MHC Languages

Learn the Arabic characters from Hindi and English characters

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

Links to a video of a teacher training session on Web 2.0 Tools and a 53-page booklet with suggestions and step-by-step instructions for using them.

Links to a phonetic keyboard layout for Cyrillic, which matches the phonetic keyboard in Mac OS.

Virtual Arabic Keyboard for students who do not have an Arabic Keyboard on their computers

This site uses common Arabic songs to make students familiar with phraseology in the Egyptian dialect. I found it quite well explained and useful.

Hello-Hello is a revolutionary interactive online language course with a community of like-minded individuals that help each other in the learning process. And all for free! Our lessons were developed in collaboration with ACTFL.

A collection of lesson plans and materials for teaching speech acts/pragmatics. Focuses on English, but ideas could be applied to other languages.

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.

A hand-written instruction guide developed by a Spanish teacher at the secondary level for her students.

There are free, interactive online Cantonese lessons, Mandarin lessons, and Chinese character lessons. There are also comments on Chinese culture, and links to other Chinese resources.

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.

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

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.

The American Councils Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) serves both graduate and undergraduate students. The academic program is designed to improve participants' oral, listening, reading, and writing proficiency in Russian language and to develop their knowledge of Russian history, politics, culture, and society. The academic year, semester, and summer programs provide approximately twenty hours per week of in-class instruction in Russian grammar, phonetics, conversation, and cultural studies at Moscow International University, the Russian State Pedagogical University (Gertsen Institute) in St. Petersburg, and the KORA Center for Russian Language in Vladimir. One day per week of the academic program is set aside for local cultural excursions.

Forum discussion gathering ideas for magazine article on top-10 things that teachers should know that they didn't learn in their teacher education programs.

This is a simple trainer for learners of Japanese to improve their recognition speed of hiragana and katakana. The program is still under development and we welcome any feedback from users. 1. Choose ひらがな or カタカナ. 2. Set a speed for your flash card from a pulldown menu. (Available speeds range from three seconds to 0.1 second with 0.1 second increment. ) 3. Read each letter aloud. You must keep up with the speed you set. There is no feedback.

Sign up to record online; messages are saved on their servers and links can be emailed. Also offers a widget to add to your website for recording.

'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.

A high school teacher writes about how his students get interested in using Twitter in the classroom.