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"Learn a Language - or Learn 8 of Them! Learn a language here with Visual Link® Languages. You can learn over 1,400 words for free here! There are interactive audio/visual flash cards to help you learn a foreign language. There's also an addictive Lingo Dingo game to help you on your online language learning journey. As seen above, you can learn any language of your choice. You can also learn important phrases like greetings, survival expressions and slang words in the language of your choice. If you want verbs, there are over 350 verbs to help you with your language study. To our knowledge, this is the most extensive, free website dedicated to online language learning. Be sure to use it and pass it on to others. "

What is brain Language? Ever heard of the "Sanskrit effect"? How is it connected to increased brain size (the region associated with cognitive function) and improved short as well as long-term memory? Can chanting mantras be helpful in treating Alzheimer's patients? Is it the future language of AI? Read the learning module to learn more about the Science of Language- SANSKRIT.

Article from The Age newspaper (Melbourne, Aus) on Australians & language learning.

"Over the course of this event we will be looking at a small range of web based tools that will enable you to create motivating online language learning activities for your students. These can be used either in class or set as homework. You will have the chance to understand how these tools work, find out how to use them with students and be able to try your hand at creating and sharing activities with other teachers. By the end of the event you should have a small 'toolkit' of resources and ideas that will enable you to enhance your lessons though the effective and pedagogically sound use of technology."

Over the course of this event we will be looking at a small range of web based tools that will enable you to create motivating online language learning activities for your students. These can be used either in class or set as homework. You will have the chance to understand how these tools work, find out how to use them with students and be able to try your hand at creating and sharing activities with other teachers. By the end of the event you should have a small 'toolkit' of resources and ideas that will enable you to enhance your lessons though the effective and pedagogically sound use of technology.

European site has games to learn a number of languages including French, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, German and English. There are a few free Bingo games (health and home objects). There are sheets that provide expressions (at least for French) that you'll use when playing board games or card games. Those could come in handy for building cultural vocab. that we don't often encounter in our academic language classes.

Hopefully here we can collect some images of language learning and technology, culture and anything that is relevant to our language classrooms. Images are powerful ways of sending messages and learning more about other people and places so let's give it a go!

Audio Lesson Studio - Link - "Allows you to create simple, user-defined, .mp3 audio lessons that may be used as an aid for learning languages or just about anything else - use your imagination! Audio can be based on existing media or automatically generated using Text-To-Speech." Capture2Text - Japanese OCR Utility - Link - "A utility that allows you to quickly capture a small portion of the screen, OCR it and (by default) save the result to the clipboard." cb's Japanese Word Frequency List Generator - Link - "A utility for generating word frequency lists from files that contains Japanese text." and more

Finding the right tool to learn a language might not be always easy. Here is a selection of French learning apps that can help you learn fast. Hope this helps

Olympic resources for languages. "The resource introduces students to the Olympics, uncovering the Olympic symbols whilst preparing them for a school-based Olympic celebration held in the language they are learning. The celebrations will take place on Olympic Day - Friday 20 June 2008."