Spanish Sayings, Tongue Twisters, and Riddles
http://web.mac.com/pconley3/iWeb/Site/Home.html

This website contains lists of Spanish sayings (dichos), tongue twisters (trabalenguas), and riddles (adivinanzas).

Mango: Free Online Language Learning
www.mangolanguages.com

Mango (beta) is an online enterprise-level language learning system freely available to everyone. Features include color-coded translations, audio of native speakers, and real conversations in the target language. Free registration is required. The following courses are currently available for English speakers: Brazilian Portuguese; French; German; Greek; Italian; Japanese; Mandarin Chinese; Russian; and Spanish. Courses in English for Polish and Spanish speakers are also available.

German Website about Everyday Life
www.kaleidos.de/alltag/menue_e.htm

KALEIDOSKOP wants to talk about the things in everyday life that people take for granted. Topics include: Everyday life in brief, Rituals and festivals, What youngsters like, Places, People, Getting around, Opinions, First impressions, and Webcams and City-Infos.

Panwapa Island: Virtual World for Children
www.panwapa.com

Sesame Workshop, the creators of Sesame Street worldwide, has launched a new initiative called Panwapa for kids 4 to 8. The site is a ground-breaking, safe, virtual world where kids will be allowed to meet other Panwapa kids and explore the countries of the world through the creations of a virtual identity, exchanges with other characters in the virtual world, activities, and videos. Panwapa is available online for free in five different languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, and Japanese. A Teacher’s Guide supports the use of Panwapa in classrooms. The companion curriculum will also be available via DVD, a print outreach package, and can be downloaded from the website.

Clip Art for Second Language Instruction
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj/FLClipart/default.html

This page contains a growing collection of royalty-free clip art (simple line-drawings) for foreign/second language instruction. Drawings are designed to be culturally and linguistically neutral as much as possible and are organized into the following groupings: Verbs, adjectives, nouns, buildings and places, food and drinks, people and animals, sports, things and events, time, vehicle, medical, and pronouns.

Executive Planet
www.executiveplanet.com

Executive Planet™ provides valuable tips on business etiquette, customs, and protocol for doing business worldwide. Sections exist on 48 different countries and cultures—from Argentina to Yemen.

Videos for Japanese Language Education
www.jflalc.org/dogasupport

Videos are optimal resources for language learners in Japan and overseas to learn modern Japanese as well as Japanese culture. This site, from the Japan Foundation in Los Angeles, introduces how to use video teaching materials and videos meant for the general Japanese public (available online or in VHS or DVD format) in Japanese language education.

Info Junior: A French Journal for Kids
www.infojunior.com/index.html

This French language online journal by kids for kids contains jokes, games, stories, and topically arranged informational pages.

GLOW: Interactive Database of German Programs
www.learngerman.us/GlowServlet

GLOW, the recently revised German Learning Opportunities Website, is an interactive data base/online search directory of about 9,000 entries documenting all kinds of German programs at all levels, tutors, translators, and job seekers. The purpose of the database is to advertise German programs, tutor/translators, and job seekers to prospective students and clients near them geographically. GLOW, created by the Southern California chapter of the AATG, is free to both program and searcher.

Help with Hebrew Verbs
www.hebrew-verbs.co.il

Learn Hebrew verbs is a free, online educational resource containing 300 Hebrew verbs conjugated in all tenses (past, present, future, imperative).

Resource for Teaching Diverse Learners
www.fln.vcu.edu/ld/ld.html

The Instant Access Treasure Chest: The Foreign Language Teacher’s Guide to Learning Disabilities has topically organized links to resources and information about teaching diverse learners. Topics include the following: Assistive Technology; Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD); Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Auditory Deficits; College Policies for Students with Disabilities; Commercial Sites; Conference Handouts; Dyslexia; Foreign Language and Learning Disabilities; General Information; Government Resources; Hyperlexia; Learning Styles; Legal Information; Questions and Answers; Teaching Students with Disabilities; and Visual Deficits.

Cool French
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/cool

Want to keep up on the latest French slang? Here is BBC Languages’ essential guide to young French people’s slang, divided into different categories such as Argument, Going Out, Money, Moods, and Politics.

Beginning Chinese Video Clips
www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/chinese/mhu/videos2/home.html

On this site from Connecticut College, you will find a collection of short video clips in Chinese. A set of multiplechoice questions follows each video clip. The transcript of each video is written in traditional Chinese; the English translation appears either underneath the Chinese script or in a pop-up window.

List of Spanish–English Cognates
www.latinamericalinks.com/spanish_cognates.htm

This online dictionary will eventually present about 4,000 words. The English word is presented first with the Spanish word second. Simply click on the letter of the alphabet to locate the list of words beginning with the particular letter.

Latin Mad Glibs
www.madglibs.com/showglib.php?glibid=101

This online application makes Latin mad libs. A user enters the correct form of specified parts of speech (for example, nominative singular noun or infinitive) and then the application generates a story.

One Semester of Spanish Love Song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngRq82c8Baw

This hilarious music video shows a linguistically challenged young man serenading a beautiful woman with his limited Spanish. Check it out to give your students some proof of why they should continue their language studies—or if you just want a good laugh.