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This site lets you practice learning hiragana and katakana, the two Japanese syllabaries.

This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!

Site with audio clips on how to pronounce certain words in different languages.

Great site for authentic material on Spanish history!

Five Card Flickr "This quasi experimental web site is designed to foster visual thinking. It is based completely, or more loosely... copied, from the Five Card Nancy game devised by comics guru Scott McCloud and the nifty web version at 741.5 Comics. However, rather than drawing from a hand of randomly chosen panels of the nancy comic, my version draws upon collections of photos. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selextion of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures. When you are done, you the option to save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom (she pay print it out and tape it to the fridge, or she may criticize your creativity, your mileage and mom may vary)."

Wow - you should join this site if you are a German teacher/learner! It has LOADS of online activities to practise your German not to mention current topics and competitions! Check it out!

Research or buy books in French from Scholastic. Lots of titles available in the US or Canada! Note: this site is in French.

Visit this site to learn about French "argot" (slang), including Verlan. Learn about the history and lexicon of argot and how to form words in Verlan. This topic could be adapted into a great French lesson!

This online class helps to teach or review which French verbs take which preposition after it. Explore the site to explore this topic, review your skills, and/or test yourself. Lots of verbs and explanations are included.

"Frenchified is a site for anyone trying to learn French or teach French who gets bored with textbooks and other boring things. They call it the WORLDwide Web for a reason - why not use it? Feel free to send us ideas for topics, cool French videos, articles, commercials, etc...anything to help Frenchify your world!"

Haven't had a chance to try this yet but apparently it gets around the issues of flash on the ipad and ipod. Curious if it will work for the language sites we often use that use flash.

An amazing user generated ESL resources site. Find and download resources for any English language lesson - PowerPoints, lesson plans, flashcards and much more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language

Mobile portal of my ICTmagic educational resources site. Get recently added resources on the go through your mobile web browser.

The function of this site is to support the French, German, Italian and Spanish Access Language books. The key parts of the site are: 1) The Access French, Access German, Access Italian and Access Spanish sections.

A brilliant site with simple audio/visual flash animations for learning 60 of the world's major languages. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects

This site is for EFL | ESL students. Each day you can find a new simple online activity to help you improve your English.

Melinda Larson's collection of Apps for education. Great resource when looking for apps for language teaching and learning.