The Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
www.indiana.edu/~celcar

The Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) at Indiana University is dedicated to promoting the teaching and learning of the languages and cultures of Central Asia through the development of language learning materials that include textbooks, workbooks, and multimedia resources. CeLCAR has produced introductory-level textbooks for Pashto, Tajiki, Uzbek, and Uyghur. Among its multimedia resources are an encyclopedia of Eastern Asian cultures and several small multimedia and electronic dictionaries intended for introductory-level students for several of the Central Asian languages. CeLCAR also created a project that involves language exercises for Tajiki using music, and it offers distance education courses for less commonly taught languages.

Authentic Images for Language Learning
http://capl.washjeff.edu

The Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon (CAPL) is a source for authentic images for language learning that was created by Michael Shaughnessy, a language educator at Washington & Jefferson College. According to Shaughnessy, through a collection of authentic photographs arranged by language and context, the CAPL project seeks to explore the idea that visual perception is culturally determined, and visual cognition varies from culture to culture. He also notes that the hope is that the collection can spur research in a variety of areas, and that it can be used by language teachers and learners throughout the world.

Resource by and for Spanish Teachers
www.todoele.net

The Todoele site was created by and for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language. It includes educational materials, activities, songs, and grammar exercises, as well as information about theory, technology, associations, and scholarships. There are also links to blogs, lists, and other resources.

Chinese and Japanese Writing
www.aproposinc.com/pages/asiantrm.htm

The Asian Language Terminology section of the Apropos website offers information about writing Chinese and Japanese. It includes some of the history of the basic Chinese symbol sets pinyin, bopomofo, and hanzi, as well as the Japanese characters of kanji, hiragana, and katakana. Among the other resources at this site are a basic hiragana chart and a basic katakana chart.

Welsh Course
www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Welsh_main.html

The author of this course, Mark Nodine, says that it is suitable for beginners, with the main emphasis being to develop conversational skills in Welsh as it is currently spoken. The course includes six complete lessons and a seventh is still under construction. There is also a Welsh–English meta-dictionary, a glossary of grammatical terms, and links to cultural and language resources for learners of Welsh.

Accessing Podcasts and Creating Your Own
www.yakitome.com

By opening a free account on the YAKiToMe! site users can download podcasts from the library and can create their own through the automatic text-to-speech podcast creation tool. Language students can listen to podcasts in many different languages, including Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, since the site has users in so many places in the world. Teachers can create their own podcasts, and students can hear their own voices speaking the target language.

French Classroom Activities
www.caslt.org/resources/french-sl/classroom-resourcesclassroom_en.php

This site of the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers has games and activities for use in French language classrooms, such as “How is the Weather?” and “Four-Fingered Lotto.” Also included are FLASH interactive activities such as matching color names with colored balloons and placing cards in order to tell a story.

German Literature
www.carpe.com/literaturwelt

The literaturwelt site includes links to sources for German literature on the Internet. The categories include linguistics, culture, magazines, authors, forums, e-books, and electronic text collections.

Chinese New Year Resources
www.kiddyhouse.com/CNY
www.chinapage.com/newyear.html
www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/lunar

In 2010, Chinese New Year falls on February 14, and 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. There are a number of resources on the Internet with information and activities that teachers might use in their classroom. The Kiddyhouse site has Chinese New Year lesson plans, worksheets and pages to color, clip art and graphics, songs and poems, and crafts. China the Beautiful’s chinapage.com has a printable monthly calendar, New Year graphics, and links to additional resources about Chinese New Year. The Global Gourmet’s Chinese and New Year Handbook focuses on food, and includes customs, recipes, stories, and traditions.

Spanish Language Drills
www.columbia.edu/~fms5

This site offers 20 interactive drills in Spanish grammar, with titles that include demonstratives, possessives, articles and gender, interrogatives, commands, pronouns, adjectival agreement, and negatives. Each page contains approximately 10 questions.

Oral Language Archive
http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/mlrc/ola

The Oral Language Archive of the Modern Language Resource Center at Carnegie Mellon University is a collection of recordings of native speakers for the study of foreign languages. It includes audio archives in French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

Lesson Plan about French Polynesia
www.clta.net/lessons/french/polynesie.html

In this lesson plan, high school students studying French visit websites about French Polynesia find the main points of information and then answer specific questions. As an extended activity, they may also plan a two-week trip to French Polynesia.

One World Italiano
www.oneworlditaliano.com/index.htm

This free Italian language course includes exercises on dialogue, vocabulary, grammar, and culture. There are videos and news as well as a very entertaining section that will help in understanding the meaning of Italian idioms.

Calendars Through the Ages
www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar.html

This site from the interactive museum WebExhibits features information about calendars in use today, including Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish calendars, as well as some no longer used, such as Mayan, Roman, and the French Revolutionary Calendar.