Our Purpose

What we do

Quotations.ch is a tool for creative writers, translators and language learners

Quotations.ch for writers (English language)

(Other languages – coming soon)

Quotations.ch takes you beyond grammar. Quotations.ch is a writing tool that enables exploration of ideas in real time as you write. Through helping you experience different styles of thought and expression, Quotations.ch helps you sharpen your capacity for thought and crystallise a unique, personal writing style.

What makes Quotations different is its immediacy and interactivity. As soon as you select texts from our comprehensive library (or upload your literature), further steps are near-instantaneous, allowing you to immerse yourself in your favourite literature and engage with your favourite writers, philosophers and scholars on a deeper level. Alternatively, in the words of George Orwell, simply experince the “the joy of mere words, i.e. the sounds and associations of words.”

Features

1. A comprehensive (and expanding) text database

2. Create your private library – upload your texts

3. In real time, as you write, explore how words you are writing are used by the writers in our library (or your uploaded library), for each word in your writing.

4. Double-click on any word in your writing to examine the complete concordance for that word in the context of the full source text.

5. Explore and compare the function word spectra and the content word vectors for any text or a group of texts.

Quotations.ch for Language learners (ELL) and translators

German, Italian and Russian – coming soon

Build a broad and deep vocabulary; experience word usage in context, across literary styles and historical periods; study language at an advanced level and experience idiomatic language use from the point of view of a native speaker.

Quotations.ch will not only help you prepare for an exam, improve your reading, writing and general language skills, but also give you the confidence and freedom to communicate with eloquence and precision. Learning will become a fascinating journey – you will develop the knowledge of words and expressions through dictionary definitions and comprehesive sets of contextualised examples of word usage by talented writers and scholars.

Features

Instantly explore:

1. the word definition in a dictionary

2. how any writer used a specific word in any of his texts or a selection of texts, in the context of the full source text

3. all instances of word usage through complete concordances in the context of the full source text

4. all the words used by a writer/writers in a text/group of texts either in the alphabetical order or by frequency of occurrence, in the context of the full source text

5. most frequently used words by any writer in the context of the full source text

6. the function word spectra and the content word vectors for any text or a group of texts

7. our extensive and growing library and create your own library, and use our features with your texts

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