language teaching/learning resources
|General
Info|Pen
Pals|French|German|Greek|Italian|
|Lesser
Taught Languages|Portuguese|Spanish|
General Foreign Language Information
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Foreign Language Teaching Forum
The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Learning Disabilities
Center for Applied Linguistics
Books to Teach Yourself a Foreign Language (collection of books for dozens of languages, from Irish to Catalan)
Yamada Language Center Font Archive
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections for classrooms
Pen Pal Connections for individual students
Kidlink e-mail exchanges, forums, and even to live chats with students from over 72 countries. Age range is 10 to 15 years old.
Organizations
American Association of Teachers of French
Dictionaries
ARTFL English-French Online Dictionary
Le Dictionnaire Universel Francophone En Ligne
Children's English-French Picture Dictionary
Media Online (Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, TV)
Learning to Read a French Newspaper
Radio Junior (French radio station for kids up to 15)
Learning through Games and Fun
Beginners Say It In French (a game for learning basic vocabulary)
Boowa et Quoilà (games, stories, and songs for 2-8 year-olds)
Léscale (for kids 4-12, only in French)
Kidcity (a virtual city for kids to explore, only in French)
Le Progrès des Enfants (online French newspaper for kids)
Online Lessons and Language Practice
French lessons on About.com (beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons on grammar and pronunciation)
French Listening and Speaking Central
Learn 5 False Cognates Every Week
Miscellaneous Resources
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
French Resources on the Web from Duke's Romance Studies Department
BBC Online French Resources (a good collection of multimedia exercises and lessons)
Resources for the French Classroom (compiled by the UNC Center for European Studies)
Organizations
American Association of Teachers of German
Goethe Institute (an organization for the promotion of German language and culture)
Dictionaries
Business German Online Dictionary
Children's English-German Picture Dictionary
English/German Online Dictionary
Media Online (Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, TV)
Online Broadcasters from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Austria Presse Agentur (official Austrian press agency)
n-tv Online (German version of CNN)
Literature/Stories Online
Grimm Fairy Tales (in German and English)
19th Century German Stories (in German and English)
Hans Huckebein (a German children's story with sound clips)
Learning through Games and Fun
Murphy's Laws (in German and English)
Galgenraten (an online German version of Hangman)
The Official Swiss Scrabble Game (in German)
Photo fun (German exercise using photos)
Online Lessons and Language Practice
The German Electronic Textbook (Grammar and Pronunciation)
German Online (has grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary lessons, exercises, games, and teaching ideas)
Miscellaneous Resources
Classroom Resources for the German Teacher
Dictionaries
Kypros-Net English-Greek/Greek-English Online Dictionary (both modern and ancient Greek)
Media Online (Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, TV)
The Ta Nea Interactive Newspaper
Online Lessons and Language Practice
Beginning Modern Greek Lessons
Kypros-Net Online Greek Lessons with Audio
Learn Greek Over the Internet (from the Hellenic Students Association at Brown University)
Organizations
American Association for Teachers of Italian
Virtual Forum for Italian Teachers
Dictionaries
English-Italian/Italian-English Online Dictionary
Addizionario (Italian-Italian Dictionary)
English-Italian Picture Dictionary
Media Online (Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, TV)
ANSA (Italy's leading news agency)
Panorama Magazine Online (weekly newsmagazine)
Learning through Games and Fun
La festa degli gnomi (an illustrated story in Italian)
Mondobimbo (stories and cartoons in Italian for young kids)
El sito del gatto Sissi e del topino (stories in Italian)
Online Lessons and Language Practice
Italian Grammar Resources from About.com
Italia 2000 (twelve multimedia study units from a European Union LINGUA project)
ADESSO! (Italian lessons online)
Italiano A UBC (interactive Italian exercises)
Italian Online (has grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary lessons, exercises, games, and teaching ideas)
Italian Resources on the Web from Duke's Romance Studies Department
Italianissimo (video lessons from BBC Online)
Literature/Stories Online
Antologia della Letteratura Italiana
Stockholm School of Economics: Introduction to Swedish
English-Swedish/Swedish-English Online Dictionary
A Virtual Shtetl (Yiddish Language and Culture)
Organizations
American Association for Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Instituto Camões (organization for the promotion of Portuguese language and culture)
Dictionaries
Children's English-Portuguese Picture Dictionary
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Online (includes definitions, verb conjugations and examples of usage)
Media Online (Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, TV)
Jornal de Notícias (Portuguese newspaper online)
Online Lessons and Language Practice
Resources for Teaching Portuguese (from the University of New Mexico)
De Tudo um Pouco (Portuguese lessons online)
Reading Portuguese Course (six introductory lessons)
Literature/Stories Online
Histórias de Verdade (True stories in both English and Portuguese)
Organizations
American Association for Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
Dictionaries
Children's English-Spanish Picture Dictionary
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Dictionary (with sound clips)
Media Online (Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, TV)
MadridMan Radio, TV, and Spanish Song Links
Learning through Games and Fun
Los Tebeos de Siempre (collection of Spanish comic strips)
Ahorcado (Spanish version of Hangman) from El Mundo
Crucigramas (Crossword Puzzles) from El Mundo
Spanish Song lyrics (including a downloadable Macarena)
¿Quién es el Bandito? (a Spanish whodunit)
Juegos y Canciones (Spanish songs and games for elementary students)
Pasatiempos del Aula de Lengua (games and exercises for all levels of Spanish, from the Centro Virtual Cervantes)
Literature/Stories Online
Proyecto Sherezade (interactive stories in Spanish posted monthly with exercises)
Online Lessons and Language Practice
Mundo Hispano - the Spanish language learning MOO
Lesson Plan Ideas (for elementary, middle, and high school teachers)
Sueños (beginner multimedia lessons from BBC Online)Pronounce It! (introduction to Spanish pronunciation)
Spanish Online (has grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary lessons, exercises, games, and teaching ideas)
Spanish Grammar Exercises from About.com
Business Spanish Lessons (new lessons added daily)
Miscellaneous Resources
Spanish Links and Resources from Duke's Romance Studies Department