Resource Center for Teachers of Russian
www.teachrussian.org
This site features various activities, games, lessons, and tests for Russian students of various proficiencies. Most of them can be downloaded and printed out for free.

Duke University Slavic Centers
slaviccenters.duke.edu
The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) was established in 1991, and the Slavic and East European Language Research Center (SEELRC) was established in 1999. According to Duke, the programs at CSEEES, which is a joint project with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are intended for the benefit of the university community, as well as for primary and secondary teachers in North Carolina and the community. The SEELRC mission is the improvement of the national capacity to teach and learn Slavic and East European languages. Among the projects found on the Slavic Centers website is a “webliography” of 24 languages ranging from Albanian to Uzbek. A set of reference grammars has been designed for Advanced-level language users and linguists to compare semantic categories across languages. Also found on the site is Glossos, a peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing original, independent research in languages and linguistics, and although it publishes articles devoted to any of the world’s languages, it is intended to provide an avenue for publication of articles based on SEELRC research projects.

Spanish Games for Elementary School Children
www.primaria.profes.net/especiales2.asp?id_contenido=40067
The primary education section of the profes.net site has a section of Spanish games for educational purposes. The games on this site include introduction games for the first day of class, as well as reasoning games, memory games, guessing games, and games for listening.

Barbie Doll in Chinese
cn.barbie.com
This site is all about Barbie, Ken, and other friends, accessories, and toys. It is in Chinese, and includes audio.

Free Travel Linguist Videos
www.travellinguist.com/mss-videos.html
The Travel Linguist is a retailer of language learning products, but it has more than 20 hours of free language learning videos in more than 15 languages that it has uploaded to YouTube. Languages include Chinese, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.

French Resources at Tout en Clic
www.toutenclic.com/spip.php?rubrique41
This French website has a section of French language resources that include reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, conjugation, and Scrabble. There is also a page of resources for non-Francophone students entering schools in France.

German Web Exercises
www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/GIP/german_units/exercover.html
This site by Andreas Lixl-Purcell from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro features Elementary-level exercises, Intermediate-level exercises, Advanced Intermediate-level exercises, and Advanced level exercises. Topics include living together in a modern society, geography, German military, daily life, radicalism, school systems, and transportation, science, and technology.

Japanese Language Education News
japaneselanguageeducation.blogspot.com
This blog offers information that may be useful for teachers of Japanese language in the United States. It includes articles about culture, daily life, Japanese studies, immersion, teacher education, and study abroad.

Resources for Spanish Learners and Translators
www.espanol-ingles.com.mx
The Español Inglés site has many resources, including a Spanish dictionary, worksheets and activities, a basic Spanish phrasebook, Spanish tutorials, Spanish language games, grammar guides and activities, verb tables, answers to common usage questions, and a language identifier tool that distinguishes between Spanish and a number of other languages that may look similar. The games found on the site include crosswords, word search, and a game in which Spanish words are matched with their English equivalents.

Lebanese Arabic Proverbs
almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/800/890/892/proverbs/freyha/index.html
This site has about 20 modern Lebanese proverbs in both Arabic and English. They are samples from the book, A Dictionary of Modern Lebanese Proverbs by Anis Freyha.

Culture and Folklore
locallearningnetwork.org
Local Learning began as the National Task Force for Folk Arts in Education, and the website’s library includes excerpts from past issues of the annual CARTS (Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students) Newsletter, which Local Learning and City Lore publish annually around a different theme linking folklore and education. The Local Learning Tools section notes that by observing the traditions and traditional art forms around us, we learn why and how informal local learning underpins our lives and the knowledge and skills that we acquire in classrooms. There are interviewing basics and more in-depth interviewing guides for students to use for interviewing family and community members to document their stories, songs, crafts, and skills.

French and Spanish Teaching Blog with Worksheets and Games
languageforlittlelearners.com
The Language for Little Learners blog is by author Yvonne Crawford, so the books featured there are not free, but the site does offer free worksheets and games, such as the French camping worksheets and French camping vocabulary word search, as well as bingo and a matching game.

Arapesh Grammar and Language Archive
www.arapesh.org
The Arapesh Grammar and Digital Language Archive Project is intended to help preserve, integrate, and disseminate documentary material on the languages traditionally spoken by Arapesh villagers living in Papua New Guinea. The project notes that Arapesh is of special linguistic interest because of its typologically unusual system of grammatical categorization that makes systematic reference to a noun’s sound, as opposed to its meaning, in order to determine its class and what plural marker and agreement forms it will take. The archive includes transcribed audio recordings and a lexicon.

TeachPaperless Blog
teachpaperless.blogspot.com
Shelly Blake-Plock says his TeachPaperless blog is meant to help teachers create and maintain social-tech-integrated paperless classrooms. In addition to the numerous posts, the site also has classroom ideas, favorite bookmarks, wikis, and Twitter updates. Blake-Plock also founded GrowConnected, LLC (growconnected.wordpress.com) as a new take on professional growth and mentoring services for educators in the digital age. He notes that its creation was “propelled by his work as a history and foreign language teacher in a 1:1 social tech integrated high school classroom, his experience designing and leading workshops and courses in digital education at Johns Hopkins University, and his tenure as blogger-in-chief of TeachPaperless.com.”

Language Learning Games
www.digitaldialects.com/index.htm
The Digital Dialects site has language learning games in many languages, from Afrikaans to Zazaki. There are games for learning phrases, numbers, useful words, spelling, verb conjugation, and alphabets. Its creator, Craig Gibson, notes that the animated activities are intended to incorporate the interactivity of computer-aided language learning software with the webdesign principle of simplicity in use and access. He says the site continues to be a work in progress, and more audio files are planned, with development of certain language sections dependent on assistance from translators and native speakers.