He spoke for the best part of an hour? He spoke for the best part of an hour? Does this sentence mean "He spoke for almost an hour.".

推薦幾部在線漢-英/漢-漢字/詞典-Several online Ch-En/Ch-Ch dictionaries(Chinese character/word)

1、CC-EDICT/MDBG 

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

2、漢-英/漢-漢在線詞典匯總(A summary of Ch-En/Ch-CH dictionaries)

http://tradict.net/lang_chi2eng.php

http://www.edictionary.org/index.html

3、海詞詞典

http://dict.cn/

4、中文.com

一部線上漢英字源字典。

http://www.zhongwen.com/

5、<a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/" title="林語堂《當代漢英詞典》電子版" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 255); font-family: Simsun; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">林語堂《當代漢英詞典》電子版</a> - 香港中文大學

http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/

6、漢典

http://www.zdic.net/z/25/js/8ECA.htm

7、臺灣教育部重編國語辭典(漢-漢)

http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cbdic/search.htm

8、臺灣教育部成語典/Dictionary of Chinese idioms(漢-漢)

http://dict.idioms.moe.edu.tw/cydic/index.html

8、Dr.eye 譯典通

http://yun.dreye.com/dict_new/dict.php

9、臺灣雅虎奇摩字典

https://tw.dictionary.yahoo.com/

10、維基詞典 wikitionary

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BB%8A

https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BB%8A

11、漢字源

http://www.chineseetymology.org

12、康熙字典

http://kx.cdict.info/kxwwwcdict.php?word=%E9%8B%AA

13、東東同義詞詞典/Chinese Thesaurus

http://www.kwuntung.net/synonym/

14、<a href="http://dict.mini.moe.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gdic/gsweb.cgi?o=ddictionary" target="_blank" style="font-family: Simsun; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">國語小字典</a>

http://dict.mini.moe.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gdic/gsweb.cgi?o=ddictionary

15、法漢/漢法詞典 Chinese-French & French-Chinese

http://fayufaguo.com/%E8%BB%8A

16、Deutsch - Chinesisch - Deutsch Wörterbuch 德漢漢德詞典

http://www.ifad.nkfust.edu.tw/dict/

待補充。

Would you please help me with the transcript of a short audio?

It's a interview of the NBA player James.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0TRf3eMME0q

Do you still remember you goal of learning a language?

Just share your experiences.

Which one do you prefer, grammatical wording with a limited vocabulary, or ungrammatical wording with a wide?

Which one do you prefer, grammatical wording with a limited vocabulary, or ungrammatical wording with a wide one?

 

I perfer the former one.

 

Just share your opinion.

Do non-U.K. people say 'top up my mobile phone'? When you want to say 'pay more money so that you can make more calls' or 'pay some money in advance to the suppliers of communication', how do you say that in your countries?

Can I say 'distinguish between A, B and C'? If there are a little bit differences between A, B and C, when I ask a friend, can I say "how can I distinguish/differentiate between A, B and C"? Thanks in advance.

Feel 'split' in 'fracture and split' is a little redundant. 'Many people predicted that the party would fracture and split.' It's a sentence from Oxford Dictionary. I feel split here is a little redundant, as 'fracture' also means 'split'. Does 'split' here emphasize the mood? Or 'fracture' means 'split in form', while 'split' means 'split in thought'?

What's the difference between 'a native English speaker', 'an English native speaker' and ... ? What's the differences between 'a native English speaker', 'an English native speaker' and 'a native speaker of English'? I think 'a native English speaker' is equivalent to 'a native speaker of English', while an English native speaker means they are an English people.