LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
- AskOxford.com
From Oxford University Press, this site includes a compact version of
the Oxford English Dictionary, quotations, commonly misspelled words,
word games, etc.
- BBC Languages
- Casa de Joanna
Language learning resources for students and teachers of French and Spanish.
- Center for Advanced Research on
Language Acquisition
One of the U.S. Department of Education's National Language Resource Centers,
whose role is to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign
languages effectively.
- Center for Applied Linguistics
- Do You Speak American?
Accompanies an NPR program on American English.
- Ethnologue
Resources that describe more than 6,700 living languages.
- Evolution
of Alphabets
- Foreign
Languages and Culture
- French
Connection
Links to sites (in French) in such areas as French history, current events,
media, language and literature, libraries, e-texts, publishing, tourism
and government.
- German Studies Web
Extensive collection of German resources for students at all levels; created
by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College
and Research Libraries.
- Language Museum
Provides samples of 2,000 different languages, including a graphic sample,
English translation, countries and populations of speakers, and a linguistic
classification.
- Multimedia Educational Resource for
Teaching & Learning (MERLOT) Type your language in the search
box in the right top corner. (Example: You are in Spanish; type Spanish
language.) You will find drills, tutorials, texts and multimedia
modules in the language that you are studying.
- National Book Foundation
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- Outstanding
Books for the College-Bound and Lifelong Learner
Created by the American Library Association.
- Overbooked
Includes recommended booklists in genre fiction, a discussion area, and
"hot lists" of forthcoming fiction releases.
- Portals to
the World -- from the Library of Congress -- links to information
about world nations and areas.
- Yahoo!
Linguistics and Human Languages: Languages
This collection is maintained by Anne Anderson.
