Chansons françaises is the integrated music component of Français interactif. Chansons features a French or Francophone song, related to each chapter's cultural or pedagogical focus, presented via audio or video. Accompanying pdfs provide additional information, as well as comprehension exercises. Songs act as a portal to various Francophone cultures and musical genres. Aural comprehension and study of lyrics afford students practice with culturally authentic text and expression. Students discover yet another reason to be passionate about studying French!
Langademy is a language learning social network. Students can learn with language exchanges or pay native speakers to have conversations with them. Teachers and tutors or native speakers can earn some money from home by teaching languages at Langademy. Language exchanges are based on a time bank system, with the aim of building a collaborative language community.
WordSwing is a suite of online tools, including a text adventure, to help people learn Chinese. Most of the tools are targeted at intermediate learners.
Classroom Salon is a document and video annotation system. All your course documents and videos can be annotated by students using salon's annotation tools. They can comment on specific words, sentences and paragraphs and also comment on video frames. Salon aggregates all these annotations to provide amazing insights into student thinking.
Computer Assisted Autonomous Japanese language learning,
Assessment and Testing
A list of tools useful for Japanese teachers, especially for text analysis and assessment.