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General Interest Sites for Foreign Language Teachers

Travlang.com: Even a commercial site such as this can provide a tremendous resource for both the traveler and the student of foreign languages. This page has links to dozens of web-based translating dictionaries, places to make travel reservations, ways to learn a foreign language, currency exchange rate calculators, and much more!
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: Information about language teaching, data from national surveys, links to national and state organizations, national conference information
The Human Languages Page: The Human Languages Page is a link to a page with connections (over 1300) to information about all foreign/human languages. Click on the "languages and literature" button to see a list of languages from Hmong to Cherokee, with links to more information about each. A neat site for students to explore the big picture of world languages.
Globegate: This site is an attempt to catalog foreign language sites that might be useful to teachers of foreign language. They continue to add links to real-world sites that might be useful in the classroom, too.
Center for Applied Linguistics: Information about language teaching and programs in the United States.
http://edsitement.neh.gov: NEH site with the ‘top 20’ humanities-related web sites for 1998. These sites were chosen from more than 300 submitted to NEH for review.
The Agora Language Marketplace: This is a source for Foreign Language materials from every publisher imaginable. You can preview some software demos online.
MIT Libraries: Foreign Language News and Newspapers: This site contains quick links to periodicals in Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Web Activities: Web lessons written by teachers in the California Foreign Lanugage Project. Hints on writing web activities, reading activities, lesson evaluation and some favorite URLs.
www.Barewalls.com: The ultimate store for posters, art prints, lithographs, and greeting cards or you can click on the pictures to enlarge and show your class via a projection panel. Sample categories include landscapes, expressionism, Hispanic Art.
College Board: Advanced Placement information and sample test items, evaluation of test responses, how to enroll in Advanced Placement courses.
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections: For intercultural e-mail classroom connections, try this site.
Puzzlemaker: Ten different games, such as word searches and cryptograms, can be customized at this site.
WWW Foreign Language Resources: manageable list of sources for Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Middle English, Portuguese, Russian, Scandinavian, South Asian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Turkish, and Yiddish.
Teaching with the Web: Three web activities for students of any language: City Net, Metro Link, World News Tonight.
FLTEACH WWW: This site includes information on how to subscribe to the major discussion forum for Spanish and French teachers.
http://www.libertynet.org/~balch: This is the home page for the Balch Institute for Ethic Studies.
CNN - Travel Guide - City Guides: This site contains links to fifty major cities world-wide.
Intercultural Student Experiences: This is a web site for a company that offers student travel to Europe.
Travel Guide - Getting Ready: Hints about traveling in Europe
Jim Becker's Home Page: Here are attractive, busy, pages of extensive resources for German, French, Spanish, Japanese and a few other languages,
Joyce Notarnicola's web page: A sample site developed by a teacher for use by students at home. Examples are French.
Modern Foreign Language: Miscellaneous ideas and activites for the clessor
www.quia.com/custom/1165main.html: Here's an outstanding site for all languages. Special feature is that the teacher can customize a quiz session for students to do independently.
Modern Foreign Language: Miscellaneous ideas and activites for the teacher and student.
www.quia.com/custom/1165main.html: Here's an outstanding site for all languages. Special feature is that the teacher can customize a quiz session for students to do independently.
Foreign Language Assocation of Missouri
Kansas Foreign Language Association Home Page
KFLA Links--Language and Theme-Specific

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French

Tennessee Bob’s Famous French Links: This is a site with an extensive list of links to just about everything related to French language and Frankophone culture.
Le Monde Diplomatique: I don't read French but have heard that "Le Monde Diplomatique" is a worthwhile site.

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German

Der Speigel: This online version of the magazine provides very short articles on a variety of topics suitable for classroom use. Students would probably enjoy the excerpts in Sport, Auto, and Kultur sections. A picture accompanies most clips.
LonelyPlanet - Germany Map: Click on cities on the map to go to information about the city.

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Spanish

Esperanto: The International Language: The Elemenary Spanish Curriculum web page contains a complete list of skills and expectations broken down by grade levels from kindergarten through grade 8. In addition, guidelines for teachers are included in a separate section.
Learn Spanish Site: A free online site that lets Spanish language learners study a varietyof terms. Access the tutorials, verb drills, vocabulary practice, and idiom generator (try it out if you don't remember what an idiom is.) Easy to navigate, with lots of useful information.
Hispanic Magazine: This is an award winning site which is a link to a monthly magazine of interest to Hispanic readers or students. It also includes links to back issues. All articles are written in English. Also note that there are quite a few advertisements.
Latino Link: The site known as "Latino Link" includes magazine-like articles and commentary to persons following issues of importance to Latinos. It includes links to Latino businesses and other pages with information for the Latino community. Articles are written in English and Spanish.
Amigos Home Page: A site for students and parents who are adjusting to life in a new culture to share multicultural experiences. Text is in English and Spanish.
Globe Gate Spanish Resource: This site is a massive resource of links to information.

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Other Languages

Learn to Speak Italian: This is a site for persons who want to learn Italian. It includes lesson information and links to other Italina web servers around the world.
Your Japanese Guests: "Your Japanese Guests" is an effort to provide resources that might improve relations between Americans and Japanese. It gives information of a cultural nature and links to further information about Japan (including nice photos). All text is written in English.

Subscribing to a ListServ:

To subscribe to a French ListServ, send an e-mail message to listserver@UQuebec.ca. Leave the subject field blank. In the message field, type your name. Send the message!

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