The University of Richmond and Central Virginia's Community On Line proudly present their joint project to bring the "Global Village" to Central Virginia and vice versa. Anyone interested in communicating with, visiting, or accessing resources of other peoples and cultures will find helpful pointers in these Global Village pages. Join us in helping to get this world together!

FRENCH

• The Global Village French Quarter (Le quartier français du village planétaire)

Transport yourself electronically to French "Cybèrespace" for a virtual visit to the Office de Tourisme, les Musées, le Forum des Profs, la Bibliothèque, le Kiosque des Journaux, le Café électronique, la Maison des Médias, le Terrain des Sports, l'École primaire, l'École de la Langue française, l'École de Commerce, le Centre pédagogique, les Outils de recherche, et les Ressources WWW de la Civilisation française !
• Use the English language  French Quarter Welcome Center USA if you need a little help planning your visit.

 
• Click here for the 5000-Link French Globe-Gate Supersite,

the 2nd edition of Tennessee Bob's Fabulous French Links.


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ITALIAN

• Astro del ciel (Silent Night in Italian) 

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GERMAN

Andreas Lixl's German Studies Trails on the Web (University of North Carolina)

...designed for everyone who likes to explore the Internet as a virtual language laboratory or  engage in research and study projects, including Germanistik and literary theory or online museums. Younger readers can connect to children's pages on the KinderWeb, others can join German Chatrooms, and work through German Web Exercises on various levels of proficiency...

UNCG Web Course: German 589 - Civilization: Internet Projects

Multimedia "Exercises, Materials and Dictionaries" enhance this helpful German site created by Dr. Peter Gölz, of the Department of Germanic Studies of the University of Victoria.
 

DEUTSCH ONLINE DEMO (U Victoria, Canada)

 

Deutsch üben im Internet (Mellon Grant Project by John Lyon and Milan Bibek-  Colby)

Guided interaction with authentic German web-sites for intermediate and beginning students of German.  Students do all work on-line, including electronic submission of answers to their instructor. ...Und jetzt, viel Spaß beim Surfen!
 

German American Corner: Information/ Fonts/ Spellchecker/ Newsgroups/ Ancestry Search/ ...

 

Germany Map (University of South Dakota: Department of Modern Languages) 

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SPANISH

• B. K. Nelson's excellent Spanish Grammar Exercises
  
  
• Learn Spanish Today Using Free Interactive Audio/Visual Spanish Lessons - Free sections include: Greetings, Survival Expressions, Colors, Numbers, Months, Days of the Week, and hundreds of other useful words and phrases.
  
  
• El Sitio : Tecnología/ Noticias/ Chat/ Juegos/ El Tiempo/ Deportes/ Música/ Cine...
• El Sitio Argentina
• El Sitio Brasil
• El Sitio México
• El Sitio Uruguay
• El Sitio Argentina

 
• DICCIONARIOS ANAYA (Lengua española, español-inglés, inglés-español...)
• Diccionario Anaya de la Lengua castellana

 
• Ciber-Lexico Comparitivo (telefonica)

 
• Glosario de Internet

 
• Biblioteca Virtuel Miguel de Cervantes

¿QUÉ ES? Con la Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra aspiramos a llevar acabo el proyecto más ambicioso de digitalización documental de obra clásica ..., en su mayor parte en castellano, proporcionando el acceso gratuito a una comunidad internacional del patrimonio científico y literario de una población hispanohablante cercana a los 500 millones de habitantes...: Catálogo, Búquedas, Biblioteca de Autor, Portales, Tesis, Investigación, Bibliotecas del Mundo..
• Biblioteca des Voces
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• PORTADA - Centro Virtuel Cervantes
• CVC - DidactiRed - la sección diaria des actividades del Red del CVC
• El sitio de internet indicado en el actividad de Viernes, 9 de junio de 2000
• CVC - Didactiteca, el archivo en el que se encuentran todas las actividades publicadas,

y en que se peuden hacer consultas por various criterios.
• Indice de secciones y apartados

 
• ¡Bienvenidos a la Puerta del Mundo Hispano!

