MHC Languages

The Autonomous Language Learning (ALL) project, funded by the European Union, is building Blended Learning language courses in four European languages (Turkish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian. These courses are designed for students who have had an initial introduction in one of the languages and who wish to progress from a basic survival level to a higher competency (A2 of the Common European Framework) The project results are for Language schools and Colleges. The partners in this project are experts in language education and technology in education, from across Europe. You can get involved and contribute to this project in a number of ways.

Every couple of years, a hot new electronic device comes along that promises to transform education, if not life in general, and a few colleges give one to every new student. In the 90s, it was laptops. Three years ago, Duke University tried an iPod giveaway. And last month, Abilene Christian University announced that it would give every new student an iPhone (or an iPod Touch, which can connect to the Internet via a campus or other wireless network).

Audiria offers you freely: * An original daily audio file in spanish with its transcription. * Different chapter "channels" along the week. * Chapters organized by difficulty level. * Different exercises associated to each chapter. * A forum for practicing your Spanish writing and get corrected. * Personal stats to follow-up your scores. * A collection of complementary learning resources. * A completely free book of grammar, vocabulary and a conversation guide. * Brief grammatical lessons in audio-text format. * A free iTunes podcast

A website for fan subbing projects

The dizzy speed of technological development has driven the educational market to pile up a huge number of software programs without any serious methodological concern and consideration of the application to a variety of learners. This paper reviews current software evaluation tools and their problems, followed by further specific discussion of issues related to language learning software programs. Based on the critique of dominant bottom-up approaches of current software evaluation, this paper tries to take a holistic methodological framework into serious consideration and to provide a tentative framework which addresses key areas in evaluating language learning software programs for educators and learners.

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Acceptance Notification: Early October Abstracts are invited from undergraduate and graduate students for 15-minute presentations including, but not limited to, relationships between and among language, linguistics, and their many applications: * American Sign Language * natural and artificial languages * extinct and endangered languages * speech pathology and hearing sciences * language and cognition * theoretical and applied linguistics * structural, semantic, or phonological analyses * comparative grammars * discourse/text analysis * applications in rhetoric, the arts, and the humanities * applications in academic, cultural, and sociological constructs

Argues that money should not be shifted from less popular languages to more popular

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Gives widgets to add to your website with a word of the day in various languages, including audio, translation in English, example sentences and additional info about the word.

The Foreign Language Teaching Forum is an integrated service for FL teachers. Resources include this WWW site, the email LISTSERV Academic Discussion List (FLTEACH@listserv.buffalo.edu), list archives, and the FLNews server at the State University of New York College at Cortland. FLTEACH was founded in February 1994 and runs on a computer at SUNY Buffalo. The moderators, Jean LeLoup & Bob Ponterio, both teach at SUNY Cortland. Our broad topic is foreign language teaching methods for all levels and all languages. Specific areas of discussion include school/college articulation, training of student teachers, classroom activities, curriculum, and syllabus design. Students in teacher training programs, teachers both new and experienced, administrators, and other professionals interested in any aspect of foreign language teaching are invited to participate in our discussions.

This guide presents factors to consider in evaluating the practicality of tutorial CALL software for purchase and implementation. It is decision-based and is intended to be used in light of specific environments and populations in which the software will be used.

Pomme is a French grammar interactive database. It comprises approximately 400 rules available in various ways. Includes presentation of grammar and interactive exercises

A man documents his walk across China by taking 1 photo each day.

linguos.com is a window to the non-English web. Users with can search the non-English web with just an English QWERTY keyboard. This is NOT a translation service, but a transliteration and transcription based search engine. In most languages, enter your queries as they would sound in your target language. linguos.com is powered by Linguaseek Language Technologies. linguaseek.com is a portal and a platform that enables multi-lingual search, communication and content generation. A single interface allows transliteration to over 120 languages (virtually all digitally available languages.) Global portals and services can benefit from the service by integrating with or licensing linguaseek.com webservices, allowing users to search for multi-lingual content, communicate (IM/email/etc) and generate content (blogs, comments, web pages, etc), all without requiring custom keyboards, software or transliteration schemes. linguaseek's transliteration is based on ISO standards where available and optimized for user input. Users familiar with English and a second (or more) language(s) will benefit the most from this service.

Learn a language the easy, fun and fast way with EuroTalk. Over 115 languages to choose from. All levels catered for, from beginners to advanced. 15 million + discs sold!

Vanity publishing/self-published ebooks

Bilingual dictionary for Spanish with English, French, German, Catalan, Italian, Gallego, Euskera, and Portuguese. Allows search by beginning or end of word.

Spanish dictionary look up. Allows you to type in a whole word or just a part of a word, either beginning, middle or end.