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A lively introduction to Mandarin Chinese in 10 short parts with video clips from the Real Chinese TV series.

Defense Language Institute. Free registration required. Chinese Headstart2 exposes users to 750 key terms and phrases, and provides them with important communication tools they need in preparation for deployment.
Course Structure. Headstart2 consists of ten modules, each including two Sound and Script and five Military Tasks. Sound and Script teaches the basics of Chinese script. Each Military Task focuses on fifteen language drills based on a given topic or theme, such as greetings and introductions, or gathering intelligence.

This site provides free tutorials and other interactive media for learning Mandarin Chinese. There are several options on the site that allows for a diverse and fun learning experience.

An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages

Defense Language Institute. Select China from the drop-down menu to see cultural and language resources.The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center offers country familiarization materials and language survival kits/guides directly supporting both linguists and non-linguists.

Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission (Taiwan)

California State University, Long Beach

Rutgers University. This is a computer based multimedia curriculum to supplement First year, Second year, and Advanced Chinese (Third and Fourth year) language instruction at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. RMCTS was developed by the Department of Asian Language and Cultures at Rutgers, with the support of a grant from the U. S. Department of Education. Our intention has been to design an extensive set of materials that will provide students with a substantial amount of practice in reading and listening, and comprehensive drills in grammar and vocabulary.

Site by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs offering diplomatic news and magazine Label France publishing articles either written by freelance journalists or taken from the French newspapers, on every aspect of France today

Global news channel featuring daily news and commentary

Country specific news from this well-known international newspaper

French Language Online Newspaper

The latest and breaking news from France

The Coalition of Women in German provides a democratic forum for all people interested in feminist approaches to German literature and culture or in the intersection of gender with other categories of analysis such as sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.

The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institution operational worldwide. We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. We also foster knowledge about Germany by providing information on its culture, society and politics.

Herzlich willkommen im Lande der Grimm Grammar!
Welcome to Grimm Grammar, an irreverent revival and shameless exploitation of 19th-century Grimm Fairy Tales for honorable pedagogical purposes. Fortunately for you, Dear Reader, thirty-six characters from these fairy tales have returned to 21st century Germany (their precise location cannot be revealed for privacy reasons) to model all things grammatical ... anything the most eager language learner may wish to know about the German language.

There are thousands of courses on Memrise - all free and all created by other members of the community. Courses are available in many languages, for many languages and other subjects. If we don't have what you want, join in and make your own!

Knowledge portal with information about travel, education, children, health, history, entertainment, and technology.

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The mission of the AATG is based on the belief that bringing the language, literatures and cultures of the German-speaking world to all Americans is a vital humanistic endeavor which serves essential national interests. It's the only national individual membership organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of the language, literature, and culture of the German-speaking countries.

Die Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung wurde am 200. Geburtstag Goethes, dem 28. August 1949, in der Paulskirche zu Frankfurt am Main gegründet. Sie betrachtet den ganzen deutschen Sprachbereich als ihr Wirkungsfeld. Sie ist die einzige deutsche Akademie, die nicht in verschiedene Klassen gegliedert ist, sondern sich allein der deutschen Sprache und der deutschen Literatur widmet. Sie vereinigt deutschsprachige Schriftsteller und Gelehrte aus dem In- und Ausland.

Die Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS) ist eine politisch unabhängige Vereinigung zur Pflege und Erforschung der deutschen Sprache. Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahre 1947 sieht sie es als ihre Aufgabe an, in der Öffentlichkeit das Bewusstsein für die deutsche Sprache zu vertiefen und ihre Funktion im globalen Rahmen sichtbar zu machen. Die GfdS hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Sprachentwicklung kritisch zu beobachten und auf der Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Forschung Empfehlungen für den allgemeinen.

Das Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim ist die zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtung zur Dokumentation und Erforschung der deutschen Sprache in Gegenwart und neuerer Geschichte. Als Mitglied der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft wird das IDS gemeinsam von Bund und allen 16 Bundesländern unter besonderer Beteiligung des Landes Baden-Württemberg getragen.

The Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL), founded in 1968, is the largest and most active organization in North America to serve the broad community of scholars teaching and researching in Germanic Linguistics and Philology. The international membership of the SGL embraces all areas of and approaches to Germanic linguistics and philology, from formal syntax and phonology through historical linguistics to textual editing.

From the site: In this article, I break it all down and show you exactly how Japanese sentences work, using plenty of examples and charts showing very clearly how Japanese sentences are structured. Every aspect of Japanese grammar fits within the structure outlined below.

