Foreign Languages Subject Guide
Web Resources
17 resources available
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Consider doing World Wide Web searches specifying that you want material in a specific foreign language.
ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle
http://abu.cnam.fr/ Free access to over 200 French language texts, including some reference materials.
Has pointers to an extensive list of sites, organized by region, country, and subject, dealing with Francophone Africa.
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
A national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction throughout the U.S.
Includes more than 6,400 stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors. (When complete the collection will contain approximately 8000 works.) Most of the stories are in English, but some in French, Portuguese, and Gullah language are also included. Search by keyword, title, author, language and date.
Provides access to a wide variety of online resources in French, including pointers to news and reference sources.
French at Western Michigan University
For information about the study of Italian in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at Western Michigan University.
This is a scholarly journal published by Blackwell. Most articles are in English, but some are in German. Subject matter is German and Austrian literature, language, and cultural history.
German Studies Trails on the Internet
http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/german.html. Compiled by Andreas Lixl-Purcell, Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, this site links to a variety of German-language search engines and subject trees. Users can explore various aspects of German language and culture. Notes are often in German, but some are in English.
http://www.harrassowitz.de Contains extensive information about German books and journals. One part of this site serves as a German Books in Print with brief book summaries. For information on book prices and publishers click here.
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/ This website is an index to language resources arranged by topic. For instance, you can choose language and literature resources, schools and institutions, linguistics resources, dictionaries, or language lessons, and then narrow your search to specific resources in a language that interests you. Updated frequently.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts all aspects of language study including linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Some of the physical and medical aspects of language are also included, such as speech pathology. About 1,500 English and foreign language sources are indexed. Coverage: 1973-present. Updated monthly.
Resources for Spanish Language and Literature
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/span.html
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/virtualref.htm The Slavic and East European Library at the University of Illinois is offering a service where patrons will be able to ask questions in live chat sessions with reference librarians from the University of Illinois, Russian National Library and Jagiellonian University in Poland. (Limited hours.)
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html Compiled by Robert Peckham at the University of Tennessee, Martin, this site links the user to thousands of French culture and language webpages. Included are Francophone sites, books, art, music, film, language study, and many other topics.
Universitatsbibliothek der Freien Universitat Berlin
http://www.ub.fu-berlin.de/internetquellen/fachinformation/germanistik/ This major German Studies site is a gateway to a wide variety of online information such as biographical sources, bibliographic citations, and other German studies material.
Voices of the Shuttle: Literatures (Other than English)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse-netscape.asp?id=2719 Contains annotated links to sites concerned with literature, not only in European, but many other languages as well, such as Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese.
Librarian's Comment: Contains over 100 language maps, over 200 overviews of languages by country, a language name index, a language family index, and numerous bibliographic references.