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Language Learning Library

Covers grammar, common phrases, common nouns, numbers, time, alphabet, dictionaries, and a little on culture for Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.

04-28-2008 : chinese, french, german, italian, japanese, language learning, languages, portuguese, russian, spanish

Intute: Advanced Search

“... a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.... Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database cont

02-21-2008 : african, agricultural, american, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, archives, arts, asia, astronomy, australasian, australia, beauty, biomedical ethics, bioresearch, business, catering, celtic, chemistry, chinese, classics, communications, comparative literature, computing, conservation, culture, design, earth sciences, eastern european, ecology, economics, engineering, english studies, environment, european, fashion, food, forestry, french, geography, german, government, health, hispanic, history, history and philosophy of science, history of medicine, hospitality, humanities, italia, japanese, latin american, law, leisure, libraries, life sciences, linguistics, management, manuscript studies, mathematics, media, medicine, middle eastern, midwifery, modern languages, museums, music, natural history, nursing, performing arts, philosophy, physics, politics, portuguese, psychology, religions, research methods, research tools, russian, scandinavian, science, science engineering, slavonic, social sciences, social welfare, sociology, south asian, sports, statistics, technology, theology, tourism, travel, vetinerary, visual arts, women

Behind the Name: Etymology and History of First Names

Gives the history behind first names from England, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Iran, Turkey, India, some parts of Africa, and a number of other countries. Also covers Arabic names, biblical names, and mythological names.

01-12-2007 : african, albanian, arabic, arabic names, armenian, azerbaijani, basque, biblical names, breton, bulgarian, catalan, chinese, cornish, corsican, czech and slovak, danish, dutch, england, english, esperanto, estonian, etymologies, finnish, first names, france, french, frisian, galician, german, germany, great britain, greek, hawaiian, hungarian, icelandic, igbo, india, indian, iran, iranian, ireland, irish, italian, italy, japanese, jewish, kazakh, khmer, korean, kurdish, latvian, lithuanian, macedonian, manx, maori, modern english, mythological names, names, native american, north korea, norwegian, polish, portuguese, provencal, romanian, russian, scottish, serbian and croatian, slovene, south korea, spain, spanish, swedish, thai, traditional english, turkey, turkish, ukrainian, united kingdom, vietnamese, welsh, yoruba

Grammars and Language Courses

Many languages listed.

01-11-2007 : ainu, akkadian, albanian, arabic, aramaic, artificial languages, assyrian, aymara, azeri, basque, belarusan, bemba, bengali, blin, brahui, breton, burmese, carrier, catalan, cebuano, chechen, cherokee, cheyenne, chinese, chukchi, common slavic, coptic, cree, creole, czech, dakelh, dakota, danish, dictionaries, dutch, egyptian, english, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, flemish, french, frisian, friulian, gaelic, georgian, german, gilbertese, greek, gujarati, hausa, hawaiian, hebrew, hiligaynon, hindi, hungarian, hupa, icelandic, indonesian, ingush, irish, italian, japanese, jiwarli, kannada, khmer, kiribati, komi, korean, kurdish, language grammars, languages: studying learning, latin, latvian, lithuanian, luganda, lydian, macedonian, maltese, mandinka, manx, marathi, mayan, mon, nahuatl, nenets, norwegian, occitan, ojibwe, omaha, ossetian, pali, persian, polish, portuguese, potawatomi, prussian, punjabi, quechua, romany, russian, samoan, sanskrit, seneca, shona, sinhalese, spanish, swahili, swedish, tagalog, tamil, tatar, telugu, thai, thracian, tibetan, tigre, turkish, tzotzil, urdu, vietnamese, walloon, wolof, zarma

Non-English Online Bible Resources

Has Bibles in a number of languages.

12-27-2006 : amarhic, arabic, bengali, bibles, cebuano, chinese, croatian, czech, dutch, ewe, farsi, french, german, hiligaynon, hindi, hungarian, italian, japanese, kannada, korean, kurdish, luo, malayalam, ndebele, nepali, norwegian, persian, polish, portuguese-brazilian, portuguese-european, romanian, russian, slovak, spanish, spanish-castillian, swedish, telugu, thai, urdu, vietnamese

BBC: Languages

Resources for learning French, German, Spanish, and Italian, including sound files, vocabulary lists, quizzes, and cultural notes. Additional resources for some other languages and holiday phrases in 34 languages.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)

