Foreign Language Resources on the Web

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Contents 1 Resources for All Languages 1.1 Department of Education Title VI Language Resource Centers 1.2 Professional Association Sites 1.3 Higher Education Sites 1.4 Activity Creation Sites 1.5 Ready-Made Activities and Resources 1.6 Other Useful Sites 2 Spanish 2.1 Language Learning Tools 2.2 Spanish Culture Links 2.3 Other Interesting Links 3 French 4 German 5 Italian 6 Russian 7 Chinese 8 Japanese 9 Arabic 10 Latin

Resources for All Languages

Department of Education Title VI Language Resource Centers

• Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) Pennsylvania State University - http://calper.la.psu.edu
• Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) University of Minnesota - http://carla.umn.edu
• Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) Michigan State University - http://clear.msu.edu/clear/
• Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) San Diego State University - http://larcnet.sdsu.edu (look for the Digital Media Archive)
• National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC) Georgetown University, George Washington University, *Center for Applied Linguistics - http://www.nclrc.org/
• National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) University of Hawai'I - http://nflrc.hawaii.edu
• National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NK-12FLRC) Iowa State University - http://nflrc.iastate.edu

Professional Association Sites

• Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers (ICT4LT) - http://www.ict4lt.org/en/index.htm
• Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum (LLTI List) - http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI
• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) - http://www.cal.org/resources/
• International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) - http://iallt.org
• Foreign Language in Elementary Schools (FLES) - http://www.fles.org/
• Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) - https://calico.org/
• Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) - http://scolt.org/
• Educause - http://www.educause.edu/

Higher Education Sites

• University of Michigan - http://www.umich.edu/~langres/
• University of Northern Iowa - http://www.uni.edu/becker/
• University of Wisconsin-Madison - http://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/content/projects/projects.htm
• Old Dominion - http://www.odu.edu/al/llc/langresources.html

Activity Creation Sites

• Quia - http://www.quia.com/
• Hot Potatoes - http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
• Word Champ - http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Splash.do
• Crossword - http://www.crosswordkit.com/
• Puzzlemaker - http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
• Activities Page - http://teach.fcps.net/trt2/activities/
• Word Search/Sudoku/Kakuro - http://www.edhelper.com/wordfind.htm
• Battleship - http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~dsflores/
• Online Comics in Spanish - http://makebeliefscomix.com

Ready-Made Activities and Resources

• Quia - http://www.quia.com/
• Merlot - http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2288
• Internet Activities for Foreign Languages Classes - http://www.clta.net/lessons/
• Polyglot - http://www.polyglot-learn-language.com/
• Vocabulary - http://www.vocab.co.uk/
• Conjuguemos.com - http://conjuguemos.com/home/index.html
• I Love Languages - http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
• E. L. Easton - http://eleaston.com/languages.html
• Languages 4 Everyone - http://languages4everyone.com
• Foreign Language Teaching Forum - http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html
• Language Links - http://www.langlink.net/langlink/
• REALIA project (Rich Electronic Archive for Language Instruction Anywhere) - http://www.realiaproject.org
• LangMedia Resources for World Languages - http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/
• Lesson Plans & Activities from North Park University - http://campus.northpark.edu/spanish/faculty.htm

Other Useful Sites

• Blueweb’n - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/contentarea.cfm?cid=6
• EDsitement - http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subjectArea=2
• Education World - http://www.educationworld.com
• 4 Teachers - http://www.4teachers.org
• 7-12 Educators - http://712educators.about.com/od/languageartswarmups/a/warmlang.htm
• Ethnologue (An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages) - http://www.ethnologue.com
• italki (A social network and an online resource for learning foreign languages) - http://www.italki.com/
• Business Spanish - http://www.laits.utexas.edu/orkelm/kelm.htm

Spanish

Language Learning Tools

• Barbara Nelson’s Spanish Grammar Exercises - A great site for help with learning Spanish featuring all levels of grammar exercises. Use the verb conjugation for additional help with verb tenses and forms. Try the study modules for practice video and culture exercises.

• http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php

• Learn Spanish at StudySpanish.com - Grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and verb drills for beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners.

• http://studyspanish.com/

• About.com: Spanish Language - A variety of grammar lessons from beginning to advanced levels with a culture section to learn about different aspects of Spanish culture.

• http://spanish.about.com/library/words/blword.htm

• Spanish Grammar Activities - A helpful site for Spanish teachers with tips for teaching a variety of grammar lessons.

• http://www.humanities.uci.edu/spanish/DynamicActivities/index.htm

• University of Regina Language Resource Center - Offers great study tools for students such as reviews of grammar lessons followed by practice exercises and flashcards for studying vocabulary.

• http://uregina.ca/~laninstit/HotPot/Spanish/frames1.html

• BBC Learn Spanish: Mi Vida Loca - A "virtual trip through Spain", this site takes a video approach to learning Spanish. Videos are followed by printable vocabulary and grammar practice exercises.

