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City College of San Francisco Language Center Web Links
Selected websites for American Sign Language, Chinese, French, German, Modern Greek, Italian, Japanese, Filipino, Russian, and Spanish.

 

EDSITEment!: The Best of the Humanities on the Web
http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/
a constantly growing collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. EDSITEment is a joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI Communications Corp., and the National Trust for the Humanities.

 

Foreign Languages for Travelers
http://www.travlang.com/languages/
Learn new words and quiz yourself!

 

I Love Languages
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
Formerly the Human Languages Page
online language lessons, translating dictionaries, programs to aid you in learning a language. The WWW Virtual Library: Languages has been superseded by these pages.

 

Language Box
http://www.languagebox.com/
At this site, you can learn, practice, or just use and enjoy foreign languages through newspapers, magazines, radio and TV from around the world, together with the art and general culture of selected countries. This site is a free public service by Language Box Translations, an Irish translation company.

 

Language Penpals
http://www.languagepenpals.com/
Practice languages online.

 

Multilingual Translation Technology Centre
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/translation/
This website from the University of Toronto Libraries offers links to online computer translation services and dictionaries.

 

Omniglot: a guide to writing systems
http://www.omniglot.com/
This website by Simon Ager of Brighton, England, will introduce you to a variety of writing systems around the world

 

Tongue Twisters
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/
A collection from a variety of languages by Michael Reck of Austria.

 

WordReference.com
http://wordreference.com/
Translate any word in any Web page with a few quick clicks, using the Collins translating dictionaries from HarperCollins Publishing. Translate a web page from Spanish, French or Italian to English.

 

Yahoo! Linguistics and Human Languages
Check here for additional sites.

Yamada Language Center, University of Oregon
http://babel.uoregon.edu/
includes language-related mailing lists and newsgroups
Non-English Font Archive
112 fonts for 40 languages
Language Guides
The Yamada WWW Language Guides are the definitive guide to language resources on the World Wide Web.

 

Your Dictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
YourDictionary.com (YDC) was founded in 1999 to provide the world's most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the world wide web with more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages. Resources are reviewed by their Advisory Council of Experts composed of renowned linguists.

 


Individual Languages

Go to these sites to practice your high school language!
Finnish: Salolampi, The Finnish Language Village
Summer immersion sessions for students 7-18 years of age.

 

French
French language, media, and culture links

 

Gaelic
Gaelic and Gaelic Culture
Irish, Manx, and Scottish
Irish: Focal an Lae- The Word of the Day in Irish
http://www.lincolnu.edu/~focal/
Unfortunately there are only archives but they still have information about gaelic words.
Irish Northern Aid: Irish Language Lessons
http://www.inac.org/irishlanguage/
64 lessons from The Irish People, plus links to additional online Gaelic resources.

 

German
our page of German language, media, and culture links

 

Hungarian Dictionary

 

India: Languages and Scripts of India
Check out these many links to the many languages and scripts of India.

 

Italian Subject Tree from the WWW Virtual Library
Check out a bunch of Italian sites on the Web!!

 

Latin
our page of Latin language, history, and culture links

 

Quechua: Cultures of the Andes
http://www.andes.org/

 

Russian: RussNet
http://www.russnet.org/
The Russian Language Network, lists all sorts of learning resources and programs.

 

Sign Language
American Sign Language Browser
An online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them. From Michigan State University.
HandSpeak: A Sign Language Dictionary Online
They even offer a "Sign of the Day". HandSpeak is an offspring of Deaf World Web.

 

Spanish
Spanish language, media, and culture links

Spanish Flashcards
A great site for Spanish vocabulary review.  Your students will like it too.