[bnc] British National Corpus
English is quite complicated at time, and you might not be sure how a particular expression is used. Dictionaries and grammar books help of course, but this link takes you to another site which can help. It is a corpus - a collection of extracts from books, newspapers, magazines, radio interviews etc - in total a hundred million words of real English.
Use the search engine to "search the corpus" to see how expressions are used.
For example if you are not sure whether "comité scientifique" should be "scientific committee" or "scientific board", you can search for each of these expressions and see which one is really used.
Try searching to find the exact meaning in English (if any) of the words "planning" "parking" and "caravaning". You should find that "planning" and "timetable" are not the same thing, and that "a parking" is not English.
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