MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

HERITAGE LANGUAGE

SPANISH

CHINESE

ESL

FRENCH

OTHER

MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

www.prensaescrita.com/newspapers: newspaper articles from around the world

Earworms: buy apps to help you learn words through repetition and musical rhythms

Foreign Language videos: video clips in which native speakers talk about various topics

Culturally authentic pictorial lexicon: authentic images for language learning

Oral Language archive (for purchase)

Lyrics training: listen to music videos and fill in the blanks (European languages)

MisCositas: Chinese, Spanish, French

http://www.memorylifter.com/about.html

• virtual flashcard system, free downloadable for English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.

Phrase guides and language aids: downloadable phrase books. audio files

http://litetype.com/: Type in different languages using virtual keyboard

litgloss.buffalo.edu/list-of-texts.shtml:  literary and cultural texts in non-English languages

http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Teaching resources for less commonly taught languages

http://www.nettvdb.com/ Internet TV stations from 208 countries

http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/culturetalk.html Cultural information about Islamic countries

www.podbean.com: podcasts in different languages

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ front page news in various languages

www.forvo.com : universal pronunciation guide

www.smartlinkcorp.com: offers SPELLINK, a spell-check software for various languages (fee-based)

Alphabets in five languages: English, German, Italian, French and Spanish with pronunciation

FreeRice: language learning games in French, German, English, Italian and Spanish

World Geography Quizzes

Internet Picture Dictionary: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish

Babelpoint: free on-line dictionaries and morphological dictionaries

Virtual Tours of Cities Around the World

KidSpeak: language-learning software for children

Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment: "The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA, NOAA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSP's) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment."

Duke University Slavic Centers

Travel Linguist Videos: Czech, German, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, French, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Tagalog, Thai

Language Learning Games: many, many languages

Center for Open Educational resources and Language Learning: great resources for ASL, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malayalam, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Yiddish and Yoruba

www.mamalisa.com: Kids' songs from around the world

Perseus Digital Library: Texts in Latin, Greek and English

National Capital Language Resource Center

Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region: Pashto, Dari, Tajiki, Turkmen, Uzbek, Uyghur, Kazakh

Critical Language Series: online lessons in Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Chinese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurmanji Kurdish, Turkish, & Ukrainian.

LangMedia (Five Colleges Center for the Study of World Languages): resources for MANY languages

Learning Chocolate: Learn vocabulary in English, Spanish, Mandarin or Japanese

Math manipulatives in English, Spanish and French

Tour the World's Art Museums

Animal Welfare Education in Many Languages

MYLO resources: Uk-based on-line language learning service; set up around themes or topics; has different levels

Folk music for language learners: 2 folk songs from 10 languages with activities

HERITAGE LANGUAGE RESOURCES

National Heritage Language Resource Center: "NHLRC's mission is to develop effective pedagogical approaches to teaching heritage language learners, first by creating a research base and then by pursuing curriculum design, materials development, and teacher education."

Heritage Language Journal:" The Heritage Language Journal (HLJ), an online, blind-refereed journal, was established in 2002 to provide a forum for scholars to publish the results of their research and to advance knowledge about educating heritage speakers."

Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages:" The Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages (the Alliance) is committed to advancing language development for heritage language speakers in the United States as part of a larger effort to educate members of our society who can function professionally in English and in other languages."

STARTALK: "Welcome to the STARTALK website, home to information on teaching and learning Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. The purpose of this site is to share information on implementing programs as well as to share resources on curriculum design, instructional materials, assessment tools, and useful links."

Report of the Task Force on the Preservation of Heritage Language Skills in Maryland

Leemos juntos: blogs and resources for teaching heritage Spanish speakers