Esta página va dirigida a cualquier persona interesada en en el Mundo Hispano y en su lengua. Abran las puertas (Economia y Politica, Educatión, Prensa, Lengua y Literatura, Historia, Netscape en español, Tertulla, Paises, Búsqueda en español, Turismo, Música, Gastronomia, Mundo Laboral, Bella Artes) para explorar y disfrutar de su recorrido por los distintos aspectos del mundo hispano. (Griffith U, Brisbane)
 
• Un siglo de Jorge Luis BORGES (Bibliotecas del Gobierno de Buenos Aires)

 
• MEXICO PARA LOS NINOS - site de la Presidencia de la República Mexicana :

HISTORIA/ EXPLORA/ GOBIERNO/ JUEGOS/ GUIA PARA PADRES/  EL VOCEADOR/ SUSCRIBETE / ENCUESTAS Y ESTADISTICAS/| MATEMATICAS/ VOCEADORES Y GACETAS ANTERIORES ...
 
• Libros de Texto Gratuitos (del Gobierno de México)

"Todos los libros, para todos los niños,en todas las escuelas" 1º - 6º.
 
• SILUETARIO - Museos

 
• Canciones en Español

 
• Bienvenido al web de la tuna

 
• Cri Cri, El Grillito Cantor de México

"Aqui encontraras mucha música, diversión, personajes y cuentos de el Grillito Cantor."
 
•  THE EDUCATIONAL SOURCE (On-line courses in English and Spanish)

(Kentucky Migrant Technology Project)
 
• Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico (José Luis Gómez-Martínez, Director, U Georgia)

un trabajo en equipo, cuyo objetivo es difundir la cultura hispánica. Este proyecto fue iniciado por  José Luis Gómez-Martínez, profesor de Ensayo Hispánico en el Departamento de Lenguas Románicas en la Universidad de Georgia, en noviembre de 1997.
• Antología del Ensayo Ibero e Iberoamericano

Cursos, Proyectos, Ensayo y Pensamiento Iberoamericano


• Gramática (Cecilia Benenati - Lewis and Clark College)
• Syllabi - Español 101 y 201

 
• Syllabi - Business Spanish (Orlando R. Kelm - UTexas)

 
• La historia de la lengua española (Primavera 2000 - Mark Davies, Illinois State)

 
• SPANISH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION course : SP 3204 (Virginia Tech)

Visuals/  Texts/ Maps/ History/ Culture.
 
• El Web de la LITERATURA

(Autores: biografía, obra, analizada de una de sus principales obras y enlaces)
 
• Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures @ Globe-Gate

Visit the latest "full" collection of Spanish WWW sites from the lists of Tennessee Bob Peckham and colleagues at the University of Tennessee-Martin.
• Algunos Enlaces literarios @ Globe-Gate

 
• Spanish Language and Literature Resources (Heidi Kinsley)
 
• Ejercicios gramaticales  (Barbara K. Nelson, Colby)

 
• UNA AVENTURA DOMINICANA (Barbara K. Nelson, Colby)

 
• Arte Global par la Integración... para la Paz...

"El átomo es un centro activo que absorbe e irradia energia y da forma al Cuerpo Humano templo del Ser, en proceso de Evolución Espiritual..."
 
• Spanish Comics - LOS TEBEOS de SIEMPRE

Estas páginas son un pequeño homenaje a todos esos maravillosos personajes que han deleitado (y amenazan con seguir) a varias generaciones de españoles. A través de las páginas podrás conocer (o recordar) algunos de los personajes y publicaciones más representativos, e incluso leer alguna historieta.
 
• HispanicVista.com - the National Daily Hispanic News & Information Service
• HispanicVista Education News

 
• El Mundo es mi sueno (El hogar de la Sra. Salsedo) - A Webquest

Activites, games, quizzes, projects, and factual information are at the learner's fingertips, por ejemplo:
Un día en Madrid
• MÁS ARRIBA Electronic Workbook

Exercise material adaptable for use with any core Spanish textbook (Gary D. Aitken, Chair of Hispanic Studies, Trent University, Ontario, Canada).
 
