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A prezi-presentation (italian and german versions) about Web2.0 and language learning/teaching.

The Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP), a criterion-referenced, Web-based assessment tool, measures students' language proficiency at levels ranging from Novice-low to Intermediate-mid. STAMP currently measures reading, writing, and speaking proficiencies in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. CASLS strives to continually improve STAMP's test design while adding new languages and new levels. STAMP is available through CASLS' partner company, Avant Assessment.

If you have the need to type anything in a foreign language which has accents and other strange-looking characters, and you only have a US keyboard, your life used to be miserable. You can type foreign characters by clicking a button or by pressing an intuitive keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Letter) that doesn't require you to grow additional fingers and doesn't block normal letters.

This online translator allows the translation of words, texts, phrases, idioms, expressions in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese. Translation tools include: translation memory like Across, Trados, SDL, Dejà Vu, but also instant translation systems, machine translation like Reverso, BabelFish, Systran. Online dictionaries: Collins, Merriam-Webster, Larousse, LEO, Oxford, langenscheidt.

An italian blog about language teaching and web2.0 with articles, tools reviews and ideas about how to use such tools.

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Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish, Sicilian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, and also Sign Language. If you're interested in how learning a language works, there are also linguistics courses online.

This page allows you to easily type special symbols, such as the copyright symbol, degree symbol, trademark symbol, heart symbol, etc. You can edit your text in the box and then copy it to your document, e-mail message, etc. * Currencies NEW * Czech * Danish * Dutch * Finnish * French * German * Hungarian * IPA (English) * Italian * Polish * Portuguese * Romanian * Russian * Spanish * Swedish * Symbols NEW * Turkish

This tool allows you to find dictionary words and expand your vocabulary in many different languages including Bulgarian, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Ido, Indonesian, Italian, Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese and many others.

with links to other languages