Foreign Language Research Guide

The website of the National Library of France. The English-language version is located here.

"Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world, the place where you´ll find millions of words pronounced in their original languages."

"Conceived in partnership with France’s national library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, France in America /France en Amérique is a bilingual digital library made available by the Library of Congress. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century."

Includes terms published in Journal officiel

"The French Studies Web provides links to scholarly web resources and includes sites of particular interest to librarians specializing in Western Europe. It does not strive for exhaustiveness. Where possible, links to high-quality, scholarly meta-sites are given." From the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries.

Available through the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica provides access to digitized texts.

A guide to French spelling, grammar and vocabulary

French poetry from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century.

A collection of links about France and the French language from Robert D. Peckham, Professor of French at University of Tennessee-Martin

"Originally built for students at the University of Texas at Austin as a user-friendly guide to French grammar, this web site may be profitably used by any learner of French, provided he or she possess a sense of humor."

Learn German using a variety of online courses. Provided by Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster.

"Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world, the place where you´ll find millions of words pronounced in their original languages."

"The database provides access to the contributions of 151 journals from the early 20th century in full text. Available are approx. 40,000 contributions from over 5,000 different authors. All in all the database contains over 79,000 digitized pages."

Transcriptions or translations of primary source documents. Some image collections included. Created by Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

German podcasts that you can play in your browsers. Available in multiple levels for beginning learners on up.

Practice your German with this fun, interactive project from the Goethe Institute

A search engine to find synonyms; menu has multiple interactive features.

An online collection of almost thirty German dictionaries, including specialized regional and historical dictionaries (such as Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm's dictionary and many others).

"The [Biblioteca Digital Hispánica] is the digital library of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. It provides access free of charge to thousands of digitised documents, including books printed from the 15th to the 19th century, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, pamphlets, posters, photographs, maps, atlases, music scores, historic newspapers and magazines and audio recordings." Interface available in English.

Composed of the Cervantes International Bibliography Online, The Cervantes Digital Library, and the Cervantes Digital Archive of Images, this site represents a joint project between Texas A&M’s Department of Hispanic Studies, the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, and the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.

"Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. This telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students in a mysterious and entertaining story while viewing everyday situations with native speakers."

"Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world, the place where you´ll find millions of words pronounced in their original languages."

"LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region." From University of Texas at Austin

Listen to Spanish podcasts at various levels (beginner to advanced). Supplementary materials are offered for sale, as well. Created by Ben Curtis and Marina Diez.

"Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world." The Hispanic Trends section focuses on surveys and research on topics related to Hispanic society.

Provides lessons and activities, including grammar exercises and videos, to help with learning Spanish. Use links at the side to select specific topics. Created by Barbara Kuczun Nelson, a Spanish professor at Colby College.

"Spanish Proficiency Exercises is a compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks. The objective of the exercises is to provide students of Spanish with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same topics in Spanish." From University of Texas at Austin.

"The American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) was founded in 1927 and is the largest national association of French teachers in the world with nearly 10,000 members."

"The American Association of Teachers of German supports the teaching of the German language and German-speaking cultures in elementary, secondary and post-secondary education in the United States."

"The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese promotes the study and teaching of the Spanish and Portuguese languages and their corresponding Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and other related literatures and cultures at all levels of education.

"The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction."

"ATA was established to advance the translation and interpreting professions and foster the professional development of individual translators and interpreters."

"Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America has worked for more than a century to strengthen the study and teaching of languages and literatures."

"The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie represents one of the biggest linguistic zones in the world. Its members share more than just a common language. They also share the humanist values promoted by the French language. The French language and its humanist values represent the two cornerstones on which the International Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie is based."

"Presented by the Library of Congress, Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information."

"GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government."

Image search from Google - either text-based or reverse image.

A news aggregator

Reverse image search - upload an image or provide a URL to an image's online location.

"USA.gov is an interagency product administered by USAGov (formerly the Federal Citizen Information Center), a division of the U.S. General Services Administration's Technology Transformation Service. Our mission is to create and organize timely, needed government information and services and make them accessible anytime, anywhere, via your channel of choice."

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