Internet links for language learning
This page contains both language-specific links and links that will assist in language learning generally. The general links are not specific to any one language and may be useful to all language learners.
Visit our Newspaper links page for online access to British and international newspapers.
Click on one of the following to move to that selection of links.
- miscellaneous
- search engines
- online learning resources
- dictionaries, vocabulary and terminology
- online sources for translation
Language-specific links
- Arabic | Catalan | Chinese | Dutch | English | French | German | Greek |
Hebrew | Hindi and Urdu | Italian | Japanese | Persian | Polish | Portuguese |
Russian | Spanish | Turkish
General links
Miscellaneous
- wwiTV.com Internet TV portal for a wide range of countries
- Languages Work* Languages options for learning and careers, case studies
- Common European Framework of Reference For language learning
- National Language Standards
- Materials Bank - Resources for Language Teachers and Learners From the HEA Subject Centre for Languages Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS).
- eTandem Europa eTandem partnership scheme for mutual language practice by email, phone, videoconferencing etc
- Bilingual Chat Language exchange site through e-mail, video/voice chats, discussion boards etc
- My Language Exchange Language Exchange Community for mutual language practice by email, voice & text chat, bulletin boards etc
- Europa - European Union site
- BBC World Service in 32 Languages
- Google.com's News and Resources links For up to date news from all over the world
- Today's Front Pages Access to international newspapers
- The World Clock - Time Zones Current local times around the world
Search engines
- AltaVista: UK | America
- blinkx - search the web for TV and video, podcasts and web pages
- Excite Search: UK Edition
- Google:
Arabic | Chinese | Danish | Dutch | English - UK | French | German | Greek | Hebrew | Hindi | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Norwegian | Persian | Polish | Portuguese | Punjabi | Russian | Spanish | Swedish | Turkish | Urdu - Lycos: UK and Ireland
- podscope - search the web for podcasts you can play
- Swiss Search - full text search engine for Switzerland
- Ugabula - Search Spanish and Latin sites.
- Yahoo!:
Denmark | France | Germany | Greece | Italy | Norway | Spain | Sweden | UK and Ireland - American Yahoo:
America | Brazil | Canada | Mexico - Pacific Rim Yahoo:
Asia | Australia and NZ | China: Chinese | Hong Kong | Japan | Korea | Singapore | Taiwan
Online learning resources
- Verbix Online verb conjugator
- Lingu@net Europa A major source of online language exercises and materials in a range of European languages. Select the welcome language according to your native language before browsing the site
- CALL@Hull A collection of online Communications and Information Technology (C&IT) resources for teachers and learners of languages in higher education
- CALL Language technology links (Sussex Centre for Language Studies)
- Camsoft Language software Online catalogue
- TalkFast Language Software Online catalogue
- WIDA Software Language learning software home page
- Educational Technology Resources Centre at Warwick University
- Tim Johns Data-driven Learning Page
- Phonetic Fonts Downloadable phonetic fonts
- WorldWide Language Institute
- Lingu@NET A virtual language centre
- Reflections on Multimedia Development (journal article)
- CAI Bibliography (Hiroshi Shimatani Kenji Kitao) a bibliography on computer-assisted instruction for EFL/ESL
- Online Language Courses
- Word2Word Language Resources
- Self access: Guides for Students
- Internet Resources for Language Teachers
- The Gismo Project Multimedia Online Teaching Materials for Language Teachers
- Tucows Shareware and freeware downloads for your home PC
- Linguacast Podcasts for language learning - for various languages
- Universed Newcastle University project with videos, blogs, podcasts and bookmarks - for various languages
- LOC Tool Workshop Resources for building learning objects - from LLAS
- Digital Dialects Online games for learning 60 languages
Dictionaries, vocabulary and terminology
- Interlex A free vocabulary builder for language students
- Word Reference.com Collins Dictionaries available online
- yourDictionary.com Source of online dictionaries and thesauruses in lots of languages
- Freedict.com Online dictionaries
- Terminology Collection Online dictionaries (University of Vaasa, Finland)
- Academic Phrasebank General resource for Academic Writers
- Bab.la Interactive language resource covering 15 languages, with dictionaries, games, quizzes and vocabulary lessons
Online sources for translation
- The Association of Translation Companies Provides general information on language translation and institutions, especially within the Courses section
- Free2 professional Translation Free Translation and Professional Services from SDL International
- AltaVista Babel Fish Translation
- Logos-Ca.com Logos translation links
- Systran Language Translation Technologies Translation software
- Trados: the Global Business Accelerator Translation tools
- Managing ICT for Languages Includes documents on how to set up your PC for other languages - currently Arabic, Panjabi, Russian/Cyrillic, Turkish and Urdu