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Individual Foreign Languages
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Chinese
The complete text of the Chinese-English dictionary 'Chinese characters: a genealogy and dictionary'.
http://www.zhongwen.com
French
Wordreference site using Collins dictionaries.
http://wordreference.com/
German
Dictonary on LEO - Link Everything Online site.
http://dict.leo.org/
German
BEOLINGUS dictionary, from the Chemnitz University of Technology. Includes 700,000 translations with examples and hints, explanations, synonyms, sayings, aphorisms, quotations in English and German and browse lists for special topics. You can listen to German and English pronunciations spoken by native speakers.
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
Greek, Ancient
For ancient Greek, click the check box. Gives words in both Greek script and our Roman script. Also gives links to online Greek course and Greek spell checker. This is the Cyprian Kypros-Net site
http://www.kypros.org/ cgi-bin/ lexicon
Greek, Ancient
Textkit - downloadable Greek grammars, readers and dictionaries and other resources that can help you learn ancient Greek
http://www.textkit.com/
Greek, Ancient
Ancient Greek Online - a useful site for the more advanced student. Gives several extracts from Greek texts, including the opening books of the Iliad, in the original with mouse-over translations, plus brief help on the alphabet, grammar, poetic meter and pitch accent
http://www.ancientgreekonline.com/
Greek, Modern
Filoglossia - a beginners' guide to learning Greek, with sound files
http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/ filog/
Greek, Modern
Modern Greek dictionary (make sure the check box for ancient Greek is not ticked). Gives words in both Greek script and in our Roman script. Also gives links to online Greek course and Greek spell checker. This is the Cyprian Kypros-Net site
http://www.kypros.org/ cgi-bin/ lexicon
Indian Languages
Languages and scripts of India.
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/ %7Emalaiya/ scripts.html
Irish Dictionary
English-Irish and Irish-English dictionary
http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/
Italian
Wordreference site using Collins dictionaries.
http://wordreference.com/
Latin
Several specialist tools for Latin. Click 'Dictionary Entry Lookup' to search dictionary headwords.(Note that the main Perseus web site is unavailable from 5:00 to 6:00, US Eastern time, for updating the database.)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ cache/ perscoll_PersInfo.html
Latin
Textkit - downloadable Latin grammars, readers and dictionaries and other resources that can help you learn Latin
http://www.textkit.com/
Latin
Online Latin grammar - 'Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges'
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ cgi-bin/ ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0001;query=toc;layout=;loc=1.1
Latin
Latin dictionary and grammar aid from the University of Notre Dame in the US.
http://archives.nd.edu/ latgramm.htm
Latin
'Getting started on classical Latin' course, part of the Open University's free 'LearningSpace' resources
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ course/ view.php?id=2654
Latin
'Read it right: a guide to Latin pronunciation' on the Classics Net site
http://www.classicsnet.plus.com/ readitright.htm
Latin, Medieval and Later
On the National Archives site, a beginners' guide and an advanced guide to the Latin used in documents between 1086 and 1733
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ gettingstarted/ in_depth_guides.htm
Romanian
'Romanian lessons' web site giving you the basics
http://www.romanianlessons.com/
Romanian
Some basic phrases, from the Lingua project
http://lingua.fc-tic.net/ ro/ rolearn.htm
Romanian
'Romanian grammar' - a very detailed guide, on the web site of SEELRC, The Slavic and East European Language Research Center
http://www.seelrc.org:8080/ grammar/ mainframe.jsp?nLanguageID=5
Spanish
Wordreference site using Collins dictionaries.
http://wordreference.com/
Swedish
A dictionary from Sweden's Institute of Language and Folklore
http://lexin.nada.kth.se/ swe-eng.html
Thai
Lessons, audio clips, dictionary entries, images and illustrations and message boards
http://www.thai-language.com/
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