Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. Funded by New York University Abu Dhabi, this mass digitization project aims to expose up to 15,000 volumes from NYU and partner institutions over a period of five years. NYU and the partner institutions are contributing all types of material-literature, business, science, and more-from their Arabic language collections. ACO will provide digital access to printed books drawn from rich Arabic collections of prominent libraries.
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Collection of online resources for learning Japanese from the Japan Foundation. Includes online courses in basic Japanese, learning hiragana and katakana scripts, discussion forums, and games.
Google's social network. The "hangout" feature lets you do videochat, including some virtual classroom tools.
Limitations: Hangouts are limited to 10 participants.
An evolving resource for web tools and other resources for language learning and teaching that includes a wide range of free and freemium tools that can be easily searched and browsed by skill, type of collaboration possible, and cognitive level (based on Bloom's taxonomy, terms from www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm). Limitations are listed in the comments.
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!
Great site for watching current episodes of all types of German TV programs, from Tatort and dramas to hard hitting news programs.
Subtitles available on all programs. Some live casts may not stream if viewer is outside of Germany/not using a German VPN. Intermediate to advanced German proficiency.
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