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Catalan
Optimot: Search engine for getting answers to language queries (Language Policy Secretariat)
Cercaterm: Terminology search engine (Termcat)
Multicercadors: Search engines for terminology and linguistic information (UB)
ésAdir: Language criteria in communicative setting (Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals)
Compendium: Resources regarding legal language
Argumenta: Resources for improving communications skills in academic settings
BDForm: Database of morphemes and combining forms
Spanish
Diccionario de la lengua española (Real Academia Española): Spanish language dictionary
Diccionario del español actual: Digital edition of the dictionary by Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés and Gabino Ramos
Diccionario panhispánico de dudas: Resource from the Real Academia Española that aims to resolve the most common questions of usage in Spanish
Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu): Recommendations and forum for answering queries to help those who use Spanish in their daily work
Español al día: Selection of the questions most frequently received by the language consultancy services of the Real Academia Española
IATE: Terminology database of the European Union
English
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Resources to help in the wiriting process (Purdue University, USA)
Research Guides: Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper: Guide on how to write a research assignment in the social sciences
Higher Education Lexicon: Terminology on higher education, with more than 10,000 terms (UPC)
Academic Phrasebank: Collection of phrases for teaching and research staff who write articles in English
Writing Studio: Oral Presentations: Guide on how to give oral presentacions (Duke University, USA)
Practical Guide to English Usage: Comparison of linguistic criteria between English and Catalan (UOC)
Class Talk: Collection of sentences that teachers can use in class (UPC)
French
Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales: Portal of language resources in French.
Bob: Dictionary of slang and common speech, with a large range of entries and oral expressions.
Le Point de Fle: More than 17,200 links for learning and teaching French
Italian
Treccani.it: Italian encyclopaedia
Grandi dizionari online: Selection of bilingual dictionaries between Italian and other languages