General Links

Language Study

Basic Phrases for Eastern European Languages Small number of phrases in 14 Eastern European languages.
BBC Languages Online courses and materials for a variety of languages.
Behind the Name Etymology and history of first names in various languages.
Goethe Tests Free language tests and vocabulary exercises in 24 languages and 552 language combinations by Goethe-Verlag.
iLoveLanguages Extensive collection of language-related Internet resources.
Rosetta Project Global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages.
TravLang Foreign Languages for Travelers Basic words and phrases in over 80 languages, with audio.

Alternative Dictionaries Slang, profanities, insults and vulgarisms from all over the world translated into English.
Ectaco Electronic Dictionaries Online multilingual dictionaries.
FreeDict Online multilingual dictionaries.
InterTran Free online translation between 1,600 language pairs.
Logos Dictionary Multilingual dictionary for over 200 languages.
LookWAYup Multilingual English dictionaries for Dutch, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.
Travlang Translating Dictionaries Multilingual dictionaries.
Webster's Online Dictionary Large dictionary with 90 modern and 10 ancestral languages.
WordReference Multilingual English dictionary for French, Italian & Spanish.
YourDictionary.com Multilingual dictionaries and grammars for a wide variety of languages.

Manuel Barbera Guide to corpus-based computational linguistics resources on the web.
Orbis Latinus Developmental histories, descriptive grammars and specialist studies of the Romance languages.

IntraText Digital Library Large collection of online and downloadable literary texts in a variety of languages.
Poetry International Web Hundreds of poems by acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the original language and in English translation.
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Collection of literary texts in several languages.
Wordtheque Searchable electronic texts available for download, some with matching audio.

ICT4LT Free collection of training modules in Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers.
WELL - Web Enhanced Language Learning Site aiming to promote wider awareness and more effective use of the Internet for modern languages teaching in the UK.

Mediatico Large directory of online newspapers from 200 countries. Searchable by country, region and language.
News and Newspapers Online Worldwide newspaper directory searchable by title, keyword, country and language.
NewsTran Machine translation of online news sources, with a useful split-screen feature which can be used to display an article and its translation simultaneously.
Paperboy Advanced Newspaper Search Directory of online newspapers searchable by title, country and language.
RapidTree Communications - Newspapers Global directory of national and local newspapers categorised by country.

BBC World Service Listen to the news in 43 languages.
Deutsch Welle News in 30 languages, including radio and television webcasts and some programme transcripts.
EuroNews - the European News Channel News articles and videos in German, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.
Rapid Tree Communications Global directory of television, radio and other media.
World Radio Network Comprehensive international directory of radio stations.

David McCreedy's Gallery of Unicode Fonts Extensive list of Windows Unicode fonts, with samples and download links.
Lexilogos Online Multilingual Keyboard Web-based utility for typing in many different languages.
SIL Fonts Free fonts for the International Phonetic Alphabet, non-latin scripts, ancient languages etc.
Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet SAMPA is a machine-readable phonetic alphabet which is basically a mapping of symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet onto 7-bit printable ASCII codes.
Yamada Language Center: Font Archive Large collection of fonts for many different languages.

European minority languages Links relating to approximately 150 European languages, from Abaza to Zuberera.
Graham Davies' Favourite Websites Detailed, annotated list of language-related websites.