Are you interested in Dutch? Curious how Dutch sounds? Wondering how difficult, or easy it is? Perhaps you are thinking of studying Dutch? Then here is your opportunity to have a go at the language yourself and experience what it is like to learn Dutch fr

A listening exersice of Aaqid alhajebain by Fairooz with grammer activities: the dual, the case endings and prepositions

Listen to the song and try to identify the dual word then find their singular

This is a brief example of one powerful resource for cohesion which is often overlooked in published materials.

another tongue-twister to practice pronunciation of "p"

Test

Rosa y Nino (su marido) nos hablan de sus respectivos trabajos en Chile y nos muestran el terreno en la Isla de Maipo donde construirán la casa de sus sueños. Rosa nos explica también por qué decidió quedarse a vivir en Chile y qué le atrae de ese

A collection of Spanish videos dealing with different topics. Some contain transcripts and associated activities

A selection of some videos filmed in Chile (intervies with native speakers of Spanish.

Nena nos habla de su actividad como pintora y describe algunos de sus cuadros. Nos habla también de su familia y de cómo diferentes aspectos de la ciudad de Santiago de Chile han cambiado en los últimos 50 años.

Entrevista con Patricio Celedón, enólogo de las bodegas Terra Mater (Isla de Maipo, Chile). Patricio nos habla del proceso de elaboración de sus vinos, sus características, variedades y mercados. También nos muestra los viñedos (Fundo Camerana)y nos

Un taxista bonaerense nos habla desde su punto de vista de la historia y edificios más significativos que rodean la Plaza de Mayo de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Angélica nos habla de sus últimas vacaciones, sus destinos preferidos y sus planes para futuros viajes.

Escucha y responde las preguntas.

Some basic Spanish vocabulary

This collection brings together my favourite resources from HumBox. They are random in nature and content.

A variety of interesting resources to use to supplement teaching Spanish across a range of first year modules.

a test grouping to make my first collection

A brief guide to copyright for users of the Language Box, written by the project team. None of the team are lawyers and so it does not constitute legal advice!

A video about explaining what twitter is and how it is used. It is a link to a video held on YouTube.

Presentation given by Kate Borthwick (LLAS) at Cilt, on 01 June 2009.

Tango

Video da CorriereTV sull'aumento dei casi di obesita' in eta' evolutiva in Italia.

Attivita' di preparazione all'ascolto ed esercizio di comprensione

Here Alexandra is talking about the members of her family and their jobs and relationships.

This is a pensioner who lives in Portsmouth, talking about how he met his wife an d how often he sees his great-grandchildren. He has a strong Portsmouth (South coast of Britain) accent

This is a Member of Parliament in Britain talking about the normal work of an MP

A good source to practice several points of spanish grammar, from the BBC.

Presentation introducing tools and resources for creating and sharing e-learning resources

Multiple choice questions for testing general linguistics knowledge

Taken by me, feel free to use

Adapted for the synchronous online teaching environment. Can also be used face-to-face with an element of competition between teams within a group.

This collection contains an array of resources and activities on Italian language and culture aimed at advanced learners in Higher Education.

This PowerPoint presentation intruduces a range of idioms with the feminine 'la' and shows how they are used in Italian. The activity offers an opportunity to practise with these idioms.

This activity aims to help student pronounce the [ki] and [tSi] sounds in Italian correctly

This activity aims to help student pronounce the [Si] and [ski] sounds in Italian correctly

In this activity students will read and test their understanding of the text, reflect on selected vocabulary and engage in autonomous research on a related topic

This PowerPoint presentation describes the forms and uses of Italian relative pronouns

The PLIDA (Progetto Lingua Italiana Dante Alighieri) site offers a variety of activities to test your competence in the Italian language at different levels

This unit aims at helping students approach a short literary text in Italian by helping them analyse its literary components, content and language.

Comprehensive online spanish grammar guide

Basic pronunciation of letters from Oxford Dictionaries

Actividad para practicar descripciones personales basadas en profesiones

Language Test

An explanation of how to form all the tenses with a selection of practise exercises. Once you have opened the link, click on Espanol then Grammar

A great website which covers a variety of topics. Choose a level from the left handside of the site, pick a topic and the vocabulary and pronunciation is at the bottom of the page.

French life: a series and pictures, videos and presentations

listen to the pronounciation of letters, and a little song

Verb conjugator. Practice conjugating verbs in different tenses. It gives your results when you want to finish.

Digital Media Library CALS

Gap filler

Gap filler

Gap filler

Gap filler

Quiz and order sentence

Present tense gap filler

imperfect tense quiz

listen to the spoken number and tap in the number she has said. If you get it wrong she will repeat until you get it correct.

listen to the video and fill in the gaps to what he says. Various topics to choose from

verb congugator

A list of different words in Spanish that can be easily misunderstood by the English speaker.

Crossword on different items of clothing

Gives an introduction on the use of the perfect tense and how to conjugate it. There are some quizzes down the side to practice it. The website in general is useful for different grammar points.

Practice vocabularly of different jobs.

Brief overview as to the usage of both ser and estar.

Quizzes on different gropus of vocabulary, such as clothes, transport, body parts etc. Good revsion of basic words.

Videos of everyday scenarios, including meeting and greeting, ordering at a cafe and asking for directions. Videos are in the style of a drama, as though you are visiting Madrid.

