Enthralled

by the Net   of Nets: favourite sites & Internet-stuff

Travelling:

• You are invited to visit the city "St. Petersburg" (English, Russian) with its wide range of cultural offers, nice private homepages and one of the greatest "marketplaces" for people wishing to marry.
• An absolute must for foreigners, who will visit Russia the first time, is the site of Nizhni Novgorod and the site for expats in Moscow.  After reading it you will feel much more confident that you will manage everyday life there.

Languages:

• Dave's ESL Cafe is one of the English courses I would like to recommend. Having a lot of fun, forgetting the dull routine of everyday life you can improve your language command there
• 1-language is a really great site for everyone who learns English as a second language. Furthermore it contains loads of information about any country on our planet   
• Englishtown offers English language courses on the Internet, a free Newsletter by e-mail and the possibility to chat with students of the English language all over the world
• Learn English is a service of  the British Council for students of all ages
• Intermediate and advanced learners can read news material on the English Page
• German-speaking students can not only read the magazine "Spotlight" or listen to its cassettes, but also use the online version of the magazine 
• Leos dictionary, Word Reference  and the dictionary of the university Chemnitz are English - German - English online dictionaries, which offer their help in case the meaning of expressions slippped your mind
• The Cambridge International Dictionary of English helps to find a clear, but simple definition for every word you may think of
• The Israelite company Babylon offers a huge choice of translation programs which can be downloaded for free by private persons and very small companies. This program with Optical Character Recognitation is a must for every Web-user.
• The Russian Reference Grammar is a hot tip from an insider for people enjoying practising the Russian language
• russian.about.com stands for a comprehensive source for the Russian language for English speakers
• The university of Leipzig offers a German online vocabulary dictionary.
• A similar German service with grammar explanations is  available from Switzerland.

Stuff:

• Thanks to the Internet, the book market seems to be the first global market without borders. Requiring books from the English-speaking area, you can order them in one of the biggest online book-shops on earth, in the
  bookstore.
• In case of wanting to cause a surprise, send an electronic greetings card to your acquaintances and relatives simply by using the Internet.