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Modern Languages

Web Sites

ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle
Texts in French

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

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

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish language site that provides access to primarily classics of Spanish literature.

Biblioteca Virtual Mundo Hispano
An older Spanish language virtual library that offers free access to Spanish language ebooks.

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

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

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

FSI Language Courses
Language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute

Gallica
French texts and reference works

Hand Speak
Video-clip entries for sign language

I Love Languages
Language-related web sites

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

Litterature de Langue francaise en ligne
A multi-disciplinary French language listing of French texts and other forms of literature

MDBG Chinese–English Dictionary
Accepts both English and Chinese characters

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

Online newspapers.com
Newspapers around the world

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

Study Spanish.com
A free online tutorial for Spanish

Wise Old Sayings: American Sign Language Resource Guide

Links to information about American Sign Language