• Spanish Language Exercises (Instructor-Check and Self-Check Exercises by Juan Ramón de Arana)

 
• BIENVENIDO A LOS ENLACES HISPANICOS DE COQUI!

Lynn Nuthals' SPANISH LINKS with geographical and educational information on the various Spanish-speaking countries, as well as recipes, newspapers and magazines, music, art and the personal home pages of Lynn's Spanish-speaking friends from around the world who'll be happy to correspond with you.
 
• Spanish Online

 
• Learn Spanish - A Free Online Tutorial 

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CHINESE

• Majorie Chan's CHINA LINKS (Ohio State) - Contents include:
1. Search Engines, General Resources for Chinese Studies, Traditional Chinese Culture, Online and Archived Classical Chinese Literatuer, Chinese Netnews and E-zines.
2. Chinese Language Software and Real-Time Audio and Video Programs.
3. Chinese Language Teaching and Learning Resources, Language and Linguistics Resources, Dialectology, Associations, Conferences and Journals.
4. General Linguistic and Internet Resources.

 
• Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online (Dr. Tianwei Xie, UC Davis)

It is suggested you download and use NJWIN CJK Multilingual Viewer 1.6, or Asian Bridge v 1.0 Free Trial to view characters (big5) in each lesson. The hard copy of each lesson is also available in pdf format. Korean versian also available at this site. 15 basic conversation Mandarin Chinese lessons included.

• Évariste - Portail Chinois-- If you want to know what's going on in China today!

 
• HAN CAL (computer assisted learning) for learning CHINESE!

a Hong Kong University pioneer work "in using computer for Primary pupils to learn Chinese characters." ---With animation, graphics, sound, and two games to enrich the students' vocabulary.


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JAPANESE

• Center for Applied Japanese Studies (CAJLS, Oregon University System):

Improving cultural understanding through language education. Improving language education through standards.
 
• Japanese language learning tools on the Web (Keiko Schneider)

 
• Purdue Japanese Products

 
• Remote Collaboration (UC Davis)

 
• Jim Breen's Japanese Page

 
• Larry Stockton's Links to Japan

• THE JAPAN FORUM with Photo album: The Way We are ---Japanese HS Students' Lives

 
• Come visit the Kid's Window to learn about JAPAN!

- Library, Restaurant, School (with Language Class: Let's learn Nihongo/ Hirangana/ Katakana, Kanji),  Arts and Crafts Class: Let's learn Origami, Yakko, Crane), Gallery.
 
• WELCOME TO IRASSHAI - The Japanese  Language and Culture Distance Learning Course

offered in partnership between Georgia Tech and Georgia (USA) Public Broadcasting.

• JAPAN @ UTMartin's GLOBE-GATE

Tennessee Bob's  collection of Japanese Web sites.


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AFRICAN LANGUAGES

• HAUSA Language Study at UCLA
• Hausa Greetings

 
• Tanje Village Museum (Gambia) 

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RUSSIAN

• RUSSIA TODAY - A GLOBAL ONLINE COMMUNITY !

 
• Welcome to Russian Language Central 

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PORTUGUESE

• Portuguese @ Globegate 

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ARABIC

• Arab Academy - Professional site for learning Arabic and Quran offering online courses and testing.
  
  
• ABC NEWS.com - Bringing Arabic Online : New Age for Old Scripts

 
• WEB ARABIC  (Attention! Explications en français)

- Le premier site francophone d'apprentissage de la langue et de découverte de la culture arabe. Détails des rubriques:  Apprendre la langue arabe, Pays, Médias, Liens, Dialogues (Forum, Chat, etc.)
 
• Arab World - ArabVista Search 

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ENGLISH

• VOLTERRE-Fr ENGLISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGE RESOURCES

 
• ENGLISH online (Online Materials for Teaching English, Eva L. Easton)

 
• MIGRANT.ORG - Kentucky Migrant Technology Project: Online Courses/ tests

 
• "Nada/s ESL Island"

 
• An Evaluation of the Usefulness of the Internet in the ESL classroom 

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TURKISH

• Turkish Language Education for Beginner and Intermediate Levels - The site includes free listening exercises recorded by native speakers, online dictionary, pronunciation guide, vocabulary and Turkey related links.

