Gonihongo
www.gonihongo.com

Welcome to gonihongo.com! This site is designed and maintained by a Japanese language educator in the United States. The purpose of this site is to assist educators and students of Japanese by providing effective and efficient teaching and learning tools and ideas.

Phonetics Flash Animation Project
www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics

This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German, and Spanish. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a stepby- step description, and video–audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign languages. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy. The project was a collaborative effort of the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, German, Speech Pathology and Audiology, and Academic Technologies at the University of Iowa.

The Endangered Language Fund
www.endangeredlanguagefund.org

On this new website, you will find an updated list of the Endangered Language Fund’s (ELF) grants, information about some of the new projects going on at ELF, an archive of recent newsletters, and the beginning of its online language archive. ELF archives materials collected on its grants, and makes them available to endangered language speakers and to the scholarly community. It also digitizes audio files to make available online.

Online Chinese Tools
www.mandarintools.com

These pages assist people in learning Mandarin Chinese. From the novice Chinese language student to the advanced programmer, there should be something here for everyone. Rather than being a Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese. Check out the DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant, Character Flashcards, the Chinese/English dictionary, the Chinese Namer, and the Western/Chinese Calendar Converter.

Zona ELE: Online Spanish Resource
www.zonaele.com

Zona ELE is a Spanish language site with resources for students and teachers of Spanish as a second language. Available online resources include grammar lessons, irregular verb forms, a lexicon with topically organized idiomatic expressions, a discussion of insults, Spanish recipes, a discussion of Mexican names (including nicknames), and a comparison of Spanish and Mexican vocabulary.

Abroad Languages
www.abroadlanguages.com/al/general/resources.asp

This site offers games, online dictionaries, level tests, and other resources for English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.

Lingolex
www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm

This is a great site to visit for both Spanish teachers and students of Spanish. The site features free materials for download or online use. It includes topically organized vocabulary lists, grammar tutorials and a verb conjugator, online chat and cultural exchange, and links to other resources.

Kids’ Web Japan
www.bbc.co.uk/languages

This educational website designed for kids offers primary links such as: Explore Japan, Culture Corner, Cookbook for Kids, Kids’ Life, Say it in Japanese, Hi-tech Japan, and Kids Travel Agency. Each primary link contains sublinks, such as options to study a map or annual calendar of Japan under Explore Japan, or options to review basic recipes or read feature articles under Cookbook for Kids, or learn about protecting the environment under Hi-tech Japan. Along with the primary content links, the website offers quizzes, games, greeting cards, and gallery photos, among other fun interactive tools.

Shambles
www.shambles.net

This website is designed to support the international school communities (teachers, support staff, administrators, students, and families) in 17 countries in South East Asia, but many schools worldwide are now finding Shambles a useful resource. Whether your needs are teaching and learning, administration, revision, examination boards, jobs, or just help with assignments, this site is worth a visit. There is also a database of over 25,000 education websites that have been recommended and approved by teachers.

The Paperboy
www.thepaperboy.com

This website provides access to over 50 online newspapers for daily news from major U.S. and international daily newspapers along with thousands of newspapers from countries around the world.

Spanish Numbers Learning Site
www.jvlnet.com/~liliana

This website allows the student to choose a set of numbers between one and 100, and scroll their cursor over them one by one to hear each pronounced correctly. It also shows how they are spelled. This is a great way to reinforce the learning of numbers for students who need more practice.

Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
www.yale.edu/swahili

Swahili anyone? This is Yale University’s Kamusi Project’s website. It includes an online English–Swahili dictionary, a chat forum, and an Africa guide.

LingNet
www.lingnet.org

The LingNet website is a service provided by the Defense Language Institute (DLI) Foreign Language Center. LingNet hosts materials developed at DLI by the Curriculum Development Division. These include both the “Countries in Perspective” series and the Global Language Online Support System (GLOSS). The LingNet website also hosts materials developed by other government and Department of Defense agencies.

Annenberg Media
www.learner.org

Annenberg Media distributes multimedia resources for teachers to help them improve their own teaching practice and understanding of their subject. Select “Foreign Languages” after “Browse Teacher Resources” to access these video streaming programs for language teaching including Destinos, Fokus Deutsch, Connect with English, and French in Action.