I have a few sites I always use to help with German. So I thought I would start this thread to share them and see if there are any others out in the vast cyber space that I may have missed.


http://dict.leo.org/

Very good online dictionary German <-> English, German <-> French and German <-> Spanish.

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/

Conjugats verbs in many MANY languages (including German)

http://www.freetranslation.com/

DC

I forgot to add babelfish, as I thought most people would already know it

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Translates text and web pages.

www.wordreference.com :-) they have a great forum where you can ask whatever you want! It's mostly for English and Spanish.

Any good podcasts on learning German?

This is a good one: http://home.unilang.org/main/index2.php

The forum is worth checking out: http://home.unilang.org/main/forum/

My new favourite is http://www.canoo.net/index_en.html


Nigel

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

Of course! Thank you, licence fee.

In my university there is a Language Voluntariate (http://www.upf.edu/vl/english/), maybe it's not very useful but there are conversation guides: Spanish - Catalan, French - Catalan, Portuguese - Catalan and German - Catalan.
There is also an online Catalan course (http://www.intercat.gencat.es) with an English - Catalan guide inside.

I know it's not about German / English but as the thread says "language resources on the web /net" :-)

This is an interesting site for Italian

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/mo...e/pageone.html

and this site is interesting for German

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,2547,00.html

When is Genetiv case used- examples would be helpful.

also what does 'Jocks away!'mean? Ithought it was a hunting term?

Thanks in anticipation.

The Genitiv case expresses possession and very often replaces the word "of." For example: angesichts +G. Angesichts = "in view" and followed with a Genitiv express the phrase "in view of." There are a lot of prepositions that work (are supposed to only function) with Genitiv, such as angesichts, statt, trotz, and aufgrund. Beyond that, it expresses possession as I wrote before, such as with "die Entwicklung des Landes" - the development of the country or "Seans Spielzeug" - Sean's toy. I hope this helps a bit?

"Jocks away" can be used to mean "Up with the Scots!" or "Down with the Scots!" -depending who's shouting it. Alternatively, jocks are men's underpants; and if you are wearing a kilt, are not required. So, "jocks away!".

The expression is "Chocks away!" Meaning 'remove the chocks of wood that are holding the aeroplane back' and was shouted at the ground crew when the pilot was ready to takeoff. Not used much these days.

Jock in an endearment for an inhabitant of Scotland. Still used by those who don't mind a black eye.

Where on earth did you read that pish?

AbFab is indeed correct, it is an archaic aircraft handling term.
Chocks are still used though - you don't park an aircraft with it's brakes on.

About the only use of Jock I've heard for a long time is "Jock Pie", shorthand for this Scottish delicacy

Or, in the US, it is used for those who love sports.

Until Verena replies we won't know whether she really meant "chocks " or "jocks". You probably didn't see an English newspaper on the relevant weekend when the discussion came up about the projected separation of Scotland from England. At least two papers had the headlines "JOCKS AWAY"! This has nothing to do with aircraft, stationary or otherwise. As regards the underpants; ask any Aussie! Pity there isn't a smilie icon to express "tongue in cheek ".

Thanks Abfab it must be chocks away, although now I rather likethe term Jocks away i.e. when it refers to undergarments! Jocks away- Tally Ho!

The headline was a pun - like "Paddy Pantsdown".

Paddy pants down sounds good too! Though I'm not to keen on padding.