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Selected Magazines in the Library

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Premium Online Resources for Library Cardholders

• LearninExpress Library (Learn a Test)
  TOEFL test preparation and some other useful practice tests to improve English language skills for reading, writing and vocabulary
• Powerspeak Languages
  language courses in French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English for Spanish speakers, and English for speakers of Mandarin Chinese.
• MUZZY online language learning system
  Best suited to children, this system offers courses in English, Spanish, Italian, German and French

Internet Resources
Dictionaries • Languages • Learning Languages • Translation

Dictionaries

• AskOxford.com
  helpful resources, including the Compact Oxford English Dictionary
• Chinese-English Dictionary
  learn the meaning and pronunciation of Chinese characters
• Dictionary.com
  online dictionary with sound pronounciation and thesaurus
• I Love Languages
  includes foreign language dictionaries
• Merriam-Webster's English Learner's Dictionary
  American English dictionary for ESL, EFL and TOEFL students with usage examples, idioms, commonly used phrases, quizzes and pronunciation exercises
• Merriam-Webster visual dictionary
• Thesaurus.com
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Languages

• Languages and Multilingualism
  from United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World
  reference on world's living languages
• International Language Books in Michigan
  lists international language books by library or by language
• International Language Magazines in Michigan
  by library or by language
• Languages of the World
  information about the language families of the world and maps
• Multicultural Connections
  ESL and international language resources at the Rochester Hills Public Library
  

Learning Languages

• Activities for ESL students
  quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help learn English as a Second Language 
• BBC Languages
  language courses with audio and video for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Urdu, Japanese and some other languages
• Business English for ESL students 
  grammar and vocabulary exercises to practice business English online 
• Language Course Finder
  10,000 language schools teaching 88 languages in 115 countries
• Learning English from BBC
  resources for learning English thro' news, sport music and discussion
• Visual Link Languages
  lessons in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian
• Mango Languages
  online lessons in 12 different languages combining audio clips and written text
• Internet TESL Journal
  useful ESL (English as a Second Language) links for students and teachers
• Omniglot writing systems & languages of the world
  guide to over 200 different alphabets and writing systems, tips on learning languages ,useful phrases and language related links
• U.S.A. Learns
  register and learn English and improve basic reading, writing and speaking skills
• Web Assisted Learning and Teaching of Tamil
  from the University of Pennsylvania website

Translation and Transliteration

• Babel Fish
  language translator tool provides English and many world languages translation for blocks of text and web sites
• Google translate
  translate text, webpages and documents in many world languages
• Google Transliteration
  available in many languages including Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Persian, Russian, Serbian,Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam and Marathi