This page lists a few selected Web sites as starting points for study or research. The emphasis is on sites created for students and quality content.

Index Sites | Full-text resources
Dictionaries | Grammars

French | German | Italian | Spanish | Other
Study Abroad | World Cultures

Resources for Teachers

Index Sites

Index sites, which gather a large number of links on a particular subject, are often the best places to begin an exploration of the Web.

Foreign Language Resources on the Web - University of California, Berkeley. Includes only "quality links" to foreign language resources

GlobeGate Project - Organization created to organize Internet resources for students and teachers of foreign languages. Indexes several thousand foreign-language Web pages.

Language Links - Good gateway site with teaching resources. Includes all the languages we teach and study at UNCA.

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies - Resources relating to European authors and works. Georgetown University.

Voice of the Shuttle - Great starting place for Web research in languages or literatures.

Full-text resources

CNN en Español - Today's breaking news in Spanish.

Kiosko Mundo Latino - El indice más completo de los medios en español

LexisNexis Academic. UNCA users only. Select Foreign Language News from the menu, then select Dutch, French, German, Italian, or Spanish from the menu. A good opportunity to read current news stories in another language.

The On-line Books Page Foreign Languages Archive - John Mark Ockerbloom, Carnegie Mellon University. Part of the Universal Library Project at Carnegie Mellon.

The Human Languages Page - Comprehensive catalog of about 1,900 reviewed links to language resources. Pick a language, such as Spanish to get started. Includes online dictionaries and foreign language pages.

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature - University of Virginia site.

Communication Connections - Compiled for the Foreign Language Department at Gloucester High School  in Gloucester, Virginia. A great resource for any beginning student. Pick your language and go.

Dictionaries

Language Dictionaries and Translators - Described as "Babal-icious" by a reviewer, this page lists resources for a large number of languages. Translators are best enjoyed as an amusement, since the computer-produced results are usually a hoot.

Grammars

A Web of Online Grammars - For over 70 languages, from Akkadian to Wolof!  Some of the links listed below are from this page of reviewed sources.

French

French Language

French Language Course - Jacques Léon

Introduction à la linguistique française - Greg Lessard

Bienvenue au Grimoire - Pascal Michelucci

Tennessee Bob's famous French Links - Bob Peckham, University of Tennessee at Martin. 8,000 links to French language and civilization sites.

French Culture

Dave's Topic-Oriented French Links - Part of the Globe-Gate site.

French Civilization Modules - Interactive lessons.

Site Officiel du Musée du Louvre

German

German Language

Deutsche Rechtschreibung: Regeln und Wörterverzeichnis - Amtliche Regelung

A German Language Course for English Speakers - Peter Schroeder

German for Beginners - Dr. Peter Gölz

The Internet Handbook of German Grammar - Mark Whitaker

The German Electronic Textbook - Gary Smith

Plattdeutsch für Anfänger - Wolfgang Lindow

German Studies

German Studies Trails on the Web - Guide to using the Internet as a language learning laboratory. Site of Prof. Andreas Lixl, Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The German-American Corner - Internet magazine and resource guide.

Search Engines

Yahoo! in German

Lycos in German

Italian

Italian Language

Web Italian Lessons, by Lucio Chiappetti - 3 lessons for the beginning student.

Cyber Italian - Interactive language course and more - Visitors can access sample lessons and links to Italian resources.

Italiano per chi viaggia (English) - Travlang.com site. Italian for visitors.

Internet Dictionary Project - Italian - About 5,000 English-Italian entries in plain text format.

Mama's Learn to Speak Italian - The not-so-serious Ragú Web site has a few recorded phrases to listen to. Bonus: For some fun, check out Go Mama Go!. You'll need the Click-Toons plug-in to play "the next step in interactive cheese," a Nintendo-like game.

The Human-Languages Page, Languages and Literature, Italian - Links to Italian language newspapers, language lessons, and general sites.

Italian Literature

Digital Dante - Full-text of Dante's works. Images. Criticism. Columbia University site.

Dante's Inferno - a nicely done student page by Luke Kleinberndt. The Cantos in English and Italian.

Searchable Divine Comedy - Columbia University

The Decameron Web - Interactive site with text and interpretations of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, related information about Boccaccio and 14th Century Italy. Brown University.

Progetto Pico / Pico Project - Pico della Mirandola's Discourse on the Dignity of Man. The text is from the first printed edition (Bologna, 1846), of which there are no extant manuscripts.

I Classici della Letteratura Italiana - edizioni critiche - Works and biographies of major writers.

Liber Liber - Copyright-free full-text works, listed by author and title.

Italian Culture

Italian Index - Brigham Young University. Organized by period and topic.

