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Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. This telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers and introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Understanding of Spanish and appreciation of many Hispanic cultures increase as students become absorbed in the mysterious and entertaining story. Closed captioning in Spanish can be used as a teaching and literacy resource. The series is also appropriate for teacher professional development.

lingro is an on-line environment for people learning languages. lingro's dictionaries remember all your translations and help you learn the vocabulary most important to you easier and faster

Verbix is an independent non-profit organization that aims to promote and protect linguistic diversity [UNESCO Observatory: Multilingualism]. This site contains verb conjugations for hundreds of languages, ranging from national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages. Download the program or use WebVerbix

The study of a foreign language becomes that much richer when authentic food and cultural are introduced. Enrich a Spanish foreign language class with this site that offers authentic Mexican recipes for main courses, vegetables, and desserts. Easy to follow, illustrated instructions are provided in English or Spanish. The site also features recipes for regional dishes and a helpful glossary of culinary terms, but these are available only in Spanish.

With the Conjugation Trainer you can improve your knowledge of the most frequent forms of the most important Spanish verbs. There are three steps: Select verb tense Select verbs Practice

Learn first year French, learn about French culture, and practice to supplement your current classroom lessons using this highly interactive site created by faculty and students from UT Austin while on-site in Lyon, France. Preview all vocabulary and grammar topics from the Bienvenue section and at the opening page of each chapter. Start with the audio alphabet and go through thirteen chapters, including topics such as love and money! There are videos throughout the program, made by the Texas students (certain to be a hit with your high schoolers!)as well as web-based activities with questions to answer. Your students can even download or RSS feed all the videos as podcasts via iTunes. This is a real treasury of great lessons, ready to go! Gifted students or those who would like to teach themselves French independently could do well with this site, also. You MUST have Quicktime to play the audio and video.

Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection

Are you going on the Greek trip next year...Well here are some Greek language podcasts that can help supplement your Greek Language class.

Fun, interactive games for learning latin vocabulary