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French-Flashcards.com
French, Audio Lessons, Flashcards, Multimedia, Vocabulary, Websites, Kids
You know a language website is good when you and your husband spend date night (though I confess I have a visceral aversion to that odd expression) playing around on it. French-Flashcards.com is French flashcards on steroids! This is…
Digital Dialects Games
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Multimedia, Tests, Vocabulary, Websites, Kids
The Digital Dialects website is an unexpected online pleasure full of free language games for 60 languages, from popular ones such as French and German to less widely studied ones such as Zazaki (spoken primarily in eastern Turkey) and Oromo (which…
Transparent Language Quizzes and Proficiency Tests
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish, Tests, Websites
I like free online quizzes and tests, but they aren’t really worth anything unless they’re good. At least some of these from language-learning company Transparent Language seem pretty good! And plentiful: they are available for more languages…
Transparent Language Online: Free Trial
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Yiddish, Multimedia, Websites
Nashua, N.H.-based Transparent Language offers a free seven-day trial of its Transparent Language Online products. When I say “products,” I really mean plural: during the trial you can try out any and all languages they have, and…
@Five_Languages on Twitter
French, General, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Vocabulary
Can’t commit to a single language? Go for five at a time, then, with this daily tweet translating an English word into five languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, and German.
Today’s word was “train.”
Portuguese:
Schoenhof’s Foreign Books
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, General, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Yiddish, Websites, Bookstores/Libraries, Kids
Founded in 1856, Schoenhof’s claims to have the “largest collection of foreign books in North America.” As a student at Harvard, I used to shop at their main store in Harvard Square for my language and literature course materials. I…