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George Orwell, 1903 - 1950
English journalist/author






Cross language resources

including digital translators

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Cross-language resources, including machine translators

Google translation tools
An extensive list of over 40 languages, including the ability to translate text, Webpages, or documents, or enter Website addresses for translations, or to add a "translate" button on pages as found in this site.
Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Free Dictionaries
Korean Dictionary (.net) | Japanese Dictionary (.org) | Spanish Dictionary (.net) |
 German Dictionary (.org) | Chinese Dictionary (.net) | Russian Dictionary (.org/) |
 Italian Dictionary (.org/)

Language lessons:
German lessons | Japanese lessons | Korean lessons | Learn Japanese Online

Yes Japanese | Yes Korean | Yes German | Yes Spanish | Yes Chinese |
Yes Russian | Yes French | Yes Greek | Yes Latin

Writing Japanese and Chinese characters
Stroke order of the eight basic forms that compose each character.

Yahoo Babel Fish
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, Greek Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Free translation
"Click to translate" Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Somali, Spanish (Mexican and European), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, Japanese

Dictionary.com
Aside from extensive English dictionary and thesaurus, translations in languages, with some dysfunction on a test sample, including:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bihari, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino Finnish,, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati,, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Laothian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayaalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Oriya, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tagalog, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Uighur, Vietnamese

WordReference.com Dictionaries:
Español | Français | Italiano | Deutsch | Português | Русский | Polski | Română | Čeština | Ελληνικά| Türkçe | 英汉词典 | 英和辞書 | 영-한 사전 | قاموس إنجليزي - عربي

Vícejazyčný Slovník
anglický | německý | francouzský | italský | španělský | ruský | latinský | esperantský >>český

130! Languages:
Dictionary site

Mediadico
French/English translations with extensive definitions, homonyms, paronymes, synonyms, expressions, English "difficulties," etc. Originated out of Firefox

Search Engine Colossus:
International Directory of Search Engines

International Archive of Education Data
sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations

Lingu@net Europa
multilingual centre for language learning.
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish

DIALANG
European project for the development of diagnostic language tests in 14 European languages.

Symbaloo
A desk top access point that includes translations into 15 languages. Available in Belgium and German, as well as in beta in the Netherlands, Spain, France, the UK, and the US.

Applied Language
Multiple pairs mostly to/from English: French, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese

DictSearch:
Access 265 online dictionaries using this one simple interface.

non-English Language

ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle
L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993.

Bibliotheca Augustana Blackmask Online
litteraturae et artis collectio (classical periods, mulitple European languages including Latin and Greek)

Brazilian Digital Art and Poetry

Carrie: Full-Text Electronic Library
maintained by Serge Noiret,as part of the WWW-VL History Central Catalogue at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
The Online Resource for Irish history, literature and politics. A Project of the History Department University College Cork

Labyrinth Library
Middle English Bookcase sponsored by Georgetwon University

Literature Project
Collection of classic books, poems, speeches, and plays

National Academy Press
publish reports/books issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council

Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)
Literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization

Philological Museum
Analytic bibliography of online new-Latin titles

Project Runeberg
Electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature

Curricular guides and resources:

Using feedback in the classroom | Teaching critical thinking | Bloom's taxonomy |
Teaching with questioning | The Socratic Method | Preparing guided notes |
A curricular idea! | Curricular resources and guides |
Learning Exercises & Games | Exploring learning styles |
Constructing true/false tests | Constructing multiple choice tests |
Constructing essay exams | Cross language resources including digital translators |
Online Learning/eLearning books and resources for teachers