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Last modified: August 23, 2002

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  Art & Museums  
 
  • Virtual Library Museum Pages

  • Web Museum
         This is one of the most comprehensive virtual museums on the web.  Here you may find virtual copies of works by countless renowned artists and biographical information about the artists.

 
  Education  
   
  Food  
   
  Geography & Maps  
   
  Government & Embassies  
   
   History, Culture & Civilization  
   
  Language Resources  
  Literature
   
  Media: Radio & TV  
   
  Music  
   
  News, Newspapers & Magazines  
   
  Religion  
   
 

Travel & Tourism

 
 

  • Currency Site from Oanda.com
    Currency converter

  • Excite! Travel  
    This site provides information and links about travel anywhere in the world.

  • Travelocity (provides info from Fodor’s)  
    This site provides important travel, customs, and currency information powered by Fodor’s.

  • US Government Bureau of Consular Affairs
         This is the official site of the US Government Bureau of Consular Affairs.  Its mission is: "To administer laws, formulate regulations and implement policies relating to the broad range of consular services provided to American citizens abroad."  It issues Consular Information Sheets, travel warnings and public announcements concerning conditions in countries where Americans may be planning to visit or reside.

 
  Weather  
 
  • The Weather Channel  
    At this site, you enter in the desired location and receive weather information about that location.
 

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Courses and Instruction VCCS Colleges by Region
 Virginia Community College System & Distance Learning
  • VCCS Online   
     A comprehensive list of distance education courses offered through the community college  campuses of the Virginia Community College System
  • VCCS Online Distance Learning Course Directory
    Use these search forms to find courses offered through distance learning at any of Virginia's community colleges. Then, use the "find out more" button to contact the college about the course.
  • The Electronic Campus of Virginia
         An online database of courses in a variety of delivery modes offered by  all higher education institutions in the Commonwealth.

  • The Southern Regional Electronic Campus
         Offers distance education courses from institutions in the Southeastern U.S.
 Foreign Language Courses at Virginia Community Colleges
(Colleges in caps are participants in the Virtual Foreign Language Classroom)
  Blue Ridge                    Catalog          Schedule of Classes          Distance Learning
 
  Central Virginia            Catalog           Schedule of Classes          Distance Education
 
  Dabney S. Lancaster    Catalog          Schedule of Classes         Distance Education
 
  • Offer French, German, Japanese, Latin & Spanish Courses
  Danville                          Catalog          Schedule of Classes          Distance Learning
 
  • Offer French & Spanish Courses
  Eastern Shore                    Catalog          Schedule of Classes          Distance Learning
 
  • Offer Chinese, French & Spanish Courses
  Germanna                            Catalog          Schedule of Classes          Distant Learning
 

 

 J. Sargeant Reynolds     Catalog           Schedule of Classes          Distance Education
 
  John Tyler                             Catalog            Schedule of Classes         Distance Education
 
  Lord Fairfax                         Catalog & Schedule of Classes                Distance Learning
 
  • Offer French, German & Spanish Courses
  Mountain Empire        Catalog              Schedule of Classes          Distance Education
 
  • Offer French & Spanish Courses
  New River                             Catalog           Schedule of Classes           Distance Learning
 
  • Offer Spanish Courses

 

 Northern Virginia    Catalog | Class Schedule | Distance Ed | Compressed Video
  Offer Arabic,  Chinese,  French,  German,  Greek,  Italian,  Japanese,  Latin,  Russian,  Spanish
    Alexandria Campus Foreign Language Department
 
    Annandale Campus Foreign Language Department
 
    Loudoun Campus Foreign Languages
 
    Manassas Campus
 
    Woodbridge Campus
 
  • French
  • German

  • Spanish
    Extended Learning Institute
 
  Patrick Henry                Catalog            Schedule of Classes           Distance Learning  
 
  Paul D. Camp                        Catalog                             Schedule of Classes
 
  • Offer French & Spanish Courses
  Piedmont Virginia          Catalog & Schedule of Classes              Distance Learning
 
  Rappahannock                Catalog & Schedule of Classes             Distance Education
 
  • Offer French & Spanish Courses
  Southside Virginia          Catalog        Schedule of Classes           Cyber Courses
 
  • Offers Spanish Courses

 

Southwest Virginia          Catalog       Schedule of Classes            Distance Education
 
   Thomas Nelson               Catalog & Schedule of Classes             Distance Learning
 

 

Tidewater                        Catalog         Schedule of Classes         Distance Learning
 
  Virginia Highlands           Catalog        Schedule of Classes         Distance Education
 
  • Offer French & Spanish Courses
  Virginia Western              Catalog             Schedule of Classes       Distance Learning
 
  • Offer French, German, Japanese, Russian & Spanish Courses
  Wytheville                        Catalog          Schedule of Classes     Distance Learning
 
  • Offer French, German, Japanese, Russian & Spanish Courses
  Online Practice
 
  Foreign Language Programs & Departments at other Colleges
 
  Study Abroad Opportunities 
 

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Career Opportunities

 
  Dictionaries & Language Tools  
 
  • Dictionaries
  • Language Tools
    • Babel 
      Information and resources to assist you in internationalizing your Web site. Includes a list of the 20 most spoken languages, and an article on developing multilingual Web sites.

    • Center for the Advancement of Language Learning 
      Index of online foreign language learning resources. Links to language-related sites, CALL newsletter, conferences, instructional materials, language testing, and more.

    • Ethnologue Languages of the World
             Online version of the book which includes information about 6700 languages including derivation, number of speakers, and geographic distribution of languages.

    • Font Download
      Links for fonts for non-European alphabets

    • Fonts in Cyberspace
      A guide to finding language fonts on the Internet. Containing more than 445 sources for 107 languages.

    • Foreignword.com
      Internet site dedicated to the world of languages and translation: on-line dictionaries and glossaries, translators tools, translation memories, machine translation, etc.

    • FreeTranslation.com
             Free translation of sentences, paragraphs, and Web pages from English to Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian; or French, German, or Spanish to English.

    • Language Cards
      Digital postcards in a variety of languages - French, German, Japanese, Spanish, etc.

    • Multilingual Resources Directory from the Human Languages Page

    • Translate Now!
      On-line machine translation - a single-point access to 18 of the best translation systems for 30 different languages.

    • A Web of On-Line Grammars
             Links to dozens of grammars for many different languages: introductions to the language, alphabet, and/or writing system, etc.

  
  Libraries  
  
  • The Human Languages Page
    This is the languages search page of the WWW Virtual Library. One can search here for language lessons, literature, jobs and internships, organizations, products and services, and linguistics resources.
  • Library WWW Servers
    Extensive list of more than 1,100 library servers in over 45 countries on six continents.

  • Library of Congress
    Massive collections, databases and resources. Includes exhibition, catalog, publications, and research information.

  • WWW Virtual Library
 
  Organizations  
   
  Publisher Web Sites (Open Access)  
 

 
  Search Engines   
   

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