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General
About.com
Online courses and other information for English as a second language, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish.
http://about.com/ homework/
BBC Languages
Beginners' courses in French, German, Spanish and Italian and, under 'Other', for Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, English, British Sign Language, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ education/ languages/
British National Corpus (BNC)
'The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century, both spoken and written.'
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
CiLT - The National Centre for Languages
Aimed at language teachers. Click 'Links' for web sites on learning languages, language organisations etc.
http://www.cilt.org.uk
CiLT - The National Centre for Languages - Finding a Course
You can search a database giving details of language courses across the UK
http://www.cilt.org.uk/ learning/ courses/ index.htm
ESLGold
English teaching and learning resources. Available in many languages: Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Thai, Russian, Italian, French, German, Polish and Turkish
http://www.eslgold.com/
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
An encyclopedic catalogue of all of the world's 6,912 known living languages. You can also search over 39,000 alternate names and dialects.
http://www.ethnologue.com/
iLoveLanguages
Huge collection of links to sites including, for example, online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software language schools.
http://www.ilovelanguages.com
Language Links
Links to sites on many languages
http://www.langlink.net/ langlink/
Library of Congress - Portals to the World
Click a country link and then in most cases you will see a 'Language and literature' link that will lead you to key language links
http://www.loc.gov/ rr/ international/ portals.html
LINGUIST List - Language Resources
Links to websites on natural and constructed languages, writing systems and language resources, including dictionaries.
http://linguistlist.org/ langres/ index.cfm
National Virtual Translation Centre - Languages of the World
A US site giving a great deal of information on many languages, covering history, status, sound system, grammar, vocabulary, writing and much more
http://www.nvtc.gov/ lotw/ index.html
Omniglot
A clear and fascinating guide to the writing systems of the world. Includes modern and ancient languages and alternative writing systems.
http://www.omniglot.com/
SeeLRC (The Slavic and East European Language Research Center)
Detailed reference grammars on Romanian, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Czech, Georgian, Macedonian and "Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian" and also links to resources on many more Slavic and European languages
http://www.seelrc.org/
SOAS
SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) list of sites for many eastern, middle eastern, central European, aboriginal, native American and African languages.
http://www.soas.ac.uk/ library/ index.cfm?navid=1188
Subject Centre for Languages
Includes links to language learning sites and key organisations for many languages.
http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/ languages.aspx
UCLA Language Materials Project
Use the search boxes to find resources on over 100 'less commonly taught languages'. You can also see information about each language in 'Language profiles'
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/ index.aspx?menu=001
UCLA Language Materials Project - CAL Database
You can search for more 'less commonly taught languages' on the 'CAL database', hosted on the UCLA Language Materials Project web site
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/ CAL.aspx?menu=007
WannaLearn.com
Links to online courses on many languages.
http://www.wannalearn.com/ Academic_Subjects/ World_Languages/
World Wide Learn
Links to many free online language courses and tutorials.
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/ language-courses.htm
Worldwide Classroom (WWC)
Indexes over 10,000 language schools, sorted by country. WWC is an international consortium of schools which offer intercultural and educational programs, and welcome international visitors.
http://www.worldwide.edu
WorldWide Language Institute
Click ‘Translation Centre’ for links to dictionaries and related resources.
http://www.wwli.com/
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