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Google Translate just added a new feature that allows you to easily create a personalized phrasebook with the phrases and sentences you want to memorize and/or find yourself translating repeatedly.

Chrome add-on that uses Google Translate to translate sections of the web page you are reading to encourage reading in the TL

Blog post on issues with machine translation

Great article on translator use from a Japanese learning perspective.

An amazing site! Not only are there vocabulary learning tools here (wordlists, games, etc.) but also dictionaries and a web viewer. Install this gadget on your website, and when users put their mouse over a word, up comes the translation! Very cool.

""Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation," Sufi mystic Rumi once said. Words are, however, a way for the worldly to connect with the divine through prayer and worship. For many, developing a greater understanding of a religion extends not only to studying the theological and philosophical points but to learning another language. We spoke to three people studying Arabic, Hebrew and classical Tibetan about the role languages play in their relationship with religion."

Organiser tools (scaffolds) for learning

A great list of "cool tools for school". Many of these frameworks and scaffolds can be used in the Languages classroom, and many have foreign language translations available.