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Foreign Languages

(Resources for non-English languages taught at the UW-W)

Table of Contents:

General Language Resources Arabic Language Resources Chinese Language Resources French Language Resources German Language Resources

Japanese Language Resources Russian Language Resources Spanish Language Resources Linguistics Resources Style Guides

This page is designed to assist students of non-English languages taught at the UW-Whitewater. When using the sites listed below, in particular the dictionaries, please keep the following in mind: you get what you pay for, and most of these sites are free. For additional assistance, use the University Library Catalog to search for dictionaries, grammars and textbooks held in the University Library. For example:

spanish and study and teaching
french and dictionar?

General Language Resources

Comprehensive Classified Resource Directories

• Ethnologue - Information about the languages of the world. Use the Site Search at the top of the page to search for references to a particular language or language family. One highlight are short reports about individual languages, including number of speakers, location, classification, alternate names and links to the 12,000 citation bibliography of language research. Bibliography is also searchable and browseable.
• iLoveLanguages by Tyler Chambers

Departments & Institutes

• Collaborative Language Program - (UW-System) - Students can find out about the language programs available at UW system schools, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian.

Dictionaries & Grammars

• Lexicool - online dictionary search engine that links to over 3,500 monolingual and multilingual general and subject oriented dictionaries.
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login
  Click on the Bilingual Dictionaries link for access to the 14 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionaries in this collection of reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes bilingual dictionaries of English and French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Latin
• The Translator's Home Companion
• Word Reference.com - (HarperCollins) - Bilingual English and French, German, Spanish, and Italian Collins dictionaries, and a monolingual English Collins dictionary. Alternative access via:
  • German Interface
  • Spanish Interface
• Yamada Language Center: Language Guides - (Univ. of Oregon)

Electronic Conferences

• Everson Topography: List of Language Lists - prepared by Michael Everson (Version 3.2; June 22, 2002)

Electronic Courses

• World Lecture Hall - (University of Texas) - To locate online language courses, click on Browse by Area, then on Language and Languages or a more specific subject, such French, Germanic Studies, etc.

Electronic Text Archives

• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature - (ACRL)

Journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - This directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The full text of articles are freely available. The goal is to cover all subjects and languages. There are currently over 1000 journals in the directory.
• Project Muse - (Johns Hopkins Univ.) - Off-Campus access requires UW-W ID number
  • American Journal of Philology quarterly. 117 (1996) - present

Newsgroups

• Yamada Language Center: Language-Related News Groups - (Univ. of Oregon)

Organizations & Societies

• Resources of Scholarly Societies: Languages & Linguistics - ( Univ. of Waterloo)

Arabic Language Resources

Departments & Institutes

• Universities/University Departments - (AlMisbah)
• Arabic Programs Outside the Middle East - (American Association of Teachers of Arabic Homepage)

Dictionaries

• Al-Buraq Arabic-English Dictionary
• Maktoob - English-Arabic Dictionary

Chinese Language Resources

Departments & Institutes

• Chinese Departments and Programs - University of Massachusetts - Amherst
• Learning Chinese Online - This excellent site by Dr. Tienwei Xie, CSU Long Beach, is a gateway for all things related to the Chinese language. Click on Online Schools, Chinese Programs and Chinese Schools in the left frame to located departments and programs.
• Yahoo: Languages: Chinese: College and University Departments

Dictionaries

• CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary - Free downloadable Chinese-English-Pinyin dictionary textfile for use with various dictionary programs.
• Chinese Character Dictionary - This site offers several different options for searching using different dialects of Chinese, different alphabets, and English.
• Chinese Characters Dictionary Web - This site uses a CGI program to facilitate the search for characters in over a dozen web dictionaries. You may also click on the name of a dictionary at the bottom of the page to go directly to it.
• Pristine Lexicon - This free Chinese-English-Pinyin dictionary has over 150,000 entries. Five free searches are allowed before registration is required. Registration is free.

French Language Resources

Comprehensive Classified Resource Directories

• HAPAX: French Resources on the Web by Angelo Metzidakis
• Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links! 2nd edition - ( Univ. of Tennessee-Martin)
  If Bob's French Links doesn't work, use this link

Departments & Institutes

• Yahoo: Languages: French: College and University Departments

Dictionaries

• ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Form - (ARTFL, Univ. of Chicago)
• Grand dictionnaire terminologique - (Quebec, Canada)
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login
  Click on the Bilingual Dictionaries link for access to the bilingual dictionaries.

Electronic Courses

• World Lecture Hall - (University of Texas) - To locate online language courses, click on Browse by Area, then on French

Electronic Text Archives

• ARTFL Project (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) - (Univ. of Chicago)
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature: French Literature - (ACRL - Western European Studies Section)

Newsgroups

• WWW Resources for French as a Second Language Learning: News and Discussion Groups - (Univ. of Ottawa)

Organizations & Societies

• American Association of Teachers of French

German Language Resources

Comprehensive Classified Resource Directories

• germanistik.net: Internet Resources for Germanists - (Univ. of Wisconsin)

Departments & Institutes

• Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes e.V. - Leiseite in German and English
• Internet Resources for Germanists: germanistik.net: Germanistik an den Universitäten der Welt / German Departments around the World - (Univ. of Wisconsin)
• Yahoo: Languages: German: College and University Departments

Dictionaries

• LEO English/German Dictionary - (Informatik der Technischen Universität München)
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login
  Click on the Bilingual Dictionaries link for access to the bilingual dictionaries.

