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Continuously updated corpus of American English with useful search interface. Genres are spoken, fiction, magazine, newspaper, and academic.

PDF books for learning the alphabet and phonics in English. Aimed at children.

Read the news in English at 5 reading levels, which correspond to different numbers of lexemes. Take quizzes on the content.

Learn Arabic has short, free lessons on basic Arabic grammar and vocabulary. While the transliteration system from Arabic words to English pronunciation is not the best, each vocab list features recorded audio of the word.

Travel site available in English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Indonesian. What makes this interesting for Japanese learners is the option to choose an "Easy Japanese" version.

Corpora in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, and Swedish. Limitations: Must be in academia to access.

Using English for academic purposes: A guide for students in higher education

Intermediate Urdu comprises sixteen interactive reading passages with corresponding audio and English summaries, dynamic online quizzes, and thirteen video interviews of Urdu scholars. All content is directed towards students at the intermediate level and preparing them for advanced level proficiency.

Videos with English subtitles. Click on unknown words, see their translation, add them to your library for further study and practice with people from all over the world.

Italian - English - French dictionary.

Simplified news stories that students can read and listen to in English. Also includes related vocabulary practice, scrambled sentences, and voice recording. An additional tool lets students create their own books for download or printing.

English literacy lessons. Interactive animations teach kids about spelling, pronunciation, and reading. Includes exercises.

Create lessons in which students proofread passages or rewrite sentences. English only.

Collection of various fairy and folk tales recorded in both English and Japanese

World news in English, with two levels of simplification, plus the original article. Includes both text and video/audio.

Online Speech Recognition in many languages. Text can be exported. I tried this with English and Japanese, and it quite accurately transcribed my speech, except proper names. Teachers could use this to help students improve pronunciation.

Dictionary that offers definitions, synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, pronunciations, and translations between English and several languages (German, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish). Many other options.

Create lists of vocabulary and definitions by uploading a document. As of 1/15/2015, this only works for English. Can export to PDF or Quizlet. As of 1/15/2015, I could not get this to properly export to Quizlet.

A comprehensive, online GermanEnglish dictionary including translations, inflexion tables to help with pronunciation, and audio recordings of words and common phrases. The Forum and Trainer options provide the chance to network plus ask/answer questions.