Useful Language Sites

American Sign Language Browser - http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/

• Description: Video of thousands of ASL signs. Requires Quicktime browser plugin.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]

CAL Ebonics Information Page - http://www.cal.org/ebonics/

• Description: A page produced by the Center For Applied Linguistics, offering a variety of information on Ebonics (African American Vernacular English).
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]

Dave's ESL Cafe - http://eslcafe.com/

• Description: A friendly site where students of English as a second language can find discussion with other learners, answers to questions, advice about difficult points of English and English slang, and other useful information.
• Appropriate to course or program:ESL-3
• [Reviewed by: ESL & Library Staff]

EnglishClub - http://www.englishclub.com/

• Description: Great website for ESL learners and instructors. Provides learning aids for grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation skills.
• Appropriate to course or program: ESL
• [Reviewed by: Choice, Dec. 2004]

Ethnologue: Languages of the World - http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp

• Description: A catalog of 6,700+ languages, with information for each language about where it is spoken, how many speakers there are, relationships to other languages, etc. Languages include creoles and sign languages. There is also a listing of the top 100 languages (by population) of the world and information on the geographic distribution of languages. Charts language families.
• Appropriate to course or program: ANTH180
• [Reviewed by: Choice, Aug.1998]

Language links - http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html

• Description: Links to pages dealing with other languages and cultures; under the "Spanish" link you will find information on the history and culture of Latin America, Spain, and Hispanics in the US. La conexión "Spanish" tiene muchos sitios de cultura Latinoamericana.
• Appropriate to course or program: Alternative High School
• [Reviewed by: Choice, Mar. 1998, p. 1197]

On-line Dictionaries And Translators - http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html

• Description: Links to multilingual, online dictionaries.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]

Your Dictionary.com (Web of On-Line Dictionaries) - http://www.yourdictionary.com/

• Description: Formerly the Web of On-Line Dictionaries and the Web of On-Line Grammars. Has links to over 400 dictionaries in 130 languages, as well as links with on-line grammars of as many languages as can be found on the Web. The site includes all types of grammars: reference grammars, learning grammars, and historical grammars. .
• Appropriate to course or program: Alternative High School
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]