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tech crèche
a safe … designed to encourage people to leave behind mobile phones and other electronic devices when doing outdoor leisure activities … read more
Learning and teaching pragmatics
What's the best way of thanking someone? How do you apologize to someone? How do you express uncertainty?
Our monthly lesson plans and blog posts offer valuable tips for students and teachers on how to become successful communicators.
Pronunciation practice
Learning to pronounce English words correctly is always easier when you talk about a subject you love. With the new themed wordlists for the award-winning Sounds: The Pronunciation App, you can practise, record and test yourself on words to do with sport, food and life skills.
Learn more about themed wordlists
Language Resources
Using our expertise in the area of language learning, we create language resources that are both unique and entertaining. Recommended this month:
Read blog posts on the topic of American English on Macmillan Dictionary Blog.
Watch featured videos on our brand-new videos page.
Pronunciations
Audio recordings of all headwords are available in both British and American accents.
more about English pronunciationNew words
We're constantly adding new words to the site. Many of them are appearing in a dictionary for the first time.
Check out this week's new entries bug-out bag and Nordic noir.
It's your English!
Find out more about our 2013 campaign, or browse the 'What's your English?' archives:
What's your English? – 2012 archive
What's your English? – 2011 archive
International English – 2010 archive
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