AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation
http://world.altavista.com/
Translation tool -- allows you to write a letter to someone in eight popular languages -- also can be used as a serious translation aid, or pen pal helper. |
BBC - Languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
Amazing site and collection of resources for learning French, German, Spanish,
Italian, and more, including sound files, vocabulary lists, quizzes, and cultural
notes.
Also
includes limited
resources
for other languages such as Welsh, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. From
the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). |
Foreignword.com -- The Language Site
http://www.foreignword.com/
Foreignword.com is dedicated to the world of languages and translation and more specifically to all the new possibilities brought about in this area by computers and the Internet. On-line dictionaries and glossaries, translation tools, translation memories, machine translation, etc. Our pages address both the professional translator as well as the casual user ready to try the new linguistic technologies which will shape the future of the translation business. Site features these software products: 1) Xanadu translates words, terms and texts right from your desktop and from/into over 60 languages. Additionally with Xanadu you can now find professional translators and specialised glossaries, read regularly updated language news and much more. 2) Glossy is the solution for translators looking for a powerful and yet easy to use tool to simplify the translation of Word, Text, RTF documents and WEB PAGES. Glossy is a computer assisted translation tool, specifically powerful for the localisation of web pages right within Microsoft Word. |
Houghton Mifflin College - World Languages
http://college.hmco.com/languages/students/
Companion site for language textbooks in French, German, Italian, Japanese, and
Spanish, offers resource centers with many supplemental resources and web
guides. |
LII - foreign language
http://lii.org/
Over 80 links for a search on "foreign language" from Librarians' Internet Index
(you'll have to do the search yourself -- or search the language you are
interested in). |
ILoveLanguages - Your Guide to Languages on the Web
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources.
The more than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring
you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for
online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation
services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language
you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs.
(iLoveLanguages is the latest redesign of The Human-Languages Page and the
Languages catalog of the WWW Virtual Library.) |
Miscositas.com
http://www.miscositas.com/
Stories (and virtual picture books) in English, Spanish and French. Also Links,
Multicultural Education syllabus, other teaching materials and curriculum.
"This site is dedicated to those who know the joy of teaching, learning or
living more than one language..." |
SpanishDICT.com - Dictionary of Spanish and English
http://spanishdict.com/
56,508 entries with over 10,369 audio pronunciations; word of the day (with
RSS feed) and Spanish forum. |
SignWriting
http://www.signwriting.org/
Deep site with extensive resources: "SignWriting is a writing system which uses
visual
symbols
to
represent the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of signed languages.
It is
an "alphabet" - a list of symbols used to write any signed language in the world.
... The symbols in the SignWriting alphabet are international and can be used
to write American Sign Language, Danish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language,
British Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language - any signed language you choose.
SignWriting makes it possible to have books, newspapers, magazines, dictionaries,
and literature written in signs. It can be used to teach signs and signed language
grammar to beginning signers, or it can be used to teach other subjects, such
as math, history, or English to skilled signers." |
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