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Signing Savvy is the most complete online sign language video dictionary. Signing Savvy contains several thousand high resolution videos of American Sign Language (ASL) signs, fingerspelled words, and other common signs used within the United States and Canada. Signing Savvy is an ideal resource to use while you learn sign language. It also is an excellent reference for your day-to-day sign language needs.

Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality

"You know you're Irish: 1.When you can't sit down on a bus without striking up a conversation with an oul-one. 2. When you can follow insanely difficult conversations between 5 women at once even when everyone is referred to as "yer-one" or "yer-man". 3.When you're asked for spare change by 5 hobos within the hour. 4.When you say "sorry?" in stead of "excuse me?". 5.When you consider a lovely day to be one where there's only 4 hours of rain, and a temperature of 12°C... (read more)"

Learn about National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project, working to document endangered languages. Get language facts, photos, map, and more.

The Arabic word 'meedan' - ميدان - means 'a town square' or 'gathering place.' Meedan.net is a digital town square where you can share conversation and links about world events with speakers outside your language community. Everything that gets posted on meedan.net is mirrored in Arabic and English - whether it's the headlines you read, the comments you write, or the articles you share.

Wordorigins.org is devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to etymology. Etymology is the study of word origins. (

This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German and Spanish

The City of Languages (Game) - Goethe Institute

The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers

Public radio's show about words and language and how we use them.

Fun with #language, language and linguistic news, links, events, research and more.

"The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages."