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No.1 Free online source for Arabic Music and Rai Music.

Simple, interactive arabic learning website. Great for beginners.

Arabic Magazine Website. This is an entertainment magazine, and is written in Arabic.

Fun and informative blog about China and Chinese language learning

"User-friendly advice on MS Windows, Ubuntu Linux and smartphone Chinese setup, Pinyin and Zhuyin input methods (IME), Chinese fonts and Language Packs (MUI), plus Pinyin macros, a survey of third-party Chinese software, FAQs & more."

"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."

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Arabic news

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

Special Issue: Using Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning

"ICT4LT Module 2.4 Using concordance programs in the Modern Foreign Languages classroom"

"I was unaware of exactly what could be gained from using corpora, having never done so, nor had I seen it mentioned in the numerous coursebooks I had used. In fact, the extent to which corpora have infiltrated teaching is not non-existent but remains marginal. A DELTA assignment later and the week before I was to give an input session on using concordances in the classroom, various colleagues sidled up to me muttering, "So, er, what's a concordance?" This is perhaps the most sensible place to begin."

"This article will address those questions by examining what corpus linguistics is, how it can be applied to teaching English, and some of the issues involved. Resources are also included which will assist anyone who is interested in pursuing this line of study further."

SACODEYL presents an innovative ICT-based solution for the compilation and pedagogical, language learning-oriented exploitation of linguistic teen talk oral corpora. SACODEYL is an integration initiative that takes into account areas as: 1. multilingual corpus compilation and innovation support, 2. pedagogical adaptation of existing ICT tools for the integration of corpora and corpus-based methods of Data Driven Learning (DDL) into mainstream language teaching, and 3. know-how building which will contribute to the future drafting of specifications that can take both DDL and the use of oral corpora in language education a step forward. SACODEYL sees itself as a pedagogical mediator in the language learning process of young European, exploiting ICT resources to deliver learning experiences based on data driven, constructivist approaches to language acquisition. SACODEYL will demand young learners of languages across Europe to personally explore, and engage in learning tasks of different nature.

SACODEYL is a web based system for the assisted compilation and open distribution of European teen talk in the context of language education. The project includes the collection and distribution of English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Spanish teen talk. SACODEYL sees itself as a pedagogical mediator in the language learning process of young Europeans, exploiting web multimedia resources to deliver learning experiences based on data driven, constructivist approaches to language acquisition.

Corpus and treebank search including Danish, English French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Esperanto, Romanian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese

The PolyU Language Bank, developed in the Department of English at Hong Kong PolyU, is a large archive of language corpora made up of a wide range of written and spoken texts totalling over 12 million words. Corpus searches can be performed using the Bank's built-in Web-based concordancer, enabling the easy use of corpus resources for language teaching and research.

An improved version of the original WebCorp, designed to search the web for concordances in real time. Can limit by country code or to specific domains.

Online version of "The Outlook Magazine," a very creative, hype and stylish Chinese magazine.

English-Chinese dictionary for beginners. Different ways to search: by pinyin, meaning, number of strokes or even using the handwriting option.