Multilanguage resources
Information on library materials and links to online language resources
- Language Learning Technology Journal
- Coursera - an impressive collection of MOOCs (massive open online courses) from the best universities in the world, available in English, Spanish, French, Chinese Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Hebrew, German and Italian
- edX - an impressive collection of MOOCs from the best universities in the world, including Oxford University
- Future Learn - a UK MOOCs platform from the Open University with quite free language learning courses
- Canvas network - a variety of MOOCs
All the dictionaries listed below will not have the same quality as online referential material offered by the OXLIP+ platform of Oxford University for University staff and students
- The ASJP database - word lists for all languages
- Bab.la - dictionaries with some audio-files (machine generated)
- Lexilogos - a gateway in French to many dictionaries including less commonly taught languages
- Links to online dictionaries for multiple languages
- Your Dictionary - A gateway to general and specialist dictionaries and word lists plus grammar and morphology in a variety of languages. Includes look up in English and many other languages, translations from one language to another plus some very unusual combinations of bilingual dictionaries.
- Internet Archives - a great collection of e-books, including audio
- Project Gutenberg - a great collection of e-books, including audio
- Blibliubliu.com - an innovative way of learning a language
- Cambridge University Language Centre open courseware
- CEELBAS language repository - for Bulgarian, Croatian, Czeck, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Ukrainian
- Digital Dialects website - language learning for more than 50 languages
- Duolingo - a language learning platform for many languages with vocabulary builders, grammar, listening etc...
- Ethnologue - languages of the world
- Europeana - books, sounds, videos, music and art, mainly from Europe
- The Internet Archive - an impressive collection of books and audio-visual resources that can be searched by language
- Loecsen - free online language courses
- Global Lexicostatistical Database
- Google News Archive - a collection of hundreds of digitised newspapers
- How to learn any language - a phonetics view
- iLoveLanguages - a catalogue of over 2500 language-releated internet resources
- FSI language courses - from the Foreign Service Institute, U.S.A.
- Langoland.fr - language learning community
- Language Landscape - a collection of recordings of many languages across the globe
- Languages online - several languages available, for beginners only as it only introduces a few points of vocabulary and grammar
- Learn Language online - an interactive language textbook created by a student from Oxford University, for Japanese and Russian
- Learn with Oliver - some materials available for free
- Linguacast - from Newcastle University with many podcasts
- Linguistics at Oxford
- Live Lingua - online language learning
- LORO (Languages Open Resources Online) - from the Open University
- MIT course material
- Modern Languages at Oxford
- My Language - learn languages grammar and vocabulary
- Multilanguage 1webs directory
- Omniglot - writing systems and languages for the world. A referential site created and updated by Simon Ager
- OnlineNewspapers.com - thousands of newspapers online
- Readlang - many languages combinations possible, European framework of language levels (A1 to C2)
- Search Language - Language Resources Directory. A wide variety of language resources available on the Internet including dictionaries, grammar, online courses, translation, literature and author sites.
- Surface Language - free language learning for the aspiring polyglot
- Wikipedia.org - the free encyclopedia online
- Anki - language cards
- byki - language cards
- Memrise - language cards, works also well with smart phone
- Quizlet - language cards
- Seagull Tandem - there are 80 topics sheets in each language, 60 covering CEFR levels A1, A2, B1, B2
- Ethnologue - catalogue of more than 6700 languages by name and by family.
- Language Directory - contains useful links for many languages
- Learn 101 - a language learning platform with a wide choice of languages
- CIA World Factbook - general information on countries. Regularly updated. A referential site.
- Digital Dialects - a website containing many games for 60 languages
- Folk pages - on wikipedia
- Free learning resources - including videos
- LINGUIST list
- NunaSoft
- TED Open Translation Project - with offers subtitles for many of the videos available online (all videos are originally in English)
- Type it - a website that helps you type foreign languages
- ABYZ News Links - Portal for links to media across the world.
- Multiple Language Radio Stations
- BBC News
- Deutsche Welle
- Radio Canada International
- Radio Map EU - lists all radio stations in the European Union
- VOA Internet Radio
- Ask.com uk - (previously Ask Jeeves) allows questions in ordinary English.
- Blindsearch - allows you to compare between three search engines: Bling, Google and Yahoo
- Dino-online - German search engine
- Google - try also Google France for French searches, Google Germany for German searches etc...
- HotBot
- Mamma
- Rambler - Russian search engine
- Voila - French search engine
- Web.de - German search engine
- Yahoo
- Yandex - a powerful, excellent search engine. Highly recommended.
- Bing translator - automated system for low level translations
- Chartered Institute of Linguists - professional translations
- Google translate - automated system for low level translations
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