From the site: Free PDF worksheet and answer. は、が、を、に、へ、で　wa, ga, o, ni, e, de

From the site: Each lesson video comes with video review notes which review what we learned in the video and give additional information.

Online particle exercises with answers and vocabulary

From the site: Before you can fully start taking advantage of online resources, you’ll want to make sure your computer is properly configured to support Japanese. Fortunately, this has become a lot easier with modern software, often only requiring setting some configuration options and in some cases, inserting the original installation disk.

From the site: Once you've installed your very own Japanese keyboard, it's time start typing. Mash those keys and you're greeted with romaji quickly morphing into kana quickly morphing into kanji. Plus there's a dropdown box. And if you hit the spacebar, things start getting really crazy. Hit the brakes. Just because you know how to enable IME, doesn't mean you know how to type in Japanese. It's pretty easy once you've figured it out, but can be tricky if you've never done it before.

From the site: t’s a one page document that lays out all the main particles, explains their meaning, and shows some examples....I wouldn’t recommend using it to learn Japanese particles outright, but you can use it to help you tell one particle from another

From the site: Jisho is a powerful Japanese-English dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji, example sentences and more quickly and easily.

From the site: The Reading Tutor was designed to help JFL/JSL learners improve their reading skills in Japanese. This system was developed specifically to help learners study written Japanese at their own pace, in their own way.

From the site: Read and Learn Japanese Kanji as it appears on the web.

From the site: Over 178,000 parallel Japanese-English example sentences with readings and word definitions.

From the site: Welcome to WWWJDIC, the dictionary server operated by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG) and associated with the JMdict/EDICT and KANJIDIC projects. Please note that this server is intended for people who have studied some Japanese and who can read at least kana. There is no display of romanized Japanese.

Abstract: A person’s religious view is one of the elements that strongly influences his or her guiding principle in daily communication. In this essay, the author focuses on Shinto and attempts to conceptualize its influence on aspects of Japanese daily life and communication. First, the author reviews Shinto’s definitions, types of modern Shinto, the concept of kami (gods), the-otherworld views, reverence of nature, worship of ancestors, musubi (the mystical power of becoming or creation), and purity. Then, the author proposes two communication models based on a Shinto perspective: (1) kan’no (responding to nature as a deity) as intrapersonal communication; and (2) the sense of oneness with kami achieved by carrying mikoshi (a portable Shinto shrine) in matsuri festival.

From the site: When learning the Japanese respectful speech called Keigo, the attention is often focused on verbs construction and the social relations between a speaker and a listener. However, Keigo covers more than set expressions and situational examples, and in particular Japanese uses Honorific Prefixes.

From the site: Kami are the divine spirits or gods recognized in Shinto, the native religion of Japan. There are eight million kami—a number that, in traditional Japanese culture, can be considered synonymous with infinity. Throughout the islands of Japan, you’ll encounter these deities at shrines, monuments and in popular culture time and again. These are seven of the most prominent Shinto kami.

From the site: This video is about Double Consonants and Long Vowels in Hiragana

Article about expressing frequency in Japanese

This is a one-stop shop for high-quality, online resources to learn Japanese. They are organized by the following categories: Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Grammar, Vocabulary, Kana, Kanji, Tools, Dictionaries/Translations, Culture/Society, and Other.

From the site: Saying "you" in Japanese is much trickier business than in English. In English, we have just the one word, and we use it all the time. Japanese has a much broader vocabulary, but also a strong tendency to avoid using it.

How to count from 1 through 99 and express age in Kanji

From the site: An app that allows you to learn hiragana / katakana in a fun way using mnemonic pictures. It includes plenty of quizzes for you to test your understanding. Recommended for complete beginners in Japanese or anyone with an interest in Japanese letters.

From the site: Only 5 minutes a day: Drops limits your learning time to 5 minutes. This might sound crazy but works like charm. Learning a new language might feel overwhelming but by chunking down into 5-minute sprints, the barrier of entry is nonexistent. No excuses: you ALWAYS have 5 minutes! The time constraint induces ridiculous focus which further enhances the effectiveness of memorization.

From the site: You can enjoy tbs' diverse contents optimized for mobile device. Key Features: Live streaming of tbs TV, tbs FM, tbs eFM. Latest news. Location based living information. Real-time traffic information.

Based off of "Erin's Challenge!" from The Japan Foundation.

From the site: This App contains most of the Japan internet radio stations, including NHK, are collected in this application, enjoy unlimited access of live radio broadcast and a great variety of music streaming from Japan.

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Free thematic modules for language instruction that can be used in the classroom or for independent study.

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Online catalog of Spanish Literature

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