Tag Archives: Language

Language departments eliminated

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Ben Johnston

Even French, Italian,Russian and the clas­sics are con­sid­ered endan­gered lan­guages at the State Uni­ver­sity of New York at Albany. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/10/04/albany

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Typing in Foreign Languages

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Ben Johnston

If you have the need to type any­thing in a for­eign lan­guage which has accents and other strange-looking char­ac­ters, and you only have a US keyboard,this web­site will make your life a whole lot eas­ier! Now, through the mir­a­cles of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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German History Audio Books (in German)

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Angel Brady

I recently came across a post on The Lin­guist on Lan­guage blog and the post con­tained a list of resources on Ger­man His­tory audio books that are in Ger­man. If you want to brush up on Germany’s his­tory as well … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Images for Language Instruction

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Ben Johnston

The Realia Project is an online search­able source of royalty-free, faculty-reviewed images for use as teach­ing mate­ri­als in the for­eign lan­guage class­room. Realia – Rich Elec­tronic Archive for Lan­guage Instruc­tion Anywhere

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Google keyboard

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Ben Johnston

Google has added an on-screen key­board to their search por­tals for lan­guages that use non-latin script. This could be par­tic­u­larly use­ful for peo­ple who reg­u­larly search in these other lan­guages but who use a latin alpha­bet key­board. Look for this … Con­tinue read­ing →

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