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Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network.

Gamified Japanese language learning. Includes hiragana, katakana, kanji, vocabulary, and news articles. You earn experience points by correctly answering questions. Also includes social features and a dictionary.

Helpful for learning colloquial Spanish in modern Spain.

Scots is spoken throughout Scotland from Shetland to Galloway and Aberdeen to Glasgow. This web center offers learners the ability to explore Scots poetry and song as well as learn one of Scotland's native languages.

Free language learning site which offers a fun & easy way to learn a language while helping to translate the web. 

I have found that this site is much better for language augmentation than actual language acquisition. The exercises and topics are useful for adding to what an individual already knows and are useful for brushing up skills. The ability to test into a level is an added bonus!

As of January 2015, Duolingo for Schools (https://schools.duolingo.com/) lets teachers keep track of how much students have used Duolingo.

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.

Free Hebrew lessons online

This compilation of resources for the study of Italian includes videos, information on slang, social learning resources, a proficiency test, information on finding in person classes, and much more.

Welcome to the Japanese Online Self-Help Utility, or JOSHU for short. In Japanese, JOSHU literally means "assistant", or "tutor", which is what this website attempts to do to anyone interested in learning the Japanese language. Practice katakana, hiragana, kanji, counting, vocabulary, and learn about Japanese culture.

This website contains a corpus of the modern Russian language incorporating over 300 million words. The corpus of Russian is a reference system based on a collection of Russian texts in electronic form. The Corpus is intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and various associated fields: professional linguists, language teachers, school and university students, foreigners learning the language.

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.

Create and use teaching units for content and language integrated learning. Include videos, audio files, and text. Text is automatically linked to a multilingual dictionary. Limitations: Does not include non-European languages.

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.

PeopleLink offers a unique solution for this vertical capable of delivering best in Class Video experience, flexible scalability, and a comprehensive set of data collaboration tools which make learning extremely effective & efficient.

Language exchange service for college classes learning Portuguese.

Paideia's Living Latin and Living Greek blogs provide interesting, intermediate content in Latin and ancient Greek to help bridge the gap between textbook Latin and classical authors. With the conviction that in language learning an appeal must be made first and foremost to the ears, every post is accompanied by an audio recording. The reader is advised first to make use of our Chromium browser-based dictionary to read each post, then to listen and reread until the audio can be understood without the text.

Arlecchino, Pulcinella and other masks of the Italian Commedia dell'arte will help you learn the subtleties of Italian grammar, one zany episode at a time. Podcasts are built around dialogs that explain the Italian grammar behind communicative language functions - functions like describing and comparing, recommending and expressing opinions, recounting the past, expressing likes and dislikes, hypothesizing, and talking about the future. You can download pdf files to read dialog transcripts and learn more from additional grammar and cultural notes. You can even ask questions on the discussion blog.

Italian language word scramble and other exercises to help you learn Italian.

Share words and definitions you've learned, and read those that others have shared.