Catherine Meissner - Mount Vernon High School
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Catherine Meissner cmeissner@mv.k12.wa.us Visit my sites: www.catherine-meissner.org (school site) http://mountvernonfrench.blogspot.com/ (school blog) www.aatf-northwest.org (WA/AC/BC/AB site) http://www.aatf-northwest.org/ (AATF blog)
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| Technology resources for World Language Teachers
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| Recording, production, and listening | Writing, reading, and class collaboration |
SmartBoards and Promethean and wireless mouse interactivity: You need not own an Interactive Board to use all of these sites.
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Educational games and quiz sites | Picture / Video sharing and production |
| Video converting and capturing from the Web
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Language podcasts | |
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Web-based programs for recording, production, and listening |
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| Oral production and auditory sites |
Tools and audio programs |
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Students create a personalized avatar. They select the background, the clothing, eye color, hair color and shape, and accessories. They record their voices either directly on the website or with the voice recorder on the computer. They may also call Voki and record from their phone. Students send their Vokis to the teacher who may post them on a blog, wiki, or website. |
Mini Language Lab! SanDisk Sansa Fuze (2,4,8 GB) Sync this MP3 with language podcasts, books/ textooks on CD or video podcats. This inexpensive MP3 player allows you to record yourself and transfer the files onto any computer!
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Record your sketches and audio together! Students narrate basic sketches as they draw. Extremely easy to use and FREE. Publish students' work to your blog or webpage. Here is my very first sketchcast. I am not an artist, but I can pretend to be one on Sketchcast!
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If you are in need of free sound recording software, Audicity is a great solution. It is freeware and is easy to use. Talk to your tech people to install this program in your classroom and school lab.
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Vocaroo
Fast, easy, and no frills recording! Record yourself directly on the web. Students can record their anwers to a prompt and send them to you by e-mail. There is no editing option available and you cannot save the recording directly to your computer. However, you may save the e-mail that has the link to the recording.
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World Language Classroom Resources Listening, reading, speaking, and technology resources
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GCast is a way for you to make a Podcast of yourself or your students without the typical GargeBand (or similiar) software. Set up an account, choose a phone number that everyone will use to identify your account and a password. You may add music or edit the podcast after everyone has submitted his or her work.
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Learn languages, watch videos, news, etc through the BBC.
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Upload a picture of yourself and change as many of the options you want. You can use the free options or the point rated options to outfit your new look. This is quite fun!
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Need a free, spyware-free audio program? Download.com compares and rates the best available.
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VoiceThread example: Rachael Hodgson - Mount Vernon High VoiceThread is an amazing and FREE tool. Teachers set up an initial question to the students (with or without picture prompt) and students record their replies and post it to the common site. In this way, students and teachers are able to hear and react to each other's ideas!
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iPod Touch and iPhone options for recording ! There are several apps (applications) available on the iTunes store that will allow you to record student projects. If you have the iTouch, you will need a headset with a microphone. If you have the iPhone, you should have a headset with microphone or try one of these. Please read the comptability carefully, I have ordered the wrong microphone in the past! iTunes Voice Recording Applications In the iStore search, type VOICE RECORD and click SEE ALL to look at all of the options. Many are free, some are $1.99. Here are two good options. SpeakEasy Voice Recorder - $1.99 (cheap!) VoiceNotes - Free! Check compatibilty!
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Griffen iTalk Pro Microphone $10.00! (Ebay seller: iPodontheroad) Nota Bene: You must check the iPods that you are planning to use for compatibility. The microphones DO work with the 2nd generation iPod Nano and 5th generation iPod video. The microphone will NOT work neither with the iPod touch (see next box) nor the iPhone.
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Yabla - Not free, but fairly inexpensive Yabla does the work that none of us want to do! It finds video in the target language and adds subtitles. As students watch the videos, they are able to gloss words or hide the subtitles. The vocabulary is paced for words per minute and by level of difficulty. You may assign videos to your students and there are games for them to play based on the vocabulary.
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LiveMocha - Free! LiveMocha is a fairly new site that allows students to interact with native speakers, record their voices, take quizzes, etc. The website is fairly dense and takes some practice navigating. However, it is quite well organized and tracks your progress.
