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The Internet is very much alive. So some of the links they had been valid until yesterday today maybe are not anymore.available. I will try to do my utmost to keep them up-to-date, but I am sure that there will be - apart from all the mistakes too - always something to adjust at any time.

Please be so kind to tell me about all informations which you guess they are wrong. Thank you so much.

1 - Explanations

2 - Language Courses

3 - Language Institutes

4 - Publisher of Materials for Foreign Languages

5 - How to Learn Learning

6 - Online Resources for Learning Foreign Languages

7 - Software Programs and Other Resources for Learning

8 - Contacts for Learner of Languages

9 - Education and Languages

10 - Translations on the Web

11 - Studying and Learning Languages Abroad

12 - Media

13 - Vocabulary on the Web

14 - Other Interesting Things on the Web

15 - ... this could be helpfull too

16 - Connoiseurs, Artists and Genius

17 - Curiosities and Museum of Languages

18 - Is there anything else, something I forgot?

Recent Link-Check incl. corrections:  2008-02-05

You are looking for links to a specific language?
Please look under languages and the name of the language you wish to find. If it isn't available so please let me know. Thank's!

Please note:

* This collection of links is somehow a bit one-sided which should mean from the view of a mainly German language using person. I am sure that there are many other links from the view of people with another mother tongue which I do not know yet. But please be sure, I'll do my best to find out as much of them as I can, maybe with your help too. Thanks therefore in advance.

* This Website is mainly in English published, but is generally aligned for international use. Therefore some particulars may be strange to people with English tongue. If there are some obvious mistakes so I am very sorry, but please let me know then. Thank you. 

This list will be continuous complemented, mistakes and changes as soon as possible after recognizing improved. Please tell me if you will find mistakes and obsolete links. Thank you very much.

1 - Explanations to the Links 

Basic Language resp. mother tongue
eng - deu - ita - spa - fra - rus - hun - cze - ..... (according to ISO 639)

xxxxx - more than 20 languages

xxxx - 10 and 20 languages

xxx - between 5 - 9 languages

Language of Learning
eng - deu - ita - spa - fra - rus - hun - cze - ..... (according to ISO 639)

xxxxx - more than 20 languages

xxxx - 10 and 20 languages

xxx - between 5 - 9 languages

= this sign marks 

- a link-bandit =  that does mean you can't click back to the previous site / page.

- a website with undue resp. excessive promotion.

http://www.xxxxxx.xxx = These links are new this month. 

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2 - Foreign Languages - Language Courses
for Autodidacts / Self-learning

Assimil - www.assimil.com = eng - fra - xxxxx - www.assimil.de - deu - xxxxx

acc. to Methods/Assimil

Auralog = Tell Me More - Talk to Me = Innovation for Language Learning - chi - deu - eng - fra - ita = xxxx  - (Auralog.de = deu - xxx)

Birkenbihl International - acc. to Methods/Birkenbihl  (2007-10-25 - corr.)

digital publishing - international page - deu - eng - fra - ita - spa - deu - eng - fra - ita - spa

Euro Talk interactive - language learning software - eng - xxxxx

Linguaphonegroup  - acc. to Methods/Linguaphone - eng - xxxx

Rosetta Stone.en - eng - Rosetta Stone.de - deu - Language Learning Success - xxxxx

Pimsleur Approach - eng > xxxxx

http://www.declan-software.com/index.htm - eng > ara - chi - fra - ger - ita - ind - jap - kor - rus - spa

http://www.language-learning.net/start_2_1.html - The Language Course Finder - xxxxx > xxxxx

http://www.transparent.com/ - eng = xxxxx

http://www.linguata.com/linguata/index.html - practical, realistic and fast resulting - eng - xxxxx

Please let me know about obsolete and invalid links too. Thanks.

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3 - Language Institutes

http://www.didactica.at/index_alt.html - Didactica - Akademie for Economy and Languages - A-1120 Vienna - xxx

http://www.fremdsprache.de/ - Alpha-Institut - Intensive courses in standard languages = deu > eng - fra - ita - spa 

http://www.uni-graz.at/fszwww/fszwww_kursangebot.htm - Meeting Point Languages - xxx

http://www.fuu-heidelberg-languages.com/index.php?lang=en - xxxxx - xxxxx

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4 - Publisher of Materials for Foreign Languages

http://www.berlitzbooks.com/catalog/index.php - Berlitz USA - eng
http://www.berlitzpublishing.com/berlitz/home.asp - Berlitz UK - eng

http://www.slavica.com/ - Special-Site for slavic languages and literature - Indiana University - eng

Langenscheidt - leading publisher for German language - deu - xxxxx

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5 - How to Learn Learning

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/guide/index.html - This website is not realy about how to learn learning but about "How to learn any language"  and as far as I know it is the best in the whole web.

Please let me know about obsolete and invalid links too. Thanks.

