MHC Languages

Interesting data visualization showing the number of speakers for wide range of world languages

Finding the right way view your data is as much an art as a science. The visualizations provided on Many Eyes range from the ordinary to the experimental.

"Welcome to the TAFLP computer-mediated activity library database of activities and projects. Scroll down to browse the activities, or click on a header to sort the activities alphabetically by that category."

Chinese Savvy is a website community where members can share tips and have access to different tools for Chinese language learning.

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

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

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.

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.

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

"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."

"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."

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

Special Issue: Using Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning

Concordance search for English, French, German and Spanish, plus "Clean Sentences Conc." Also allows user to input their own text and output a concordance.

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

Vogue China

Arabic news

"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."

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

Simple, interactive arabic learning website. Great for beginners.