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Language

Non-English Language Links
Asian Language Resources
Language Information on the Web
Asian Language Resources
Guides to selected resources on the Internet.
Chinese
Newspapers Online
Online newspapers by different regions, such as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, U.S., and Singapore. Includes 3 local newspapers.
Latin
Latin Language and Literature
Latin students and aficionados will enjoy this collection of links to Latin dictionaries, grammar guides and classical literature.
Russian
All RU net
All Russian Internet: over 76,000 Russian language resources.
Krugosvet
Russian language encyclopedia.
Public.ru
Indexing and some full-text articles in Russian periodicals and newspapers, 1990-present
Rambler
Russian search engine.
Spanish
Citizenship Examination
Practice questions for Citizenship Test in English & Spanish
El Mundo newspaper
Vietnamese
SaigonBao.com
Links to Vietnamese newspapers inside and outside of Vietnam and international, radio, economics, healthcare, and government
Vietnamese dictionary
Comprehensive Language Sites
Languages-on-the-Web
A collection of language related links.
Dictionaries and Translation
Google Language Tools
Translation service from Google.
Babel Fish
Translation service from AltaVista.
FreeTranslation.com
A good site for limited translation between English and the major European languages that makes it easy to input special characters. You can also use the Web translator to translate a Web page.
Ethnologue Database
Locate information of languages of many countries by country, family and language names.
Language Dictionaries
A list of dictionaries and translation resources for over 280 languages.
LOCOS Dictionary
Words can be translated into different languages at this site. There are 35 different languages to enter.
Chicago Area Translators and Interpreters Association
An independent professional association of Chicago-area translators and interpreters - includes online CHICATA directory.
Ethnologue
"The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries... including alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic data
The Human-Languages Page
An impressive collection of links to linguistics and language specific resources on the Internet. Decently indexed.
Jennifer's Language Page
"At this site you can learn how to say several words and phrases in hundreds of different languages." The goal of the site is to "include every language, so that people will be able to say at least a few words to anyone they meet, anywhere in the world."
Languages on the Web
A site that provides links to online language-related resources for dozens of languages. Resources include dictionaries, grammars, newspapers, courses and tutorials, bilingual texts and parallel translations. There are also links to the Web sites of schools, institutions, and organizations that focus on the study of languages.
Voycabulary
Click and find any definition when typing in a word.
A Web of On-line Grammars
A directory of Internet sites that serve as tutorials, lessons, and other ways of learning grammars in particular languages. Organized by language.
yourDictionary.com
"yourDictionary.com (YDC) was founded in 1999 to provide the world's most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the world wide web. yourDictionary.com has the widest and deepest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages)... Come here to look up a general or specialized word in English or foreign-language dictionaries." This site also has information on grammars, links to language identifiers (sites which can identify which language a given text is written in), a library of language-related articles, and scientific research related to linguistics.
The State of Literacy in America: Synthetic Estimates of Adult Literacy Proficiency at the Local, State and National Levels

 

 

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