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General Language Resources
1Stop-language.com
"Everything for language teaching and learning for free."
AltaVista - Translate with BabelFish
"...enables you to translate short passages to and from English to a number of languages and to and from several specific pairs of languages (for example, German to French, French to German). You can also translate Web sites."
AsiaSource - Language Resources
"This list of Asian language resources includes: general resources; lessons; pronunciation guides; online dictionaries; related software and fonts.
Languages from Bengali to Vietnamese.
- A Resources of the Asia Society
Deafness: Choices of Communication
Sections include: ASL or American Sign Language ; The Deaf Culture ; Auditory Verbal Approach ; Cued Speech ; SEE (Signing Exact English) ; Total Communication ; Local Assistance ; Assistive Devices.
Includes both print and online resources.
By Virginia Johnson, Central Rappahannock Regional Library
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
"The Digital Dictionaries of South Asia Project is a collaborative effort to widen access to South Asian Language Dictionaries. Established dictionaries for each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia will be mounted on the web for free and open access."
Ethnologue, Web Version
"This electronic version of Ethnologue: Languages of the World presents the data used to prepare the printed volumes, along with links to the SIL Bibliography and the International Academic Bookstore."
European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages (EBLUL) (English or French)
"It acts and speaks on behalf of the more than 40 million European Union citizens who speak an autochthonous language other than the main official language of the State in which they live...The Bureau's general aim is to promote the autochthonous lesser used (regional, minority and non-territorial) languages of the member states of the European Union and the linguistic rights of those who speak these languages."
The Finnish Language
Written for Virtual Finland by Hannele Branch, Lecturer in Finnish, University of London
fonetiks.org
An Online Language Laboratory
"Complete online pronunciation guides with native speaker sounds and accents in British English, American English, French, French Canadian, German, Italian, Spanish, Thai, Indonesian and other languages."
Foreign Language Instructional Technology Interest Group
Sections on resources by languages, software reviews, professional & networking resources, and standardized testing.
Foreignword.com
The Language Site: Dictionaries & Translation Tools
Includes On-Line Tools ; Translators ; Forum ; Technology.
"DictSearch, now includes more than 90 on-line dictionaries and 250 different language combinations, all accessible from a single screen."
Free-Translator.com
"Find a selection of the best free Translators, Dictionaries and language Courses on the Web. Anything you look for any language, in just one site! There are also links to news, encyclopedias, maps, glossaries and more."
HandSpeak: Visual Languages
A Sign Language Dictionary Online
iLoveLanguage
"...is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 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."
Indigenous Language Institute
"...collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas."
- Endangered Languages Database - (dead link)
"This summary report includes one hundred and nine (109) language researchers reporting on 151 languages/dialects. Language researchers responded to our survey from Australia (3), Belize (1), Canada (8), China (1), Denmark (2), England (5), Germany (2), Hong Kong (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (5), Scotland (1), Spain (1), Venezuela (1), and the rest from the United States (75)."
Linguistic Society of America / Committee on Endangered Languages & their Preservation.
- Native Languages Revitalization Resource Directory - (dead link)
"Here you will find information about Native language programs and practitioners, publications, organizations, and a variety of resources for those involved in, or interested in starting, a language revitalization program."
Introduction to the Hungarian Language
Maintained by ¡kos Dˆmˆtˆr
Language Learning & Technology
A refereed journal for second & foreign language educators
Language School Explorer - (dead link)
"Search engine with 3000 institutes world wide. Bulletin board and free newsletter about languages."
Lanaguage-Learning.net
"International WHERE+HOW has been publishing the "WHERE+HOW Guides to Language Centres" in book form for the past 15 years. With the world wide web becoming an indispensable and universal tool for finding information, we have launched the Language-Learning.net as a successor to the WHERE + HOW Guides on the internet, providing free access to the most comprehensive language schools directory online."
The Languages of Afghanistan
Brief information on some of the roughly 45 languages currently spoken in Afghanistan.
Ethnologue report for Afghanistan
Lexicool
Directory of Translation Dictionaries
"The directory currently has links to over 500 translation dictionaries and glossaries
Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB)
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scots-online
A wonderful collection of resources on Scots, including an interactive dictionary, texts, grammar, history, list of Scots language organizations, and links to additional resources.
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- Learning Aids - (dead link)
"We currently have information on published and 'semi-published' teaching and general reference materials for the following North American Indian languages or groups of languages."
[Software] Virtual CALL Library - U. of Sussex
"...aims to be a central point of access to the diverse collection of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) software scattered across the Internet and available for downloading."
- University of Sussex - Sussex Language Institute
South African Languages Web
"Website dedicated to the eleven official languages of South Africa."
By Jako Olivier
Speech Accent Archive
"This site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. Currently, we have obtained 287 speech samples."
By Steven Weinberger, George Mason University
[Translations] WordReference.com
"...providing quick and easy dictionary translations to people reading foreign languages. With these new tools, and using professional dictionaries, WordReference.com should make it easier for users to read and comprehend foreign language Web pages."
Transparent.com
"Offering a wide variety of language activities and information ó Word of the Day, online games, tests, and quizzes, language and cultural information, newsletters, and an online store."
Yamada WWW Language Guides
"The guides contain information about 115 languages. There are 112 fonts in our archives, for 40 languages."
- University of Oregon
You Know the Drill
"A fast, effective, and FREE way to learn foreign language vocabulary"
"This site provides a way for you to learn vocabulary words through repetition. It might be boring, but it gets the job done...How does it work? You choose the language you are interested in, and the site begins asking you to translate words. If you get words wrong, it will repeat those words, in order to reinforce the correct translation. The site keeps track of which words you have mastered and which you are working on, so you can go away and come back and take up where you left of."
Welsh
A Welsh Course
"This course is one suitable for beginners. The main emphasis of the course is in developing conversational skills in Welsh as it is currently spoken (as contrasted with teaching the forms needed for understanding literary Welsh)."
By Mark Nodine
TWLL - The Welsh Learning Links
Includes: Language Lessons ; Bookshelf ; Vocab Builder ; Internet Resources ; Software.
By Hazel Davey
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