Radio-Locator
http://www.radio-locator.com

Formerly the MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet, this is the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the Internet. There are links to over 10,000 radio station Web pages and over 2,500 audio streams from radio stations in the United States and around the world.

WordReference Dictionaries
http://wordreference.com

Free online translation dictionaries with a focus on Spanish, Italian, and French. The site is very user friendly and allows you to switch from one language to the other quickly and easily. Translations also offer the principal translation along with additional translations and compound forms.

Less Commonly Taught Languages Project
http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/

Based at the University of Minnesota and sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), this project focuses on where you can go for courses in your chosen language. This wonderful Web site also offers resources for learning and teaching LCTLs, including listservs for LCTL teachers, a list of LCTL organizations, and “Ask the Experts”—a list of volunteers willing to answer questions about their language(s) of expertise by e-mail.

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections
http://www.teaching.com/iecc

IECC is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for e-mail classroom penpal and other project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships. This is a great place to go to find out about using e-mail in classroom projects, to get ideas, and to find partner classrooms.

Teacher’s Collection Online
http://www.clta.net/lessons/

Lewis Johnson has put together a collection of links to many sample Web lessons for foreign language classes. There is a link to Web sites for teachers to write their own Internet activities. There are also 480 links to authentic documents on the Web. They include Geography, Newspapers, Foods, Sports, Music, Literature, Museums, Artists, Leisure, History, Holidays/ Celebrations, Weather, Search Engines, and Comics. Sample Web lessons are designed to be used as worksheets for the students to complete while accessing the corresponding reference Web sites online. Teachers may print out the sheets, copy them, and distribute them to students. This site is user friendly and, for your convenience, each Web address on the online worksheets is also a link to the corresponding reference page.

New Visions in Action
http://nflrc.iastate.edu/nva/

New Visions in Action, Foreign Language Education, is a process begun in 1998 by the National K–12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at Iowa State University and ACTFL. New Visions is an innovative series of actions that both involves and affects the entire academic foreign language community in the United States. It is broad in scope, ambitious in goals, and far-reaching in its long-term impact. Most importantly, it is structured to yield significant and achievable results: graduates of U.S. schools who demonstrate foreign language competence. New Visions in Action seeks to identify and implement the actions necessary to revamp the language education system so that it can more effectively achieve the important goal of language proficiency for all students. New Visions in Action advocates that all students have the opportunity for and access to quality language instruction regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, or gender.

UCLA Language Materials Project
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu

A database of bibliographic references for over 900 languages, which can be searched by type of material, level of instruction, whether tapes are available, etc., often with methodological information. There are also detailed profiles of 40 of the languages.

Fonetiks
http://www.fonetiks.org/

This site is an online pronunciation guide with audio clips for selected languages, primarily English and national variants but also Spanish, French, Italian, German, Thai, and Indonesian.

Chinese Character Database Project
http://studio.colby.edu/chinese

The Bihua Project at Colby College, in conjunction with the LRC at the University of Connecticut, is a free resource—a searchable database that returns links to Quicktime movies demonstrating stroke order and native speaker pronunciation of hanzi characters. The inventory, while not exhaustive, is growing. Check it out and if you or your school is using Integrated Chinese as your primary text, you’ll find that the inventory closely matches that of the IC text. Eventually the site may have the ability to sort/search by IC chapter #. Bihua is an open-content project, and co-developers are welcome. All the content made is given away for free and the developers reveal their methodology.

Russian Webcasts
http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/webcast/

From the National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC), these Webcasts serve as a stepping stone between the teacher talk of the classroom and the “real” Russian of the media. The NCLRC plans to expand the Webcasts in coming years to include Arabic and Chinese.

The Educator’s Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/index.shtml

This site builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse— the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk—the Educator’s Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on: 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

Omniglot
http://www.omniglot.com

This site contains details of most alphabets and other writing systems currently in use, as well as quite a few ancient and invented ones. It also includes information about some of the languages written with those writing systems, multilingual texts, tips on learning languages, a bookstore, some useful phrases in many different languages, and an ever-growing collection of links to language-related resources.