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Modern Languages

Web Sites

ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle
Texts in French

ABYZ News Links
Newspapers and other news sources from around the world

ASL: American Sign Language
Free lessons, finger spelling charts and tools, etc.

About.com: German Language
German grammar, vocabulary, articles, etc.

Awesome Library: French
Lesson plans, materials, lists, etc.

Babel Fish Translation
Translates blocks of texts or web pages

Best Chinese Websites
China, the Chinese language, and culture

Best Italian Websites
Italian grammar aids, language games, culture, etc.

Best Japanese Websites
Japan, Japanese language, and culture

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish sites

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Provides access to primarily classics of Spanish literature

Biblioteca Virtual Mundo Hispano
Spanish digitized texts

Bilingual Dictionaries
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other languages

CAL: Center for Applied Linguistics
Full text resources for languages and linguistics

Call@Hull
Internet resources for language teachers and learners

Center for Applied Linguistics
Language and culture

E. L. Easton
Materials for teaching and learning English as well as other languages

Education World: Foreign Language Center
Teacher resources, companies, languages, etc.

Electronic Text Center
Texts in different languages

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Software, publications, and a bibliography of worldwide materials

FL Teach: Foreign Language Teaching Forum
Sites for language teachers

FSI Language Courses
Language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute

For Students of Languages
A helpful site for those wanting to learn English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish

Foreign Language Lesson Plans and Resources
Links to sites for resources, museums/exhibits, and lesson plans/activities

French Language Course
A course in the French language

Gallica
French texts and reference works

General Interest Links for French Students
Links to sites about French language and culture

German for Travellers.com
The German language, a German dictionary, information about Germany, etc.

Grammar and Language Courses
Links to grammars and language courses

Hand Speak
Video-clip entries for sign language

Howard University: French Connection
Resources for French language and literature

I Love Languages
Language-related web sites

Internet Dictionary Project, The
Translate from English to French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, or Spanish or from those languages to English

Japanese Language Learning Tools on Web
Japanese dictionaries, reference tools, translation sites, etc.

LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center)
Browse by country or subject

Learning Chinese Online
Chinese dictionaries, grammar, characters, etc.

Learn Spanish
Spanish words, phrases, stories, jokes, etc

Linguistics Links
Links to information about linguistics

Litterature de Langue francaise en ligne
A site to French texts and other information

MDBG Chinese–English Dictionary
Accepts both English and Chinese characters

MIT Libraries: Foreign Language News and Newspapers
News, newspapers, and other publications in several languages

Merriam-Webster Online
An online dictionary and thesaurus

Modern Language Association Language Map, The
Language and linguistics data for the U.S.

Newspapers.com
Links to worldwide newspapers as well as other information

Omniglot
Alphabets and other writing systems

One Look
Find definitions and translations

On-Line Chinese Tools
Tools for learning and using Chinese

Online newspapers.com
Newspapers around the world

Poesia en Espanol (Spanish Poetry)
Information, translations, dictionaries, etc.

Spanish Grammar Exercises
Interactive exercises for Spanish grammar

Spanish Made Easy
A site for beginning Spanish students

Spanish Sites
Spanish-Speaking countries, Spanish lesson plans and resources, and a Spanish map

Study Spanish.com
A free online tutorial for Spanish

Tennessee Bob’s Famous French Links
A site for links to the French language, French books and literature, etc.

Travlang
Online translation dictionaries, foreign language for travelers, international newspapers, etc.

University of California Berkeley Library: German
A German studies collection, research tools, and library guides

Web Spanish Lessons
Spanish vocabulary, grammar, etc.

Webspanol: Spanish Language Resources Online
A pre-test for Spanish, a pronunciation guide, activities, etc.

WESS Web: Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Links to texts in several European languages

WESSWEB: German Studies Web
Scholarly resources for German studies

Wikipedia
An encyclopedia in many languages

Wise Old Sayings: American Sign Language Resource Guide

Links to information about American Sign Language

Yahoo! Newspapers
Links to world newspapers

Yahoo! Specific Languages
Language sites

List updated 11/23/09

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