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/

Spanish Culture Links

• Spanish language newspapers

• http://www.acu-adsum.org/jlb.periodicos.esp.html

• Hispanic Heritage

• http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/hispanic_resources.html

• More Hispanic Heritage

• http://www.somosprimos.com/heritage.htm

• Hispanic Heritage Month

• http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hhm1.html

• The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings

• http://frontera.library.ucla.edu/

Other Interesting Links

• Spanish Word of the Day

• http://www.spanishwordoftheday.com/

• PowerPoint Presentations - Vocabulary and Grammar PowerPoint presentations available on the web.

• http://eee.uci.edu/04w/34018/1b--pp%20presentations.htm

• University of California, Irvine Spanish Department

• http://www.humanities.uci.edu/spanish/

• Rua Vista Online Magazine

• http://www.ruavista.com/llamadas.htm

• SOL Spain On Line - Holy Week in Sevilla and other cultural information.

• http://www.sol.com/en/modulo.asp?IdContenido=169&IdProvincia=41

• Printable Materials - Membership offers access to resources used in home education.

• http://www.homeeducationresources.com/Membership.htm

• Business Spanish

• http://www.laits.utexas.edu/orkelm/kelm.htm

• Spanish Outreach

• http://www.webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=10555

• Cine con clase - University of Virginia site with clips from Spanish films.

• http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/SpanishFilm

• Resources for Spanish Teachers and Students

• http://zonorus.marlboro.edu/~jmcconn/capstoneproject/capstone1.html

French

• Tennessee Bob’s Famous French Links -Links to new Francophone sites, literature resources, art and culture, history, virtual tourism, media, French language tools, and French-speaking schools worldwide.

• http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

• Learn French at About.com - Lessons to help with learning French and tips for teachers.

• http://french.about.com/

• Societe Francois Villon - Website dedicated to French writer Francois Villon.

• http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/villon.shtml

• TV5Monde - French news station website.

• http://tv5.org/TV5Site/programmes/accueil_continent.php

• Merlot - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.

• http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2456

• Online French Course - Online lessons in general French and business French, online French tutor.

• http://www.lsfrench.com/frenchonline.htm

German

• Learn German at About.com - Games and quizzes to practice learning German.

• http://german.about.com/library/quiz/blqz_start.htm

• Jim Becker’s German Links - Best German websites covering a variety of topics.

• http://www.uni.edu/becker/German2.html

• Merlot - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.

• http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2461

Italian

• Interactive Italian Language Course - Listening practice with pronunciation, grammar, vocab.

• http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/site/pageone.html

Russian

• Russian Tongue Twisters - 1st international collection of tongue twisters with translations to English.

• http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ru.htm

Chinese

• Classical Chinese Poetry - Poetry in Chinese with English translations.

• http://www.chinapage.com/poetry9.html

• Video game to learn Chinese developed by a professor at Michigan State University - The multi-player role-playing game, Zon/New Chengo, allows users to choose Mandarin phrases to converse with other characters in the game about activities visitors to China would experience.

• Demo - http://special.newsroom.msu.edu/zon/video/chinafinalfixed.wmv
• Try Game - http://zondev.educ.msu.edu/WebFront/

• USC Integrated Chinese Character Page - Animated stroke order and recordings of pinyin pronunciation for characters in Integrated Chinese.

• http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/character_page.html

• Google Search Engine in Chinese

• http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/

• Free Online Chinese-English/ English-Chinese Dictionary

• http://www.xuezhongwen.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=chardict

• Free Chinese Software - DimSum: Chinese Reading Assistant and Dictionary.

• http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html

• Free Chinese instruction available from Rutgers University.

• http://chinese.rutgers.edu/

• Learning Chinese online

• http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm

• Children's Chinese Reader

• http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/basic/ch_reader/content.htm

• Oxford University Chinese Multi-media

• http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Chinese/index.html

• Mellon collection of video clips at the University of Puget Sound

• http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/perry/video/home.htm

• Downloadable sound files for Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1

• http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/ICL1P1.html

• UC Berkeley online exercises for Integrated Chinese Level 1

• http://www.language.berkeley.edu/ic/gb/toc.html

• Conneticut College video clips:

• http://camel2.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/chinese/mhu/videos2/index/index.html

Japanese

• Japanese Podcast Lessons - Podcasts using exampleas from anime and everyday conversation to teach you Japanese that is useful for everyday life.

• http://www.japancast.net

Arabic

• Useful Arabic - Helpful information about Arabic language and culture.

• http://www.cafe-syria.com/Useful_Arabic.htm

Latin

• Latin Crosswords - Printable vocabulary crossword puzzles.

• http://games.bestlatin.net/cwblog