Online resources for Years 8 - 12: Languages

LLAS is a research and enterprise group specialising in educational projects and professional development in the area of languages and related studies

Ethnologue contains information on 7,105 known living languages.

This area of the LINGUIST List contains information on languages and language families, plus links to websites devoted to natural and constructed languages, to writing systems, and to language resources.

The Language Box is a new way of storing, managing and publishing your Language teaching resources on the web. Share handouts, exercises, podcasts, videos and anything else you can imagine!

The goal of this 'visual sourcebook' is to add to the material teachers can use to help their students understand Chinese history, culture, and society." It features a timeline with links to information and images, and essays on various topics.

Learn how to speak the Chinese language with Chinese classes, courses and audio and video in Chinese, including phrases, Chinese characters and pronunciation.

A website designed for students of Chinese and their teachers.

Web directory of China/Chinese related resources on the Internet .

Offers you some basic Chinese courses, some useful language tools, and some other resources, you can learn Chinese pinyin, slang, calligraphy, and some other Chinese basic knowledge or skills.

Links to Internet resources for interactive online learning of Chinese. The site also has excellent resources for foreign language teachers.

Denshi Jisho is an easy-to-use online Japanese dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji and example sentences by searching in many ways.

Convert Web Page Kanji to Furigana.

The Japan Foundation, Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai developed this app to provide a fun way to study hiragana / katakana using mnemonic pictures.

Japanese culture, art, royalty, calendar, entertainment, famous people.

jGram is a database of Japanese grammar put together by the jGram community.

List of links for webbased Japanese dictionaries, activities, games etc. Everything you need for learning Japanese.

Following our popular app "Kanji Memory Hint 1" that lets you enjoy studying kanji through mnemonic pictures and games, we have now released "KANJI Memory Hint 2" (English version).

Online textbook with an integrated selection of classroom activities, grammar notes, reading comprehension exercises, audio files and photos. Users must become free members to gain access.

On this site you will find detailed lessons on grammar, conjugating verbs, pronunciation, common phrases, writing (for hiragana, katakana and the more advanced, kanji), reading practice, audio files to improve comprehension and instructional video files - all free.

Here you will find a wealth of information that will help you learn Japanese free online.

History of Japan, and the culture, including food, customs and business culture. There are also links to information about Japanese film & television, literature, art and music.