Foreign Language Links, Resources & Activities

Links verified on 3/13/2017

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1. Children's Books Online in a variety of languages - posted by artist and designer, Asbjorn Lonvig in Denmark
2. 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.
3. Cooljugator - Test your skills on finding the correct form of the verb in a real sentence. The game has two modes: a multiple choice version and a version where you type in the correct form yourself.
4. Easiest Languages to Learn - the five languages easiest for an English speaking person to learn
5. Foreign Language Lesson Plans and Resources by Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus:Department of Secondary Education at California State University
6. Foreign Language Resources on the Net - Compiled by the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii.
7. 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.
8. Listen to the News - Pick from 43 languages to read and hear World News
9. Live Lingua - free language learning material, over 150 languages from Acholi to Zulu
10. National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center - [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
11. Pronunciator - Learn 60 languages interactively (featuring speech recognition), with 3 million free lessons.
12. Say Hello to the World! - "If you wanted to say hello to everybody in the world, how many languages would you have to learn? "
13. Super Language Sites - Language links for a variety of languages including Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian and Chinese along with Spanish, French and Latin.
14. World Wide Web Workshop I: Internet Tools for Language Teachers
15. 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. 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.
2. PROMT Online - Many languages to choose.
3. 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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