AnswerTips

I have added AnswerTips to this blog. If you find a word in this blog that you do not know, double-click on it. A "bubble" will pop up with information about that word. The explanations in AnswerTips are not as clear and simple as what you will find in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online. For example, AnswerTips defines "advantage" as "a beneficial factor or combination of factors" while Longman says that an "advantage" is "something that helps you to be more successful than others." Still, AnswerTips is very convenient. Another advantage of AnswerTips is that it allows you to hear how a word is pronounced. If you want to here the pronunciation, click on the mark inside the AnswerTips bubble that looks like a speaker:

If you have difficulty understanding an explanation that you find in AnswerTips, please click on the "Tools" link I have placed in the "Links" section on the right side of this page. From there you can go to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online.

If you would like to add AnswerTips to your own blog, click here and then follow the directions. This will produce "code" that you will need to copy and then paste into your blog in order to add the AnswerTips function. To download a PDF file with very clear and simple instructions on how to add AnswerTips to a "Blogger" (the service we are using in this class) blog, click here.  Placing AnswerTips on your blog may help people read what you have written.  Perhaps more importantly, though, it may also help you read comments that are written on your blog by your readers (me, for example).

By the way, I noticed the AnswerTips function while reading the Japan Times online. When you click on a word in a Japan Times article, an AnswerTips bubble pops up.