Medieval Italy - The Labyrinth.

Risorse Web Italiane - Italian Web Resources - General index to Italian Web sites on just about any topic, not just sites about Italy. For example, you can visit  BEE GEES ITALIA - a tribute to "I leggendari Bee Gees." A site to be explored.

Arte e cultura - part of  Dr.DAD(a) DADAnet - CANALI, or Dr. Dada. Many quality sites in the Italian language, but not necessarily about Italian subjects, such as GP Studio - Museo Virtuale di Pablo Picasso, a virtual gallery of Picasso's works in 2-D or 3-D.

Italy-Italia: America-USA: Where 2 Worlds Meet - General information. See Italian Literature -  Summarizes, in English, the history of Italian literature.

Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture - Library of Congress exhibition.

Musei Vaticani - Site maintained by the Christus Rex organization includes a multitude of images from the Vatican Museum.

The Holy See (La Santa Sede) - Official site of Vatican City. The site is available in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Opera Web - "The Starting Point for the Opera World." Italian or English versions.

ClassicalNet - Look up information on works or composers. While this is a general site, there are a number of articles about Italian composers.

Spanish

Learn Spanish - Spanish Language Resources

Instituto Cervantes - Founded in Madrid in 1991 to promote Spanish language and culture. Visit both the Instituto Cervantes and Centro Virtual Cervantes.

Spanish Language Dictionaries at Globe-Gate

Spanish Drama

Comedia. Collection of texts in Spanish and English translation, teaching tools, and archives of the Comedia Internet discussion list. Links may go to English, Spanish, or French sites. Maintained by the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater.

Spanish Search Engines

¡Olé! - "El primer portal hispano"

Dónde? Directorio Online de España

Eliana [not available 9/10/99]

HispaVista - Much like AltaVista.

Yahoo España - Yahoo in Spanish.

Spanish Culture

Internet en Español and México en El Web - From an unlikely source, a computing technology company in Mixcoac, Mexico.

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) - Links to over 5,000 resources, organized by 30 countries and 45 subject areas. University of Texas at Austin.

Go Spain! - Searchable site with a huge number of links.

Sí, Spain - Maintained by the Spanish Embassy in Canada. Comprehensive, and a good source for government information. See the Language and Culture section, and Spanish Cources on [the] Internet.

Spanish Culture - The Mining Co. guide to reviewed Web sites.

Spain - International Renaissance Society. Not a slick page, but it does list some interesting links. [not available 9/10/99]

SpainData - Business-oriented Web directory with some cultural-interest links.

Taller Hispano - Links to Spanish language sites about cultural themes discussed in widely used textbooks.

Mexico - Great looking Web pages from the Universidad de Guadalajara.

Mexico, a Country Study - Library of Congress compendium of information on Mexico.

Other Languages

Latin

Intelligent Person's Guide to the Latin Language by William Harris

New Latin Grammar by Allen & Greenough (Perseus Project)

Latin Verb Exercises by Carl Hennig

Japanese

Japanese On-Line by Dr. Suguru Akutsu

Lesser Known Languages

UCLA Language Materials Project - Resources for about 100 less commonly taught languages. Pick language, type of resource, and skill level from the menu; then click the Search button.

Study Abroad

Foreign Language Study Abroad for Teachers

Language Studies Abroad - Spanish, French, Italian, German

Foreign Languages for Travelers   - Travlang. Survival in 70 languages!

General Information on World Cultures

Visit The Mining Co. section on World Cultures for an interesting place to start.

Resources for Teachers

AATSP: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese - Has a Video Resource Library, sponsors workshops and an annual meeting.

ACTFL: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - 7,000 member national organization that promotes foreign language instruction at all educational levels. Features a directory of resources, Standards for FL Learning in the 21st Century, and some downloadable reports on teaching issues.

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) - Launched in 1993, the Center supports programs of research, training, development, and dissemination of information related to second language teaching, learning and assessment. One of nine National Language Resource Centers designated to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively. University of Minnesota.

Center for Applied Linguistics - Organization that strives to improve the teaching of English as a second language and foreign language instruction at all levels of the educational system.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics - Publishes digests, short bibliographies, and a newsletter for foreign language teachers.

FLTeach - Foreign Language Teaching Forum. A place where teachers can get information, share ideas, teaching materials, and class activities

Language Learning and Technology - Online journal.

Language Links: A New world of understanding. For teachers and learners of languages, a collection of Web resources and Teaching with the Web, ideas for using WWW resources as teaching tools. University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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This page created by Araby Greene. Maintained by Helen Wykle. Comments to wykle@unca.edu. Updated 7 August 2003.