Useful Foreign Language Links

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/ltc/lfa/italianverbrevision Excellent site for review of Italian grammar. Very strong on verb exercises including past tenses as well as the imperative, conditional and subjunctive. Also provides links to other sites dealing with various parts of speech. Levels from beginning to advanced; on-screen corrections and performance evaluation also provided.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gramm.html Very complete French language resource containing numerous explanations on parts of speech and syntax. Includes many links to other French grammar sites as well as exercises on a variety of grammar topics.

http://www.linguaweb.co.uk On-line foreign language resource for students and teachers. Icons lead to sites for learning French, German, Italian and Spanish as well as chat sessions in these languages. Note: site will prompt for your name before entering. The International Press link leads to popular newspapers in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

http://fllc.smu.edu Foreign Languages and Literatures at Southern Methodist University. Offers Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian and Spanish. Clicking on any of these languages calls up menus related to art, business, culture, history, language learning, media, sports and travel.

http://www.georgetown.edu/centers/LLT Clicking on the Language and Resource Link heading leads to a database of numerous sites grouped under each of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Old English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukranian. There is also a topic labeled Multilingual which leads to a wealth of resources including electronic dictionaries and literature as well as a fun site of how various animal sounds are expressed in various foreign languages.

http://www.sci.fi/~pob41/kielarab.htm A comprehensive database of Arabic on the Web; includes language learning resources, tutorials, art and travel resources, information on software and Middle East Studies Programs.

http://www.webcom.com/~bamboo/chinese/chinese.html Chinese language information page with links to sites for viewing and listening to Chinese on the Web, on-line language courses, radio broadcasts and educational resources.

http://www.masterrussian.com Excellent site offering a Russian bookstore, on-line dicitionaries, language study from beginning to advanced, pronunciation, tests and quizzes as well as literature and music.

http://www.library.mcgill.ca/human/subguide/rusweb.htm A valuable gateway to Russian Studies resources on the Web. This site lists numerous links conncecting to the Russian Web, Russian Internet Resources, the Yahoo Russian Literature site, the Russian Language and Literature site as well as news sites, libraries, Russian search engines and more.

The following about.com sites provide homework help, exercises, games, cultural information, on-line literature and dictionaries and travel information:

http://www.chinese.about.com

http://www.french.about.com

http://www.german.about.com

http://www.italian.about.com

http://www.japanese.about.com

http://www.spanish.about.com

Sites for Washington D.C.'s foreign embassies also provide many linguistic and cultural links. For an alphabetical listing of all the foreign embassies in Washington, go to http://www.embassy.org click on the country and the URL for its embassy will come up. Some embassy URLs:

http://www.china-embassy.org

http://www.info-france-usa.org

http://www.germany-info.org

http://www.italyemb.org

http://www.embjapan.org

http://www.portugalemb.org

http://www.russianembassy.org

http://www.spainemb.org