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Learning a Foreign Language - Research Tools
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Learn a language here. Mango offers Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, English for Spanish speakers, English for Portuguese speakers and English for Polish speakers. |
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| A Welsh Course |
Site offers a course in the Welsh language, and geared toward beginners. Welsh is strongly related to the Gaelic languages of Ireland and Scotland. |
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| All Words Translations |
Online searchable English dictionary with multilingual search capability. Ex: Enter an English word and get the definition, as well as the word in 5 other languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. |
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| American Sign Language |
An online curriculum resource provided by (ALS) American Sign Language University. It is designed to help students, instructors, and parents of deaf children. It offers a dictionary, fingerspelling font, vocabulary, lessons, and quizzes. |
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| An Introduction to Spanish |
Site provides an introduction to the Spanish language through five lessons. It offers phrases, questions commonly asked, common sentences, vocabulary, and expressions in Spanish first, then in English. Proceed to the next lesson by clicking on the lesson at the bottom of the page. To return to a previous lesson, click the back arrow on the upper toolbar. |
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| Babel Fish Translations |
Site offers translations from one language to another. Ex. English to French, Spanish to Italian, et cetera. It will translate a word, as well as a block of text. |
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| Basic Spanish for the Virtual Student |
Spanish lessons for beginner students including pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and verb conjugation (regular and irregular). |
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| Business Spanish |
Teaches you how to speak and write business and conversational Spanish by listening and repeating examples and simplified grammar rules. A list of topics offer business themes, cultural aspects, and business etiquette of Spanish speaking countries. |
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| Dictionary.com |
Site offers access to both English and multilanguage dictionaries, a word of the day, a Spanish word of the day, a crossword, legal, medical, and reverse dictionary, a thesaurus for synonyms and antonyms, a language translator, and much more. |
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| English for Everybody |
Site offers courses to learn English. It includes grammar, functions, and vocabulary. |
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| Foreign Language for Travelers |
This site is for anyone interested in learning a few phrases before departing on their next trip abroad. |
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| French Language Course |
Site offers an online course consisting of nine lessons and some vocabulary. An additional section describes French expressions and idioms. |
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| Learn Before You Know It Languages |
Site offers free byki software downloads for Windows and Mac to help users learn foreign languages. It includes lists of words and phrases that are not time or session limited. Some languages will require different "Systems Requirement" so be sure to check this information before downloading. |
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| Learn Italian |
Site offers an introductory course called Italian Steps for beginners and travelers. |
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| Online English Course (ESL) |
Site provides online courses for learning English. Designed to be comprehensive and accessible, it allows students to gain key grammatical concepts and conversational tools. Each lesson is followed by a practice exercise. (Some exercises are still being constructed, but this site still offers a good starting point.) |
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| Spanish Pronto |
Useful to those beginning to learn Spanish. It gives the basics of pronunciation, gender, regular and irregular verbs, and links to other Internet resources for learning Spanish. |
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| Talk Portuguese |
Site offers an introduction to the language with slideshows, audio, and video. |
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| The Chinese Outpost |
A web site introducing Chinese pronunciation, characters, and grammar. |
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| ZapFrench |
A brief French course including basics, phrases, vocabulary, and lessons. Audio is included. |
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