MHC Languages

Company websites for digital language lab and computer classroom management software/systems

These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language. From the novice Chinese language student to the advanced programmer, I hope there is something here for everyone. Rather than being a Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese. Please check out the DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant, Character Flashcards, the Chinese/English dictionary, the Chinese Namer, and the Western/Chinese Calendar Converter.

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

A free interactive guide to help faculty determine the appropriate copyright guidelines they must follow to use different types of copyright protected media in their courses

'Más arriba' is an online interactive workbook of introductory Spanish language exercises, based on the pictorial contextualization of fundamental vocabulary and language points. The exercise material includes full-colour drawings, sound clips, instant feed-back, vocabulary help and a new, significant feature: a voice recorder! 'Más arriba' is freely accessible and is designed to be used with any introductory approach.

This is a website that only requires you to give three letters of a verb to get all possible conjugations of it.

Both for individual researchers as for research groups or projects, it is of major importance to organize the literature one has read. A well organized bibliography is a powerful instrument. It speeds up the search for publications one has already read and supports the user in structuring information. Aigaion provides a bibliography management software environment that supports a user in just this: Organizing and managing a complete bibliography, from small bibliographies to bibliographies for a complete research department.

Learn the Arabic characters from Hindi and English characters

Transcriber is a tool for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, and labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions. It is more specifically designed for the annotation of broadcast news recordings, for creating corpora used in the development of automatic broadcast news transcription systems, but its features might be found useful in other areas of speech research.

NMC Virtual Worlds is an NMC program designed to help educational and other learning-focused organizations explore the potential of virtual spaces in a manner that builds on community knowledge, is cost-effective, and ensures high quality. Since its launch in January 2007, NMC Virtual Worlds has been known for its attention to detail and to client needs. NMC provides a palette of premium custom services for education and training that includes developing facilities to hold company meetings and events, holding trainings and seminars, creating simulations for educators to recreate historical, scientific, and literary settings, organizing and managing conferences and mixed media events, and growing successful learning communities.

A guide to qualitative data analysis, including explanations and suggestions about analysis methods for beginners, lists of software features and reviews to assist with QDA, and strategies for more advanced researchers

iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments! In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free! This means you do not have to pay for expensive licenses or things like that. Furthermore the source-code is freely available and you're free in changing the software to fit your needs as long as you respect the terms of iTALC's license (GPL). Freedom in two ways!

Add a voice recorder to your web site! ListenUp can record your users' voice message, play back the recording, and then upload the recording to your web server. Then other users can listen to the voice recordings on your website. Free version limits recording to 60 seconds and displays a message the first time the applet is loaded on a computer.

Students can draw Chinese character using mouse, and it will look it up in Chinese character dictionary. Available as applet or stand-alone program, Java source code available also.

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.

Developed by the School of Education at the University of Nottingham and as part of the HEFCE funded eChina~UK Project, this learning tool allows students and teachers to record an MP3 audio file directly from a web browser and save it to a local folder. Audio recordings are limited to 4 minutes to keep file sizes down, although you can record as many times as you like.

Pachyderm is an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people with little multimedia experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web browser and is as easy to use as filling out a web form. Authors upload their own media (images, audio clips, and short video segments) and place them into pre-designed templates, which can play video and audio, link to other templates, zoom in on images, and more. Once the templates have been completed and linked together, the presentation is published and can then be downloaded and placed on the author's website or on a CD or DVD ROM. Authors may also leave their presentations on the Pachyderm server and link directly to them there. The result is an attractive, interactive Flash-based multimedia presentation.

LanSchool v7.3 removes these distractions so you can teach more effectively. No classroom management solution is simpler to install, easier to use or better suited for teaching in a computer-based classroom.

Exercises developed by the CLA Language Center GlossMaker: Allows the creation of on-line texts with annotations or glosses. EvalMaker: Creates an exercise where students can evaluate their own answers by comparing them to the teacher's. Also allows incorporation of sound or image files. MatchMaker: Creates a classic two-column matching exercise. Good provision for feedback. Also allows incorporation of sound or image files.

Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.