Of General
Language Interest:
- Visit the very amazing UNIVERSAL CURRENCY
CONVERTER™, where you can convert any amount of any major world currency into any
other. Thanks, Xenon Laboratories!
- Kate's Foreign Language
Teachers' Mall -- a guide to FL publications and materials I first compiled in the
winter of 1998.This is a good starting place for people to find web addresses for FL
organizations and FL product vendors.
- Lingua@web - This
site has language learning and teaching tools for Spanish, French, Italian, and German.
Students can use the site to select any of five levels, ranging from beginning to
advanced. Learning tools include standard exercises as well as memory games, flash cards,
and word searches. Students can also access current newspapers and Internet radio links in
the target language. Future plans include adding more languages and chat sessions with
other students in the target language. Teachers can contribute their lessons to the
development of the site. (submitted by JoAnn Tiedemann, Madison WI)
- Peace Corps Kids World The Peace Corps has
launched a new web site for kids as part of this year's Peace Corps Day - a celebration of
their 38th birthday. Kids World has articles, graphics, and games designed to educate and
entertain children about world geography and the cultures of other countries. Even though
the Peace Corps is a function of the US government, the Kids World site has an
international appeal.
- BABELFISH ... is a free language
translation service that gets my students into trouble when they try to use it. Alta Vista
has recently bought it and offers it as a free translation service -- even at that it's
not worth the price. Trust me on this one...DON'T GO HERE!
- Anne Olafson's
FLAND News Sites of General FL Interest
- Hanna's Links: The following links have been gleaned by Waldsee veteran JoAnn Tiedemann,
who is the Library Media Specialist at Georgia O'Keeffe Middle School in Madison,
Wisconsin, from various German teaching resources in Wisconsin and beyond:
- International Tongue Twisters presents
tongue twisters in 49 languages including French, Spanish, German, Japanese, and Russian.
- The Virtual Library Museums Pages
lists museum websites around the world. Take a museum tour in another country.
- BRS Radio International
Directory includes links to radio stations from many countries that broadcast live
over the Internet. [Note from Hanna: our school's network is not yet set up to receive
this kind of thing, you may or may not be.]
- The Human-Languages Page - the queen
mother of all language pages maintained by Tyler Jones of Willamette University.
- The Worldwide Classroom Library has names and
addresses for several thousand schools, links to about a thousand schools, planning guides
and quite a few teacher training programs as well.
- Karin Levine's Links for Educational
Exchanges - a Spanish teacher in California, Karin is also an alumna of Jamestown
College! This collection of international exchange opportunities is very helpful for
teachers trying to decide which of the many organizations to contact and/or trust when
planning trips with students.
- The Sounds of the World's
Animals -- compiled by Cathy Ball of the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown
University. Ever wondered how to say "oink" in Ukranian? Here's
where you'll find out.
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German Sites
(not updated very often)
(in addition to those you can find through the World Languages Links):
-
Max und Moritz -- the
whole story, complete with illustrations and a quiz.
- Amazon.de -- this is the
German-language mirror site to the domestic Amazon.com online bookstore. It is amazing --
the sheer number of German books only a click away from an international trip to my NoDak
home boggles the mind! For teachers, this resource is great for finding reference works
and for finding out what books are selling and winning prizes in Germany.
- Alan Lareau's Pages -- Alan of
the German Department at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has many fine literature and
cabaret links. An excellent resource for learning about 20th Century German Literature and
Kabarett.
- Hanna's German Links: The following links have been gleaned by Waldsee veteran JoAnn
Tiedemann, who is the Library Media Specialist at Georgia O'Keeffe Middle School in
Madison, Wisconsin, from various German teaching resources in Wisconsin and beyond:
- Check out the Gymnasium in Germany where I spent a year as a
Fulbright Exchange Teacher -- Das Okengymnasium
-- a great place with wonderful colleagues and students! (an die Okener, die vorbeisurfen:
Ihr seid mir alle ganz lieb, ich vermisse Euch und ich werde Euch nie vergessen!...auch
wenn ich nur ganz selten von mir hören lasse.)
- Südwest Radio 3 Baden-Baden -- Mein allerliebster
Radiosender in Deutschland!
-
The
German Links of the Human-Languages Page
- German Studies Trails on the
Internet - Andreas Lixl-Purcell of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro has
compiled a wonderful page of resources, including the German versions of several web
search engines, exercises for learning German and links to places all over the
German-speaking world
- Olof's German links -- these are the sites that German teacher Olof Ribb uses in his
teaching. All of them are examples of good webpage design and tasteful graphics. Some of
the goodies include exerpts from Mark Twain's Awful German Language, Murphy's Laws in
German and a well-ordered wealth of cultural and language-related links:
- Goethe
Institut Internet Webshop - an online tutorial for German teachers interested in
learning how to use the Internet in language classes, by Andreas Lixl-Purcell, PhD
- German for Beginners zum Lesen
und Hören! A collection of documents and sites from Peter Goelz, PhD, of the University
of Victoria (BC, CDN)
- SPIEGEL online
- The Austrian "Wiener Zeitung" is
the oldest existing daily newspaper in the world (founded 1703). Its Web page covers
domestic and world news in German and much more, including the following:
- Regierung, Parlament, Ministerien, Jobbörse Österreich und EU), Gerald Jatzeks
Computerseite mit Internet-Anleitungen, Extra-Lexikon mit Besprechungen von Büchern und
CDs, Medien für Kinder, Kritiken von Theater, Konzerten, Opernaufführungen, Schachecke,
Reiseseiten, Motorseiten, und Artikel für Senioren
- Deutsche
Datenquellen von der Universitaet Karlsruhe - The German Virtual Library Subject
Catalog
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French Sites (not updated very often)
(in addition to those you can find through the World Languages Links):
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Spanish Sites
(in addition to those you can find through the World Languages Links):
This part of the webpage is currently under
construction.
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15 April 2005.
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