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Grade Levels |
Type of Website |
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Beginning Japanese I - Offered through Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Open Courseware online, this free course is a great intro to the Japanese language. (Special thanks to "Guide to Online Schools" free online classes listing for this tip! Also see their listing of accredited online colleges and online universities which may also have helpful information.)
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High School to College Level |
MIT.edu |
| Free Online Language Courses Provides more than 80 different free foreign language courses on line. French, German, Spanish, Latin, and Russian are included, as well as a huge number of less-studied languages, including Native American, Scandinavian, Eastern European, and Asian languages. Highly recommended, especially if you are seeking teaching degrees in any of these languages. |
3 through College |
Commercial |
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| Greek Course Online This 105-lesson course in modern Greek is co-sponsored by the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation and utilizes RealAudio. |
6 through College |
Government (Cyprian) |
| BBC Languages Online for Adults The British Broadcasting Corporation provides free beginning online language courses in Spanish, French, German, Italian, English, and Welsh. Supplementary materials and tapes may be ordered for a small fee. |
9 to 12 and Adults |
Government (British) |
| BOBCAT's Foreign Language Courses for High School Students Links to online foreign language courses in Dutch, Hellenistic Greek, Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Hawaiian, and German. |
9 to 12 |
Individual (Brad Jolly)
Emphasis on resources for homeschools, Catholic schools, and Lutheran schools |
| Human-Languages Page Language Lessons This page contains more than 100 sets of language lessons, ranging from introductory lessons to comprehensive courses, in languages as diverse as Italian, Punjabi, Chinese, Hungarian, Dutch, and Swahili, as well as the more common French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. |
4 through College |
Individual (Tyler Chambers) |
| American Indian Language Links A variety of links and resources for American Indian languages, including full courses, grammars, fonts, and other resources.
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Grades 4 through College |
Individual |
| American Sign Language Introductory online course that teaches basic grammar, terminology, fingerspelling, and the first 110 signs in ASL. The site is animated so that you can see the signs in action. |
K-12; College; Adult |
Commercial |
| Ciao! Beginning Italian This site teaches in a visual format, placing the words and concepts to be learned on the screen for 10 seconds at a time.
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4 through College |
Organization |
| Oggi e Domani: An Italian Language Course for the Internet This is a very comprehensive course equivalent to first-year Italian at either the high school or college level. Vocabulary and traditional grammar are taught; the course is interactive and provides immediate feedback. Audio is built in so students can hear the language spoken. |
7 through College |
College or University (CUNY Brooklyn; Professor Fabio Girelli-Carasi)
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| Beginning Japanese This course provides an introduction to basic Japanese. Instructions for displaying Japanese characters on the computer are included. Sound files also included.
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4 through 12 |
Commercial |
| Bjorn Engdahl's Swedish Course A beginning Swedish course using a traditional grammatical approach. Available in English, Spanish, or German versions. |
4 through 12 |
Individual (Bjorn Engdahl) |
Worldwide Learn Online Language Courses Links to a variety of free online language courses and lessons in many different languages. |
2 through 12 |
Commercial |
Curriculum Guides |
| Description |
Grade Levels |
Type of Website |
| Study Guide to Wheelock Latin |
9 to 12; College |
College or University (University of Toronto; University of North Carolina) |
| Ancient Greek with Thrasymachus This extensive, complete curriculum guide includes detailed lesson plans for the teacher, materials for the student, and student exercises. The curriculum guide accompanies the textbook, Thrasymachus, by C. W. E. Peckett and A. R. Munday, and was written by a professor of classics at Duquesne University and a high school teacher of Greek and Latin at St. Paul's School (a private independent school).
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9 to 12; College |
Individual (Alison Barker)
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Units, Lesson Plans, and Supplementary Teaching Materials |
| Description |
Grade Levels |
Type of Website |
| Languages Online: Materials for Teaching & Learning This site offers a collection of resources, lesson plans, supplementary materials, tests, grammars, dictionaries, cultural links, and other materials for teaching the following languages: Albanian, Chinese, Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, as well as several other less-commonly taught and artificial languages. |
K through College |
Commercial |
| Latin Resources Review guides, tests, quizzes, and supplementary materials to support some of the most commonly used Latin texts: Cambridge Latin, Ecce Romani, Oxford Latin, and Wheelock Latin.
