Resources for Languages

Automatic captions in YouTube in many languages
PLUS: You can type up your own captions and upload and YouTube times them automatically through text-to-speech. Then, you can download the text file with the timings next to the captions.
If this really works, wow!

"However, like everything YouTube does, captions face a tremendous challenge of scale. Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded. How can we expect every video owner to spend the time and effort necessary to add captions to their videos? Even with all of the captioning support already available on YouTube, the majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me.

To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful-and the technology will continue to improve with time.

In addition to automatic captions, we're also launching automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we'll use Google's ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners who want to add captions, but who don't have the time or resources to create professional caption tracks."

A must read for anyone that teaches world languages, or cares about those that do.

This online class helps to teach or review which French verbs take which preposition after it. Explore the site to explore this topic, review your skills, and/or test yourself. Lots of verbs and explanations are included.

Links to pages with resources for different languages (French, German, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Portuguese and Spanihs)

The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, Ohio's Daily Newspaper

Sharpen your learners writing skills

You can create your own quizzes or use those of others. It let's you register your classes online and provides them with a key to access the tests you create.

This is a place to collaborate and communicate on how our 21st century students can participate in the world community using the many tools of technology.

Stories About People (Biographies)
Text & MP3 Files

There are 209 fifteen-minute audio files. That is about 52 hours of listening.

Could be useful for building vocab at GCSE/A level.