Foreign Languages - General Resources

Translation Help

Page last edited 9-21-2011

1. Children's Books Online in a variety of languages - posted by artist and designer, Asbjorn Lonvig in Denmark
2. CyberGuides - lesson plans to accompany several foreign language books [some elementary, most middle/high school]
3. DicionArios-Online.com - offers links for dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other workmanships of reference in Portuguese in the InterNet.
4. Chillola - learn your first words in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. You can print out activities, participate in the kids' gallery and learn about different countries, cultures and people.
5. Foreign Language Education Sites - many sites helpful to learning more about teaching Foreign Languages
6. Foreign Language Lesson Plans and Resources by Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus:Department of Secondary Education at California State University
7. Foreign Language Resources on the Net - Compiled by the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii.
8. Free Printable Board Games - Choose a language, and then click on the Free Printable Board Game link. At the bottom of the page you will find dozens of small icons. Each is a link to a page where you can download a free board game and flash cards to review a topic related to the chosen language.
9. I Love Languages - Comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources.
10. Interactive Games for Language Teachers - many to select, in numerous languages.
11. Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes - Internet-based lesson plans for foreign language classes. Most of the lessons are for Spanish.
12. Language Web sites - A huge collection of web sites for a variety of languages.
13. Listen to the News - Pick from 43 languages to read and hear World News
14. National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
15. Pronunciator - Learn 60 languages interactively (featuring speech recognition), with 3 million free lessons.
16. Quick translations from AltaVista in eight languages - to or from English
17. Say Hello to the World! - "If you wanted to say hello to everybody in the world, how many languages would you have to learn? "
18. Super Language Sites - Language links for a variety of languages including Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian and Chinese along with Spanish, French and Latin.
19. Teacher Tools for Language Teachers - Worksheet generators, fill in the blank, picture match and many more for numerous languages! You must be logged in as a user, but registration is free.
20. World Wide Web Workshop I: Internet Tools for Language Teachers
21. Your Language Exchange Online Community - Find a partner at the online community and practice your second language (any language) with a native speaker who is learning your language.

Translation Help

1. AltaVista - Any page on the Internet can be translated from English to one of eight languages:
   Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, or Spanish - or from any of those languages to English.
2. Free Translation - FreeTranslation.com is an easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages.
3. Google Translation - Translate your phrase on iGoogle!
4. PROMT Online - Many languages to choose.
5. Translate PDF Files to Different Languages Free - Here are two of the simplest ways to get your PDFs translated into any of the many different languages that Google supports. (Thanks Sharon!)
6. Translation Tool from Google - Type in the URL to get a translation of a web site, or type in text to be translated.

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