ESL Web Directory

The Authoritative Internet Guide to Australian Indigenous Languages; part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library

The World has many languages, and many different scripts as well. This site is dedicated to showing and explaining the many scripts and alphabets of the world.

Useful phrases from all the world's major languages.

Free to use interactive games for learning a variety of languages.

Your chance to brush up on your language skills with these specially selected articles designed to broaden your vocabulary and grammatical skills while also learning a little more about each country. There is also an audio of each article to listen to.

Your English can be a stepping-stone to many other languages. Whether you're one of the 350 million or so people to have English as a mother tongue, or one of just as many others now familiar with English as a foreign language, you are probably in a position to take advantage of the widest choice of lessons and courses in other languages now available for free online.

The Foundation for Endangered Languages exists to support, enable and assist the documentation, protection and promotion of endangered languages.

The International Clearing House for Endangered Languages

The world's first bilingual Jamaican/English site exploring the language continuum spoken by Jamaicans for over 300 years, using the Cassidy-LePage orthography. Sections include Dictionary, Vocabulary, Idioms, History and Orthography.

Directory of glossaries in many languages.

The Language Museum is a linguistic website which offers the samples of 2000 languages in the world. Every sample includes 4 parts: (1) a sample image, (2) an English translation, (3) the speaking countries and populations, (4) the language's family and branch. The Language Museum is constructed and maintained by Zhang Hong, an internet consultant and amateur linguist in Beijing China.

International foreign language school reviews and ratings for students interested in learning to read and write a second language. Write your own reviews of foreign language schools and find out how other language schools rate with current and former students to find the best language schools worldwide.

All about foreign languages, 30,000+ selected links to as many as 400 different languages, online language courses, language sites evaluation, free advice on how to study, plus the first Internet library of multilingual parallel texts to let you learn faster and more effectively.

A handy online reference to over 160 alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems.

Phrases from English into more than 25 languages, this will help you find your native language and compare it to English, which means that you will not be confused about the meaning of a word any more.

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of all documented human languages.

SIL promotes training for ethnolinguistic minority communities as they develop the skills needed to conduct their own language-based development programs.

Speak Any Language is a free online community devoted to foreign language learning and cultural understanding through language exchanges, pen pals, online lessons, chat, tutors, forums, and more. Membership is free.

Terralingua supports the integrated protection, maintenance and restoration of the biocultural diversity of life –– the world's biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity –– through an innovative program of research, education, policy and on-the-ground action.

Enter some text and this will say which language it is. The more text you provide, the more reliably the guesser works.

The "TUFS Language Modules" are just one of the accomplishments made by the 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics" of Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. These modules provide groundbreaking multilingual web-based educational materials that are geared towards students who understand Japanese and are studying a foreign language for the first time. English materials, however, are targeted at elementary and junior high school students.

A site showing the endangered and extinct languages of the world.

Resources for learning foreign languages, including language learning tips, reasons for learning a foreign language, career and job search information for speakers of foreign languages, language-specific resources for German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, and more.