MULTILINGUAL REFERENCES AND RESOURCES

  EURODICAUTOM - multilingual terminological database (European Commission).
Initially developed to assist in-house translators, it is today consulted by an increasing number of other EU officials, as well as by language professionals... The information it contains is drafted in twelve languages and is constantly updated. It covers a broad spectrum of human knowledge, although the core relates to European Union topics.  Click on the link below :
• For additional information ABOUT EURODICAUTOM, User Guide, and Index

 
• The Human Languages Page - Multilingual Dictionaries, Resources, Organizations, Lessons

 
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries (R. Beard, Bucknell U)

With Quick Lookup in English and an Index of more than 1,000 dictionaries in 190 different languages!
 
• CONJUGUE - Choose from the languages supported and you can conjugate any verb!

 
• Logos Universal Conjugator

 
• International News Resource

 
• MIT Librairies Foreign Language NEWS and NEWSPAPERS

Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
 
• ART HISTORY RESOURCES - Museums and Galleries

 
• LITERATURE 2000 - European Cultural Cities - 7 Librairies

 
• ESPERANTO EN LERNJOJ: leyland 
  
  
• Language Experiences for English speakers who desire to learn another language

• Welcome to MULTILINGUAL LINKS

Choose a language, visit the links, download a copy of all links, and/or conduct a Web Search.
 
• Sounds of the World's Animals

 
• Silent Night - Multilingual translations 

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PEDAGOGICAL RESOURCES

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Interested in the integration of technology in foreign language instruction? Your basic resource is this Web site of the internationally recognized Foreign Language Teachers' Forum. In addition to finding pointers to global resources and important American university language centers, you can subscribe to FLTEACH and access the FLTEACH archives. The moderators (Bob Ponterio and Jean LeLoup of SUNY, Cortland) have also provided the definitive on-line course for:
• Multimedia Materials Development for International Communication, as well as
• A Communications Technology Module for the Foreign Language Methods Course.

• eGroups.com - free group Email/ Calendar/ Document Vault/ Chat & Talk,

also in German, Japanese and French:
• Voila Club - iClub Campus (the French version of www.egroups.com):

Les profs peuvent créer des Listes de Dffusion, des Bases de Données, des Calendriers pour les élèves dans chacun de leurs cours. Les étudiants peuvent créer un iClub pour leur travail en groupe et le partage des documents du groupe, etc.
• Voila Chat ("chater et parler") en français.

 
• FL TEACHERS' WEB PAGES (Bev Larson)

Web pages created by teachers who contribute to FLTEACH
 
• LANGUAGES - Materials for Teaching Languages (Eva L. Easton)

Vast collection of resources  for teaching Spanish, Latin, Italian, German, Russian, Croatian, Polish, Albanian, Chinese, and Other Languages.
 
• THE UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND'S 

Visit the Multimedia Language Lab site of the University of Richmond's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Here, in addition to general information on UR MLL department faculty and course offerings, you can explore the many eastern and western hemisphere language links and check out :
• UR Study Abroad opportunities,
• WWW Language and Technology Resources,
• MMLL NET INFOSEARCH GUIDE,
• Multilingual Word Processing with Alki Language Proofing Tools (examples in French),
• Multilingual Word Processing with Alki Spanish Language Proofing Tools,  as well as :
• The MMLL New Horizons 4-part PPT slide presentation depicting MMLL activities 1997-1998.

 
• THE VCU TRAIL GUIDE

Central Virginia's Dr. Bob Godwin-Jones, with his VCU Trail Guide, has been a trail blazer in developing and promoting interactive foreign language instruction via the World Wide Web. Set out on his trail and see for yourself!
 
• Foreign Language Curriculum Guides 9-12 and adult

 
• PALS - Performance Assessment for Language Students
• The Six Steps for Improving Language Proficiency
  
  
• On-Line Language Exercises (John Aske, Salem State College)

 
• Multiple Intelligences

 
• Language-Learning.net - Directory of Schools



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