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COLUMNS

Language Interference
Romanian and English –
a mediated partnership

Focus on Language Study:
Introduction
Metaphor
UK version ¦ US version


New word of the month
New phrasal verbs


Corpora tips
The Web as corpus:
using media sites to present
new or unfamiliar words

 

Focus on Language Study

The Language Study pages in the Macmillan Essential Dictionary have been designed to help you to improve your knowledge and use of the English language. They contain information on how words are formed (Word formation) and how new meanings develop (Metaphor), how words relate to each other (Collocation, Register, Text types) and how they are pronounced (Pronunciation).

Increasing your vocabulary is an essential part of learning a foreign language — and remembering new words and phrases is often the hardest part. We have included a separate section (Topic vocabulary) that brings together words and phrases that will help you to talk and write about key topic areas.

Throughout this section there is advice on how to improve your learning strategies, activities to practise these strategies, and exercises to test what you have learnt. We hope that you will find these pages informative, useful — and, above all, enjoyable.

In this issue you can learn about metaphor. You can read this article in British or American English.