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Anglaisfacile.comAnglaisfacile.com
Cours de langues : anglais, français, allemand, espagnol, italien, japonais
AUB university libraries – digital collectionsAUB university libraries – digital collections
AUB Libraries Digital Collections is a gateway to our digitized and preserved collections featuring manuscripts, maps, photos, posters, books, multimedia and other resources. This online growing repository aims to continuously disseminate knowledge about AUB, the region, our history and cultural heritage for the purpose of research, teaching and education. It is also a hub for collaboration with other departments, faculties, scholars in addition to external partners libraries and institutions to support digital scholarship initiatives.
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BabelfishBabelfish
Babelfish is a free online translator for users to translate phrases and sentences into any language.
Bibliothèque numérique internationale pour enfantsBibliothèque numérique internationale pour enfants
La bibliothèque numérique internationale pour enfants a pour but d'enthousiasmer et d'inciter les enfants du monde à devenir membres de la communauté mondiale – des enfants qui comprennent la valeur de tolérance et respect pour diverses cultures, langues et idées – en rendant disponible le meilleur de la littérature enfantine en ligne (Fiction et non fiction).
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Cambridge DictionaryCambridge Dictionary
Cambridge University Press has been publishing dictionaries for learners of English since 1995. Cambridge Dictionaries Online began offering these dictionaries completely free of charge in 1999 — and today, Cambridge Dictionary is still growing.
Center for Educational Research and Development دليلنا – المركز التربوي للبحوث والإنماءCenter for Educational Research and Development دليلنا – المركز التربوي للبحوث والإنماء
تنكب مجموعة من المتخصصين في المركز التربوي للبحوث والإنماء على وضع نماذج جديدة لأسئلة الامتحانات الرسمية للمواد التعليمية كافة للشهادة المتوسطة ولشهادة الثانوية العامة بفروعها الأربعة
Children’s books foreverChildren’s books forever
Free children's fiction books that have become classics.
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DeepLDeepL
Use the free DeepL Translator to translate your texts.
Digital Assets Repository (DAR) مستودع الأصول الرقميةDigital Assets Repository (DAR) مستودع الأصول الرقمية
تحقيقاً لهدفها بإتاحة المعرفة للجميع ، تتيح مكتبة الإسكندرية من خلال موقعها الإلكتروني وفهرسها، مجموعة كبيرة من الكتب المرقمنة
Digital Learning Initiative – Center for Educational Research and DevelopmentDigital Learning Initiative – Center for Educational Research and Development
An effort made to mitigate the crisis and current circumstances forced by the major spread of the novel corona virus. The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE), the Center for Educational Research and Development (CERD) as well as public and private school administrations and teachers are all collaborating to provide an effective and impactful solution and make this initiative a reality.
DOAB Directory of Open Access BooksDOAB Directory of Open Access Books
DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.
DOAJ Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
This independent database contains over 15 000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are welcome to apply for inclusion.
Doing What Matters in Times of Stress – WHODoing What Matters in Times of Stress – WHO
"Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide is a stress management guide for coping with adversity. The guide aims to equip people with practical skills to help cope with stress. A few minutes each day are enough to practice the self-help techniques. The guide can be used alone or with the accompanying audio exercises. Informed by evidence and extensive field testing, the guide is for anyone who experiences stress, wherever they live and whatever their circumstances. "
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FreeFullPDFFreeFullPDF
"Download free PDF Scientific Publications : Life sciences - Health sciences - Physics sciences - Mathematics - Social sciences & Humanities. The aim of FreeFullPDF.com is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific journals, theses, posters and patents. "
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GallicaGallica
Proposé par la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica offre l'accès à une collection numérique de documents sous types de supports : imprimés (monographies, périodiques et presse) en mode image et en mode texte, manuscrits, documents sonores, documents iconographiques, cartes et plans. Cette bibliothèque est représentative des grands auteurs French et des courants de recherche et de réflexion par delà les siècles. Composée de documents rares ou difficiles d’accès, cette sélection est complétée par des documents permettant de resituer ces œuvres dans leur contexte intellectuel, illustré par des mémoires de contemporains ou décrit et commenté dans des outils de référence (dictionnaires, bibliographies).
Global Digital LibraryGlobal Digital Library
Provide access to free, high-quality, early grade reading resources in languages that children use and understand.
Global Grey e-BooksGlobal Grey e-Books
Free ebooks to download fiction and non-fiction for all ages
GoodreadsGoodreads
Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Its mission is to help people find and share books they love.
Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature, including court opinions and patents.
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Hello KidsHello Kids
Les jeunes peuvent apprendre à dessiner des personnages ou à réaliser diverses activités manuelles (origami, fabrication de vêtements pour poupée, pâte à sel, etc). De nombreux contes, poèmes, histoires et articles journalistiques sont également proposés ainsi que des fiches et des jeux pédagogiques pour apprendre en s’amusant.
