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Simple HTML form-based test, with results submitted to program director.

Has the test as Word document--students download, complete, then send back to school for scoring.

Web CT based exam, administered in Language Lab to Johns Hopkins.

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.

"The Sketch Engine (SkE, also known as Word Sketch Engine) is a Corpus Query System incorporating word sketches, grammatical relations, and a distributional thesaurus. A word sketch is a one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summary of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour. A Sketch Engine account gives you * Pre-loaded corpora (60M-2B words) for o Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene o Other languages to follow * WebBootCaT o Build your own instant corpus o Extract keywords o Specialist terminology, any language * CorpusBuilder o Upload and install your own corpora Web service using standard browsers. No software installation required. "

Welcome to Tonguetide, the language-learning social network. Like Facebook and Twitter, Tonguetide is a place to connect with people, except that here you'll be meeting people who want to learn languages too. Chat: You can practise your language skills with real native speakers by messenger (like Facebook Chat), video chat (like Skype), or our internal mailing system (email). Use our Match feature to find a native speaker fluent in the language you want to improve (ideally one who wants to learn your mother tongue), read their information to find someone you fancy talking to and invite them to chat by adding them as a friend, sending them a private message, commenting on their profile or "sticking your tongue out" (like "poking" on Facebook). Match: Our system will automatically alert you of new users who fit the profile you specified when signing up and will tell you the Match percentage. Our Members Map even allows you to pinpoint users' locations on a Google Map - so you could meet them face-to-face to chat the old fashioned way! Tonguetide classes: Take classes with one of our language teachers trained in the Tonguetide method. Our online classes offer speaking practise in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German combined with our self-study courses - perfect for those with a busy schedule. All you need is an internet connection, a microphone and a set of speakers or headphones. Take a Tonguetide self-study course: Our self-study language courses are packed with fun exercises, videos of native speakers and audio tracks for listening practice. An annual subscription for any of our courses is just 14,95€, or 500 Tonguetide points. Teach online: Tonguetide is packed with useful resources for teachers. Our Virtual Classroom feature is an online teaching tool which makes the classroom whiteboard a thing of the past, allowing you to teach as if you were in the same room!"

The International Corpus of Learner English (Version 2) is a corpus of writing by higher intermediate to advanced learners of English. It contains 3.7 million words of EFL writing from learners representing 16 different mother tongue backgrounds (Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Tswana). It differs from the first version published in 2002 not only by its increased size and range of learner populations, but also by its interface, which contains two new functionalities: built-in concordancer allowing users to search for word forms, lemmas and/or part-of-speech tags and breakdown of the query results according to the learner profile information.

Bilingual dictionary for Spanish with English, French, German, Catalan, Italian, Gallego, Euskera, and Portuguese. Allows search by beginning or end of word.

Includes bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, forums for language questions, and links for plug-ins and iPhone apps.

This wordnet spans over 17,200 manually validated concepts/synsets, that are made of over 21,000 word senses/word forms and 16,000 lemmas from both European and American variants of Portuguese.These concepts are aligned with the translationally equivalent concepts of the English Princeton WordNet and, transitively, of the MultiWordNets of Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Romanian and Latin.

Collaborative database of example sentences translated across languages with audio.

A site that lists reviews of language learning software. Although reviews are useful to some extent, their assessments of the effectiveness of the software may not agree with our pedagogy.

Language Matching Game

Text-to-movie system: you type in a script, it automatically animates it and speaks it. "We offer a variety of artistic sets and actors to fill your stage. You can frame your action by selecting a pre-defined camera shot, making and saving your own setup, or rely on our Magicam option for automatic camera switching. Quickly bring your characters to life with our patented drag-and-drop animation system available on the web."

Free Language Learning Software available in 70 languages

A little demo of a program that pronounces words in various languages. A good quick reference and definitely fun to play around with!

Search the Web directly for concordances of words and phrases in 34 different languages. This new release (last update: 24 May 2010) adds support for selecting which documents to include in the zipfile, preselection based on document metrics, combining all textfiles into a single document for importing into kfNgram or a concordancer, and conversion from UTF-8 into more widely-supported encodings.