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Chinese Tools provides its users with a range of learning resources for Mandarin Chinese, from online simple language lessons, to news in Chinese and annotations of Chinese songs. From the main page, users will find links to: online Chinese dictionaries; a series of free Mandarin Chinese lessons; a Chinese phrasebook divided into everyday conversational topics; world news stories translated into Chinese; and tools converting traditional characters to simplified ones, and vice versa. The website also includes light-hearted textual information on the formation and origins of Chinese characters, and reproduces Chinese poetry and proverbs as learning tools.

In today's info-rich society, school librarians need to be on the cutting edge when it comes to teaching our students new skills for a new age. Web 2.0 tools spark student interest and can be a dynamic means of learning, creating, and collaborating. But does this brave new world feel a little intimidating to you? Are you struggling to think of ways that these kinds of tech tools can be integrated with the library lessons and books you already use? Join me as I demonstrate how a wiki--combined with some cool Web 2.0 tools--can be an easy way to bring your library instruction into the 21st century for learners of all ages.

Tools per la ricerca di parole e traduzioni

Communication tool per la creazione di presentazioni interattive e condivisibili online su qualsiasi device

Tool per sapere le dimensioni dello schermo in uso

Laboratorio virtuale interattivo di stile 2.0 per lo studio attivo delle lingue straniere con una ricca galleria di giochi linguistici, quiz, test, tools 2.0, vocabolari, lezioni e dizionari per mettere alla prova, allenare e condividere le proprie conoscenze linguistiche.

an interface that lets you analyse the web using corpus linguistic tools

Booklist is the American Library Association's official prepublication book review journal for public libraries. We review 8,000 books, audiobooks, videos, and electronic resources per year on every subject imaginable - both fiction and nonfiction, for adults and youths - making us the preeminent selection tool for working librarians.

Today is the video age, with many possibilities for integrating video in to language learning. Language learning is a multi-sensory process and video allows communicative learning skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing, with one resource. Video for ALL will be the European project that will bring together all current methodologies, ideas and innovative practices to teach and learn languages by integrating digital video. The project believes that video must be a basic tool for a more multidisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning in today's world.

a great tool for developing pronunciation, just search for any word or phrase and YouGlish will find an example in a YouTube video and take you directly to the part of the video where the phrase appears. You can then listen to the phrase in context and see the sentence that it appears in.

A tool for removing advertising and distractions from around the YouTube clip. This is particularly useful if you are showing a clip in the classroom

English Accent Coach is an online tool for developing English pronunciation skills focusing on vowels and consonants. English Accent Coach allows you to learn English vowels and consonants using an interactive game approach. During play, you will hear syllables or words with English sounds and you must click on the symbol for the sound you hear.

Poet, printmaker, visionary, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) made work that is both profoundly personal and universal. Tate Britain is now presenting the most comprehensive exhibition of Blake's work ever held (9 November - 11 February 2001). The aim is to show Blake as an artist, as a poet and as a man. William Blake Online is designed to enrich your experience of the exhibition by introducing some of Blake's artistic and poetical works, his life story and the London that he knew. The site follows the four exhibition sections, but includes a fifth section, Learning Tools, designed especially for teachers' and students' needs

This Web site is the online adaptation of Jean S Chittenden's 1964 doctoral thesis, 'Los nombres de personajes en las comedias de Tirso de Molina', which has become a useful tool for the study of Tirso's characters, the names used and the distribution across various categories such as 'noble', criado', or 'gracioso'. The site's List of Characters provides first and last name, title and category. Chittenden also wrote plot summaries for the 61 authentic works by Tirso, which are also available here, together with links to the full-text versions from the Comedia Web site

A self study tool for students that allows to listen and study each individual sentence within a videos: students can take and save notes about the vocabulary within the script and listen and record themselves saying sentences from the script then compare to the original.

Students can select level, the area they want to study, the type of film and even the accent they want to learn. TubeQuizard will generate activities for them based around the subtitles. They can then listen, fill in gaps and check their answers. There is also a search engine so that you can type in a specific phrase and find a video that contains that text. You can also create your own video quizzes. You can either search for a video using the search tool on the site or copy paste in the URL of the video you want to use. The only limitation here is that the video must have subtitles available

The Sheffield Corpus of Chinese (SCC) is a diachronic corpus consisting of a wide range of fully marked-up Chinese historical texts together with an integral search and analysis tool. The texts are organised in different types and genres and in different time periods. The long-term aim of SCC is to provide an extensive digital resource to facilitate study of the history and development of the Chinese language.

ProZ.com is home to the world's largest translator network. Professional translators use the site to collaborate on translation terms, translation dictionaries, translator training and more, and to get discounts on translator tools (such as SDL Trados). Translation contests and events for translators are also held.