Dictionaries, Languages and Writing

Courses and Dictionaries, Many Languages

About.com
See Languages section for links
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/

Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
See 'Resources' section for useful materials
http://www.llas.ac.uk

CiLT - The National Centre for Languages
Aimed at language teachers
http://www.cilt.org.uk

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/

FSI Language Courses
Language courses developed by the United States Foreign Service Institute. Covers many less taught languages in addition to several major European ones
http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/

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 many resources, including dictionaries. Also covers natural languages, constructed languages, writing systems and 'language novelties'
http://linguistlist.org/ langres/ index.cfm

Logos
Language tools updated and corrected by professional translators. See 'logos dictionary' for translations to and from a large number of languages, with, in many cases, links to passages of text showing context. See 'logos conjugator' for verb conjugations. See 'glossaries' for many specialised glossaries. Search for a glossary by keyword to see the resulting links and also to see a button 'View all links' which leads to a list of all the glossaries. See 'logos library' to search a huge database of texts
http://www.logos.it/

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/

Onelook
A 'search engine for words'. You can: type a word into a search box and the site will give you links to dictionary web sites that define the word; find sites that will translate your word; find words by entering letters and wildcard symbols. The site indexes more than 800 online subject and language dictionaries, including Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian and German ones.
http://www.onelook.com

Radio Lingua Network
Free language-learning podcasts (audio recordings). Covers Spanish, French, Italian, German, Irish, Polish and Russian with more languages planned for the future
http://www.radiolingua.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/

Travlang
Links to many language dictionaries, including translations from many languages, not just from English
http://dictionaries.travlang.com

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/

WannaLearn.com
Links to online courses on many languages.
http://www.wannalearn.com/ Academic_Subjects/ World_Languages/

WordReference.com
Translate to and from many languages. It gives different meanings of terms, where necessary, and phrases to show usage
http://wordreference.com/

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

YourDictionary.com
Links to hundreds of online language dictionaries in over 200 different languages, including ancient and artificial ones
http://www.yourdictionary.com

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