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Internet archiveInternet archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
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Learning for natureLearning for nature
"Learning for Nature is a premier e-learning programme brought to you by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This programme connects biodiversity policymakers, change-makers, and on-the-ground subject matter experts to promote biodiversity conservation and facilitate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Their learning opportunities, offered in multiple languages, vary by recommended time commitments, types of activities, certification options, and instruction modes."
LingueeLinguee
Linguee is an online bilingual concordance that provides an online dictionary for a number of language pairs, including many bilingual sentence pairs. As a translation aid, Linguee differs from machine translation services and is more similar in function to a translation memory
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Almaany – المعانيAlmaany – المعاني
...قاموس ومعجم المعاني متعدد اللغات والمجالات - قاموس عربي عربي وقاموس عربي إنجليزي ثنائي
MemriseMemrise
Memrise is a language learning app that is the opposite of textbook learning: it’s enjoyable and effective.
المكتبة الرقمية العالميةالمكتبة الرقمية العالمية
"تتيح المكتبة الرقمية العالمية على الإنترنت مجانًا وبعدة لغات مواد أساسية مهمة من دول وثقافات عديدة حول العالم. أهداف المكتبة الرقمية العالمية الرئيسية هي: تعزيز التفاهم بين الدول والثقافات ؛ توسيع حجم المحتوى الثقافي على الإنترنت كماً ونوعاً ؛ توفير موارد للتربويين والباحثين والجمهور العام ؛ بناء القدرات لدى المؤسسات الشريكة لتضييق الفجوة الرقمية لدى الدول وبينها."
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Open Culture – Free movies onlineOpen Culture – Free movies online
1150 free movies: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.
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Paralink translatorParalink translator
Free Language Translation Service can translate text, words, and phrases between over 100 foreign languages.
Pepper&CarrotPepper&Carrot
Pepper&Carrot is a free and open source webcomic series by French artist David Revoy. The series consists of small episodes about teenage witch Pepper and her cat Carrot. With its translations into 28 different languages and stories without violence, it aims to be accessible to everyone.
Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. IT was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. The Project Gutenberg collection has been built by the efforts of volunteers who, over many years, have selected and digitized a variety of written and other works. The collection continues to grow, as new works are submitted.
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RefseekRefseek
RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
Reverso contextReverso context
Translations in context of words, groups of words, and idioms; a free dictionary with millions of examples in Arabic, German, Spanish, French, …
Reverso translationReverso translation
Reverso is a portal of linguistic tools including translation, dictionary, spell-checker, conjugation, grammar, pronunciation feature (just click on a word or a selection of words or the voice icon).
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SDG AcademySDG Academy
The SDG Academy is a program of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a global initiative for the United Nations supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. Their portfolio includes more than 40 free Massive Open Online Courses and free educational resources from the world’s leading experts on sustainable development. Lectures are also available in the SDG Academy Library, a searchable catalog of educational videos.
Sustainable development goalsSustainable development goals
The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.
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TabshouraTabshoura
Tabshoura is a free educational trilingual platform based on the Lebanese Curriculum and on active learning that helps you become an autonomous learner. Choose your platform : Tabshoura Kindergarten, Tabshoura MiddleSchool or Tabshoura Plus.
Typing.comTyping.com
Typing lessons, tests and games
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WikiartWikiart
WikiArt.org, the online home for visual arts from all around the world. WikiArt already features some 250.000 artworks by 3.000 artists, localized on 8 languages. These artworks are in museums, universities, town halls, and other civic buildings of more than 100 countries.
WikisourceWikisource
Wikisource is a Free Library of source texts which are in the public domain or legally available for free redistribution. Wikisource is an official project of the Wikimedia Foundation and a sister project of Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Wordreference.comWordreference.com
This site provides free online bilingual dictionaries and tools to the world.  The site has grown gradually ever since to become one of the most-used online dictionaries, and the top online dictionary for its language pairs of English-Spanish, English-French, English-Italian, Spanish-French, and Spanish-Portuguese.
World Digital LibraryWorld Digital Library
Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world. The WDL sought to preserve and share some of the world’s most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant historical documents to enable discovery, scholarship, and use. Books, manuscripts, maps, and other primary materials on the site are presented in their original languages. More than 100 languages are represented in the WDL collection, including many lesser known and endangered languages.
World Health Organization (WHO)World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners, and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health. WHO leads global efforts to expand universal health coverage. They direct and coordinate the world’s response to health emergencies. And they promote healthier lives – from pregnancy care through old age.
WorldlingoWorldlingo
WolrdLingo provides free, automated, and human translations for websites, documents, and emails in over 141 languages.
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Youtube LearningYoutube Learning
Explore learning video by age on youtube (Science, Math, Humanities, Electives), families and children from 5 to 13 and older.

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