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Great pictures to use in language classes

Really great site from France: French as a Foreign Language (francais langue etrangere FLE) where teachers can find links to vocab, grammaar, verbs, icebreakers, etc. It's very interactive and informative. Amusez-vous!

Nice statistics about how WL teachers use technology for language learning.

mp3 audio files in several languages

Great document for helping people (inside and) outside the profession) understand how the teaching of World Languages is changing.

Axel Planté-Bordeneuve posts this episode of 1 Jour 1 Question, which is a 1 minute and 40 second video in French created for children that summarizes how the French language was "born," starting from Latin and evolving to what we now call French. This could be a great listening and history lesson.

Website that has the latest news in French-language article

Website that provides authentic videos, interactive exercises and tools in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Subscription based.

Technology in a Foreign Language Classroom

'German for Hire' gives middle and high school teachers the opportunity to invite German university students into their classrooms to give youth-oriented presentations on different topics in modern German life and culture. These ambassadors will provide an authentic and interactive classroom session in German language, history or social studies classes. Students will be able to discuss current events and experience German history first hand through a personal encounter. They can connect with their German guests through their shared excitement for films, music, and sports. Any school in the United States is eligible to participate.

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.