Language and translation resources
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Language Learning and Information Resources
- Best language learning sites as recommended by the European Training Programme
- Audio Forum: world's largest selection of self-instructional language courses: 275 courses in 96 languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu. At the Agora Language Marketplace
- Fodor's foreign language tutorial - French, German, Italian, and Spanish
- iLoveLanguages - formerly known as The Human-Languages Page.
- SIL International
- Consult the Ethnologue.
- to learn about the world's languages - there are a lot more than you think
- to find out if a specific group has portions of Scripture.- Language learning
- focuses on developing the ability to communicate in a second language, with special emphasis on languages for which there are few or no written or recorded resources. - Training programs - in applied linguistic fieldwork at 13 institutions around the world.
- Language learning
- Yamada WWW Language Guides
- the definitive guide to language resources on the World Wide Web. - University of Washington, Language Resources on the Web
Translation Resources
- E-Services Translation Portal - Don't forget about Uniscape.com if you're looking for job opportunities in translation. Registration is free to translators as is the use of Uniscape's translation tools.
- Travlang's Translating Dictionaries - covering more and more languages, and always free! English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Afrikaans, Esperanto. Now over 70 languages.
- Translation Sites on the Web
- The Translator's Home Companion
- Alta Vista has a translation engine online for some Western European languages. It can translate web pages live for you. Be careful; it is machine translation!
- FreeTranslation.com - offers fast, world-class quality instant translation. Check out Transparent Language's complex of Web sites (FreeTranslation.com, PlusTranslation.com and Transparent.com). This site seems to do a better job of translation than AltaVista, but be careful; it is still machine translation! They have some interesting comments on this subject.
