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Course by Lovisa Berg, Dalarna University visit www.du.se/arabic for more information. Watch more on youtube.com/dalarnauniversity or download for free on itunes.du.se On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:· recognize, write and correctly pronounce the Arabic alphabet as well as understand the diacritic marks (al-harakaat) that affect the pronunciation of certain vowels and consonants · acquire a basic vocabulary · understand and ask simple questions · communicate in Arabic about simple familiar subjects · use greetings· introduce themselves: family and background, interests · read short texts and write simple texts about familiar topics · recognize simple grammatical constructions and use them.

Speech Acts in Films is a site where students of Mandarin Chinese learn to examine, understand, and practice social language through the medium of film. The primary audience of the materials are low-advanced and advanced learners who completed approximately two years of language instruction. The materials have been developed for blended-learning environments, but can also be used for self-study, or as supplemental materials in traditional instructional settings.

Practice understanding fingerspelling in American Sign Language.

MSU's Center for Language Teaching Advancement's learner training modules for students learning a second language.  Module 1: Understanding proficiency What proficiency is, how it is measured. Module 2: Language learning basics How second languages are learned and taught. Module 3: Language learning strategies Strategies to make you a better language learner.

Practice your French understanding by reading online!

Upload videos or link to YouTube. Add video, audio, or text comments at the exact place in the video where you want it. The creator can also add buttons for simpler comments, such as "awesome" or "I don't understand." Limitations: As of 6/9/2014, the audio and video comments don't seem to work.

Video of Spanish from around the world speakers answering questions. Grouped by proficiency level needed to understand and topic. Includes comprehension checks and exercises.

Japanese-Japanese dictionary with definitions that are easy to understand.

Create a video that tells a story through a simulation of a Google Doc. (You have to see an example to understand what it does!)

An extension of AlJazeera news, AlJazeera Learning features news articles and reports geared at the student level. Texts include a vocabulary list of words relevant to understanding each article. There are also news videos and other stories. 

Video Assistance for Understanding Language Teaching Techniques (VAULTT) is a collection of original videos highlighting various aspects of language teaching in the classroom. Each short video is accompanied by supplementary information (in a PDF) explaining the techniques and relating them to best practices in language teaching. Some of these videos are real classes, and some are staged. Although these materials are based on current research in second language acquisition, they are produced at a level accessible for teachers with little or no pedagogical training. We are still in the process of constructing this site, but your feedback is welcome!

Japanese newspaper written simply and with furigana so that young children and foreigners and easily understand it.

OJAD is an online Japanese accent database for learners and teachers of Japanese.  The goal of this tool is to enhance the awareness and understanding of the Japanese pitch accent with a suite of four features.   The words in the dictionary encompass over 9000 nouns and 3500 declinable words including verbs, i-adjectives, and na-adjectives, making it possible to search approximately 42,300 conjugations of words.  What's more, each conjugated form given in the dictionary is accompanied by both male and female audio.  This suite provides three other useful tools in addition to word search.  With Verb-Suffix Search, you can look up the accent type for a verb followed by a suffix.  With Text-Search, you can look up the accent types for words in an excerpt of text.  Lastly, with Suzuki-kun, you can predict and display the pitch contour for an excerpt of text.  We hope that you will be able to make use of these tools in your future language lessons or language studies.

Good source of current German news via short news clips and stories. This site requires at least intermediate knowledge of German in order to navigate the site and to understand the videos; advanced skills preferred. If you don't know exactly what you are looking for, I advise searching by topic (theme), as the A-Z list is both extensive and confusing.

At codingtag.com we understand the challenge face at interview so we have prepared the list of important PHP questions and answers to help you get through any difficulty.

Innovative free website offering both Japanese-language study and cultural understanding!. Supports multiple languages (Japanese English Spanish Portuguese Chinese Korean French). Please select your language.

Chart with audio files representing all possible syllables in Mandarin Chinese, including four tones for each sound. Also includes videos that help you understand how to produce the sounds.

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Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education Offers tutorials on a variety of subjects, including a few languages.

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