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" The coolest dictionary known to hombre! Enter website address to make all words on that page clickable. Try our dictionary! More than 8 million translations in 11 languages. Lingro remembers all the words you look up, so you can easily review and study them. "

May 28 - 30, 2009 at The George Washington University, Washington, DC Designed for practitioners and researchers involved in the preparation and ongoing professional development of language teachers, LTE 2009 will address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in many national and international contexts in which this takes place including: English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) instruction; foreign/modern/world language teaching; bilingual education; immersion education; indigenous and minority language education; and the teaching of less commonly taught languages.

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript format. Registration is not required and no course credit is available.

The ELISA corpus is being developed at the University of Tuebingen (Dept of Applied English Linguistics, AEL) and the University of Surrey (Dept of Languages and Translation Studies, LTS) as a resource for language learning and teaching, and interpreter training. It contains interviews with native speakers of English. They talk about their professional career (e.g. in tourism, politics, the media or environmental education). We are very grateful to all speakers for their kind contributions. You can use our Concordancer (written in PERL) on text versions of all corpus files. It can be utilized to extract KWIC concordances with variable context length, sentence concordances and word counts.

* Recording Skype-to-Skype calls with other CallBurner users is completely free of charge. There are no time limits or other limitations. (Click here for details). * Recording calls with non-CallBurner users, as well as SkypeOut and SkypeIn calls, is free for 30 days then requires a full CallBurner license (Click here for pricing details). * Recording of Conference Calls is free as long as at least one party to the call (other than yourself) is running CallBurner. CallBurner Features * Crisp, clean, professional recording * Simple, intuitive and uncluttered * Direct to MP3 with no additional software installation required * Record all calls, or only the ones you choose * Optionally record direct to WAV for best possible quality * Optionally record each side of the call to a separate file * Convert Skype voicemails to MP3 or WAV * Anti-drift technology keeps both sides of the call in sync * Works with all versions of Skype from 1.3 onwards

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing curricula that enable all individuals to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning. UDL provides rich supports for learning and reduces barriers to the curriculum while maintaining high achievement standards for all.

Vocabulary study program for SAT or GRE. VerbaLearn's patent pending system will automatically remove words as you master them so you don't waste time studying like you used to. You can learn your words by listening to customized mp3 files or practicing examples online, track your progress, and even review all your words from your homepage whenever you need a brush-up. Free mp3 Vocabulary Lessons: All you need is iTunes or any other podcast aggregator and VerbaLearn will instantly download your new mp3 Studylists to your computer. From there, the podcast is automatically transfered to your iPod or mp3 player. Try our new motivational program VerbaLearn2Earn that helps students stay motivated by earning cash rewards (donated by a friend or family member) on a pre-paid debit card as they study! It's free, just like VerbaLearn.

"Share a great idea... Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework... ScreenChomp for iPad helps you do it all. A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Just - Record It. Sketch It. Share It. - to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly. 1. Touch RECORD to capture your touch interactions and audio instructions on a plain background, or an image from your iPad camera roll. 2. SKETCH out your ideas and talk the viewer through the "how" and "why" of it all. 3. Stop and SHARE your video snack to ScreenChomp.com to generate a simple web link you can paste anywhere - or - post it to Facebook with one-click! Why share to ScreenChomp.com? Because… … it serves up a short URL that's easy to share anywhere. … you can download your video as an MPEG-4 file. … there's a Twitter sharing button. … there's no account to manage. Just post and go (perfect for schools and teachers)!

(for Flash Meeting project members only) A web cam and microphone attached to your computer is all you need to create video blogs (and more!) almost instantly. Record and edit streaming video simply and easily, that can be available to a web audience within moments - FlashVlog in 4 easy steps! FlashVlogs are recorded and edited in the FlashVlog Editor and the results are watched using a separate FlashVlog Viewer. You also have the option to customize a FlashVlog's look using the skinChoice Editor. All applets run in a standard web page using the popular free Adobe Flash plug-in.

Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and create information using digital technology. As a Cornell student, activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy. Is simply knowing how to do these things enough? No-there's more to it than that.

Directory of pdf files listing all the unicode characters and their codes for all different foreign language scripts.

The Autonomous Language Learning (ALL) project, funded by the European Union, is building Blended Learning language courses in four European languages (Turkish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian. These courses are designed for students who have had an initial introduction in one of the languages and who wish to progress from a basic survival level to a higher competency (A2 of the Common European Framework) The project results are for Language schools and Colleges. The partners in this project are experts in language education and technology in education, from across Europe. You can get involved and contribute to this project in a number of ways.

