Research Guide: Foreign Languages

Babel Fish from AltaVista: Paste text and select source and target languages. This site includes Japanese, Chinese, and Korean as well as European languages.
Expressions and Greetings in 26 Languages: From the New York Public Library
Free Translation: Translate text or supply a URL to translate a web page.
Langenberg.com: Translate words, phrases or web sites. Links to a variety of translation portals.
LOGOS: Multilingual E-Translation Portal. Includes multilingual living dictionary, glossaries, translation course, and the amazing Wordtheque which links to literature in many languages.
On-line Dictionaries and Glossaries: Sorted by language.
Self-Study Languages: Language and culture resources for languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese and Swahili, from the Yamada Language Center of the University of Oregon.
YourDictionary.com: This portal for an extensive collection of dictionaries in over 250 languages also offers a quick lookup in an English dictionary or thesaurus. There are language 'guessers' to determine a word's language of origin, links to specialized multi-lingual technical glossaries,and links to language courses. The Endangered Language Repository catalogs living, dying, and extinct languages by country and number of speakers. Free translations are available for short pieces and online document translation is available from professionals for a price.

BBC Languages: From BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) these pages are fun as well as educational. Offerings include "Quick Fix' phrase and slang guides as well as online courses, video clips, news, and travel information.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World: Languages by name or by geographic area with distribution, alternate names. dialects , family. Top 100 Languages. Hyperlinked indexes and cross-references.
iLoveLanguages: Languages, literature, and linguistics resources. Formerly called the Human Languages Page. Includes links for learning or translating many languages.
Internet Public Library Newspapers: Newspapers from around the world.
Languages of the World: "The main purpose of this website is to provide information about the language families of the world and their most important and populous members, including their history, status, their linguistic characteristics, and their writing in as simple and concise a way as possible." Includes an interactive language map and other language learning tools.
Latin American Language Information Center (lanic): Resources relating to the many individual Latin American languages & language groups. From the University of Texas at Austin.
Modern Language Association Language Map: The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.

American Sign Language Sites: Major sites, dictionaries, history, explanations of deafness and hearing loss, links to cultural and deaf education sites. Or go to Handspeak.com which provides a link to a visual language dictionary with moving image demonstrations as well as to a sign language dictionary.
ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Form: Part of the Treasury of the French Language Project at University of Chicago.
Iberian Language and Literature Web: Access to scholarly resources in Spanish and Portuguese languages and literature.
Italian Language and Literature: Created by Yale University Librarian Jeffry K. Larson.
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Site: The most well known comprehensive site for links on French and Francophone language, literature, and culture.

Antología de poesía española: A collection of Spanish language selected by Fred F. Jehle.
ARTFL Project, University of Chicago, Home Page: Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Digitization Project for Spanish and Hispanic American culture.
Colección Digital Complutense (CDC): Digitization Project from the Universidad Complutense Madrid.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature: From the Western European Specialists Section of ACRL, hosted at the University of Virginia.
HAPAX: French Resources on the Web: From Sweet Briar College.
Reading Women Writers and African Literature: Provides an overview of African women writers writing in French, South of the Sahara. Includes historical and contemporary Francophone literature.
Translations of the Bible: Searchable versions of the Bible are available in nine languages. Also includes links to selections in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, and Malayalam.
Voice of the Shuttle: Links to literature resources in languages other than English.

Language and Cultural Immersion Programs: Organized by country and by language. From Worldwide Language Programs.
Studyabroad.com: Listings for hundreds of study abroad programs in countries throughout the world. Search by country, language, or subject.