Learn a language for free with this superb app and site. Whether you are just starting out, or want to brush up your knowledge of foreign language, this is the biggest community of language learners on the web. A great resource for teachers and pupils of all ages. Check out the schools section to set up accounts for your class.
Listen or download audio of 100 characters of text in many different languages. Perfect for MFL students engaged in self-directed study.
| primarylanguages.org.uk | A general MFL site with resources, guidance and advice. A good place to find your feet if you are new to teaching languages. |
| communication4all.co.uk/http/ModernForeignLanguages.htm | A page of colour downloadable European MFL (mainly French), such as number cards. greetings cards and colour vocabulary flash cards. |
| forvo.com | The thing that worries most non-specialists teaching language is pronouncing words correctly from a book. This is where Forvo is priceless. Native speaker users and the site itself have uploaded audio clips of word for us non native speakers to copy. The site has 250+ languages uploaded. I tested the Mandarin section, as I understand that, and it was faultless. An amazing resource. |
| dictionary.reverso.net | A nice online multi-language translation website. |
| languagesresources.co.uk/index.html | This site is the work of one dedicated MFL teacher and is packed full of great resources and links to other MFL website for both teachers and pupils. |
| studystack.com/Languages | Use online flashcards to help you remember MFL vocabulary. Thousands of pre-made lists or sign in to make your own to use or share with students. [Be aware – Site contains advertisements] |
| accent.gmu.edu | A site which compares the accent of thousands of speakers from around the world, including many English speakers. |
| digitaldialects.com | I really like this site. A great site where you can learn basic vocab in 60 languages.Play games to practise basic phrases, colours, numbers and much more. A must try resource for schools doing a ‘language of the week’. |
| vocabulary.co.il | A collection of games for literacy, English as an Additional Language and MFL. |
| bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/lingo-show/games/lingo-show-bigbugshow | A beautifully made language site for young children from the BBC. A must try site. |
| memrise.com/welcome | An amazing language learning site which helps learners of MFL remember words for over 200 languages by associating them with visual clues/mnemonics and score points by showing you remember the language in a variety of ways. You can listen to audio of the words you are learning. The site tracks your progress and analyses where you need improvement and it will adjust the words you are shown accordingly. |
| lexilogos.com/keyboard/index.htm | A great time saving tool. This virtual keyboard gives you the non-English characters to type with ease in any language. |
| babelxl.com | A simple translation site. Enter your text and translate into over 50 languages with the click of a button. |
| lyricsgaps.com | A great site where you can find songs with cloze text of lyrics from songs in many languages. |
| mymemory.translated.net | A great translater site like many others, but users can also improve translations being search for at the time. |
| typeit.org | A useful site that helps with characters and symbols in European languages not usually found on an English keyboard. |
| lingro.com | A nice multilingual dictionary and translation site. Lots of extra tools, such as a website translator and file viewer. |
| tonguetide.com | Tonguetide is a social networking site for people looking to improve their foreign language skills. Find a language partner or use the site’s learning tools to help you. |
| en.bab.la/hangman.php | Play hangman in ten European languages, including English, French, German and Spanish. You can choose the level of difficulty. |
| verbling.com | An interesting site that connects language learners to native speakers using video conferencing. |
| pronunciator.com | A brilliant site with simple audio/visual flash animations for learning 60 of the world’s major languages. |
| aboutworldlanguages.com | A really interesting site that explores how world languages have developed, what they are related to and fascinating facts and trivia. A great background resource for any MFL student. |
| learningchocolate.com | A superb language site for learning vocabulary. Choose to learn to and from English, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. |
| labs.microsofttranslator.com/bookmarklet | A good, simple browser translation tool from Microsoft. The bookmarklet sits in your bookmark toolbar and translates foreign pages into your language with one click. Choose a language from the drop down menu to translate into other languages. |
| sunderlandschools.org/mfl-sunderland | A good collection of MFL resources and links for French, German, Spanish and Italian. There is also a link to the ‘Estrellas’ student resources area. |
| collinsdictionary.com | A good online English, French, Spanish and German dictionary, thesaurus and translator to use in your class. |
| themultilife.com | A social network where posts are translated into 36 languages and reads them out at the click of a button. |
| audio-lingua.eu | Find hundreds of audio files to listen and download language files in English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin. Record sentences in your own language and upload to this useful project. |
| languageguide.org | A wonderful project to build interactive resources with audio to help learn a range of languages from around the world. |
| endangeredlanguages.com | A fascinating site that explores endangered languages. Read information and the demographics of the remaining speakers and watch video clips of some phrases. Why not try something different for your ‘language of the week’. |
| hellomylo.com | A fabulous language site with sections for French, Spanish, German and Chinese. Learn language topics and play quizzes to test what you have learnt. |
| languagesonline.org.uk | This is a huge European languages site with a large bank of resources for learners of French, German, Spanish, Italian and Latin. There are lots of age differentiated interactive resources and games. |
| wordbucket.com | A nice MFL Apple, Android and Amazon app which helps you practise vocabulary in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Russian and English. |
| babadum.com | This is a fab HTML5 language learning site which tests your language skills through a series of games with 1500 words. The site collects stats on your performance. Languages include English, Spanish, German, French, Japan, Italian, Russian and Polish. |
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