PhraseBASE: Conversational Foreign Language Learning Social Network
PhraseBASE is a service where you can learn a foreign language and also practice it with native speakers of that language. Some of the features are free on the site, like learning phrases or using the...
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Language Learning in Second LIfe
An article in the Guardian by Mike Solly, a senior lecturer at the UK’s Open University, about using Second Life to teach ESL describes some of the benefits of using Second Life for second-language...
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Online English-Chinese Dictionary Nciku
A student worker of mine recently recommended a site that she uses for her Chinese course. It’s an English-Chinese online dictionary called Nciku. What’s great about this site is that not only is it a...
View ArticleOpen Source Word Processors That Keep Arabic Characters Together
We recently came across an issue that a faculty member was having issues with students using Arabic in Microsoft Word on their Mac computers. When they type words, the characters do not connect like...
View ArticleNew York City’s Endangered Languages
The New York Times brings us an interesting story about the amazing variety of languages found in New York City and the efforts to save or record the endangered ones.Listening to (and Saving) the...
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Google keyboard
Google has added an on-screen keyboard to their search portals for languages that use non-latin script. This could be particularly useful for people who regularly search in these other languages but...
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Images for Language Instruction
The Realia Project is an online searchable source of royalty-free, faculty-reviewed images for use as teaching materials in the foreign language classroom. Realia – Rich Electronic Archive for...
View ArticleGerman History Audio Books (in German)
I recently came across a post on The Linguist on Language blog and the post contained a list of resources on German History audio books that are in German. If you want to brush up on Germany’s history...
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Typing in Foreign Languages
If you have the need to type anything in a foreign language which has accents and other strange-looking characters, and you only have a US keyboard,this website will make your life a whole lot easier!...
View ArticleLanguage departments eliminated
Even French, Italian,Russian and the classics are considered endangered languages at the State University of New York at Albany. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/10/04/albany
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