11-10-2006 : albanian, belarusian, bosnian, bulgarian, chinese, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, estonian, finnish, flemish, french, german, greek, hungarian, icelandic, italian, japanese, languages, latvian, lithuanian, luxembourgish, macedonian, moldovan, norwegian, polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, turkish, ukrainian, welsh

Nabokov Under Glass: A Centennial Exhibition

'Featuring materials from the Nabokov Archive in the [New York Public Library, this 1999] online exhibition provides a chronological look at Vladimir Nabokov's life and literary output, starting with poems of his teenage years, through his latest novels and memoirs.'. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)

11-10-2006 : 1899-1977, american, authors, literature, modern, nabokov, people, russian, vladimir vladimirovich

Travlang: Translating Dictionaries

Translating dictionaries in over 35 languages.

11-09-2006 : albanian, arabic, armenian, azeri, bosnian, bulgarian, chinese, croatian, czech, danish, dictionaries, dutch, english monolingual, estonian, finnish, french, german, greek, hebrew, hungarian, indonesian, italian, japanese, korean, languages, latin, latvian, linguistics, lithuanian, norwegian, persian (farsi), polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, thai, translations, travel languages, turkish, ukrainian, vietnamese, yiddish

Proto Indo European Language Demonstration and Exploration Website

Examines 'some of the evidence for the past existence of the Proto Indo-European language, based on common words in the languages found in and around Europe and India.' (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)

11-08-2006 : europe and india, french, german, greek, latin, old english, proto indo european language, proto-indo-european language, reconstruction (linguistics), russian, sanskrit, spanish

AltaVista World/Translate

Real-time bi-directional translation from/to English from/to Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Also will translate Russian to English. You can enter text or a Web site address to be translated.

11-08-2006 : chinese, english, french, german, italian, japanese, korean, languages, machine translation, portuguese, russian, spanish

FreeTranslation.com

Attempts to translate entire phrases so is very fast and can handle large amounts of information. However, machine translation is just to provide a very basic comprehension. Translate to and from Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Norwegian, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese.

11-08-2006 : china, dictionaries, dutch, european languages, france, french, german, germany, holland, italian, italy, language, language dictionaries, languages, machine translation, netherlands, norway, norwegian, portugal, portuguese, russian, simplified chinese, spain, spanish, traditional chinese, translation

Transparent Language

11-08-2006 : afrikaans, albanian, arabic, asturian, aymara, azerbaijani, basque, belarussian, bemba, bengali, blackfoot, brazilian, breton, bulgarian, canadian, catalan, cebuano, chamro, chinese, cornish, croatian, culture, czech, danish, dutch, ecuadorian, english, esperanto, estonian, faroese, farsi, finnish, flemish, french, frisian, galician, german, greek, guarani, haitian creole, hawaiian, hebrew, hindi, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, inuktitut, irish, italian, japanese, kongo, korean, language learning, languages, latin, latvian, lithuanian, luganda, luxembourgish, macedonian, malay, maori, maya, mohawk, moralagasy, nahuatl, norwegian, papago, phrase books, pidgin english, polish, polyglot glossaries, portuguese, provencal, quechua, romanian, romansch, romany, ruanda, russian, samoan, scottish, sepedi, serbian, shona, sicilian, slovak, slovene, somali, sotho, spanish, swahili, swazi, swedish, tagalog, tahitian, thai, tongan, travel, tswana, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, urdu, vietnamese, welsh, wolof, xhosa, yiddish, yuba, zulu

