D.+LANG+&+COUNTRY+INFO


 * D. INFO ON HOME COUNTRIES & LANGUAGES **

Defense Institute for Foreign Languages [] Culture familiarization (US lang resources) [] US Dept of state (info-history, politics, govt, economy)http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/ Library of congress country studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html CIA country facts https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html Voices of NYC Project (from real people different language groups) http://www.nyu.edu/classes/blake.map2001/index.html World Writing systems of the world (tho a bit technical—need to be familiar w/ IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) http://www.omniglot.com/writing/index.htm UCLA Language Project Profiles http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?menu=004  Some Language Groups http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/resabout/culture/7_languages/  Ethnologue http://www.ethnologue.org/web.asp  Cultural Profiles for certain refugee groups http://www.culturalorientation.net/pubs.html  NYS NLA guide (Chapter 1, 2 Appendix A, B)  http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/biling/resource/NLA.html  Wikipedia (check written language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_languages  Say Hello to the world http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/hello/  schooling in mexico-a guide for educators http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-4/mexico.html  Language Tutorials for L1 pronunciation and language structures etc.  [|http://www.ielanguages.com] http://www.word2word.com/course.html http://www.speakeasy.org/~dbrick/Hot/foreign.html http://www.wannalearn.com/Academic_Subjects/World_Languages

BABELFISH TRANSLATION (not too accurate—try it) http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/babelfish/tr Reading Transfer from Non-Roman Alphabets (// Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Khmer& Lao) // http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/resabout/research/nonroman/index.htm Webliography of least common languages http://www.govtilr.org/Web_LCTL/Index.htm Russian Lang Info http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Bookstore/3230/basics.html BETAC-some language resources http://www.betac.org/teacher_links.htm Getting Kids names right in the registration process http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/appalachia/pdf/REL_2007025.pdf Language Resources http://linguistlist.org/langres/index.html The Linguist http://linguistlist.org/sp/LangAnalysis.html#28 Latin Based languages http://www.orbilat.com/index.html

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