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Lesson plans for many subjects, including languages.

List of K-12 class blogs, including ESL/EFL and language classes. This list could be used to find other classes to blog with.

Search for online courses, including language, culture, and literature.

A list and recording of key words and phrases in Danish

An online resource designed to help students remember, recognize, and produce the signs used in the classroom. The site supplements classroom instruction, lab activities, homework, and other assignments that are part of ASL 506, first semester American Sign Language at the University of Texas. The site contains an archive of videos demonstrating basic vocabulary and sentence structure of American Sign Language (ASL). These videos are organized into 12 units, reflecting the structure of the textbook, Signing Naturally (Dawn Sign Press). Within each unit, video clips of signs and sentences are further organized into categories and grammatical information.

An online resource designed to help students remember, recognize, and produce the signs used in the classroom. The site supplements classroom instruction, lab activities, homework, and other assignments that are part of ASL 507, second semester American Sign Language at the University of Texas. The site contains an archive of videos demonstrating basic vocabulary and sentence structure of American Sign Language (ASL) for Units 13-17.

Listening exercise where students with different levels of language study interview in Arabic. Videos require Quicktime to play.

Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French. It includes authentic language videos from French websites, as well as interviews of French speakers on cultural topics. Videos and activities are organized into five broad themes and tagged by communicative language function with links into Tex's French Grammar for specific grammar explanations and interactive exercises. Each theme includes a pdf of suggested classroom activities and homework.

Français interactif is a unique, award-winning 1st-year French curriculum used by learners all over the world. Students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. The online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, internet activities, and a textbook of classroom exercises. Français interactif was awarded the 2009 CALICO Esperanto Access to Language Education Award and the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Best of Humanities on the Web award (2005)

"Find popular sayings and proverbs in Spanish with their translation into a variety of other languages in this searchable database from the Centro Virtual Cervantes"

Learner response system that includes polls, quizzes, and drawing. The drawing function might be used to check students' handwriting for nonalphabetic languages. This service will shut down on April 3, 2015.

Create and use flashcards, including audio. Currently, the only languages available are French and Spanish, but you can create cards for any language.

Ask language and culture related questions, and native speakers of the TL answer them.

This site provides language learning programs for students of all levels of German. One extra nice feature is the placement test, allowing individuals to discover which level is best for them if they have studied German previously. Slightly corny at times, the audio streams and pdfs can be found in German-only and bilingual editions. The incorporation of everyday words plus current topics and events makes this program extremely practical. ***Allows for non-English speakers to learn German as well. All instructions have been translated into over 20 other languages such as Spanish, French, Turkish, Hausa, Bulgarian, and more!***

Great source for the novice German-language cinephile. This is an English language site dedicated to providing information about the film world (types, awards, festivals, events) in terms of Germany. Check out the archive if you want some good recommendations of what to watch!

Online course in Estonian language. Available for Russian and English speakers.

an iCALL system designed to provide supplementary language learning activities using authentic English texts elected by the learner. Limitation: for ESL students only

For language grump Harry, Germany is like Sauerkraut: you can only love it if you grew up with it. But when he suddenly finds himself in a time warp while on vacation in the Black Forest, he's forced to learn German. "Harry - gefangen in der Zeit" is a bilingual, multimedia course composed of 100 episodes. You'll find 400 interactive exercises online, a vocabulary trainer with more than 3,500 words, as well as geographical information and ideas for lessons for all of the episodes.

The work of professional deaf artists, including American Sign Language music videos.

Online language lab. Allows you to create speaking, listening, reading, and writing assignments that students do online. You can provide feedback to them through the interface.