General

• Interagency Language Roundtable

  Information about assessing skill levels, resources for professional teachers and students of all languages

Arabic

• “Aswaat Arabiyya,” University of Texas at Austin.

  Provides authentic listening texts for all learning levels. Texts can be sped up or slowed down to facilitate understanding.

• “Phone Conversations” in Egyptian, Iraqi and Levantine dialects.

  Defense Language Insttute Foreign Language Center

• Good listing of lyrics of Arabic songs

Chinese

• Video Clips for Listening Practice

• Beginning Chinese Characters

• Chinese Online Flashcards

• Simplified Chinese Character Tutor

• Instruction in Stroke Order for Chinese

• Read and Write Chinese Characters

French

• RFI – Radio Francais International - French language practices, vocabulary, news

• RFI – Radio Francais International - Teaching Material

• RFI – Radio Francais International - Listening Comprehension Exercise

• BBC Languages French – French TV, Radio, vocabulary trainer

• Le Point du FLE Resources for teaching and learning French

• Podcast Francais facile

German

• Goethe Institute

• Goethe Institute

• Introduction to German language, language trainer

• Teaching German as a second language (including teaching materials)

• Deutsche Welle – Radio : German news read at reduced speed, news articles with vocabulary

• Teachmaster.de – vocabulary trainer

• Blinde Kuh – Suche : Search engine for kids

• Slow German : podcast with study material

• German-English online dictionary

Hindi or Urdu

• Guide to Establishing a Hindi or Urdu Language Program

• University of Washington Resources for Learning Hindi

  Includes course materials, conversatoin lessons, web based Hindi materials, and much more

• The University of Texas Hindi-Urdu Flagship Program

  Includes glossaries, thesaurus of Hindi, worksheets, textbooks, and much more

Indonesian

• Learning Bahasa Indonesia on the Internet

• Warung Sinema: Indonesian Language Project

Italian

• BBC Italian

• In Italia : L’Italia e l’italiano per stranieri

• Italica Italian Course online

• Zanichelli Class room materials

• Language Guide.org : Image dictionary

• Centro Studi Italiani : Online exercises in Italian

• AlterVISTA : Noi parliamo italiano … e tu?

  Teaching material for all levels

Spanish

• Cervantes Institute : Listening exercises

• Radio FLE – Spanish learning radio

• EU Delegation to Spain : Study Spanish Material A2-C1

• Study Spanish.com

• BBC Spanish

• Hispadictos : Resources to teach and study Spanish

Tagalog

• Interactive Language and Filipino Culture Resources

• UC Berkeley Filipino Language and Culture Resources

Let's Talk About Teaching Foreign Language

Stephen Tschudi gives a history of the standards, defines the five key goal areas, explains how to use the standards to plan curriculum, and introduces standards-based performance rubrics.

Part One: Language Proficiency: What it Means to “Know” a Language

Part Two: Tasks in Language Teaching: What We Ask Students to Do

Part Three: Standards for Foreign Language Learning

Let’s Talk About Teaching Foreign Language on Vimeo.