Scenic Side Trails

Explore by Map

• Worldwide WWW sites (Virtual Tourist -- country by country list of servers)
• Country and City Guides (CityNet -- pointers to many other resources)

Where to Pitch Your Tent: Recommended Sites

General Collections [See also Other Resources]

Asian Studies [See also Chinese Lang/Lit]

French Studies [See also French Lang/Lit & Sound & Light]

German Studies [See also German Lang/Lit & Sound & Light]

Italian Studies [See also Italian Lang/Lit]

Latin American/Spanish Studies [See also Spanish Lang/Lit]

Medieval Studies

Russian/East European Studies [See also Russian Lang/Lit]

Campfire Reading: Language Resources and Texts

CHINESE Language/Literature [See also Asian Studies]

• Chinese Literature (novels, poetry and classics; FTP)
• Chinese language-related info (excellent guide)

• Testez votre grammaire Form-based grammar quiz
• Parler au Quotidien Learn French through this popular radio program
• Les très riches heures du duc du Berry (includes images)
• French texts (from U.of Virginia: from medieval to modern; information)
• French Literature Collection (ARTFL Project at the U.of Chicago)
• UPenn resources on the crusades
  • Hikers' Picks (Sites suggested by users of this Trail Guide)
  • VCU French classes (Course home pages)

• German-English or English-German Dictionary (interactive)
• German Language Resources (gopher)
• 19th-Century Stories (Struwwelpeter, Busch, Grimm Bros. from VCU)
• German Literature searchable corpus (Goethe, Thomas Mann, Marx; telnet)
• Access to Der Spiegel magazine (selected articles only)
• German news summaries
  • Hikers' Picks (Sites suggested by users of this Trail Guide)
  • VCU German classes (Course home pages)

• Italian for Travellers Basic phrases, links to other resources
• Italian literature (from Divine Comedy (selections) to Pinocchio; hypertext)
• Dante Project (collects 600 years of Dante commentary; gopher)
• "L'Unione Sarda" on-line (Italian; hypertext)
• Italian Language Resources Gopher
  • Hikers' Picks (Sites suggested by users of this Trail Guide)

• Study Guide to Wheelock Latin (text)

• Dazhdbog's Grandsons (info on how to handle cyrillic on the Internet)
• Friends and Partners (more on cyrillic on the Internet)
• Russian (gopher)
  • Hikers' Picks (Sites suggested by users of this Trail Guide)

• 1492 materials (Exhibit from the Library of Congress)
• La cuidad de Cordoba
• Mexico, Arte y Cultura
  • Hikers' Picks (Sites suggested by users of this Trail Guide)
  • VCU Spanish classes (Course home pages)

Camp Circle: Sound & Light Shows

Multimedia

Broadcasters

Deutsche Welle Real-time daily news broadcasts in German
Deutsche Welle Schedules and information (German television)

SCOLA Schedule of satellite foreign language broadcasts
Voice of America broadcasts Not available from many US sites

Other Language Learning & Teaching Resources

External Links

• Teaching with the Web by Lauren Rosen/UW-Madison
• Review of Internet/Bitnet discussion groups for language learning
• Information about MOO's in foreign languages
• FLTeach home page of the internet discussion group
• Intercultural E-mail classroom project - if you're interested in having your students correspond via e-mail with other students.

  VCU Guides
  

• Instant Access Treasure Chest Learning Disabilities and Language Learning
• Language Interactive Web Forms and CGI Scripts for Language Learning
• Web Basics -- Demos of using the WWW for language learning