Footnotes to History

11-07-2006 : abaco, abalonia, abkhaz, abkhazia, aceh, acla, acre, addu, afar, afrikaner, agni, agricultural, aires, airrecu, ajaristan, akhzibland, alamut, aland, alandoerna, alans, alashan, alawites, albazin, alcatraz, alitao, aloquituche, altai, altos, amaro, ambon, amelia, american, amuntai, ancash, anglo-corsican, angoche, anguilla, anjouan, antarctique, antioquia, anyidi, apalachicola, arab, arakan, ararat, araucania, ariari, armenia, arotirene, artists', artsakh, aryan-pacific, assam, assassins, association, asturias, athos, atlantis, atoll, auca, ausonia, australia, austriens, autonomous, awdal, azawad, azerbaijan, babbio, bactria, badakhshan, bahia, baja, baku, balubas, baluchistan, bantustans, barataria, barga, bashkiria, basilio, basters, bat, bavaria, bayano, beaver, beggars, belem, belussian, bendery, bene, benin, berbers, bessarabia, biafra, biaknabato, bihac, blas, bluefields, bobbio, bodoland, bolivar, bom, bophuthatswana, border, bosnia-hercegovina, bosnia-herzegovina, bougainville, bowling, brcko, brhood, buenos, buganda, buhtan, bukovina, bulgars, bumba, buraco, burma, burmese, buryatia, cabinda, cadiz, caledonia, california, callaway, cambodia, cameroons, cancuc, canje, cansiglio, canudos, caprivi, caqueta, caribbea, carlota, carnia, caroline, carpatho-ukraine, cartagena, carthage, casamance, casanare, casbah, cassamoukou, catalan, catalonia, catarinan, caucasian, caucasus, ceno, cental, centro-caspian, cerca, ceylon, chad, chakma, champa, chan, chao, charlesfort, checheniia, chechnya, cherkessy, cherokees, chiang, chiapas, chinese, chios, chiquito, chita, chittagong, chongqing, christiania, chuang, chukotka, chungking, chuquisaca, circassia, cisalpine, ciskei, cispadane, city, coast, cobre, cocos islands, cofradia, colombia, colony, commune, conch, confederacy, confederal, confederated, confederation, connecticut, contestado, coro, corsica, cospaia, costa-, counani, council, counties, countries, county, courland, cracow, creek, crete, crimea, cristobal, croix, cruz, cuckfield, cuenca, cundinamarca, cunha, cyprus, cyrenaica, d'asile, d'enza, dagestan, dakota, dambrugana, danzig, darfur, darien, darul, dauria, dega-cham, delta, democratic, denakils, deseret, dhofar, dictatship, dinkas, district, ditmarschen, ditmarsh, djukas, dniester, dniestr, dogs, dominion, don-caucasus, druzes, duda, dumpling, east timor, eastern, edo, ekaterinodar, eleuthera, embassy, empire, enenkio, epirus, equator, espiritu, estonia, ethnic regions, euskadi, euzkadi, ezo, faeroe, falashas, far, federal, federated, federation, federative, fergana, fernandina, first, fiume, flanders, floating, florida, forces, former nations, fort, foundation, france, francisco, frankland, franklin, fredonia, free, fremont, french, friuli, fujian, fukien, gabriel, gagauz, galicia, gallic, galveston, ganienkeh, geralia, gilan, girokaster, gno-badakhshan, gold, gongosa, gosha, goshen, gothia, government, graaff-reinet, granada, granadine, grande'anse, greater, grebo, greco-poland, green, greytown, guangxi, guayabera, guayaquil, guizhou, guriia, gymreig, ha-mi, haiti, hanseatic, hatay, hawai'i, hawaii, hawera, hay-on-wye, heavenly, herzog-bosna, hetmanate, high, hijaz, history, hnachero, hokianga, holland, honsawatoi, hospitaller, host, hottentots, hre, hsat, hui, hulunbuir, hunan, hutt, hyderabad, icaria, iceland, ichkeriya, idel-ural, igbo, ijaws, ili, im, imperia, inca, independent, indian, indonesian, ingermanland, ingria, ingushetia, inner, ionian, ireland, irregular, ishmaelites, islamic, islands, isles, israel, isthmus, italien, jabaquara, jalisco, jaluit, james, jebel, jefferson, jesus, jiangxi, jiti, johanna, john, jones, jose, jubaland, jubbaland, junagadh, jura, justus, kachin, kadesh, kaffa, kaifeng, kalakuta, kalat, kalgan, kalimantan, kalmykia, kanaki, kansas, karabakh, karachai-balkaria, karachay, karakum, kareka, karelia, karenni, karens, kasai, kashgaria, katanga, kawthoolei, kayans, kca, kce, kentucky, key, khalistan, khanate, khazars, khobdo, khotan, kiangsi, kingdom, klipdrift, knee, knights, kobdo, kokand, kosakenland, kosovo, krai, krajina, kuban, kumul, kunas, kurdish, kurdistan, kwangsi, kwazulu, kweichow, lahu, lake, langhe, lanzo, latakia, latvia, league, left, lega, leninabad, leon's