Last month I wrote about VocabUsage.info, a search engine which gives you example sentences for English words. I have since discovered a few other useful sites in this category. The British National Corpus has nice examples from a wide range of sources (both written and spoken). Unfortunately, the free search is a bit slow and only includes British sources. The Corpus of Contemporary American English is a free, large corpus of American sentences, if you don’t mind the complex interface.
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My name is Tomasz P. Szynalski. I live in Poland. In the 1990s, my friend and I taught ourselves to speak English fluently (with a native-like American accent) in about 3 years, using some unorthodox learning techniques. In 2001, we founded Antimoon to share our insights with other English learners.
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