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Activities for Interactive Whiteboards (SmartBoard and Promethean Board) NB: You do not need an Interactive Whiteboard to use these activities. By projecting the sites on your regular screen, your students interact with the activities on the presentation computer. If you have a wireless mouse, pass the mouse around the class to increase interactivity.
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All languages |
| SmartBoard Forum on French activities | Promethean information about Spanish downloads |
Create interative word magnets to use in sentence organization, adjective agreement, and verb conjugation activities.
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| Languages Online |
Spanish
Flashcards Vocabulary review with pictures and sounds Smartboard geared, but usable on a Promethean board as well. |
Choose your language and find the activities based on the themes. Students are able to interact with these games.
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¡Oye! Interactive activities for Spanish teachers and learners |
The Game-O-Matic Make basic vocabulary games to use with your curriculum. |
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Francisco Villatoro's Spanish exercises Review vocabulary and grammar based on "Caminos" textbook. |
The WhiteBoard Blog 20 Interactive Whiteboard resources for teachers |
| La France ! Connais-tu la France ? Interactive games to learn about France More puzzles ! Cartes en puzzles
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Digital Dialects Spanish Exercises |
Digital Dialects -
Main page
60 languages to choose from with fantastic interactive games. |
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Literacy
Center Education Network Practice colors, numbers, shapes, and the alphabet |
Practice body parts and other vocabulary in English, Spanish, French and German.
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French and Spanish language tools
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YouTube - Promethean
boards Videos on how teachers use their Interactive White Boards. |
Modern Language Interactive Resources : Mainly for Promethean boards, but there is a good number of ready made PowerPoints for all teachers.
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One of the best ways for students to synthesize their knowledge is to use writing and comedy. I have used ToonDoos to encourage reading and writing at all levels. Students are able to compose a comic strip or comic book without the fear of drawing. The add their dialogue or text after they have submitted it for review. To see a larger view of my cartoon, click here!
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![\Toon\](http://static.toondoo.com/public/c/a/t/catherineku/toons/cool-cartoon-637202.png "\Toon\") |
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Students create and organize comic books and strips. The site is multilingual and FREE. Video about ELL teachers using Make Beliefs for Language Acquisition. |
Pixton: DIY comics *Free accounts with limitations.* Pixton for Schools *Subscription required for in-depth use.* Much like Toondoo, students are able to print their finished projects, embed them into website or blogs, and share them on social networking sites.
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"Inspired picture writing" PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
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View my students' Trading Cards Use digital photos and language to create posters, magazine covers, inspirational posters, and unique projects. This is an exciting site from which you can publish your students' work. “I teach educators how to use digital images in their classroom. Your site is one of my favorites to share with my teachers. We create posters, trading cards of Explorers, mosaics, and magazine covers. My teachers love to use your product.” – Susan, Technology Trainer
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Free online diary. Encourage online journaling that allows sharing between writers!
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CogDogRoo Story tools Wiki for more than 40 online useful tools ! |
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Mixbook Students can make amazing online, thematic scrapbooks using visuals and written language. Make a basic page that can be worked on by groups of students and it is an excellent collaborative project. This is a basic book I made using the French club.
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This is my Wordle based on the French poem "Déjeuner du matin" by Jacques Prévert. Wordle takes text and makes it into a visual artwork piece. It can be a unique view of the students' work. Students may use any work that they have produced and transform it into art.
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Word Mosaic, Poetry Blender, and many other applications allow your students to create personalized and artistic projects using language and pictures.
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Mystudiyo Make FREE fun quizzes with video, audio, photos for free! Have your students choose a video from either YouTube or TeacherTube. Students compose the questions and their classmates will take the quizzes. From this one site you will incorportate reading, writing, and listening! Can be used with an Interactive Whiteboard. |
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Photo and Video production, editing, and sharing
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Use photos and videos to produce quality productions that can be posted to your class blog, YouTube, or social network. Choose the music, the transitions, and special effects for a personalized video.
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Xtranormal "If you can type, you can make movies" Create a script, choose your characters from the available choices, organize the scene, and you have a movie!
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Paint.net
A free alternative to PhotoShop! Edit photos for Storytelling and Class collaboration projects.