, libertatia, lijdensrust, lijien, limon, litbel, lithuania-byelussia, logone, lombard, long, los, lower, lozi, luba, lubicon, lundy, lusatia, macaco, macanga, madagascar, madawaska, madiun, madre, maganja, magdalena, mahabad, mainz, maira, majeerteens, makira, mali, malta, maltese, maluku, manchuria, mangup, maniel, manitoba, mapuche, maracassume, mariquita, markovo, marlbough, maroons, marquetalia, mary's, maryland-in-africa, massangano, massingire, matuna, mauretania, mecklenburg, meekamuii, mejertin, melchizedek, meng, merida, metis, mexico, michigan, micronations, military, mindanao, minerva, mining, mirdita, mirdite, miskito, missy-aux-bois, misurata, mizam, mohawk, moheli, moldavian, moluccas, mompos, mon, monferrato, mongolian, montagnards, montefiino, morac-songhrati-meads, moresnet, moros, mosquitia, mosquito, moss, mount, mountaineers, mountainous, mucajuba, mugeres, muscongus, muskogee, mustang, mwali, nacogdoches, nagaland, nagno-karabakh, nagriamel, nan, nassau, natal, natchez, nation, national, nd-ouest, ndalbingia, negara, negros, negua, nero's, neutral, new, newfoundland, ngatik, nghe-tinh, niger, nile, ningxia, nizhneudinsk, north, north-peruvian, northern, nosi, novossiisk, noxchijn, nte, nyja, nzwani, oaxaca, ochirbat's, ocoyta, oglala, ogonis, oirats, orange, orientale, ossetia, ossetian, ossola, outer, pa-o, padania, palenque, palmares, panama, papua, paradise, parihaka, paris, parma, patani, pato, paz, people's, persian, peru-bolivia, philippines, phoenix, pictish, piratini, plateaus, poland, poloni, port, priamur, principality, protectate, providence, provinces, provisional, puerto, puntland, pushtunistan, quilombo, rabat, rainbow, ralik, ranter, ras-al-khaimah, raterepublik, rauracian, ready, real, recife, red, redonda, regreg, rehoboth, republica, republics, revolutionary, rhenish, rhineland, rhodanic, rhode, rico, rif, right, rijeka, rio, river, rohinga, romanian, rome, rooigrond, roses, rotuma, rough, royal, rupununi, russian, ruthenia, ruwenzururu, saarland, sabinada, saint-moralo, sakha, sale, salihiyah, sallee, salvador, samos, sanaguere, santa, santarem, santo, sanusiyah, sanwi, saramacas, sarawak, saugeais, saxony, sbs, sealand, sebga, second, sedang, senegambian, septinsular, serbian, seven, shaba, shahar, shandong, shantung, siberia, sichuan, sicily, sierra, sikhs, sikkim, sioux, slovakia, socialist, solomons, solon, somalia, somaliland, sona, sonderbund, south-peruvian, southeastern, southern, southwestern, soutpansberg, sovereignty, soviet, spratly, srpska, states, stellaland, stream, sudanese, sultanate, sumapaz, suvadiva, syria, syunik, szechwan, taalex, tafea, tagalog, taiping, taiwan, taleh, taluga, talysh-mugan, tana, tangier, tanna, tannu, tarangambadi, taro, tasba, tatar, tatarstan, tatu, taurida, tavolara, tejas, terek-dagestan, territory, texas, thessalonica, third, tierra, tigre, timor-leste, tiraspol, tisquisio, tolu, tomochic, topasses, toro, tortonese, tortuga, township, tranquebar, trans-dniestr, transbaikal, transcarpathia, transcaspia, transcaucasia, transkei, transnistria, transpadane, transylvania, travance, tri-insula, tribes, trieste, trinidad, triple, tripolitania, tripuram, tristan, tuaregs, tule, tunganistan, tunglan, tungus, turcomanistan, turkestan, turkish, turkmenistan, tuva, tyrol, ubyorkhs, ukraine, ukrainian, ulan, union, united, upingtonia, urals, urga, urganchai, utopia, valais, valley, valli, valsesia, van, varaita, varlberg, varzi, vemarana, venda, venezia-giulia, vermont, vigan, vilcabamba, villarica, vio-epirus, vladivostok, voisko, volga, votrekker, wake, wales, walker, watauga, welsh, wends, western, westerwold, westland, westralia, wexfd, whiskey, william, winburg, winneconne, winston, wladfa, wounded, wyoming, yakutia, yamen, yanga's, yapti, york, yucatan, yunnan, zacatecas, zandt, zanj, zanzibar, zapozhian, zaragoza, zealand, zone, zoutpansberg, zulus

Basic Phrases for Eastern European Languages

Basic phrases from Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, and Slovenian. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)

11-06-2006 : albanian, bulgarian, central and eastern european languages, croatian, czech, estonian, europe, european studies, hungarian, languages, latvian, lithuanian, polish, romanian, <