Electronic Conferences

• Electronic Discussion Groups - (Univ. of Alberta)

Electronic Courses

• World Lecture Hall - (University of Texas) - To locate online language courses, click on Browse by Area, then on Germanic Studies

Grammar

• The German Electronic Textbook - (Gary Smith) - Consists of three parts:
  • German Pronunciation,
  • Grammar of German and a
  • Reference section

Organizations & Societies

• AATG: American Association of Teachers of German

Japanese Language Resources

Sites With Links

• Japanese Language Learning Tools on Web - (Keiko Kawanabe Schneider)

Departments & Institutes

• Japan Resources: Institutions & Organizations - (RJIS Harvard University)
• Yahoo: Languages: Japanese: College and University Departments

Dictionaries

• jeKai Japanese-English Dictionary Project
• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server - (Jim Breen, Monash University) - Several mirror sites are available:
  • Canada (National Research Council)
  • European Union
  • Germany
  • Japan (RILCAA)
  • Poland (Spruce Technologies)
  • Sweden
  • USA (EDRDG)
• PSPs Bi-Directional English Japanese Dictionary - (Pacific Software Publishing)
• Web Dictionary - (Sanseido.net) - This site will translate English into Japanese (and may do the reverse)

Russian Language Resources

Departments & Institutes

• AATSEEL Intensive Language Program Listings - (AATSEEL)
• University Russian Departments 
• Yahoo: Languages: Russian: College and University Departments

Dictionaries

• Multitran Dictionary - English-Russian dictionary. The Russian-English version of the dictionary is available at http://www.multitran.ru/
• Lingvo Online

Electronic Courses

• World Lecture Hall - (University of Texas) - To locate online language courses, click on Browse by Area, then on Russian and Eastern European Studies

Spanish Language Resources

Departments & Institutes

• Yahoo: Languages: Spanish: College and University Departments

Dictionaries

• Diccionarios.com - contains several dictionaries and similar reference works, including synonyms and antonyms, conjugation, and castellano.
• Jerga... Argot... Slang... Modismo... - (Roxana Fitch) - Jergas de habla hispana
• Nuevo tesoro lexicográphico de la lengua española - search multiple dictionaries, including versions of the Academia usual, Acadamia manual, Academia suplemento, Academia historico, Academia autoridades. Results are scanned images from the original text.
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login
  Click on the Bilingual Dictionaries link for access to the bilingual dictionaries.
• Real Academia Española - provides access to the Diccionario de la lengua española (Vigésima segunda edición. 1792) on the left hand side.
• WordReference.com: Online Spanish Dictionary - English/Spanish, Spanish/English

Electronic Courses

• World Lecture Hall - (University of Texas) - To locate online language courses, click on Browse by Area, then on Spanish and Portuguese

Electronic Journals

• Tecla: Texts for Learners and Teachers of Spanish - (Dept. of Spanish, Birkbeck College, London)

Electronic Text Archives

• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature: Spanish Literature - (ACRL - Western European Specialists Section)

Linguistics Resources

Comprehensive Classified Resource Directories

• Omniglot: A guide to Writing Systems - (Simon Ager) - An easy to use guide to over 200 writing systems, which includes different alphabets and syllabaries

Departments & Institutes

• University Linguistics Departments, Programs and Centers - (Univ. of Rochester)

Electronic Conferences

• The Linguist List - "The world's largest online linquistic resource"
  Also available at http://www.linguistlist.org/index.html

Electronic Courses

• World Lecture Hall - (University of Texas) - To locate online language courses, click on Browse by Area, then on Linguistics

Electronic Journals

• Project Muse - (Johns Hopkins Univ.) - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login
  • Linguistic Inquiries quarterly. 31 (2000) - present
  • Oceanic Linguistics quarterly. 38 (1999) - present
  • Sign Language Studies quarterly. 1 (2000-2001) - present
• WJMLL: The Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics

Organizations & Societies

• The Association for Computational Linguistics
• Resources of Scholarly Societies: Language & Linguistics - (Univ. of Waterloo)

Style Guides

• How do I document sources from the Web in my works-cited list?
  These are the only guidelines authorized by MLA.
• Citing References: MLA Style - provides select examples of Modern Language Association style for citing sources, excerpted from Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 2nd ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1998, and MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999, both are kept at the Reference Desk.
• Columbia Guide to Online Style - Humanities (MLA and Chicago) and scientific (APA and CBE) style guide by Janice R. Walker

Last Revised: MS - 7/20/2007

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