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In the Ancient Rome 3D layer, you can: * Fly into Rome as it looked in 320 A.D. * Tour the interior of famous buildings. * Visit the sites in 3D such as the Roman Forum, Colosseum and the Forum of Julius Caesar. * Learn about how the Romans lived.

"For Microsoft Word I have made a taskbar for easy entry of romanized Sanskrit on Windows and Mac computers. Download from the right column on this page and install it on your PC or Mac."

Blog post with idea of using Google Drawings for handwriting practice: "Google's Drawing program is the perfect platform to practice orthography- the skill of writing characters and symbols to create words- in language classrooms with non-Roman alphabets, such as Arabic or Chinese."

"CantoFish is a popup Cantonese dictionary for Firefox. It contains over 200,000 entries and works with both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. Both the Yale and Jyutping romanization systems are supported, as well as Mandarin pinyin."

Shows a diagram of a Roman QWERTY keyboard. As you press the keys, it displays the Hebrew letter that corresponds.

Tag Galaxy provides a beautiful, animated format for exploring images that have been tagged in Flickr. Great source for conversation/oral fluency activities: students can search for a word related to a current unit topic (e.g, "clothing," "almuerzo," "hanami") and then practice talking about what they see in the images. Seems to only accept input in roman characters.

An online comic strip creation tool. Gives a lot of control over characters to be able to change position and change emotions. Does not seem to except non-Roman input.

Note: two of the LRC Staff love Jay Chou: Lilian and Garlim\nThis is a website with all Jay Chou's songs and lyrics, so you can learn and sing along! \nCourtesy - LRC Language Fellow Garlim Zhou