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This website takes stories from the news and translates them into Spanish. You can then listen to the story read by a native speaker at two different speeds. Additionally each word or phrase in the article when hovered over shows the English translation of the word. The website has many articles available at any given time, so students are able to find something that is interesting to them. 

The video for the Chinese word "mianzi" I found particularly interesting: http://www.wordsoftheworld.co.uk/videos/face.html

From Netspeak: "To write in a foreign language is a difficult task, even for an experienced author. Problems include choosing the right word or preposition in a given context, finding a wording which is commonly used, and avoiding the use of grammatical forms which reflect the author's native language. The Netspeak Web service assists authors to overcome these issues by using the World Wide Web as a source of common language. The service can be queried with short text phrases to determine their customariness on the Web. Wildcard characters can be added to the query to search for variations and synonyms of the query phrase, which will be returned as ranked list with respect to their occurence frequency on the Web."

Spanish words illustrated with photos!

Online site for creating and sharing interactive activities based on any text (up to 500 words) put into its textbox.

You can add these to an RSS Block in your Moodle course.

Resources for teachers of young learners. All of the resources are designed to be versatile and useful in many K-6 classrooms. I have free , and other activities all ready for printing. for download: I have over 1800 words depicted in flashcards. There are 100+ sets covering 60+ themes and I'm adding to them regularly.