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Credo Reference - Bilingual Dictionaries
Search bilingual French, German, Irish, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Welsh dictionaries.

 Web of Online Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
An exceptional site sponsored by Bucknell University.  Links to dictionaries of many diverse languages

Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe
REF P380 .E53 1998


Powerspeak Languages
Self-paced language instruction on the web for Spanish, French, German, Mandarin Chinese and English for Spanish speakers.

Foreign language dictionaries

Chinese:

McGraw-Hill's Chinese Dictionary and Guide to 20,000 Essential Words
REF PL 1455 .H7957 2010

Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary
REF PL 1455 .O925 2006

French:

Oxford Hachette French Dictionary
REF PC 2640 .O83 2007

German:

Oxford Duden German Dictionary
REF PF 3640 .O94 2005

Greek:

Greek-English Lexicon
REF PA 445 .E5 L6 1996

Italian:

Oxford Paravia Italian Dictionary
REF PC 1640 .O95 2006

Japanese:

Basic Japanese-English Dictionary 2d ed.
REF PL 679 .B37 2004

Latin:

Cassell's Latin Dictionary
REF PA 2365 .E5 1977

Spanish:

Oxford Spanish Dictionary
REF PC 4640 .O948 2008

 

Websites

  • French

Volterre-Fr
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/
English and French Language Resources are offered at this site, maintained by Linda Thalman. The list of resources is very extensive for both English and French teachers alike, including links to sites about pen pals, software, study abroad sites, conferences and conversation groups.

Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
This site is so huge -- it is truly amazing. Categories of links include: French history, Francophone Tourism and French press, television and radio.

  • Italian

Dante Dartmouth Project
http://dante.dartmouth.edu/
This site contains searchable text of the Divine Comedy as well as over seventy commentaries on the work spanning 700 years.

Italian Language Resource Center Web Links
http://college.hmco.com/languages/italian/
resources/students/links/index.html
This is supported by the college division of the publishing company Houghton Mifflin and offers a wide variety of links to resources.

  • Japanese

The US-Japan Technology Management Center at Stanford
http://fuji.stanford.edu/
This site contains links to many valuable resources including the official websites of the Japanese National Diet and information about virtually every aspect of Japanese life.

  • Spanish

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes--La Biblioteca de las Culturas Hispanicas
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/proyectoES/BIMICESA.shtml
Ambitious digital project which offers access to bibliographic information as well as criticism from Spain and Latin America.

LANIC
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/
The LANIC site is maintained by the University of Texas at Austin. These Latin American resources are categorized by country and subject, offering a large selection of possible links. One may, for example, select Venezuela and find links to Venezuelan business information, newspapers, magazines, politics and general information. These sites are useful in projects that call for students to create their own websites about Latin American culture.

 

 

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