Languages Results
* Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Ethnic NewsWatch*
(Provider: Proquest)
Description:
Articles published by ethnic and minority presses
Article Databases (multiple subjects)
EBSCOhost*
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
JSTOR*
(Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.
ProQuest Newspapers
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."
ProQuest*
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
Reference Databases (multiple subjects)
Biography Reference Bank
(Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias
Oxford English Dictionary
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language
Oxford Reference Online
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press
Free Resources on the Web
- ---> For French-specific websites, see: FRENCH category
- ---> For Japanese-specific websites, see JAPANESE category
- ---> For Spanish-specific websites, see: SPANISH category
- Dictionaries: Alpha Dictionary Language Directory (300+ languages)
- Dictionaries: Omniglot Portal to Language Dictionaries (140+ languages)
- Dictionaries: WordReference (En, Fr, Ge, It, Sp, Ru and more)
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World
- Games/Fun: Language Learning Games in 60 Languages (Digital Dialects)
- Games/Fun: Tongue Twisters in 118 Languages
- News: BBC World News Service in 27 Languages
- News: Euronews - International TV Channel with News in 12 Languages
- News: MIT Guide to Foreign Language News and Newspapers
- News: Newseum - Newspaper Front Pages from 88 Countries
- News: Radio-Locator (Includes world radio search by country)
- Omniglot - Encyclopedia of Writing Systems & Languages
- Online Lessons: Free Foreign Language Course Materials from MIT
- Online Lessons: Peace Corps Language Lessons
- Online Lessons: UCLA Lang. Materials Project (Less common languages)
- Phrases: Useful Foreign Phrases (Omniglot)
- Proficiency: ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
- Special Topics: Health Information in Multiple Languages (MedlinePlus)
- Translation: Bing Translator (Machine translator with limitations)
- Translation: Google Translate (Machine translator with limitations)
- Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts (ALA-LC)
- Website Links from the Mesa College Dept. of Languages