Ppt describing various likes and dislikes

Review of key sentences for giving personal information in mandarin chinese

Making hypothèses

video illustration of negative in news clip

Resources related to Ethredge's infamous comedy

PowerPoint presentation from a lecture focusing on Man of Mode, fashion, sex and libertinism

This is a reading guide and exercises sheet to support Spanish language learners in their reading of Elvira Lindo's "Manolito Gafotas". It includes methodological suggestions for the creation of an online reading group and a wiki. It can be supported with

These are image sets of various cities that I have visited

These are the materials produced by the Faroes development team for JISC meetings and other dissemination events.

This is a YouTube video to help people learn to talk in English about food.

This is the flyer that we handed out at the repositories support day in Manchester on March 19, 2009.

We held our first community workshop in Southampton in March 2008. These are the introductory slides showing the objectives of the project.

This is the flyer that we produced for the first programme meeting that the Faroes team attended. Its early days, but we describe the objectives of the project, and talk about our past experiences with CLARE and CLARET

These are images of Pompeii, Italy. They were taken in 2005. There is also one shot of Mount Vesuvius in the background.

These are images of the city of Salzburg, taken in Summer 2005.

These are the slides I presented on the Language Box at the LLAS 2009 symposium. More details about the event can be found here: http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/2985

These are the three original design storyboards for the Language Box site (codenamed Puffin Share :-) Many of the features (such as inline previews and comments) have been implemented, but we still have a little way to go with profiles. Happily the look a

Photos of Porto taken in 2008

This is a short story by Franz Kafka.

Audio with colloquial German offering IT vocabulary and phrases.

A short dialogue in colloquial German offering computer vocabulary and phrases. Find a word document with transcript, tanslation, vocabulary list and some advice on pronunciation in the 'Associated Activities'.

Transcript, translation, vocabulary, tips on pronunciation

Ejercicio auditivo basado en la materia que imparte en la Universidad de Southampton la Dra. Alicia Pozo-Gutiérrez sobre Teorias de Violencia Política.

Exercise to explain and practise pronouns

This is Bob the builder in spanish, it is nice and easy to understand!

Fill in the gaps for the correct camping items.

Match the items of clothing up.

Fill in the gaps with the colours

Fill in the gaps with the correct direct & indirect object pronouns.

Find the odd word out

Match the spanish word to the english words.

Fill in the gaps with the correct for of the verbs. The words in the sentences give clues for what tense to use.

Fill in the crossword with the correct preterite of these words. 2 of them are inperfect but these are noted on the clues.

this is a good basic website which explains how to pronunciate the letters of the alphabet and there are also sound clips so you can hear them.

This is a simple website which shows you how to conjugate verbs into the preterite and where is it used.

Outline of a tutorial session for upper intermediate German students (face-to-face or via synchronous voice conferencing) with accompanying PowerPoint slide. Learning objectives: to think about what our world might look like in the future, to use present,

Un treno travolge un tir che centra in pieno un operaio: l'uomo ha solo una ferita all'orecchio

variety of depictions of Jesus from different cultures

learn Spanish by playing games!!

Develop a native-like accent, feel successful from the very beginning, progress more quickly . . . there are lots of reasons that good pronunciation is important.

watch clips and play games and learn Spanish

help on spanish grammar analysis...

a kids cartoon programm, narrated in slow easy to understand spanish, with visuals to help understand the dialogue, this clip also helps with pronounciation.

learning to use pro nouns as objects of prepositions, a quick exercise which asks you to translate english sentences into spanish

A topical collection of Mandarin Chinese vocabulary for learners at beginners and intermediate levels

Sorry - not a language resource, but a report on our repository project DRaW at Worcester for those interested in the development of repositories.

Listening

An open-ended collection of online resources for students and teachers of Spanish, covering a variety of levels and types of activity.

An open-ended collection of online resources for students and teachers of Spanish, covering a variety of levels and types of activity.

Une série d'exercices de compréhension de texte au sujet d'un sondage réalisé auprès du public français quant à leur santé.

a list of words which differ in meaning depending on whether they are singular or plural. Corrigé is on page 2.

This is a website with links to other sites with videos to help beginner and intermediate learners espaecially, from greetings to ordering food.

This is a video on how to pronounce all of the alphabet, however beware that parts of it seem to be more Latin American Spanish e.g. pronunciation of "c".

Some exercises focussing on tenses, indirect/direct object pronouns, and vocabulary

Here's a crossword incorporating material, size, design and shape vocabulary

Revise the prepositions by matching up the english and spanish

Exercises from unit 13 including body parts, how you feel, symptoms, illnesses and medecine.

This is a matching exercise for revising words which indicate which past tense to use.

Here is a gap fill to help practise the weather and tenses.

This page gives exercises and tests to paractise all grammar points, it's particularly good for revision.

This site gives a few exercises to help with pronouncing Spanish words, it also lets you hear the words spoken as well.

Studetns taking part in a life discussion

Podcasting with students - task sheet (in German only)

The discussion of caste in Sikhism is a taboo subject. However, there are many caste based groups. This presentation looks at how caste based groups may have originated in India and the diaspora.

crossword, and html file and hotpotatoes original

Miscellaneous articles

lecture notes

seminar activity on cohesion

ppt from lecture

url of el pais

some tongue twisters to practise difficult German sounds

pair work activity to talk about yesterday's activities

Pair work activity in German to talk about past events.

Gap filling exercise

choose the tense you want to practice then choose a verb- or it can select one at random conjugate the verb and press correct

a simple game to practice spelling and vocab