Other Related University of Manitoba Web Sites
| Housing | Information on residences at the U of M, as well as off-campus accommodation. |
| International Centre for Students | This U of M office provides general assistance to international students. |
| Admissions | Information for those interested in admissions to academic programs at the U of M. |
| Faculty of Graduate Studies | Information for students wanting to work on advanced degrees. |
Using the Internet to Learn English
This is a list of resources of interest to English language learners available through the internet.
| The Berkeley Owl | Provides a variety of resources to improve writing skills. |
| Impact! Online | Provides a hypertext news reader for intermediate and advanced learners of English as a second or foreign language. |
Using the Internet to Increase English Vocabulary
This is a list of resources of interest to English language learners available through the internet.
| British National Corpus Concordance | This on-line program will access a 100 million word collection of written and spoken English. Type in a word or phrase and the program will provide sample sentences. |
| Web Concordancer | This concordancer uses the World Wide Web as the source of sentences. It comes from the Virtual Language Centre in Hong Kong. |
| Ohio University Vocabulary Page | Ohio University has created an excellent list of vocabulary learning resources on the web. |
| The Monthly Idiom | This site allows you to read and listen to a new idiom each month. |
| University Word List | This list first published in 1984 (Xue and Nation) is a list of vocabulary items common in academic texts. It is designed to be a "list of specialized vocabulary for students who know about 2,000 generally common words and plan to study in an English-language college or university." |
HINTS: Adding wild cards expands the search. (* = any number of characters and ? = exactly one character). For example, "tomo*ow", "tomo??ow" or "tomor*" will find "tomorrow".