Here you will find free online tools for foreign language learning and a
section of study hints, applicable to all areas of study. The central tool is a
flashcard based vocabulary trainer for German, Spanish, French, Italian and
English. All you have to do is choose a username and a password and create a
new user account. After this you can
immediately start to improve your language skills.
Mixxer – the Language Exchange
The Mixxer is a
free educational community developed by
This site
provides activities to support learners of 53 different languages. The activities are animated, most with
game-like characteristics.
This is
truly a niche site, but if you are studying to pass the Japanese language
proficiency test, This site is an interactive flashcard system designed to aid
in the memorization of Japanese kanji and kanji compounds for the Japanese
Language Proficiency Test. Though designed for the JLPT, this system of
memorization will be useful to any students of Japanese looking to improve
their Japanese reading ability.
Type in a
word in their dictionary look-up, choose the language, and get definitions even
for words that other sites can’t define.
In addition, scroll down to participate in online forums in one of
several languages.
This site
claims to be the fastest multilingual dictionary online.
This site
translates newspaper articles so the reader can hear the other side of the
story.
This site provides
a free video phrase book and community for those wishing to learn a language.
Included are French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Polyglot is
a free language exchange community. If
you want to learn a new language,
exchange with native speakers to improve your language skills. You are a
student, an employee of an international company or a world traveler. If you
are fond of foreign languages or simply eager to discover new cultures, you are
at the right place! Polyglot enables you
to find the right person to exchange
languages with you. You will find penpals according to age, gender,
location, hobbies ... Polyglot is fully customizable. You will choose your own
icons, styles or post your own Polyglot translations. As a result, more people
speaking your language will become members.
This site has all sorts of printables, including flashcards for teachers of ESL, certificates, and stickers, as well as an international project exchange. MES-English.com is a site containing actual resources, made by the site developer to be downloaded and used today.
100 Essential Spanish Phrases for Teachers
The English and the Spanish wording for phrases such as “she is very bright”, “Are you ready?”, and “It doesn’t matter”.
Try these exercises to practice new skills.
Phrases with sound in Latvian and Russian, phrases without sound in French, German, and Spanish.
Choose from a huge number of language, plug in a verb and stand back while it is conjugated for you.
this site provides printable exercises for students who are learning English. Answer keys are also provided.
This website offers EFL/ESL lesson plan, ideas for games, and kids lab videos to help kids study by themselves or with minimal guidance. This site is free, with no Logins or Membership required.
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL). This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers.
Links to teaching resources, discussion boards, forums on TESOL and TEFL, and jobs teaching here and over seas.
This site provides free online language lessons in Spanish, French, and Chinese. You can view text and listen to the language, customize, and control the speed to meet your needs.
Lang-8 Social Networking Language Learning Site
Lang-8 is a SNS (Social Networking Service) site for
language exchange and international communication. In this site, you can write in the language
you are studying, and other users (whose native language is the language you
are studying) can correct your diary.
And you can also correct the diaries of those who are studying your
native language. You are able to not
only learn a language, but help teach others your own language as well.
Materials for ESL teachers at all levels
Ultralingua.com online dictionary
Ultralinqua Inc. was founded in 1997, with a mission to develop high quality language tools
for the business, education, and travel markets. What started as a French
Dictionary for the Mac platform has turned into a leading provider of software
and web-based dictionaries and language tools, including 16 dictionaries on
five platforms, four grammar and spelling checkers for Mac and Windows, and the
Dave’s ESL Café – a meeting place for teachers and students
The site is
developed and maintained by Dave Sperling.
It includes a hosted discussion board for teachers and learners, as well
as links to resources for students, teachers, and “everybody”.
This is a
foreign word translation site for PCs,.
This site provides online machine translation of text, advising that
machine translation usually is not perfect, but will also usually at least
provide the sense of the text. The free
PC translation software Xanadu also can be downloaded from this site.
Curso del Espano online Spanish learning site
This is a
site where users can learn and develop understanding of Spanish grammar. Newly available are videos of the language
being used in real life situations.
The UniLang
Wiki is a database of language- and linguistic-related information which is
part Unilang, an online
language community. Any UniLang member may edit and contribute to these
pages. Currently, many diverse topics
are available, including one I sampled on archaic languages. This is definitely a resource for adults or
more language skilled older students, but is fascinating for the language
groupie
Kindersay
is a free online video website
designed to help preschool kids & English as Second Language (ESL) children
learn English
words. Over 500 online
activities are available in a special Word Show format.
This site provides free resources for learning Spanish, including audio production by a native Spanish speaker. The site provides introduction to vocabulary in several categories as well as to Spanish grammar