Lunchbox Project
lunchboxproject.wikispaces.com

An international language and cultural awareness project begun in 2008, the Lunchbox Project wiki connects language students with those in other countries to discuss and show what they eat for lunch, talk about/prepare an example of an ideal healthy lunch from their country, and create instructions or a video about how to make that typical healthy lunch. The project can be tailored to individual groups throughout the world at various levels and ages. Teachers can also share their reflections through a blog on the site.

Hindi Blog
blogs.transparent.com/hindi/

Transparent Language recently added Hindi to its list of supported languages, so the website now offers a Hindi language blog. Recent blog post topics include poems, traditional sweets, household chores, and New Year resolutions.

Spanish Resources from Nulu
www.nulu.com

The Nulu website includes news stories about sports and entertainment, business, science and technology, politics, travel, and Spanish/Latin culture. Features include instant human translation, and questions and reviews in easy, medium, and hard formats. It also allows users to network with friends as well as with native speakers.

MYLO Resources in Four Languages
www.hellomylo.com

This UK-based online language learning service offers resources for learning Chinese, French, German, and Spanish. For each language, you can select lessons in diverse topics including “Going to an Internet café” and “Sending messages.” Each activity includes information for teachers. The site also has a phrase book, dictionary, culture notes, and videos offering insights into becoming a better language learner.

The PanLex Project
panlex.org

As a contribution to long-term linguistic diversity, the PanLex project makes every language on Earth more viable by facilitating the translation of any word from any language into any other language. To achieve this goal, the project is consulting thousands of dictionaries and other knowledge sources to build an open-source database. It already documents half a billion translations, from which billions more can be derived. To help make them all useful for global communication, PanLex aims to translate any word or word-like phrase from any language into any other language.

Free Lesson Plans in Five Languages
languageplan-it.com/free-stuff

The website Language Plan-It is a commercial site that sells resources to teachers, administrators, and homeschoolers, but it also offers free lesson-of-the-month plans in five languages—Arabic, French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.

Web Lesson Plan Creator
www.lex.vcu.edu/lesson_template

The web lesson planning template on this site by Kathryn Murphy-Judy at Virginia Commonwealth University is for language education, and its nine sections begin with establishing the mission and goals, and they conclude with assessments. There are also links to additional resources.

Resources on the International Phonetic Alphabet
www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet is a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages, and it is provided by the International Phonetic Association. The full chart of the alphabet can be found on the association’s website, and Wikipedia has information and the chart on its site as well.

Germany Fact Book
www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/en/head-navi/home.html

Facts about Germany is a reference book of information about modern life in Germany. It includes sections on federal states, business, education, foreign policy, culture and media, the social system, and history, among others.

Free Interactive Russian Course
www.dotty-dingo.com

The Dotty-Dingo Russian language course has interactive Java modules for learning the basics of the Russian language. The course consists of lessons in the Cyrillic alphabet, vocabulary, and phrases. The vocabulary and phrase lessons are accompanied by test modules.

The White House Website in Spanish
www.whitehouse.gov/espanol

The White House Spanish language website features articles, news, and blogs that are of special interest to Hispanic Americans and Spanish-speaking immigrants. There is also a pdf of Una América construida para que perdure: La Agenda del Presidente Obama y La Comunidad Hispana, which includes links to many other government websites of particular interest to Hispanic Americans.

Online Arabic Textbook
www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/arabic1/

The Arabic I online textbook is a resource from LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education that offers the basics of the written and spoken Arabic language. There are chapters on public services and directions, and introducing friends and where they live—in addition to other topics. The glossary provides a word or phrase, its part of speech, and its meaning, as well as the opportunity to hear it spoken.

Japanese Nature Game
www.naturegame.or.jp/index.html

This environmental education website is intended to help Japanese children learn about the wonders of nature through play. It includes a nature game video and activities that are represented in four stages by animals—otter, crow, bear, and dolphin. The site also has an information page about the Great East Japan Earthquake, which can be found at www.naturegame.or.jp/square/sinsai/.

Folk Music for Language Learners
folkdc.eu/

A project of the European Union project, Digital Children’s Folksongs for Language and Cultural Learning (Folk DC) has 20 songs in 10 languages (two songs each in Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish). The resources also include a set of language activities, a set of cultural activities, a set of musical activities and how-to videos. The website recently became available in a German version at folkdc.eu/de/.