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Des clips musicaux pour découvrir des artistes francophones contemporains. Le + : chaque jeudi, de nouvelles activités pédagogiques pour faire entrer la musique dans la classe!

DOCUMENTAL QUE REFLEJA EL SEGUIMIENTO DIARIO QUE DE LA ERUPCION DEL VOLCAN TENEGUIA EN LA ISLA DE LA PALMA (CANARIAS), OCURRIDO ENTRE EL 26 DE OCTUBRE Y EL 18 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1971, HICIERON GEOLOGOS Y CIENTIFICOS DEL MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION Y CIENCIA . This is a colored documentary film about volcano education in spanish

Letras para volar is "un programa de fomento a la lectura para niños y jóvenes. Es el primer proyecto de colaboración internacional entre la Universidad de Guadalajara y la Fielding Graduate University." On the website they provide a section of "Lecturas," which are Mexican leyendas given in written form as well as in audio format. In this way, students can read and listen to the story, either at the same time or one before the other. You could use these leyendas for reading practice, listening practice, and cultural exploration.

AVIS DES ARTISTES was developed to help intermediate and advanced students improve their oral comprehension skills. A sequence of audio and video selections provides the basis for comprehension exercises of increasing difficulty. Students using the AVIS DES ARTISTES series are exposed to a broad range of vocabulary and delightful aspects of French culture in the context of challenging oral comprehension exercises. The online format of the AVIS DES ARTISTES exercises allows students individual control of their listening and viewing experience. For immediate reinforcement, answers sets for each exercise may be viewed by clicking a button. The first few exercises require no more than recognition of key words. As the exercises increase in complexity, they require more extended and subtle listening skills, paraphrasing and summarizing of information presented in the source documents.

Bonjour de France is an « educational website » containing free exercises tests and games to learn French. Teaching aides and materials are also available for those teaching French as a Foreign Language (FLE). Through its various pages, this website serves as a tool for promoting the Francophonie. New interactive sections will appear regularly to ensure this site becomes a place full of resources and a place to share.

Watch German TV online.

Great way to further your German learning. Best for intermediate or advanced speakers as the entire program is in German. Provides a fun way to practice comprehension, learn about German culture, and augment vocabulary.

Watch German TV online.

This mediathek provides excellent streaming links to recent news via television and radio programs. There are some links to current TV shows, but the site is more focused on news. Advanced proficiency preferable. Note: many of the live TV broadcasts can only be used if the computer believes itself to be in Germany (a German VPN may be needed).

via KSE Academy (Academias de inglés en Granada)

This French website created for native French speakers is full of dictées - dictations. This site is divided into grade levels based on the French school system. (For a brief run-down of the grade levels in France visit the blog from Transparent Language entitled À l'École!: French and American Grade Levels Compared at http://blogs.transparent.com/french/a-lecole/) Since the ladictee.fr website is targeted toward elementary aged children, the language level works well for beginner and intermediate French L2 learners. Even though a dictée isn't what people would call a "communicative" activity, it does serve the purpose of helping students make connections between spoken language and written language, especially since French spelling is not phonemic. The site includes various dictées for each level, along with a PDF of the written text so student's can check their work. Doing dictées can help students improve their spelling, recognize spelling patterns, and learn to listen for cues in spoken speech that indicate whether the person is speaking in the plural or singular (often tricky in the French language). Note: When doing a dictée, students are focused on writing down what is said word for word, and NOT on comprehension. It would NOT be effective to give a student a dictée and then immediately ask them specific comprehension questions about what they just heard.

German speaking and listening course for beginners. Available for itunes or RSS feed, Often used to augment Goethe Institüt classes.

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!***

German - Why Not? Providing instructive podcasts for speakers of all levels.

Deutsch Interaktiv: Designed for teachers as a means of seeing potential lesson plans and subject/topic groupings. Bilingual: parts in German, parts in English

Podcast-style vocab and listening practice for beginning speakers of German.

Online pinboard/stickynotes.

Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual Spanish corpus including texts from many countries.

Practice your French understanding by reading online!

News in Portuguese.