The site 1000 images on the tip of my tongue is interactive, and focuses on idiomatic expressions that have the same meaning in French, English and Spanish, but cannot be translated word for word*. This trilingual directory provides more than 1,000 idiomatic phrases classified according to theme. Each one is inserted into a short text that illustrates its meaning and contains a digital audio file. Listening to the file allows us to fully understand all the various shades in the pronunciation. The site also includes exercises and games as well as brief, humorous animations, which contribute to the discovery of the fascinating world of colourful expressions.

To use the dictionary, simply type in the word you would like to find in the box above and press the Search button. To find a Japanese definition of an English word, type in the English word. To look up a Japanese word, you must type in kana or kanji to find the definition. The dictionary is not designed to accept romanized Japanese input. You can also use wildcards ( * ) in your search.

Didier publishers have an online dictioinary for Business French of soe 3200 items. Type the word in English and get a list of equivalent expressions using that word in French.

Type in an English word and get the translations. Interesting to note that Japanese homophones are linked to a page which compares words with the same reading but different characters. Simple and easy to use.

Denshi Jisho is an easy-to-use and powerful online Japanese dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji and example sentences by searching in many ways.
The dictionaries are also interlinked so that you can check what the kanji in a word mean individually or what context a word can be used in. You can also look up kanji by the parts it contain.
The data is publicly available and comes from the excellent WWWJDIC project.

The Reading Tutor was designed to help JFL/JSL learners improve their reading skills in Japanese. This system was developed specifically to help learners study written Japanese at their own pace, in their own way.

If you are learning Chinese characters, you will find this Visual Dictionary very entertaining. Over 6000 characters are nicely ordered (by frequency of use) in a beautiful interface, you can easily navigate through and hear the sound of each character and even see the English translation… This is also a great tool to gauge how many Chinese characters you actually know.