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6 - Online Resources for Learning Foreign Languages

http://www.deutsch-perfekt.com/ - Learn German - cze - eng - fra - ita - pol - spa - tur > deu 

http://eurocom.httc.de/ - Be able to read romance languages immediately - deu - (eng) > ita - rom - spa - (cat + por)

http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/ - free tests in 24 languages and 552 language combinations - xxxxx - xxxxx 

Englishtown.comReceive free English lessons, in your mailbox - everyday - xxxxx - eng

http://www.mssu.edu/international/ilrc/resources/languages/general.htm
International Language Resource Center - with many links to other websites - eng > xxxxx  

http://www.mssu.edu/international/ilrc/resources/why.htm
- Why Learn a Foreign Language? - (Link also mentioned in Online-Offer) - eng 

http://www.babelnation.com/ - eng > fra - deu - ita - por - spa

http://www.2ndlanguages.com/ - eng > deu - fra - ita - spa

http://www.linguanet-europa.org/plus/welcome.htm - xxxxx

- Welcome to Lingu@net Europa, the multilingual centre for language learning!

Lingu@net Europa is a multilingual database of online-ressources for learning languages.

It is a pity that some links are obsolet, for example some to the tests. Not really helpfull.

http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/lang/learn/ways_de.html
- How to learn foreign languages - dan - deu - eng - fin - fra - gre - ita - nld - por - spa - swe

http://www.languagetrav.com/ - Languages for Travelers - eng > xxxx

http://www.teachyourself.co.uk/language.htm - Teach Yourself Languages - eng

http://www.elisabeth-smith.co.uk/aboutauthor.htm - Speak languages fast - 10 tips for beginners - as above - eng

http://www.lonweb.org/ - everything to learn foreign languages - in English
The site with thousends of language related links! - The Homepage of DAISY STORES = Translation from Englisch into many languages - other parallel texts are also available - very good for reading and learning - eng > xxxxx 

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/ - iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. - Another link-catalogue to language-related websites. - eng

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content3/second.language.p.k12.2.html
Why, How, and When Should My Child Learn a Second Language? - Kathleen Marcos - eng

http://www.champs-elysees.com/ - eng = deu - fra - ita - spa   (2007-10-25 - corr.)

http://www.phonelanguages.com/home/ge/professionnels/menu/newsletter/index.html - Learn languages by telephone - xxx > xxxx

http://www.languageguide.org/index.jsp - xxxxx > xxxxx

http://www.loi.nl/Cursussen/Talen/index.htm?folderId=7 - Learn Languages in Dutch - "Klik hier."  = ndl > xxxxx

http://www.101languages.net/ - informations about many languages = eng 

Please let me know about obsolete and invalid links too. Thanks.

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7 - Software Programs and Other resources 
which could help learning languages

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page(Mind mapping)
Free Mind Mapping Software = Brain Storming - eng

http://www.mindjet.com/uk/ - eng

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8 - Contacts for Learner of Foreign Languages

http://www.friendsabroad.com/register.htm - Speak it, learn it, live it! - FriendsAbroad is the language network. Free to join, .... - deu - eng - fra - ita - spa

http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ - Language Learning in Tandem - dan - deu - eng - fra - ita - nld - rus - spa - swe

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/ - Your Language Exchange Online CommunityMembers from over 133 countries, practicing 115 languages! - ara - chi - deu - eng - fra - jap - kor - spa = xxxxx >< xxxxx

http://www.xlingo.com/ - Language Exchange Community - eng - spa - chi

http://www.xing.com/ - Professsionell Contact-Management - not really for language learning but for contacts of every field and purpose - xxxxx 

http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/uni/Tandemboerse.5766.0.html?&L=0 - deu - eng

http://wordpress.org/ - http://wordpress.com/ - Weblogs all over the world - xxxxx

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showforum=140 - Many member of the Skype-community are looking for contacts to learn several foreign-languages. The best of it: The communication via Skype. Try it out! - eng - xxxxx

http://www.weblin.com - New contacts, new friends, same interests ...... - deu - eng

http://www.sharedtalk.com/ - xxxx >< xxxx

http://www.pruefungsgeil.de/sprachpartner.html - Portal for students - xxxxx - xxxxx 

http://www.sprachtausch.net/ - Language exchange with a partner of any region in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, looking  for different languages - deu - eng 

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9 - Education and Languages

http://ies.ed.gov/ - Institute of Education Sciences, USA (Education Resources Information Center - eng

- ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - The world's largest digital library of education literature. Search a bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations on education topics going back to 1966. Over 100000 full text available for free. - eng

Please let me know about obsolete and invalid links too. Thanks.

