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• AltaVista Translation Service
• American Dialect Society
• BBC: Languages
  resources for learning French, German, Spanish, Italian, incl sound files, vocabulary lists, quizzes, cultural notes, incl limited resources for other languages such as Welsh, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese
• Cucumis.org
  community of translators, free registration, gain points by translating a text, use points to submit a text to be translated
• Do You Speak American? - PBS
  "examines the dynamic state of American English" | essays on topics such as vocabulary, pronunciation, the power of prose, language as prestige, shifts in regional language | sound clips, examples of mispronounced words, program transcript, quizzes, links
• Ethnologue
  areas & countries | abbreviations | languages of special interest | geographic distribution | top 100 languages | bibliography | language name index | language family index | maps | links
• Free Translation Online
• FreeTranslation.com
• Hawaiian Pidgin - Google
• iLoveLanguages
  languages | linguistics | literature | schools & institutions | organizations | jobs & internships | dictionaries | language lessons
• Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing - UNESCO
• Language Course Finder
  online directory of language courses & language schools, search in many languages for language to learn & location of program | information about language tests, certificates, online learning resources, related travel material
• LingNet - Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Curriculum Development Division
  Countries in Perspective, Global Language Online Support System (GLOSS), online language courses
• Lingo24 Language & Translation
  translation tool, dictionary, paraphrase finder/thesaurus | see "free translation online" to translate words & phrases between: Arabic, English, French, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Spanish | articles, translation industry career guide, international business intelligence, blog
• Linguistic Minority Research Institute - UC
• Linguistic Resources on the Net
• The Linguist's Search Engine - Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, UMD
  "...a new linguist-friendly tool that makes it possible to retrieve naturally occurring sentences from the WWW on the basis of lexical content and syntactic structure. Its aim is to help linguists of all stripes in conducting more thoroughly empirical exploration of evidence, with particular attention to variability and the role of context."
• Many Languages, One America - US English Foundation
  data & data mapping - what languages are spoken where & by how many in the US
• The Modern Language Association Language Map: A Map of Languages in the United States
  2000 Census data on locations & numbers of speakers of thirty languages & seven groups of less commonly spoken languages, charts & maps by county or ZIP code
• Online Dictionaries & Translators
  also online courses | chat sites | software | tools | newsgroups | schools
• Systran - online translator
• Translation Wizard
• Travlang
  online translation dictionaries | training modules | RealAudio files | travel resources
• Web Enhanced Language Learning
• WordNet - Psycholinguistic Dictionary/Thesaurus
• yourDictionary.com - Index of On-line Dictionaries

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