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Student and Youth Travel Resource
www.syta.org

Teachers involved in planning educational travel programs can find a wealth of free information on the website of the Student & Youth Travel Association (SYTA), including a “Trip Planning Guide.” The guide provides specific advice on such items as questions to ask travel providers to assure that they are reputable, how to find a tour operator, evaluating hotels and other vendors a school might use, and advice on travel costs. The brochure is downloadable from the SYTA site. The site also provides advice on travel safety issues, avoiding travel problems, and links to governmental and other organizations that have information on passports, currency exchange rates, and travel advisories, among other topics.

CountryReports.org
www.countryreports.org

CountryReports.org has unique, culturally rich content. Entirely web-based, this site offers more than 26,000 pages of content covering a wide range of topics. Its statistical data and cultural information has proven to be valuable to students, parents, teachers, and researchers alike.

Links to Japanese Stories
www.sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/doc/story.html

Iwate University hosts this site that features annotated links to Japanese language websites with stories.

Spanish Internet Radio from Yahoo!
http://es.launch.yahoo.com/?pvc=0

Yahoo! users have free access to Spanish video galleries, Internet radio, celebrity news and photos, and more.

Interactive German Website about Breakfast
www.fruehstueckstisch.de

For German language learners and breakfast eaters everywhere, this German language website features a breakfast table. Clicking on any pictured food item takes you to a link with information about that food.

Clipart Resource
www.mes-english.com/flashcards.php

This website provides another resource for clipart in the classroom. Flashcard sets are organized by theme. They are intended primarily for elementary ESL teachers, but there are some multilingual handouts in French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese for teachers of other foreign languages. Many flashcard sets are accompanied with bingo games and handouts.

Languages Online: Resources for French, German, Indonesian, and Italian
www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/default.htm

Languages Online contains resources for language teachers and students. Downloadable “game maker” templates enable teachers and students to build their own multimedia language games and activities. Games can be made using any language installed on your computer. The first template is now available with more to follow in the coming months. For students learning French, German, Indonesian, or Italian, the website contains over 220 engaging interactive tasks and games that introduce, reinforce, and recycle vocabulary. They are self-paced and self-correcting and can be repeated as desired. Activities are presented in 35 topic-based sections, and include recordings by native speakers. Languages Online also includes over 190 printable worksheets with a variety of guided speaking, reading, writing, and research tasks to complement the online activities in those four languages. A range of support features assist teachers and students to make the most of each activity.

Radio Junior: Online French Radio
www.radiojunior.com

Radio Junior is an Internet-only French radio station broadcast from France. Better times to catch a higher quotient of French music (and “gentler” music) would be in the morning, or on the weekends. After school (night time in France) is also edgier, with topics such as ecology, pollution, social justice, parents divorcing, etc. The site also provides information on French holidays, government, and so on. You can read those by clicking “Read more about it,” then going down to “Sommaire,” which then lists topics of the same genre (e.g., government, famous artists, holidays) as the feature article.

Native American Media Collection
http://mllab.ou.edu/languages/?id=362

The University of Oklahoma hosts this online media collection which houses Cherokee lessons, a Cheyenne language audio course, Choctaw lessons, Creek lessons, Kiowa lessons, and a Kiowa legend.

Asian Language Teaching Materials
www.asiaforkids.com/resources/

Asia for Kids offers interesting links, articles, fact sheets, guidelines, and activities for parents, educators, and kids. Resources include a Parents’ Corner, an Adoption Corner, a Teachers’ Corner, a Kids’ Corner, Country Facts, a Multicultural Calendar, and pages about Lunar New Year, Moon Festival, Mooncake Recipe, and Dragon Festival.

Ancient Greek Tutorials Online
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgreek/ancient_greek_startGK.html

This site is hosted by the University of California-Berkeley, and offers material based on Donald J. Mastronarde’s Introduction to Attic Greek. However, the tutorials should be helpful to anyone learning ancient Greek from any textbook. Modules include the Pronunciation Guide, which provides information and examples for the pronunciation of the sounds of ancient Attic Greek; Pronunciation Practice, which provides examples of pronunciation of over 100 basic Greek words; and an Accentuation Tutorial, which presents information and examples to help in the understanding and mastery of the accentuation system of ancient Attic Greek. These are just a few of the many modules available. This site also contains vocabulary presenting over 1,000 basic words of Greek vocabulary, with choice of mode of action (study mode or drill mode, Greek to English or English to Greek) and drill by alphabetic and random sets as well as by units.

Online Activities to Learn Body Parts in English, French, Spanish, and German
www.alienlanguage.co.uk/alienlanguage/index.htm

Alien Language is an online Computer Assisted Learning site, designed to support the teaching of parts of the body in modern foreign languages to school children aged 11–14, although can be used by any age. It currently supports four languages: English, French, Spanish, and German. The activities are designed to be enjoyable and imaginative, while teaching key aspects of language such as spelling, grammar, and sentence construction.

Language Study Activities Available at StudyStack
www.studystack.com/category-6

At this site you can find data to study or add your own data; study and play with data online as flashcards, hangman game, crossword puzzle, matching, or word search; and study anytime/anywhere by printing data or exporting flashcards to
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod. Languages that have materials already available include English, Chinese, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Rules of French Writing
http://french.about.com/library/bl-reglesdecriture.htm?nl=1

This is very similar to an email joke in English in which sentences stating writing rules make the very mistakes that they tell you to avoid. This is a collection of such statements in French, with some links to pages explaining the rule. Creative Lesson

Plans for the Time-Challenged
www.bravisimo.net

This new site is a wonderful resource for intermediate and advanced Spanish teachers. It offers a growing selection of excellent language and cultural materials, including units on Hispanic art, architecture of Spain, and a poetry writing workshop. Teachers can also find several mini-units for Spanish language legends, as well as a year-long Spanish 4 syllabus which includes daily lesson plans and classroom materials.