Web Tools for Language Learning & Teaching

Portuguese corpus.

Ask language and culture related questions, and native speakers of the TL answer them.

Watch and listen to English and German speakers pronounce vowels with visual feedback. Use your microphone to see where your own vowels fall and adjust to fit the English or German range.

A YouTube playlist of videos teaching Nepali.

Nepali vocabulary, including audio.

Basic vocabulary and phrases in Nepali.

Online course in Nepali for beginners.

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.

Constantly updating list of where to watch German TV shows and movies online. Most of the listed sites are free and each listing contains a detailed description of the content provided. Additonally, the cite features a helpful vocab list for cite navigation.

Online dictionary including: GermanSpanish/Portuguese/English

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.

Great way to keep your classroom current! This site features online and downloadable German news reports which have been slowed down in order to aid with comprehension. The suggested level is B2 and up.

"Find popular sayings and proverbs in Spanish with their translation into a variety of other languages in this searchable database from the Centro Virtual Cervantes"

Funny memes and GIFS about Latin!

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.

Learn French onomatopoeia; complete with pronunciation guide and audio examples

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