Spanish Resources for Children
www.elhuevodechocolate.com
El Huevo de Chocolate has a number of activities and resources for children in Spanish, including fables, poems, riddles, and myths.

Russian Language Training Video
www.confluenttranslations.com
The Confluent Translations site has a Russian language training video with phrases specifically chosen for business communication and to help avoid international cultural mistakes. There is also a downloadable script pronunciation guide and Russian translation.

Environmental Issues for Children in Six Languages
www.unep.org/tunza/children
Tunza is a website of the United Nations Environment Programme that is part of its strategy to engage young people in environmental issues. Tunza is a Kiswahili word meaning to “treat with care.” The strategic plan is available in English as well as Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish. There is also a Tunza song called “Time for Action.”

German Unification Case Study
www.foothill.fhda.edu/divisions/unification
This Foothill College website has a classroom activity intended to expose German language students and social science students to the issues surrounding the German unification of 1990. It includes a teacher’s guide that suggests how German instructors could have their students use German in the classroom when working on the project. In the activity, the students assume German characters, prepare arguments, and take part in a roundtable discussion—as if it were taking place between 1990–1994—regarding goals and issues of unification.

Catalan Language and Culture
www.nacs-catalanstudies.org
The North American Catalan Society is a professional organization of scholars, students, and others who are committed to encouraging and advancing the study of Catalan language and culture in North America. The organization’s website has information about Catalan studies, news, and links to newspapers, radio, and electronic media for Catalan language and culture resources.

Vocabulary Exercises in Four Languages
www.learningchocolate.com
The Learning Chocolate site is designed to help language learners memorize English, Japanese, Mandarin, or Spanish vocabulary in a way that it describes as being as much fun as enjoying a piece of chocolate. The exercises use pictures, sounds, and games, and users can choose any vocabulary topic link from the homepage to start learning new words. After reviewing the vocabulary, they can play up to five games to see what they have memorized. The numerous topics include animals, activities, clothing, food, hobbies, and holidays. There are games for matching the new word to its meaning with pictures or its pronunciation, and there are games for learning how to spell the new words.

Japanese Reading System
hinoki.ryu.titech.ac.jp
This site from the Tokyo Institute of Technology International Student Center has a Japanese reading system for Japanese language learners. Users of the ASUNARO system type in a Japanese sentence they want to read and select the language to display the meaning. Options include English, Chinese, Thai, Malay, and Indonesian.

Latin Dictionary
athirdway.com/glossa
Glossa is an online Latin dictionary based on A Latin Dictionary: Founded on Andrews’ Edition of Freund’s Latin Dictionary (1879). It is available as a web-based version in which users can type in the Latin word to get the definition, and as a desktop version that can be downloaded from the site.

How to Order Chinese Food
www.howtoorderchinesefood.com
This delicious site is certain to stimulate the appetites of all visitors. It features a quick guide, as well as ordering guides for pork, beef, chicken, fish, and vegetarian dishes in Chinese. There are also guides for soup, rice, noodles, and breakfast. In addition, there are guides to Chinese regional cuisine such as Sichuan, Hunan, and Northeastern. A Chinese culinary glossary can also be found on the website.

Hindi and Marathi Script
www.bookofindia.com
The Book of India website has information about the script used in North Indian languages like Hindi and Marathi. The site includes alphabets and vowels, and allows users to hear the pronunciation by clicking on a letter, vowel, or a letter and vowel combination.

Global Education Collaborative
globaleducation.ning.com
The Global Education Collaborative is the official social network of the Global Education Conference, and it includes forums, blogs posts, events, and activities that may be of interest to language educators. The events include Food and Culture—a Global, Collaborative Classroom Project, and Écouter Lire le Monde—Global Read Aloud.

Arapaho Language Resources
www.arapaholanguage.com/language.htm
This Wind River Tribal College project website has Arapaho songs and stories, and a language learning guide that includes Arapaho sound charts and consonants, an Arapaho language podcast, and research on documentation and revitalization of the Arapaho language.

Tech Tools for Teachers
www.superteachertools.com
The SuperTeacherTools website has free technology tools for teachers for uses such as games and classroom management. A recent addition is Lesson Tower, a web-based tool to allow teachers to create and manage an online community for their classes, clubs, or other groups.