Foreign Words
http://www.foreignword.com

A great Web site to access over 265 online dictionaries for 73 languages and text translations. It also offers a category titled “Language Guessers” if you want to ask the question, “What language is this?” There is also a foreign word translator network where you contact over 7,000 professionals and a forum to ask language and translation-related questions.

Online Kanji Study Tool
http://www.kanjisite.com

This site organizes the 1,000 kanji used on the four levels of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, providing a convenient way to study the readings, meanings, and common usage in preparation for each level of the test. The free site also includes hiragana and katakana practice.

Goethe Institute
http://www.goethe.de/dll/enindex.htm

Extensive teaching and learning materials focusing on language, geography, and culture are available. Goethe Institute also endeavors to support German teachers by providing them with various teaching materials, running courses in Germany, and holding local seminars. One interesting new project is Li-Lak, a German–Arabic site by and for teenagers and young adults [http://www.goethe.de/ins/eg/pro/lilak/index.htm.]

Gastronomical Dictionary
http://www.todine.net/dictionary.html

The Gastronomical Dictionary is meant for hotelkeepers, restaurant staff, hotel school students, etc. It is conceived as a practical instrument to draw up and understand a menu, and in order to converse properly at a restaurant. Food and dining vocabulary words are offered in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian.

Teacher Resource Exchange
http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/server.php

This site out of the United Kingdom is a moderated database of resources and activities created by teachers. All resources are checked by subject specialists to ensure they are of the highest possible quality. Resources are free to use and you can also add your own resources to share with other teachers.

North Carolina in the World
http://www.ncintheworld.org

An online resource to help North Carolina educators teach about the world. The Web site is a project of North Carolina in the World, a collaborative statewide effort to increase K–12 student knowledge and skills about the world.

Teach the Classics
http://www.vroma.org

Vroma is a great Web site and a virtual community for the teaching of Classics. It includes a multi-user networked environment (MOO) modeled after the ancient city of Rome, and it is a collection of and filter for Internet resources.

Spanish Arts
http://www.spanisharts.com

Find out more about famous Spanish art, architecture, literature, and music. Images of many well-known works of art available. The site also includes a section where new artists and writers can present their works for free.

Chinese Characters
http://zhongwen.com

Alone among modern languages, Chinese integrates both meaning and pronunciation information in its characters. Zhongwen.com deciphers this rich information to help students understand, appreciate, and remember Chinese characters.

International Education
http://www.internationaled.org

InternationalEd.org is a Web site for Asia Society’s initiative to improve K–12 teaching and learning about the geography, history, economics, culture, and languages of other world regions. The site provides information about small school design, on curricular resources on international studies, for states on conducting research and leveraging resources to make international education a new basic in schools, and on national initiatives that support international studies in schools.

Web Quests
http://webquest.sdsu.edu

This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the Web. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners’ time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners’ thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Internet Picture Dictionary
http://www.pdictionary.com/about.html

The Internet Picture Dictionary is a completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning French, German, Spanish, and Italian language learners of all ages. It includes activities such as fill-in-the-blanks, word scramble, and “stinky spelling.”