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BBC: Languages

The Learning Zone of BBC Education Online (first discussed in the {May 5, 1995 Scout Report http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/1995/scout-950505.html}) offers an excellent resource for learning languages online. The multimedia BBC Education - Languages site provides an interactive learning experience, combining audio clips, video clips, Shockwave games, transcripts, and glossaries for beginning...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/index.shtml
Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture

Despite the hand-wringing over the disappearance of local and regional cultures throughout the United States, many traditions and folkways are very much alive and well. One rather distinctive organization that studies and documents these traditions is the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin. Drawing on the strengths of the University and their knowledge...

https://csumc.wisc.edu/
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Coffee Break Languages: Podcasts

Readers looking to expand their linguistic portfolio may wish to return to Coffee Break Languages: Podcasts. Since its original feature in the 09-27-2019 Scout Report, two additional language choices have been added (Swedish and English). For those studying a foreign language, whether independently or in a formal course, these free podcast series offered by Coffee Break Languages may come as a...

https://coffeebreaklanguages.com/category/podcast/
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Creative Language Learning Podcast

The Creative Language Learning Podcast is an hour-long podcast, released once every two weeks, designed to provide insights and tips to anyone - of any age - who is studying and practicing a new language. The podcast is hosted by Kerstin Cable and Lindsay Dow, who both work as language tutors and blog about language study and acquisition. Recent episodes include a discussion about how Snapchat can...

https://feeds.fireside.fm/cllp/rss
Language Dictionaries and Translators

Bennett (Bigben) Blaustein (resource formerly located at rivendel Corporation) has provided a language dictionary and translator page on the Web. It contains pointers to searchable and browsable dictionaries with one way and both way translations. It points to a language for travelers page, with translations for basic words, numbers, shopping, travel, directions, places, and time and dates. In...

http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html
Language Guide

This website is a collaborative project started by a language enthusiast that not only aims to help language learners, but also to "provide a window into the culture of the people who speak those languages." So how does the site accomplish this feat? It provides interactive language lessons, quizzes, and texts that allow the language learner to hear the word or text pronounced by fluent, often...

https://www.languageguide.org/
Language-Learning.net

International WHERE+HOW, longtime publisher of Guides to Language Centres, has launched an online successor, providing free access to "the most comprehensive language schools directory online." The heart of the site is the Language Course Finder, a database of over 6,000 schools in 80 countries teaching 70 languages. Users begin browsing the database by selecting a language from a pull-down menu,...

https://coursefinders.com/en/
Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet

From online dating to scholarly collaborations, the web facilitates millions of interactions between distant groups of people every day. One question recently posed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was this: What languages are being used in all of this online activity? A good question to be sure, and this important document is the result of their...

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000142186_eng
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Memrise

Are you looking to learn a new language, or to brush up your skills on a language you are studying? If so, Memrise offers online learning opportunities that may be of interest. Memrise offers courses in numerous languages, including Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and American Sign Language. The team behind Memrise designed these courses to center on elaborate encoding, a strategy that places...

https://www.memrise.com
Omniglot

Coined "the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages," Omniglot has a variety of resources for learning new languages and understanding language systems. The sheer volume of materials may overwhelm readers at first (with information on more than 1,000 languages and nearly 300 writing systems), but the categories on the Home page make the content more manageable. These areas (Writing...

https://www.omniglot.com/
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