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Languages

Lessons

Mango Languages  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.
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)

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.

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.

About Languages

Ethnologue- Languages of the World - An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages.

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