Online resources that are permitted during the exam
Only the following online resources may be used. Using unauthorized online resources may result in forfeit of your exam registration fee, restrictions on future certification eligibility, and ATA ethics sanctioning.
When using any search engine listed below, you may search for a term to check the spelling and/or usage only. You are not permitted to click on any of the search results.
All printed resources are allowed including printed dictionaries and other books, printed glossaries, and printed copies of ATA practice tests.
All Languages
- American Translators Association
- Diatopix
- dict.cc
- Dictionary.com
- EUdict
- EUR-Lex
- Google Scholar
- Grammar Slammer
- IATE
- International Monetary Fund
- Linguee
- Merriam-Webster
- Ngram Viewer
- Oxford English Dictionary
- The American Heritage Dictionary
- Thesaurus.com
- UNTERM
- Wikipedia
- Wiktionary
- WordReference (no forums)
- World Trade Organization
- Yahoo
Arabic
Chinese
Croatian
- Institut za hrvatski jezik (with 12 individual resources)
- Hrvatska enciklopedija
- Hrvatski egzonimi
- Hrvatski jezični portal
- Hrvatsko strukovno nazivlje (Struna)
- Englesko <-> hrvatski rječnik
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
- CNRTL
- CRISCO
- Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française
- Grand dictionnaire terminologique
- Guide de style de l’OCDE Partie II – Règles et conventions
- TERMIUM Plus
German
- Duden
- DWDS
- Langenscheidt
- LEO (no forums)
- OpenThesaurus.de
- Rechtschreibrat
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
- eowf.alc.co.jp
- eow.alc.co.jp
- Goo
- Google Japan
- Japanese/Japanese Dictionary
- weblio
- weblio (thesaurus)
- Wikipedia Japan
Korean
- English Learners’ Dictionary
- Korean Linguistic Norms
- Naver
- Our Language Dictionary
- Standard Korean Dictionary
- Synonym Dictionary
Polish
Portuguese
- Academia Brasileira de Letras
- Academia Das Ciencias
- Aulete
- Ciberduvidas
- Dicionário de Direito, Economia e Contabilidade
- Infopédia
- Manual de Redacao e Estilo
- Michaelis
- Priberam
- Portal da Língua Portuguesa
Romanian
Russian
- Academic.ru
- Gramota
- Kartaslov
- Lingvo Live (no forums)
- Multitran (no forums)
- Yandex
Spanish
- Cosnautas
- Diccionario de americanismos
- Diccionario panhispánico de dudas
- Diccionario de la lengua española
- El corpus del español
- Fundéu
- TERMIUM Plus
- Wikilengua del español
- World Trade Organization
Swedish
Ukrainian
Questions about resources?
If you would like to use a resource that is not listed, you may submit a request to the Certification Program Manager at certification@bianlifan.com. Requests must include the Name and URL of resource. Once the exam year begins, requests will only be considered for the next exam year.