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Volume 14

No. 1  September/October 1998

Surf Sites: Learning Foreign Languages

Berliner sehen uses a combination of DVD-ROMs and materials on servers to help students study German language and culture interactively (see lead article). But you don't need to be in a lab or classroom to start learning another language.

There are many foreign language resources on the Web. Some even feature audio clips to help with pronunciation. While many Web sites deal with specific languages, the ones listed below were selected because of their multilingual approach. They include courses, dictionaries, translators, news sources, and more.

AltaVista Translations
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/

California Foreign Language Project: Resources
http://www.stanford.edu/group/CFLP/lg/lang.html

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/

Foreign Language News and Newspapers
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/flnews/

Foreign Languages for Travelers
http://www.travlang.com/

Free Online Language Courses
http://rivendel.com/~ric/resources/course.html

The Internet Dictionary Project
http://www.june29.com/IDP/

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