General Translation Sites www.omniglot.com
– a very useful site to start from.
Contains a catalogue of useful phrases in many languages about many subjects. You can also access their catalogue of phrases for individual languages. http://unilang.org/main/index2.php
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Go to ‘Language
Resources’ and then you have access to numerous vocabulary lists in a multitude of different languages www.travlang.com
worth trying for a variety of languages and links. Features 80+ world languages with vocabulary lists under the following headings – Basic Words,
Numbers, Shopping, Directions, Places, Time and Dates. www.speak
. . . .co.uk
– A good interactive site Type in language required into the web address e.g.
‘www.speakdutch.co.uk’ www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/index.htm
a catalogue of words and phrases in hundreds of different languages.
These include lots from many different African languages. www.languageguide.org
- has extensive vocabulary lists and phrases in the following languages: Spanish, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew , Arabic,
Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
They also come with sound.
Chris Green, September 2007

www.freelang.net/dictionary Has free dictionary programmes to download (approx 70 languages) plus instant translation for 24 languages www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/result.shtml
Will do immediate word and phrase translations for 28 languages, including, Bulgarian, Finnish, Polish and Tagalog. www.101languages.net
contains useful words
lists and phrases in the following languages: Bosnian,
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek,
Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean,
Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,
Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai,
Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Specific Languages www.languageguide.org
- has extensive vocabulary lists and phrases in the following languages: Spanish, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew , Arabic,
Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
They also come with sound.
Bengali www.virtualbangladesh.com
–information and photos and links to basic vocabulary lists printed phonetically.
( www.travlang.com
)
Bulgarian http://www.mybulgaria.info
Bulgarian
Chris Green, September 2007

Chinese www.mandarintools.com
– will translate words into
Chinese, simple Chinese and Pinyin www.betterchinese.com
– free stories – interactive in
Chinese . (One called ‘The Fox and the Goat’ could be used in Literacy) www.childbook.com
– not a brilliant site, but does have some examples of Chinese characters, also information on some games and crafts.
Estonian www.speakestonian.co.uk
. E.g. For Estonian . Other languages are: French, Spanish, German, Dutch and
Italian.
Finnish http://efe.scape.net
French www.icanlearnenglish.com
Ga http://home.triad.rr.com
Ga words and phrases
Chris Green, September 2007

Hungarian http://impulzus.sch.bme.hu/info/hungary.shtml
Takes you to a home page where you can access information about the country, people, culture, maps, and the Hungarian language. It has vocabulary lists under headings like
‘Important Words and Phrases’, Numbers, days of the week etc.
Lithuanian http://neris.mii.lt
Lithuanian - with information about the country and culture. www.debeselis.net
Lithuanian
– for vocabulary lists, words, phrases etc
Polish www.poltran.com
www.icanlearnenglish.com
Polish
– useful for vocabulary lists (with sound for pronunciation of English and Polish words) also has a similar page for French
Shona http://www14.brinkster.com
South African Languages www.cyberserv.co.za/users includes the 11 official languages, including Afrikaans, IsiXhosa and IsiZulu plus others like Northern Ndebele
Chris Green, September 2007

Tagalog www.seasite.niu.edu
– A good site for South East Asian countries. E.g. Tagalog
– Excellent pages suitable for children/schools. I’ve also looked at the Cambodia pages
( Khmer ) which looked reasonable. For some of the other countries you would need to download fonts.
Thai www.ipl.org/div/kidspace -
Follow the link to ‘Say Hello’ and you will find pages for nearly 30 languages. Some, like the Thai page have a few useful phrases. www.thai-language.com
– Thai - Information, photos, language lessons with sound, vocabulary lists etc.
Chris Green, September 2007

Chris Green, September 2007