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10 - Translation of Languages in the Web

Language is the source of misunderstandings - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

Lost in Translation - http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/ - see above - eng

http://www.flexdict.com/ - Special recommandation - Flexdict is a very good and easy-to-use translation and dictionary software with instant single-click activation and dictionaries for English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian, Dutch and Swedish, including English >< English, Dictionary for Computing, Consise Wikipedia and Webster Dictionary. - I use it successfully, try it out yourself for 30 days. - xxx

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page - Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary - xxxxx - xxxxx

http://www.babylon.com/affiliates/landing/index.php?id=10588&lang=eng - xxxxx > xxxxx

http://www.altavista.com/ - Altavista Babelfish - eng

http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/ - Inter Active Terminology for Europe - xxxxx

http://www.lingvosoft.com/ - eng  

http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/?dict=es - xxxx

http://www.freetranslation.com/ - xxxxx

http://www.langtolang.com/ - Really an interesting site for language fans - xxxxx

http://www.travlang.com - TravLang Translating Dictionaries - eng > xxxxx

www.freedict.com - free dictionaries - eng > xxxx

http://dict.uni-leipzig.de/ - deu >< eng

http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/

http://www.mrhoney.de/ - Business Dictionary - eng >< deu 

http://dictionaries.travlang.com/ - xxxxx - xxxxx

http://www.lingo24.com/ - Translation Service - xxxxx >< xxxxx

http://www.jlearnit.com/index.html -

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11 - Learning Languages Abroad

- http://www.gseabroad.com/  - Summer Study Abroad - Global Student Experience provides study abroad programs in Europe, Australia, Argentina and the UK - eng

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12 - Media

www.euronews.net - news in deu - eng - fra - ita - por - rus - spa

http://www.radioafrika.net/ - Radio Africa International - deu - fra 

http://www.beepworld.de/members16/teletext/index.htm - with links to teletext-offer from the whole world - read news and more in languages around the world through teletext. - deu - eng - fra - ndl 

Please let me know about obsolete and invalid links too. Thanks.

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13 - Vocabulary on the Web

http://www.languageguide.org/index.jsp - xxxxx >< xxxxx

http://www.pauker.at/ - deu - eng > xxxxx

http://memomo.net/ - vocabulary training and more (the button for language using is at the top on the left side) - deu - eng - fra > deu - eng - fra - ita - spa

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14 - Other interesting things on the Web

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ - CIA - The World Factbook 2007 - eng

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15 - ... this could be helpfull too

http://www.abkuerzungen.de/main.php?language=de&style=standard - Abbreviations, emoticons (small pictograms) and more - deu- eng 

www.ebay.com - An excellent possibility to buy courses, books and many other things for learning languages at good prices. - eng - xxxxx

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16 - Connoiseurs, Artists and Genius 

Burton - Sir Richard Francis Burton was an English explorer and much more and he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages.

Fazah - Ziad Fazah is passed for being the greatest living linguist. The article on Wikipedia is very interesting. 

Jacobson - Hermann Jacobsohn was a German linguist who spoke about 30 languages and dialects. (Info available only in German language.)

Krebs - Emil Krebs was a German polyglot and sinologist who was said to master 68 languages in speech and writing and studied 120 other languages (acc.to Wikipedia).

Mezzofanti - Guiseppe Mezzofanti was an Italian Catholic cardinal and famed linguist and he spoke 38 languages and 50 dialects fluently while also having proficiency in many other languages with a lesser fluency. (acc. to Wikipedia).

My personal comments:  In the German Issue of Wikipedia he has understood 57 languages and 12 of them he has spoken. In the french issue you can read following words: Il était capable de traduire les ouvrages en 117 langues et 72 dialectes = He was able to translate the work into 117 languages and 72 dialects. The Italian issue: ... si diceva parlasse fluentemente 38 lingue e 50 dialetti. = He spoke 38 languages and 50 dialects fluently - and the Russian issue  = что он владеет 38 языками и 50 диалектами is according to the English version.

Pimsleur - Dr. Paul Pimsleur has developed his own method for teaching and learning of foreign languages. This method is taught now by the Pimsleur Approach, which is, according to the website http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/guide/index.html,  the best course which is available.

Schliemann - Heinrich Schliemann was a German trader who spoke up to thirty foreign languages. "Schliemann wrote his diary in the language of whatever country he happened to be in."  He was the explorer of Troy. 

Tholuck - Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck was a German Protestant Church leader who has mastered already 19 languages when he was seventeen years old.

Toporek - Martin Toporek is a linguist who was Austrian top-performance athlete in the discipline of Racewalking, where he was multiple Austrian master, winner of bronze medal at the European indoor championship 1982 and has actively joined the Olympic games twice (Moscow 1980 and LA 1984). Later he has joined the national athletic team of the German Democratic Republic as a trainer where he had many possibilities to develop his own method of learning and teaching languages. Now he teaches languages with his own method - MTI 1908 - in his institute in Vienna. He speaks about 20 languages fluently.

Vandewalle - Johann Vandewalle is a Belgium architect from Brügge and he masters 22 living languages. He has been honored with the "Price of Babel".

Would you know any person who is worthy to be mentioned here too?
So please let me know. Thank you.

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17 - Curiosities and Museum of Languages 

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ - 1th International Collection of Tongue Twisters - xxxxx

http://www.language-museum.com/ - This website offers you samples of 2000 languages - eng

http://www.iheartchaos.com/2008/04/05/how-to-order-a-beer-in-50-languages-how-to/ - eng 

Do you know other curiosities they could fit into this category? - So please let me know. Thank you.

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18 - Is there anything else, something I forgot? 

Are you missing here some information? Would you like me to provide other themes for you? Do you have other or even better ideas? - That is super, please tell them to me and I will supplement these sheets, okay?

Please let me know about obsolete and invalid links too. Thanks.

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