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"These pages are being developed with support from the South Asia Center at Syracuse University, in consultation with Dr. Tej K. Bhatia, Professor of Linguistics and South Asian Languages at Syracuse University. Jishnu Shankar, Associate Director, South Asia Center, is the lecturer for first and second year Hindi language courses at Syracuse University, and the designer and programmer for these pages. We will be updating these pages as new lessons are prepared.

HIN 101

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Lots of information here for study and review of the Cantonese language. You can print out lots of lesson plans, as well as other materials. Also really cool are the flashcard on the site.

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Essentially a well-categorized list of Cantonese vocabulary for beginners, this site has a lot of information. The vocab lists have phonetic spelling, making learning pronunciation a lot easier.

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This site offers information for learning colloquial Cantonese (Yue Chinese) as it is spoken by today's youth in Hong Kong and in overseas communities such as Canada, the United States and Australia.

Visit Cantonese.ca

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What can I say, it's the BBC! This is a very good resource for English learners at beginner to intermediate levels.

There is quite a lot of variety of content at the BBC Learning English site. Games, quizzes, vocabulary lists taken from the news, grammar info, proficiency tests, audio, video, lesson plans, music, picture, stories... you name it.

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The site is intended to help you improve your learning of the English language. Throughout the site you will find short courses, quizzes, grammar, vocabulary, audio and video that will help you to improve your English.

Visit BBC Learning English.

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Certainly one of the top multi-lingual news resources available on the web, the BBC has a steady flow of fresh news in Arabic. This site is for students of the intermediate to advanced levels and beyond. It is a great way to keep up with the latest happening in the Arab world while practicing your Arabic.

With the BBC you also have the added benefit of being able to look at the news in your native language, which can help you understand and figure out parts of the news that you might not be able to grasp without some help.

They also have frequent news recordings in Arabic, so you can practice listening skills while you catch up on the latest news.

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UK India put together a basic lesson for learning to write Arabic script. Don't mind the lime-green background as you click through their web pages and learn the basics of Arabic script.

There is also a ZIP file available for downloading the lessons, which can be used for non-commercial purposes.

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Arabic is the language of a large part of our planet . It is one of the permanent languages of the UN.

These are a few very basic learn to read the alphabet lessons.

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This site accompanies the FrenchPodClass Podcast and has lots of learning materials available. You can create an account to gain access to even more materials. Accounts are free.

The site uses Moodle, a web-based free and open source course management software.

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SinoSplice is a great resource not only for learning Chinese, but also for other aspects of living in China, especially Shanghai. It is maintained by a guy who has been living in China since 2002 and studied linguistics and works with languages.

For the Mandarin Chinese learners out there, check out the language section of SinoSplice. Among many other things, you will find:

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This site has a lot of information and provides good lessons for beginners as well as advanced learners. You can also test your German proficiency there.

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Learn German online and for free: 10 German lessons for total beginners and 24 German grammar lessons for advanced learners are complemented by numerous interactive German exercises, an introduction to new German orthography and 2 online German tests to improve and to evaluate your German proficiency.

Study tips, famous quotations, an online dictionary to translate German terms into over 70 languages and international penpals complete our free services for learning German!