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Foreign Languages

Want to learn some Spanish so you can actually communicate with the habitants of Madrid? Failing your French course horribly? Here are some great sites to help you with all your foreign language questions:

General Resources | French | Chinese | Japanese | Spanish | German

General Language Resources

The World Language Resource provides links to the best sites available for learning to speak a foreign language in many, many, many different languages (not just the major ones). Perfect if you want to learn a few words/phrases for travelling or basic communication.

Foreign Language Resources for Teachers and Students

Foreign Language Resources for Teachers and Students has projects, links, and online homework help for Spanish, French and German.
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French

Really Useful French Teaching Site

The Really Useful French Teaching Site includes interactive and listening exercises, information for language teachers and GCSE (whatever that is) links... for french class, of course.

French Language Resources

Any Francophile will love this site, which has links page to all the best online French resources. And even if you're not a "francophile" (like me), French Language Resources still a great site to check out
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Chinese

Chinese Learner's Alternative Site offers you supplementary learning material on Chinese language and original articles on what's happening today in Chinese language and Chinese culture.
Learning Chinese Online gives pointers to useful resources for learning Mandarin, Cantonese, and the Shanghai dialects. It is maintained by the University of California at Davis.
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Japanese

Japanese-Online is a language resource website, a gathering place for anyone who has interest in Japanese language and culture. This site provides opportunities and resources to help you learn not only Japanese, but a little bit of Japanese culture.
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Spanish

Basic Spanish for the Virtual Student

Fundamentals of Spanish are introduced in 50+ brief modules in Basic Spanish for the Virtual Student.

Spanish for Beginners

You can teacher yourself Spanish, in 12 already laid out and comprehensive lessons, care of Spanish Course for Beginners
Learn Spanish offers free online lessons for beginner's Spanish. Get the basics of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation with the help of RealAudio.
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German

German for Beginners

German for Beginners is a great site for beginning German speakers to get online lessons. There are also excellent links that lead to other German language resources.
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