Translate sentences or a web page here. Site is now part of Yahoo.

Good language translation tool that allows you to type in whole blocks of text.

Allows you to search by language or country. You can translate text, documents, and websites.

Free online translation service in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese

Have you ever struggled with the pronunciation of a foreign word? Forvo, described as "the largest word pronunciation dictionary in the world," is here to help with audio playback clips of word pronunciations by native speakers in over 280 languages. Idioms, short phrases and titles are also included. Choose a language or search for a word to find pronunciations. Pronunciations are provided by volunteers and reviewed by a team of volunteer editors for accuracy. The website can be viewed in several languages including French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese among others.

This website allows provides the meaning of words written using Latin characters but Islamic in origin. Searching for a word like 'Salam' will give the meaning of the word, how it is written in its original language (usually Arabic) and grammar information. Search the Quran, Hadith, or generally through this website.

Provides extensive and updated web links
(in English/Spanish/ Portuguese), including those to many countries’ newspapers and magazines. This web site is affiliated with the L. Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

This web site, maintained by an international team of linguists, provides a search able directory to over 7000 free online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries. Searches may be entered by language, subject, or title/keyword.

This site from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center hosts "Countries in Perspective' series [country profiles and history] and has a variety of lessons to learn in many different languages.

Offers lessons for beginner to intermediate learners; basic courses are free. Lessons feature reading, writing, speaking; users improve by connecting with real native speakers.

Multilingual on-line dictionary that allows searching on words or phrases, and contains more than 5 million words in the database.

"Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word."

This site from The Learning Light offers the Spanish that Works course for a fee. However, they also offer a "free" section, which provides some materials and links for learning Spanish at no cost.

This free online Mandarin Chinese lesson is to give a glimpse of some basic pronunciation to total novices who are interested in learning Mandarin Chinese. This site includes 32 lessons including pronunciation, pinyin, writing, and more.

There is much more here than the title indicates. In addition to beginning German lessons and material to supplement them, the site has information and links about German literature, authors, music, movies, history, genealogy, and a worldwide directory of all things German.

Allows Japanese learners to find and talk to one another, as well as seek language exchange relationships with Japanese speakers, and Japanese speakers to find language exchange partners to study with.

Featured in The Wall Street Journal, PC World, and Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine, this innovative approach to learning Arabic allows you to practice --via e-mail, text chat, and voice chat-- with native speakers of Arabic who are learning your native language.

Learn Spanish by practicing grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary with online lessons, quizzes and games. Listen to free radio broadcasts online from Spanish-language radio stations from all across the globe.

10, 000 links on language, art, music, literature, history, and culture, by a Tennessee Univ. French professor.