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Tutorial that shows how to install a free Hangul (Korean) typing tutor program on Windows - explains how to trick the installer into thinking it's a Korean-language system.

Website for learning to type in Korean. You can practice alphabet, word, sentences here but everything is in Korean.

Add on for Firefox that provides popup dictionary help for reading Japanese, Chinese, and (coming soon) Korean on webpages.

Korean typing tutorial/game program. Also teaches English typing.

Korean language newspaper database, available through our library.

Online courses in critical languages available for students for individual study ($79 for 6-month subscription) or to schools as course supplement. Includes Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Kurdish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Site also offers opportunity for free access if volunteering as beta tester for new courses.

The Generation 1.5 project was launched in 2006 by a small group of researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) English Language Institute (ELI). We are collecting texts from writers who are just starting their academic careers at the university, specifically 1st and 2nd year undergraduates, who speak a variety of Korean or Chinese at home. Ultimately, the aim of this data collection is to provide an empirical basis for developing recommendations for writing/language instruction specialized for the Generation 1.5 group.

Enjoy popular dramas and music in Asia (including Korea, China, Thailand etc.) for free. You can choose subtitles in over 15 languages.

Collaborative database of example sentences translated across languages with audio.

"MIMEA is a series of interactive multimedia modules for language learning, practice, and assessment. The modules are based on video clips that show native speakers and nonnative speakers interacting in natural, unscripted situations. Interactive exercises reinforce language and cultural topics that spring from the scenarios. Teachers can use MIMEA modules as part of a language course to demonstrate language use, provide contextual language practice, or as an assessment tool."

Listen online or podcast of NHK (from Japan) content in 17 languages.

"A program of United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program will offer intensive summer language institutes overseas in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2010. The on-line application for CLS Program awards is now available, and the deadline to apply will be December 18, 2009. "