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Chinese Links:

• Chinese Phonetics

ESL (English as a Second Language) Links:

• Phonetics Libraries

Japanese Links:

• Ultimate Kana Challenge

Korean Links:

• Korean Language Program at UCLA

Pirate English Links:

• Talk Like a Pirate!

Russian Links:

• Encyclopedia and Dictionary Megasite
• Abby Lingvo Online Dictionary (Russian-English & English-Russian)
• Little Russia (best known for music, but has links to other aspects of Russian culture)
• Russian Video Clips at the OhioLink Digital Media Center
• Russian Lyrics and Chords
• Russian Émigres respond to questions about daily life and culture
• Recipes for Russian dishes
• Weather Reports
• Russian eCards
• This dictionary is particularly helpful for correct usage of verbs, as it gives the question word to help you use the right case
• Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse
• Russian Signs by Thomas Beyer, Middlebury College
• Russian Search Engine
• Russian video interviews from U Penn
• Compare top headlines for many Russian news sites
• Russkii zhurnal, Itogi, and Ogonyok magazines
• Ekho Moskvy
• Voice of Russia
• Russkoe Radio
• Govorit Moskva
• GWU News for Students (simplified broadcasts of weekly news with vocabulary, exercises and copy text available)
• Sewanee has a great page for skazki with text, audio and pictures

Russian Grammar sites:

• Bucknell’s Interactive On-line Reference Grammar
• Cornell’s Grammar Reference ( by subject)
• Concise Participle Reference from Melbourne University
• Morphological analysis site – get the full declension or conjugation of almost any noun or verb
• This page has audio recordings that accompany the Workbook “Russian Grammar in Literary Contexts”. Even without the workbook, it’s a good source to test your listening skills by trying a dictation. Speakers are native but speak very clearly.

Spanish Links:

• Phonetics Libraries
• Kim Faber’s Faculty Page