Language resources for English

General resource pages

BBC Learning English YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@bbclearningenglish

Learn English with Gill · engVid https://www.youtube.com/@engvidGill

Learning Academy Online https://www.youtube.com/@learningacademyonline

Dictionaries

Collins English Dictionary https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english

Webster's Dictionary 1828 https://webstersdictionary1828.com/

Dictionary by Merriam-Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/

Cambridge Dictionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Oxford Learner's Dictionaries https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

Oxford English Dictionary 1st edition (till letter U) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=newenglishdictionary

Chambers Dictionary https://chambers.co.uk/ https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=pz2ORay2HWoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/ https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=19407 https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=19404

Dictionaries of the Scots Language https://dsl.ac.uk/

The Online Scots Dictionary https://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/

Dictionary.com https://www.dictionary.com

Etymologeek https://etymologeek.com/

Etymonline https://www.etymonline.com/

History

LOST LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET: 9 letters we stopped using by RobWords [YouTube video]
https://youtu.be/wJxKyh9e5_A

History of the English Language (1943) by British Council https://youtu.be/_fJiHmR85cU

The history of English by OpenLearn https://youtu.be/H3r9bOkYW9s

Discover the History of English by Gill https://youtu.be/aEH2GkuRIHs

Old, Middle, and Early Modern English by Carolyn Coulson https://youtu.be/vG26vOq0bnE

Josh Tyra YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@joshtyra and The Bible in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English (Matthew 17:13–17) https://youtu.be/uAttJFZXvbM

Phonology and pronunciation

Tools: Text To Speech for British English https://ttsmp3.com/text-to-speech/British%20English/

UK English Text to Speech https://responsivevoice.org/text-to-speech-languages/uk-english-text-to-speech/

Collins IPA pronunciation guide https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/ipa-pronunciation-guide-cobuild/ https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/ipa-pronunciation-guide-ced/

OED Pronunciation guide https://public.oed.com/how-to-use-the-oed/key-to-pronunciation/pronunciation-model-british-english/

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) | English Pronunciation by Crown Academy [YouTube video]
https://youtu.be/o8KppNXfx2k

RP British Accent Training by British Accent VO https://www.youtube.com/@BritishAccent

[YouTube videos] Part One https://youtu.be/TNu3q5ODgqs Part Two https://youtu.be/hUg9sS9IDRI

Learn Gemma Chan's British English Accent (Modern Received Pronunciation) https://youtu.be/l4GOhE37K8U

RMIT Spoken English https://www.rmittraining.com/news/blog/spoken-english

Comprehensible input content

“What should I read?” – My Book Recommendations by Gill [YouTube video]
https://youtu.be/q2f_qRclZCc

English Grammar

British Council - English Grammarhttps://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar

English Grammar Lessons by Oxford Online English [YouTube playlist]
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD6t6ckHsruY_i7_rZhKcRBmXDdawiqUM

learn English grammar by Crown Academy of English [YouTube playlist] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6BDo90oiwpS4_AM1c0s0ozpROeE2A9ff

A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes by Bishop Robert Lowth https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72554/pg72554-images.html

An English and Hebrew grammar, being the first short rudiments of those two languages by Rev Dr Samuel Johnson https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=SQrgAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP4&hl=en_GB

Reference grammars for English https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/183/what-are-some-of-the-better-english-reference-grammars

Generic use of the definite article https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/198824/the-definite-article-implying-the-generic-idea-of-something

Writing

The Writing Center University of North Carolina https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/

Style guides

The Cambridge Guide to English Usage

Fowler's dictionary of modern English usage

Strunk & white the elements of style

https://help.wordapp.com/writing-in-wordapp/writer-resources/british-english-style-guide/

https://askcopycurmudgeon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/learn-a-style-guide.pdf

https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/style.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/RegulatoryClinWriting/comments/15zm6sh/style_guide_chicago_style_versus_oxford_style/