National African Language Resource Center
http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu

The National African Language Resource Center (NALRC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison serves African language educators and learners in the United States by sponsoring a wide range of educational and professional activities to improve the accessibility and quality of African language instruction.  Its resources include textbooks and instructional technology materials, and it offers an online level-one course designed to present the fundamentals of Yoruba to two- and four-year college students. NALRC also publishes an annual newsletter and a quarterly e-newsletter.

French Phonetic Exercises
http://phonetique.free.fr/indexgb.htm

The Phonétique site says it is aimed at learners of French as a foreign language but can also be used by native French speakers.  It includes audio of the French alphabet and the international phonetic alphabet as well as exercises and games.

Texts in Foreign Languages
http://litgloss.buffalo.edu/list-of-texts.shtml

The LiTgloss project is a collection of texts of literary, cultural, or historical interest written in languages other than English, made possible by an educational technology grant at the University of Buffalo. The website has texts in many different languages, including Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Nahuatl, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swahili, and Vietnamese.

Resources for Teaching about Day of the Dead

Between October 31 and November 2, “Día de los Muertos” is celebrated in Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, and other areas in Central and South America. Here are some websites with lesson plans and resources for teaching about the celebration in Spanish language classrooms.

http://www.miscositas.com/El%20Dia%20de%20los%20Muertos.pdf
This 62-page thematic curriculum unit for Intermediate Spanish students with text and illustrations by Lori Langer de Ramirez includes lesson plans, worksheets, activities, and numerous other resources for teaching about the Day of the Dead celebration.

http://http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/Day.html
This mini-unit is another of the Celebrations lessons from the College of Education, Department of Elementary Education at Utah State University. The lesson includes history and a glossary of words about the event, as well as suggestions for art projects, poem writing, a field trip, and Spanish language integration.

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/ofrendas/index.html
Barbara Kuczun Nelson’s Spanish Language and Culture site includes Ofrendas, featuring a song by Pedro Guerra, an interview in a San Diego cemetery with oral questions on the interview, poetry, and lessons on present tense, present subjunctive, and the preterite and imperfect.

http://www.dayofthedead.com/index.php?p=589
The Mexico Celebrates Life/Day of the Dead in Mexico site includes traditions, poems, recipes, photos, and other information about the Day of the Dead.

Japanese Used in Nursing and Caretaking
http://nihongodecarenavi.jp

This site from The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai, is a Japanese language learning tool designed primarily to support people working in the fields of nursing and care-work.

AP Chinese Blog
http://apchinese.blogspot.com

Some of the topics featured recently on this AP Chinese blog were Chinese history, a dialects diary, an AP Chinese syllabus discussion, and Chinese input on the English Windows XP/2000 Chinese display. There are also links to additional Chinese language resources.

Interactive French Exercises
http://www.frenchrevision.co.uk

Primarily aimed at students ages 11 to 18, this site has listening, reading, and writing exercises. There are sections for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students, as well as one for teachers.

Online Multilingual Virtual Keyboard
http://www.litetype.com

LiteType is a free online multilingual and interactive onscreen keyboard that allows users to type in different languages by clicking on the virtual keyboard with a mouse. There are more than 50 languages available, ranging alphabetically from Albanian to Vietnamese.

French, German, and Spanish Vocabulary Exercises
http://www.vokabel.com

The training exercises on this site include business and general vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish. There are exercises for verbs and adjectives, as well as a “create your own test” feature.

Italian Language Resources from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian

The BBC site’s section on Italian has a short introduction called “Talk Italian,” a beginner’s course entitled “Italian Steps,” an “Italian Quick Fix” of essential phrases, and “Cool Italian,” a guide to Italian street slang. The site also offers clips based on the TV series “Italianissimo,” and the Trullo Challenge, a quiz about the Italian village of Alberobello.

More TPRS
http://www.moretprs.net

The More TPRS (Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling) bulletin board is a discussion and support forum where users can search topics or post their own.

German Course for Beginners
http://www.hauptstrasse117.de

The free online German exercises for beginners on this site include “What’s Going on in No. 117 Hauptstrasse?” which is described as a soap opera where individuals representing every social class come together in a block of flats in a typical city of post-unification Germany.