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Resources to help you learn languages ...

WikiEducator Resources

• Template:Languages - enables multilingual pages navigation.
• Template:Flashcard
  • Example:

你	Play
You	Play
Notes:	e.g. clarify if there is ambiguity ...
Simplified:	simplified character (if exists) goes here
Pinyin:	Ni3
Wade-Giles:	ni3
Yale:	ni-3
Bopomofo:	ㄋㄧˇ
Number of strokes:	7
Stroke order:
Radical:	人

• Using Voicethread for practising speaking skills

Online Teachers etc.

General

• del.icio.us

Flashcards

Install the software, then make or download decks.

• Anki
• Mnemosyne - decks (Chinese)
• jMemorize - ...
• See language specific flashcards below (e.g. DimSum under Mandarin)

Web-based:

• CoboCards (non-free)

English

• Various tools for learning English

Mandarin

• w:Chinese grammar
• Mandarin Tools
• DimSum - flashcards + Chinese Reading Assistant and Dictionary.
• Step Into Chinese and other learning tools (maths, music, ...)
• Make some flashcards and link to them from here. Resources:
  • Template:Flashcard/doc (see example above)
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Stroke_Order_Project
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese_pronunciation
• Pinyin Annotator
• Tegaki Project - handwriting recognition software.

Spanish

• StudySpanish.com
• An Elementary Spanish Reader - Harrison, Earl Stanley (source: Gutenberg)

Swedish

• Introduction to Swedish

Browser Tools

• Chinese Perapera-kun - pop-up translator (Firefox plugin).
• DimSum: - Chinese Reading Assistant and Dictionary.

Dictionaries

• nciku^TM - Chinese characters and pinyin dictionary.
• JLearnIt
  • "a multilingual dictionary sorted by categories ..." - progressive vocabulary building.
• DimSum - flashcards + Chinese Reading Assistant and Dictionary

Etc..

• FSI Language Courses - public domain resources which may be copied to and adapted on WikiEducator.
• Foreign Languages and Literatures (MIT OCW) - license includes the NC clause (restricted to non-commercial use) - not compatible with WikiEducator's licensing.