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Be Funky Turn your photos into artwork. 147 different effects. Free and a bit quirky! |
| Image and video hosting Looking for a picture? Want to share your students' work? Create an online photo gallery to share? These sites offer numerous services. Some are free and others are through subscription.
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Flickr photosharing | Photobucket Image Hosting | SmugMug Photo and Video Sharing |
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I use this program from home to record ANY video from the web. I also have the converter suite to change FLV (flash/YouTube videos) to AVI (Windows Media Player) files. The program costs about $35.00-$60.00. It is worth every penny!
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VDownloader This is a free, spyware-free, program that will download from YouTube and TeacherTube directly to AVI files. It is a powerful tool for you to use at home if your school blocks YouTube or streaming video. Absolutely user friendly!
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This program costs about $50.00 and will remove region codes from DVDs. This means that you can buy those CDs in Europe and transfer them onto a DVD to show on your computer or in your DVD player.
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TeacherTube Many teachers post collaborative ideas online. Type in a topic and search through the results.
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| Quia - Online quizzes and activities One of my favorite paying sites. I am able to assign online homework and quizzes. Students login, play the games and take the quizzes. The results come directly to me and I can import into my gradebook. Paper-free and graded for me! |
Qwizdom - Audience response system Encourage your silent students to participate! The remote controls are similiar to texting. What student doesn't want to show off his or her fast fingers? The games and quizzes are as easy to make as a PowerPoint. Students are easily addicted to this game system!
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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like.
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iPhone and iPod Touch applications for language learners
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| French | Spanish | German | Japanese |
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$5.99 Que ce soit pour vérifier une
orthographe, une conjugaison, trouver une définition, un synonyme ou une
citation, ce dictionnaire répond à tous vos besoins quotidiens en faisant
une recherche par saisie de mots.
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Video Spanish Lessons Free (1st 3 videos) Watch videos with language support, activities, web-based support.
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Free – Questions and answers about the world in German.
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Feed
me - Japanese Free - Practice numbers, colors, and patterns with this family friendly game. |
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Département/DPC Interactive
Free – Interactive map of the French Governmental Departments – population, capitals, flags, helpful information |
Spanish Verb Conjugation Trainer
$2.99 – Practice verb conjugations with this app.
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Verben
$2.99 – Every German verb has 86 forms that a student of German has to learn. The best way to become expert at using the many forms of a German verb is to drill yourself on them, over and over and over. Verben gives you the tool to do just that. |
Japanese
Word Power Free - Pictures, vocabulary and audio |
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France Radio $0.99 Listen to several Radio French stations live. |
MemoryLifter Spanish/English flashcards $4.99 – Flashcards that review vocabulary
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Free – News, interviews, and information from German language television.
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iStart Japanese
Free - (Lite Version) is a great language app aimed at beginner-level learners of Japanese! This app is produced by Mirai Japanese, the Japanese-language specialists of Mirai Language Systems! |
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France 24
Free – Watch the French news channel live. |
A+ Spanish verbs
$0.99 – Flashcards with vocabulary of verbs, but no conjugation practice. |
$0.99 – German verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc. The screen shot on the application page is quite tempting !
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Kana Strokes
Free - An interactive chart of the Japanese Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries with very-high-quality animated illustrations, IPA pronunciation codes, and original Kanji characters for each character. |
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Le Monde.fr
Free – Read the French newspaper in an iPod pleasant format. |
ExamBusters AA+ Spanish Language Study Cards $4.99 – Vocabulary, verbs, grammar, etc. These cards are meant to help students study for the AP, SAT, and Praxis II Spanish language tests.
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$0.99 – Learn the rules of “soccer” in German! Good reading tool.
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Japanese Verb Conjugator
Free - Katsuyo is a
very practical learning tool that speeds up your understanding of Japanese
verb conjugation dramatically. |
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Word Reference
Free – Online dictionary app for translating multiple languages. |
Abecedario en español
$0.99 – Listen to the alphabet in Spanish. |
Stay current with German news and sports.
