Resources for Languages

A letter which attempts to persuade the reader to write their own persuasive letter, and which highlights some of the main points to include.

A poster which lists adverbs to describe how something might have been said.

Courses on IWB and telecollaborative language learning eligible for EU ErasmPlus grants. Deadline for application: March 4

A variety of Spanish language Pinterest boards - activities, ideas, resources

A great site for learning Mandarin with fun games. Some of the instructions are in Chinese.

A superb app for any one looking at learning basic Mandarin Chinese. Play the game to listen and see the language. There are many different types of questions, but most are multiple choice or click and drag from a selection of choices. Questions start out easy and there is support and 'hint' buttons to help you. You can download each lesson as you reach it, or download everything if you plan to use it offline. All the language you have met is stored in a word bank and use your microphone to compare your pronunciation to the recordings.

Nice article on the ELA standard and close reading

Centre International d'Antibes, games for learning French, resources for teachers 

Download all as a Pdf - 7 INTERNET TOOLS (328 kB)" Dead links on "Website" where the URLs end in %20 e.g..: https://vine.co/%20 https://www.google.com/tools/dlpage/hangoutplugin%20 http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html%20 https://explee.com/%20 http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596806408/Windows_Live_Movie_Maker_DVD_Maker.pdf%20 Anyway, non-specific links like "Website" or "link" do not conform to the Web Content Accessibility Huidelines 2.0: see http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20140916/F84

re: "7.18 VLC media player": this is a desktop tool, not an internet tool

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Chat with native speakers in 12 languages; it's the most fun, natural way to learn a new language.

"On November 13 the Digital October Center hosted a web meeting with Eli Bildner, one of the Coursera team members. Bildner is responsible for looking for educational partners and translating selected videos into the native languages of the projects's multicultural audience, and shared the results of the first few months of work he has put into localizing the content of the most popular platform for free online education. He discussed: which translation approaches have been tried and how well they have worked from country to country why Coursera settled on working with local partners the statistics on what has already brought about growth in the number of users who do now know English well enough or even at all. Lecture guests also were the first to see how the crowdsourcing platform ABBYY Language Services and the Knowledge Stream team built to translate Coursera content works. This solution at some point in the future may become a universal tool for localizing courses around the entire world. At this point, however, the development is in beta testing."