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7 Good Resources for Learning a New Language
Yesterday, after publishing my post about BBC Quick Fix, I received a few emails asking me for other resources that can be used to learn a new language. Those emails prompted me to round up a selection of the language learning resources that I have reviewed over the years. What follows is a list of 7 good resources for learning a new language.
Why not browse through the library and find the right book for your child. Just choose your child’s age to the right and you’ll be taken through to a huge library of FREE eBooks and activities to enjoy online, plus links to fantastic books, flashcard games, dictionaries and activity books to buy.
Vocabulary 48 widgets
Fun and interesting widgets waiting to be placed on your site, blog, social network, and more.
Here we have compiled a list of great sites that will help you with your writing, whether it is your career or you are just doing it for fun. These 31 useful sites have been divided into five different categories of tools and resources that you may need as a writer. Have a look at what we came up with.
Free children's books that have become classics and children's favorites around the world. You can use them on IWB. Books in English, Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
A Fun Way to Learn English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish
A fun method to learn and improve your English through music and typing in song lyrics
Every hour a computer program selects five words that get an unusually large number of searches on our site. These words tend to reflect topics that have appeared in the world news or in discussion groups across the Web. Each morning the top word is featured as the Word of the Day on our home page. The top five daily words, as well as the top five words for the current hour, are shown to the left. An archive of the daily words is shown below.
Noodle Tools - (MLA 7th ed.) How do I cite an image, photograph or work of art?
Online Writing Lab - MLA Works Cited: Other Common Sources
games and activities for language learning. IWB and print.
The Digital Dialects website features free to use online games for learning languages. Language resources include games for learning phrases, numbers, useful words, spelling, verb conjugation and alphabets. Games use Macromedia Flash Player.
Literacy - Foundation (3-5 yr olds)
Welcome to LearnEnglish Kids! Lots of free games, songs, stories and activities for children - you can have fun and learn English too!
Enter a website URL or a word. Click on a word you don't know. Check in the site's dictionary in 11 languages. Lingro remembers all the words you look up, so you can easily review and study them.Here's an example of what Lingro users have been reading:
Lingo is a free, open content onnline dictionary.
Amultimedia program organized by David Damrosch (Harvard University), and made with the backing of WGBH and Annenberg Media.
The program features 13 half-hour videos, from The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2500 BCE) through García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Over 100+ writers, scholars, artists, and performers with a personal connection to world literature. Philip Glass, Francine Prose, Harold Ramis, Robert Thurman, Kwame Anthony Appiah. etc.
Each video is accompanied by readings and related materials.
Welcome to Children's Book Reviews.
The Kidlitosphere (blogs about Children's Lit) is filled with reviews of Children's Books. This site will take you to reviews from all over. Just click on a category and go to view reviews