Adlai E. Stevenson High School Library Serving the information and research needs of approximately 4600 students and 500 staff.

Foreign Language and ESL Resources

Translation:

• Babel Fish An automatic translation service from Alta Vista that translates to and from English and French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. It translates Web sites as well as text.
  
  
• Google in Your Language Allows one to search the WWW in any language and will translate to or from any of the languages on their list.
  
  
• Onelook Dictionaries Not a dictionary itself, Onelook provides a search engine that locates terms in dictionaries that are available free over the Internet. Over 600 dictionaries are indexed, including many foreign language and slang, as well as subject specific dictionaries.
  
  
• Langenberg Good selection of free translation engines.
  
  
• Verbix Conjugates verbs in 142 languages, including some that are extinct!
  

French:

• ARTFL University of Chicago's project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language. Contains many resources and links.
  
  
• Annuare Enseignement Superieur et Recherche French language gateway to web sites in France. Search by word, region, maps .
  
  
• Parlez-Vous? A resource for French students and teachers features information on France, Paris, Francophone countries and much more.
  

Spanish:

• UT-Latin America Lots of information and links for Latin American countries.
  
  
• Hispanic Heritage Information on Hispanic culture and tradition and countries, plus bibliographies on famous Hispanics.
  

German:

• Germany Information about Germany.
  
  
• Der Spiegel Leading German news magazine in German.
  
  

English as a Second Language:

• Lingua Center Resources for learning English from the University of Illinois.
  
  
• Dave's ESL Cafe An extensive collection of ESL links from Professor Dave Sperling of California State University at Northridge.
  
  
• Planet English For both teachers and learners of English as a second language, this extensive web site provides many resources.
  

   

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