MHC Languages

Arc90, the team behind Readability, is today introducing Readlists, a new website / web app that lets you create your own ebooks from your favorite articles online. The concept is simple: click "create Readlist," paste in whichever URLs you'd like in your book, add a title and custom descriptions, and share. You can export your book in either the near-universal ePub format, or send it directly to your Kindle. Sharing options are pretty standard - each readlist has a public URL for viewing, and a public edit link which you can send to people you want to collaborate with. There's also an embed tool that lets you add lists to your website or blog."

SASLI offers elementary and intermediate levels of modern South Asian languages, as well as Sanskrit. SASLI prepares students for subsequent training domestically and abroad. SASLI is currently held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students may only register for one language per summer. This 8-week program offers the equivalent of two full semesters of academic study.

A site that lists reviews of language learning software. Although reviews are useful to some extent, their assessments of the effectiveness of the software may not agree with our pedagogy.

Italian Newspaper.

"Until recently it was assumed that specialized software was required to do concordancing, but it turns out that a search engine such as Google can generate queries into almost limitless corpora (using the Advanced Search feature from the main portal page, for example). This paper by Tom Robb addresses more refined issues regarding the integrity of the data thus derived, and how we might improve on the integrity of that data through more defined searches, as explained here. "

Sample activity for literature analysis use concordance of a poem

Sample activity using concordance for literature analysis with a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

"Action research can inform teachers about their practice and empower them to take leadership roles in their local teaching contexts. Mills (2003) provides the following definition of action research:" (Donato)

"Xaira is a text searching software originally developed at OUCS for use with the British National Corpus. This new version has been entirely re-written as a general purpose XML search engine, which will operate on any corpus of well-formed XML documents. It is however best used with TEI-conformant documents. Xaira has full Unicode support. This means you can use it to search and display text in any language, provided you have a suitable Unicode font installed on your system. At the heart of Xaira is the Xaira Object Model. This defines a range of objects and methods for representing and searching large amounts of linguistic data. The Xaira Server program implements this model. The Xaira Indexer program creates platform-independent indexes from collections of XML documents for use by the Server. Both these Xaira components can be deployed on any platform. Client programs can access a Xaira server using a close-coupled API such as that used by the Windows client (which is written in C++), or via XMLRPC or SOAP. We provide a fully-featured client for Windows, and a PHP code library which makes it easy to develop applications for the web which can talk to a Xaira server. All versions of Xaira are now distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public Licence."

A set of how to videos for basic computer functions, like "copy & paste," "make text bigger", etc. Set up in a fun "form letter" format to allow you to send these videos to others.

March is the month of La Francophonie. This site lists events in celebration of French language and culture in New England.

Great informative video explaining copyright basics focusing on typical questions/assumptions made by college faculty.

Italian English dictionary.

Website for Arabic learning with fun videos that will help learn vocabulary effectively

Language Matching Game

A site containing Kanji flash cards with JLPT vocabulary. Levels separated from N5 to N1. Free registration and use of the cards.

Provides new daily Italian vocabulary with native pronunciation.

A daily Japanese language newspaper online.