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Japanese 101: Idioms $3.99 Highly recommended for learners of Japanese. Idioms are a must. Easy to use and fun! |
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Dico Malin
$8.99 – Dictionary with word games, rare words, and 90,000 definitions. |
AC Count Spanish
$0.99 – Animals help students learn their numbers. |
Kinderlieder zum mitsingen $0.99 – Practice German vocabulary and grammar through children’s songs.
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Japanese Sensei $15.99 Japanese Sensei is a vocabulary building application for learners of Japanese. Through structured, graded lessons |
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Free – Similar to the “Kindle”, this e-book application allows you to read downloadable books on your iPod touch or iPhone. Books are downloaded from the iPod and are available in many languages. Most are FREE! |
$2.99 – Verb conjugation practice
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$2.99 – Practice spelling animals (and other vocabulary) in German. Free ! Welche Farbe hat der Himmel? Blau! Welche Farbe hat mein Ball? Rot! Wann darf man über die Ampel gehen? Bei Grün! |
Japanese Audio Flashcards $14.99 - Learn over 6400 Japanese words! -- all with native speaker audio. Includes flashcards and exercises. |
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$1.99 – Practice verb conjugations with this application.
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Spanish! $0.99 – Vocabulary and verb review/practice |
Free – Read the news in German.
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Japanese Language Proficiency Test
$6.99 - Japanese
Language Proficiency Test Level N5 Vocabulary Builder |
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Free – Practice the conjugation of 6,000 verbs!
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$19.99 – A thoroughly complete Spanish-English dictionary – more for professional use!
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$4.99 -The Tunin.FM Radio Deutschland application allows you to listen to german radio stations while travelling. You no longer need to switch frequencies when travelling across different coverage areas.
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Japanese Flash Verbs $2.99 - Expand your Japanese vocabulary with all the hard work done for you. |
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Free - Practice numbers, colors, and patterns with this family friendly game.
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$0.99 – Pio Pio
esta perdido es un hermoso libro infantil animado para niños pre -
escolares.
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Free – Read German comics on your iPhone. This is my favorite!
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$19.99 – A multi-faceted dictionary with synonyms, antonyms, definitions, citations, and much more. |
$0.99 – iColores are flash cards to help teach your child his/her colors in Spanish. They are also great for anyone learning Spanish.
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iDarwin
Free - Hören Sie
Charles Darwin über seine Evolutionstheorie und die Evolution der
heimischen Tiere berichten und verfolgen Sie informative Gespräche
zwischen Darwin und einer heutigen Molekularbiologin! |
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$0.99 – A great way to find another way to say it!
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German Word of the Day Free - Start improving your German today with this easy to use application. Learn daily with this app to improve your German vocabulary (verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs). |
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$24.99 – Complete English-Spanish dictionary !
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$0.99 - Wie oft hast du schon Experten gefragt, nur um dann festzustellen, dass deine Oma schon die richtige Antwort hatte? Schlag in diesem kleinen Handbuch nach, um eine schnelle, lustige und prompte Lösung für viele alltägliche Fragen zu finden. I believe you are asking your expert Grandmother questions!
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$1.99 – Medical terminology in Spanish.
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$0.99 - WordsWorth ist ein aufregendes, lustiges, fesselndes und total suchtig machendes Wortspiel mit den perfekten Bestandteilen, die einen richtig entspannen.
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$14.99 - Learn over 2400 German words! -- all with native speaker audio. Includes flashcards and exercises.
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 Educational games and Quiz sites |
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Make your own quizzes, activities, and class pages when you join Quia.com Browze already made activities and quizzes to add to your blog or website.
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Practice body parts and other vocabulary in English, Spanish, French and German. |
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Hello World: Languages at home Nice site for young learners. There are many different activities, dialogues, and games to choose from. Some parts are free, others through subscription. |
Listen to Spanish songs, watch short videos and read bios about animals.
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Catherine Meissner's non-exhaustive list for French teachers. Please send your suggestions!
Phonétique : virelangues et activités auditives Les activités sont destinées aux apprenants intemédiares et avancés, mais elles sont excellentes.
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Spanish resources
With more suggestions for games and activities than one can count! Please send you own suggestions to Catherine Meissner
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Games and activities abound! Same author as the Spanish resources.
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Japanese resources
Same author as Spanish resources. |
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