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6 through College |
Commercial |
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Electronic Resources for Wheelock's Latin Electronic Resources for Wheelock's Latin includes vocabulary and grammar drills. |
9 to 12; |
College Individual (Paul Barrette) |
| Online Electronic Flashcards for Wheelock's Latin Vocabulary |
9 to 12; College |
Commercial |
| Resources and Lesson Plans for World Languages This link contains a massive variety of lesson plans, units, online courses, and general resources for teaching a wide variety of languages. |
K-12; College |
Individual (Edmund J. Sass, Ed.D.) |
| Latin Teaching Materials A variety of lesson plans, materials, and online textbooks for teaching Latin, including printable handouts in .pdf format to accompany Wheelock's Latin |
9 to 12; College |
College or University (St. Louis University) |
| Adesso! is the high school Italian I textbook published by Heinle. This website provide supplementary materials and web explorations which are connected to the chapters of the textbook. |
9 through 12 |
Commercial |
Online Textbooks |
| Description |
Grade Levels |
Type of Website |
| Allen & Greenough's Latin Grammar Textbook Entire textbook free online. |
9 to 12; College |
College or University (Tufts University) |
| Beginning and Intermediate Latin Readers Copies of the 1839 Jacob-Doring Latin Reader; Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus; and a selection from the Vulgate Bible. |
| Acceleration Latin Readers A selection of readers designed to facilitate accelerated acquisition of Latin. |
9 to 12; College |
College or University (St. Louis University) |
The Language Hub's "The Classics" Links to thousands of free online electronic texts of classics in 27 different languages. Includes books written not only in the more commonly taught languages of French, German, Spanish, and Latin, but a wide variety of less common languages, including Ethiopian dialects, Icelandic, Norwegian, Sanskrit, and Yiddish. |
4 through College |
Commercial |
| Letteratura Italiana: Classic Italian Literature Online" This site links to free copies of classic Italian literature (in Italian). Suitable for second, third, and fourth year high school and college Italian courses. An illustrated version of "Pinocchio" is also available in the original Italian and may be used with elementary students who have some background in the language. Pinocchio - |
Grades 4 to 8
Rest of the site: Grades 10 through College |
Individual (Riccardo Scateni) |
Foreign Language Dictionaries & Reference Materials |
| Description |
Grade Levels |
Type of Website |
| yourDictionary.com Language Dictionaries More than 230 searchable online foreign language dictionaries, from Afrikaans to Zoque. This set of foreign language dictionaries is one of the most comprehensive on the Internet. |
1 through College |
Commercial |
| Handspeak: A Sign Language Dictionary Online This dictionary provides more than 3000 ASL signs animated with video clips; new signs are added daily. |
Pre-K through College |
Commercial |
| Bilingual Dictionaries Links to literally hundreds of free online bilingual dictionaries in more than 160 different languages. |
3 through College |
Commercial |
| The Language Hub's Fonts and Files Free downloadable fonts softward for reading and writing languages requiring a different alphabet. |
3 through College |
Commercial |
Specialty Resources & Materials |
| Description |
Grade Levels |
Type of Website |
| Human-Languages Page An amazing resource with thousands of links to foreign language and linguistics sites on the internet, covering a large number of world languages. |
4 through College |
Individual (Tyler Chambers) |
| The Human-Languages Page Language and Literature Links This site provides resources and online links to materials for studying more than 100 different foreign languages. |
4 through College |
Individual (Tyler Chambers) |
| American Indian Language Links A variety of links and resources for American Indian languages, including full courses, grammars, fonts, and other resources. |
Grades 4 through College |
Individual |
| The Language Hub This site contains thousands of links to resources for learning more than 160 different languages, including many languages that are not commonly taught. |
4 through College |
Commercial |
| The Language Hub's Fonts and Files Free downloadable fonts softward for reading and writing languages requiring a different alphabet. |
3 through College |
Commercial |
Links to Everywhere |
| Description |
Grade Levels |
Type of Website |
| Online Language Learning Links and online resources for learning Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, and Turkish. |
4 through College
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Non-profit organization (Mensa) |
| Native Languages: Links and Resources for Study Links to many sites to assist in studying Native American languages. |
4 through College |
Individual (Paula Giese) |
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