VoxForge was set up to collect transcribed speech for use in Open Source Speech Recognition Engines ("SRE"s) such as such as ISIP, HTK, Julius and Sphinx. We will categorize and make available all submitted audio files (also called a 'Speech Corpus") and Acoustic Models in GPL format. Users can record themselves reading text excerpts in their native language, or they can access the recordings already recorded in all languages

The Foreign Language Teaching Forum is an integrated service for FL teachers. Resources include this WWW site, the email LISTSERV Academic Discussion List (FLTEACH@listserv.buffalo.edu), list archives, and the FLNews server at the State University of New York College at Cortland. FLTEACH was founded in February 1994 and runs on a computer at SUNY Buffalo. The moderators, Jean LeLoup & Bob Ponterio, both teach at SUNY Cortland. Our broad topic is foreign language teaching methods for all levels and all languages. Specific areas of discussion include school/college articulation, training of student teachers, classroom activities, curriculum, and syllabus design. Students in teacher training programs, teachers both new and experienced, administrators, and other professionals interested in any aspect of foreign language teaching are invited to participate in our discussions.

linguos.com is a window to the non-English web. Users with can search the non-English web with just an English QWERTY keyboard. This is NOT a translation service, but a transliteration and transcription based search engine. In most languages, enter your queries as they would sound in your target language. linguos.com is powered by Linguaseek Language Technologies. linguaseek.com is a portal and a platform that enables multi-lingual search, communication and content generation. A single interface allows transliteration to over 120 languages (virtually all digitally available languages.) Global portals and services can benefit from the service by integrating with or licensing linguaseek.com webservices, allowing users to search for multi-lingual content, communicate (IM/email/etc) and generate content (blogs, comments, web pages, etc), all without requiring custom keyboards, software or transliteration schemes. linguaseek's transliteration is based on ISO standards where available and optimized for user input. Users familiar with English and a second (or more) language(s) will benefit the most from this service.

BibMe is an automated bibliography generator that finds information about your sources and then formats the citations for you. BibMe can save you loads of time building your bibliography, time that is understandably valuable and would be better served working on your paper. Our website is your one-stop source for all your bibliography needs! Don't remember all the information for the source you cited? No problem! BibMe allows you to search from a database of millions of entries to find your source and Auto-fill in the information. Or, if you have the source in front of you, you can enter your entries in manually. With BibMe, you can register a free account, which allows you to save your bibliographies for future use. BibMe also offers resources to help you cite your work properly in the "Citation Guide" section

"It is designed to give you (and us) information about the way you tackle the tasks of learning a foreign language. This questionnaire is used all over the world. Unlike our other questionnaire, this one can give you information about your own learning techniques, once you have filled in all the questions and evaluate your answers."

"Xaira is a text searching software originally developed at OUCS for use with the British National Corpus. This new version has been entirely re-written as a general purpose XML search engine, which will operate on any corpus of well-formed XML documents. It is however best used with TEI-conformant documents. Xaira has full Unicode support. This means you can use it to search and display text in any language, provided you have a suitable Unicode font installed on your system. At the heart of Xaira is the Xaira Object Model. This defines a range of objects and methods for representing and searching large amounts of linguistic data. The Xaira Server program implements this model. The Xaira Indexer program creates platform-independent indexes from collections of XML documents for use by the Server. Both these Xaira components can be deployed on any platform. Client programs can access a Xaira server using a close-coupled API such as that used by the Windows client (which is written in C++), or via XMLRPC or SOAP. We provide a fully-featured client for Windows, and a PHP code library which makes it easy to develop applications for the web which can talk to a Xaira server. All versions of Xaira are now distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public Licence."

"Welcome to Under The Milky Way, a new film universe for foreign and indie explorers in the US and Canada. Our galaxy of films, hand-selected from far and wide, are sure to keep you entertained and amazed, all at the tip of your finger, on you computer, connected TV, tablet and smartphone." - unfortunately, it's not free - it seems to be an index of foreign films, which then links you to distributers where you can purchase viewing rights (like iTunes, etc.).

Free online tool for managing Q&A in classes. Students can submit questions; answers are given in wiki format (students can all edit 1 student-contributed answer, instructors can edit instructor-contributed answer).