Dictionaries / Encyclopedias

1. American Heritage Spanish Dictionary
2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (an encyclopedic reference work of all the world's 6,912 known living languages)
3. Internet Picture Dictionary (multilingual picture dictionary with interactive activities for English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and ESL learners)
4. Language Dictionaries (for over 260 languages)
5. Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
6. Lexicool (directory of bilingual and multilingual dictionaries)
7. Little Explorers™ Picture Dictionary from EnchantedLearning.com (English-Dutch, English-French, English-German, English-Italian, English-Japanese, English-Portugese, English-Spanish, English-Swedish)
8. Online Sign Language Dictionaries
9. Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit (over 1 million articles available in many different languages - select by clicking on a language on the toolbar on the left of the screen)
10. Word Reference.com (online translation dictionaries for Spanish, French, Italian, German and Russian)
11. Your Dictionary.com ("the global language resource")

Newspapers / Websites

1. Google in International Domains (search Google in a wide variety of international languages including German, French, Spanish, Italian and much more! - to see list of domains, scroll about halfway down page)
2. Newspapers - USA and Worldwide (listings by state, country; national and intl. news sites)
3. Online Newspapers from Around the World (from Internet Public Library)
4. OnlineNewspapers.com (from around the world in language of country of origin)
5. Spanish-Language Websites (connects to Spanish-Language/Español category in Web Picks)
6. Yahoo! International (locate international Yahoo! home pages)

Online Language Instruction

1. Basic Spanish for Librarians (¡Si, hablo Español, un poquito!)
2. BBC Languages (online courses for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portugese, Chinese, and more)
3. English Dialects - English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages
4. Fodor's Living Language (useful phrases in French, German, Italian and Spanish for tourists and travelers)
5. Foreign Language Video Series (includes videos teaching English as a Second Language, Spanish, German, and French)
6. Language Learning Library (learn grammar, common phrases, numbers, time, and more in Spanish, French, Italian, Portugese, German, Chinese, Japanese, or Russian)
7. Languages from About.com (contains vocabulary, grammar, online lessons and more for ESL, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish)
8. Livemocha (free online language courses in 30 languages - includes helpful tips from native speakers. Requires free registration)
9. Spanish in Libraries - Library Jargon (English to Spanish words for library staff)
10. Talk Spanish from the BBC (video introduction to Spanish in ten parts - learn greetings, introducing yourself, ordering food, asking for directions and more)
11. Useful Foreign Phrases in many different languages (from Omniglot)
12. Verbix (conjugates verbs in many languages)

Sign Language

1. Learning American Sign Language (ASL) and Signed English (SE)
2. Learning Sign Language (articles, resources, discussion)
3. Online Sign Language Dictionaries
4. Sign-Language 101 (learn and practice sign language; history, popularity, users, etc.)

Translation Tools

1. Babelfish (translate text: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, others )
2. Beolingus (German-English, English-German, German-Spanish, Spanish-German translation service)
3. Free Translation (translate text or entire web pages; includes special characters)
4. Google Language Tools (translate text or web pages and search the Internet in dozens of languages)
5. Systran (translate text: Chinese, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, others)
6. Ultralingua (translation, verb conjugations, numbers, and grammar for several languages)

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