Language Centre Resources
Students and instructors are encouraged to check out this list of resources to help with language learning. From dictionaries to movies, search engines and news outlets, there are many opportunities to immerse yourself in another language.
Chinese
Resources
Search engines
Dictionaries
News and media
Newspapers
Online radio
French
Search engines
Dictionaries
German
Search engines
- LEO one of the most widely used German-English/English-German Online dictionaries
- Google Deutsch one of the most comprehensive German web searches available
- Columbus-Finder.de
Dictionaries
- English-German Translation Dictionary
- Französisch-Deutsches Glossar (nur 3700 Einträge insgesamt)
- HarperCollins German-English Dictionary (WordReference.com)
- Das Deutsche Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm
- Deutsches Wörterbuch von Adelung
- Deutsches Wörterbuch Net-Lexikon
- Deutsch-Ungarisch Online Wörterbuch
- Chemnitz German-English-German (100,000 entries)
- Deutsches Wortschatz-Lexikon (mehr als 5 Millonen Wortformen mit 11 Millionen Beispielsätze)
- English-German Dictionary by Wolfram Schneider
- German-English-German Student Online Dictionary (110,000 entries)
- Maschler German-English Online Dictionary
- German-English Quick Dictionary
- German Dictionaries and Grammar
- Google Translate
Online magazines
- Von Langenscheidt ist das Schülernet
- Das JUMA Magazin
- Vom Goethe-Institut kommt Jetzt on-line mit Lesestrategien und Vokabularhilfe
Online journals
- German as a Foreign Language is a fully-refereed academic journal which aims to promote research and teaching in the field of German Language. It publishes articles in English and German on all aspects of German language teaching and learning, including the intercultural aspects involved in this process and the specific perspectives on learning and teaching German outside the German-speaking countries.
- Modern Language Notes
- Modern Language Journal
- Punkt de - deutsch elektronisch. Die Zeitschrift ist ein Forum für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Landeskunde
- The "Berlinische Monatsschrift", a German periodical of the Enlightenment published 1783 to 1811, is now available on the web. This digital reconstruction combines the contents of all 58 volumes of the periodical (including the succeeding "Berlinische Blätter" and "Neue Berlinische Monatsschrift"). The periodical contains 2.574 articles on 30.626 pages.
- Damals: Geschichte Online DAMALS beschäftigt sich mit der Vergangenheit - aber mit modernsten Methoden.
- Glossen: Internationale Zeitschrift zur Literatur, Film und Kunst nach 1945 This literary magazine also has a long list of links to literature, film, art, and theatre
- Empirische Text- und Kulturforschung Eine (kommerzielle) Zeitschrift zur Kulturforschung
Hebrew
Dictionaries
News and media
Virtual Cinema of The Stephen Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
A very good collection of various streaming-video short films.
Icelandic
Dictionaries
News and media
Newspapers
Online radio
Italian
Search engines
Virgilio
A brilliant Italian search engine, with many features including, best of the Italian web, site of the day, search by keyword etc.
Dictionaries
News and media
Japanese
Resources
Search engines
Dictionaries
News and media
Online newspapers
Online radio
Polish
Search engines
News and media
Online newspapers
Onlinenewspapers.com
A large collection of online Polish newspapers
Gazeta Wyborcza
Electronically scanned version of the paper copy
Online radio
Polish Internet Radio
A large collection of online radio stations from all over Poland
Russian
Resources
- Learn Russian from scratch
- 14 lessons for beginners
- Natasha speaks Russian
- Russian with a native speaker (has lessons on Russian idioms)
Spanish
Search engines
- GauchoNet Guide to Web sites in Argentina.
- Google.es - This search engine often yields surprisingly effective results, and quickly.
- Grippo Directory and search engine for sites in Argentina.
- Hispavista - Thousands of sites organized by category.
- Infoseek en espaol Spanish-language version of the popular search engine.
- Lycos Search engine and listing of sites by category.
- NazcaNet - Latin American search engine based in Peru.
- QuePasa.com - Portal uses the Inktomi database.
- StudySpanish.com - Pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary
- Uruguay Total - From Uruguay, of course.
- Yagua - A Paraguayan search engine.
- Yahoo! en espaol - Easy-to-use searchable index is available in country-specific versions from its home page.
Dictionaries
- Diccionario de Autoridades (1726-1739) y Diccionario Usual (1992) dela Real Academia Espaola
- Diccionario Anaya de la Lengua Espaola (95.840 entradas y 171.930 acepciones)
- Spanish-English-Spanish Dictionary (135,000 entries)
- Spanish-English Semantically Organized Dictionary
- Spanish-English-Spanish Talking Dictionary
- Spanish-German Traveler's Dictionary