Center for Language Education and Research
http://clear.msu.edu/clear

The primary objective of the Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University is to promote collaboration in teacher education and foreign language research across college, departmental, and institutional boundaries. Among its free online resources are QuizBreak, which allows teachers to create Jeopardy-like games for the classroom; Scribbles, a program for teachers of non-Roman script languages; and multimedia interactive modules for education and assessment. CLEAR’s Rich Internet Applications include broadcasts, worksheets, and conversations, among others. The FL listserv provides a forum for language educators to share information and resources with one another, and CLEAR News is available as a PDF on the CLEAR website.

French Language Exercises
www.wildfrench.co.uk

This site is based in the United Kingdom, and a lot of the material is intended to complement the UK exams, but there is also a wide range of French language exercises for seven different levels of learners.

History of Dutch in German
http://s2.ned.univie.ac.at/publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/welcome.htm

This site has traces the history of the Dutch language in three different versions—German, English, and Dutch.

Spanish Verb Conjugation Trainer
www.spaleon.com/index.php

With the Conjugation Trainer on this website, users can select verbs randomly or from a list, and can select the verb tense as present, preterite, imperfect, future, present subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive, or conditional.

Phrase Guides
www.single-serving.com

The Single-Serving website has phrase guides and language aids in a number of languages, including French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. Although resources vary for the different languages, they often include free downloadable books of words and phrases, web pages with audio, and audio files for mp3 players.

Multimedia Chinese Dictionary
www.whatkidscando.org/china_site/dictionary.html

Life in New China, Images and Words from Beijing Youth, is a multimedia dictionary created by young students at the Shuren School outside Beijing. It includes 60 slides, each depicting a word, with the word written in Chinese and English. The word is then used in a sentence in Chinese and English. An audio track accompanies each slide.

Japanese Language Study Materials
www.manythings.org/japanese

Charles Kelly’s online Japanese language study materials on this site include quizzes using romaji, kana, and kanji; vocabulary quizzes and study lists; words from Japanese newspapers; flashcards and crossword puzzles; a daily startup page for students of Japanese; and a lesson in speaking the Nagoya dialect of Japanese.

News in Latin
www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii

Nuntii Latini (News in Latin) is a weekly review of world news in classical Latin. The international broadcast is produced by YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

Free Materials for Language Teachers
www.miscositas.com

This site from Lori Langer de Ramirez offers many free materials for language teachers—mainly for ESL and Spanish teachers—but also for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Indonesian, and Thai teachers. There are over 40 virtual picturebooks on the site, 80+ original videos on the MisCositasTV YouTube channel, free downloadable thematic units, vetted and annotated links, and other materials for teachingand learning languages.

Creating Crosswords and Other Puzzles
www.armoredpenguin.com

The ArmoredPenguin website has resources that teachers and others can use to create their own crossword, word search, and word scramble puzzles. There are also puzzles that have already been created, including a crossword puzzle of the day, as well as word scramble and word search puzzles of the day, which on one day featured a German word search puzzle.

Videos and Activities for Spanish Teachers
http://profeland.blogspot.com

The Profeland site is a blog that is intended to be a useful tool for foreign language educators, but particularly Spanish teachers. It includes videos, activities, songs, and help for using technology.

Quotations by Nationalities
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/nationality.html

In addition to listing quotations by author and topic, BrainyQuote has a list of quotations by author nationality. The list is quite extensive and ranges from A to Z, literally, since it starts with Afghani and ends with Zimbabwean quotes.

French Magazine for Teens
www.phosphore.com

Phosphore is a French language magazine for teens preparing to go to  college. A recent issue included an article on language studies abroad, tests for whether a student has the correct profile to become a farmer or an engineer, and a blog about kicking the smoking habit.

Michigan Social Networking Site
http://miwlaconnect.ning.com

The Michigan World Language Association (MIWLA) has established an online professional and social networking site using Ning. MIWLA Connect is a place anyone interested in world language education to connect, stay connected, learn from one another, and gain first-hand experience with powerful Web 2.0 tools. There is no cost to sign up and join in the discussion.

Celebrations Lesson Plans for April and May
http://http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/

Developed by instructor Deborah Byrnes at the College of Education, Department of Elementary Education, Utah State University, this site has lesson plans for different celebrations held around the world. These are some that are held in the upcoming months:

• Cambodian New Year is based on the lunar calendar and is celebrated in mid-April, lasting for three days. The lesson plan for grade levels 2–4 is at http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/camb.n.y.html.
• In April, there is a festival in Japan called Hana Matsuri, or Flower Festival, that celebrates Buddha’s birthday. The mini-unit on the Hana Matsuri celebration is for grade levels 5–6 and can be found at http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/work.html.
• Children’s Day is celebrated by Korean and Korean-American families on May 5. The lesson plan for grade level 4–5 can be found at http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/korea.html.
• The site also has a Cinco de Mayo lesson plan for grades 3–4 that can be found at http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/cincodemayo.html.

Russian Alphabet Lesson
http://listen2russian.com/lesson01/a

The Listen 2 Russian site has a lesson about the Russian alphabet and how to pronounce the letters. For practice, there is audio as well as a pronunciation guide in a Word document that can be printed out.