (1923-2006).

English Language Schools and Learning Centres

Catalogue of language schools and study centres in Great-Britain.

GERMAN

News

ARD

Bildzeitung

Die Welt         

Die Zeit

For learners

Deutsch Akademie

Free online lessons

ActiLingua Academy

Beginner and advanced courses

Goethe Institut Belgien

Institute for the promotion of the German language

Deutsch Welle

German lessons proposed by DW, Germany’s international broadcasting service.

Verbito

Verb conjugation

VerbFormen                            

Verb conjugation

Deutsche Rechtschreibung

Online spelling lessons

Dictionaries

PONS

Online dictionary

DWDS

German dictionary from 1600 until today

LEO's Online Wörterbücher      

German-French reference dictionary

BEOLINGUS

Online dictionary of the University of Chemnitz

Redensarten-Index

Dictionary of all aspects of spoken language.

Various

Allemagne – Facts and realities       

Current events, facts and figures about Germany

Podcasts in German

Podcasts in German on a wide variety of topics

SPANISH

News

El País

Prensa Escrita

Dictionaries

RAE           

Spanish language dictionary

Cross-cutting tools

Quizlet        

Education website for all types of learning (flashcards, MCQ, true or false, fill-in-the-blank questions...)

Xmind

Tool for mind mapping