General Foreign Language Resources
Alta Vista Translation Services
or Use the Alta Vista search engine and click on Translate. Submit text or a URL for a web page and this tool will translate it from English to the foreign language or vice versa...just choose your language. Grammar and accent marks are not perfect and sometimes you even get a surprisingly understandable translation. (http://babelfish.altavista.com/)
American Council on the teaching of Foreign Languages
This site is designed to offer you not only valuable information about ACTLF and the foreign language profession, but also access to other useful resources on the Web. (http://www.actfl.org)
Email Classroom Exchange (ECE) helps classrooms to meet, correspond and interact with other classrooms through tile Internet. Users can, search, browse and contact classrooms listed in the online database or submit a- profile of their own classroom. Great for cultural, language, history, science, or geography projects. (http://www.epals.com)
Foreign Languages for Traveler
Specify your native language, then choose from more than 60 foreign languages for words and phrases useful for travelers. This site is easy to use and fun. Some words include pronunciations and the site also links to online dictionaries. (http://www.travlang.com/languages/)
This page is devoted to bringing together information about the languages of the world. The language resources listed here come from all around the world, and range from dictionaries to language tutorials to spoken samples of languages. (http://www.june29.com/HLP/)
Just what it says--a great hotlist to language learners and teachers! Covers Multi-Language Sites, African Languages and Literature, Asian Studies, Classics, English as a Second/Foreign Language, French, Germanic Languages, Hebrew and Semitic Studies, Italian, Portuguese, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic, and Spanish. A Teaching with the Web section provides some web learning activities. (http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html)
Many languages-French Spanish, German, Japanese and Russian
Many good resources courtesy of Jim Becker on his website for the Iowa Foreign Language Association. (http://www.uni.edu/becker)
The Famous Foreign Language Bookmarks
This site, created by the Dept. of FL, at the University of Toledo, will save you hours of time searching for information. It contains bookmarks for sites devoted to French/Francophone, German, Japanese,, Latin American/Spanish, Russian, multilingual and the classics. (http://www.forlang.utoledo.edu/BOOKMARK/Bookmark.html)