Harrison Memorial Library

Languages

Lessons

Mango is a fast, easy, and effective way to learn a foreign language. Use your library card to log on, then create an account.
BBC Languages - Interactive lessons, dictionaries, podcasts, games and more featuring Spanish, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Greek, and Chinese.
Busuu - Learn English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German or Russian
Digital Dialects - Animated activities for language learners. In 56 languages.
Forvo - Pronunciation guide to many of the world's languages by native speakers.
Indo-European Language Tutorials - Includes Dutch, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese, Russian Ukrainian, Croatian, Finnish, Turkish, and Indonesian.
Innovative Language Learning - Free podcast lessons with registration. More advanced materials available for a fee. French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.
Internet Polyglot - Uses images and games to aid memorization. Includes Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Hindi, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Norwegian, Hungarian, and Estonian.
LiveMocha - An online language learning community. Learn from native speakers.
101languages.net - Covers pronunciation, phrases and vocabulary, linguistics and travel guides for 35 languages.

English as a Second Language (ESL)

ESL Partyland - Fun exercises for teachers or students of ESL
Internet Picture Dictionary - Browse or search English words
Mango ESL - English language lessons - log on with your library card
U.S.A. Learns - Learn English, basic reading, writing, speaking and life skills
Voice of America: Learning English - News broadcasts created for ESL learners. Listen or read.

Individual Languages

Chinese - Confucius Institute
French - Alliance Française of Monterey County
German - Goethe Institut of San Francisco
Japanese - Japan Foundation
Portuguese - Instituto Camoes Portugal
Spanish - Instituto Cervantes New York

Translators

Babel Fish
Google Translate

Online Dictionaries

FreeDict - Covers 16 languages.
Word2Word - Provides links to a variety of dictionaries and translators based on individual language.
YourDictionary.com - Lists dictionaries alphabetically by language.
WordReference.com - Online language dictionary and conjugator for Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Russian. Includes user-contributed forums discussing definitions, idioms, and usage.

Language Resources

Ethnologue- Languages of the World - An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages.
Online Newspapers - Thousands of newspapers from all over the world in their native language