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• What's a small thing that drives you crazy?

  "The practice of carrying out or watching sexual activities in semi-secluded locations such as parks or car parks" as copy+pasted from the collinsdictionary.com website. Source: 11 months ago

• What is the best dictionary app/website for Italian?

  Collinsdictionary.com and reverso.net: Quick ways to translate words and texts from English to Italian and vice versa. Collins has genders, pronunciations and conjugation as well. Source: about 1 year ago

• How do you create your own flashcards when immersing yourself in TL content?

  For me, the method depends mainly from the resources I have. For Spanish I'm using spanishdict.com and it has a convienient way to create lists of words, so I just save a new word I see and then after some time I convert that into flashcards. For German I'm using collinsdictionary.com which I use as a normal dictionary, so usually I either create new cards while immersing myself or write them down to a file and... Source: about 1 year ago

• How to improve grammar for native English speakers?

  The best way to improve your vocabulary is to read more. Read good-quality material (classic novels and quality newspapers, not social media or tabloids). Whenever you encounter a word you don't know, look it up in a dictionary and note what it means in the context of what you are reading. (Don't just Google it as you can't be sure that what you find is true.) If you don't own a dictionary, then... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Question Regarding Catapults.

  The definition I have found is "a heavy war engine used formerly for hurling stones, etc" (collinsdictionary.com, 5/22). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Which word, that is not a company or product name, is pronounced the same in the most languages?

  Disclaimer: Barely competent in English as my native language so my reference was collinsdictionary.com. Has a cool little section I found that shows translations for a word in many other languages if that interests you. Did not peruse every single language in existence so a margin for error is expected. Source: about 2 years ago

• (not a clue) Glossary of ways to clue single letters, sorted by those letters?

  Most cryptics in the newspapers use Chambers or Collins as their reference, and many of the standard abbreviations can be found there under the relevant letter. For example, C in Chambers has calorie, clubs, carbon, cocaine, century, cent, about and many others. Collins is also available online. Source: about 2 years ago