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Commercial Language Sites
NB: This section is no longer being maintained and updated, so many of the links and companies below will no longer be in existence. In time, this page will be removed completely. More... AudiovisualArtec Electronics. Developers of multimedia training systems for languages. Berlitz. Producers of written, audiovisual, and computer-based language-learning materials. There's also an online English test for speakers of a wide range of languages (requires Shockwave plugin).
Champs-Elys�es. Audio magazines on CD and cassette in French, Italian, Spanish or German for the intermediate to advanced speaker. Demo video and audio clips (.mov format) available for download. Cultural Connections. Publishers of books, games and audio in over 30 languages. Edutainment: How to teach language with fun and games. ESL teaching package comprising books and audiotapes. Gaafar & Wightwick. Publishers of language learning materials in a number of languages, including English, Arabic, and Japanese. LanguageTapes.com. Suppliers of audio and video tapes, and software, for a wide variety of languages, in association with Amazon.com. Planet English. A combined book/tape/software EFL course, for standalone or network delivery. Richmond Publishing. A publishing company selling English Language Teaching books and videos. Ruslan Russian Language Services. Self-study courses for beginners in Russian, some on CD-ROM. Slangman. Books and audiocassettes teaching English, French, and Spanish slang. The site includes a "Weekly Word List" of slang terms. Spoken Language Services. A producer of self-teaching courses, comprising audiocassettes and books, in some 50 languages. The company also sells an Arabic-English dictionary. Teleste Educational. Suppliers of hardware and software for language learning environments. Teleste is the parent company of Tandberg Educational, long-time suppliers of language laboratory equipment. TPR: Total Physical Response. A language teaching method.
BooksAlma edizioni. Publishers of textbooks for learners of Italian. The site also contains a number of useful links to related sites.Athelstan Online. A commercial server for Athelstan Publications. Mainly information about the company and how to order books online. Bay Foreign Language Books. A UK-based retailer of language learning books in over 400 languages. Blackwell's Online Bookshop. Search or browse their online catalogue. Troubador Italian Studies. A series of books on Italian literature designed for general readers and students, including some written and edited by scholars in the Italian Department of Hull University. Learning Italian in Italy. A website to promote a book by two UK doctors who learnt Italian from scratch in Italy, and which is essentially a consumer guide to language schools and universities in Italy by region, together with practical tips for foreign learners. Optima Books. Publishers of American slang and jargon books for learners of English. Self-Study Books. Publishers of novels designed to help learners of English improve their language skills. The site has the preface and contents pages, and a sample exercise, taken from the books.
Language SchoolsABA - Institute of Italian Language "Galileo Galilei". Language school based in Florence. ABC, Agent for CERAN LINGUA International. Intensive residential language courses in English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch and German. Complete immersion in the target language with more than 66 hours of practice per week. ABC Italian language school. Italian Language School in Florence offering courses in Italian language, art and culture. Academia Cervantes. Spanish language school. Academy of Windsor. An English language school in Windsor, England, offering English language teaching and TEFL certificate courses. Acalli Intensive Spanish Program. A Spanish language school in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Site text in English, Chinese (Mandarin), German, and Japanese. Abanico. A Spanish language school with centres in Madrid and Malaga. Website text in 5 European languages and in Japanese. Abril Escuela de Espa�ol. A Spanish language school in Madrid, Spain. Website text in Dutch, Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese. Akralingua. A Spanish language school in Alicante, Spain, offering courses from beginners to advanced and in Business Spanish. Website text in Spanish, English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Swedish and Norwegian. AllSpanish.net. Spanish language courses in Spain and Latin America. Information on schools in Barcelona, Madrid, Salamanca, Tenerife, Sevilla, and Granada, and Cuzco (Peru). Offer special courses for Business professionals, Teachers, Spanish for Cabin crews, and others. Alpha Sprachinstitut Austria. A German language school in Vienna, Austria. APF Languages. A Spanish language school in Ecuador, with teaching centres in Quito and Manta. Site text in English, German, Dutch, and Greek. Babylon Idiomas. Spanish language schools in Spain (Valencia, Barcelona) and Argentina (Buenos Aires), offering a range of intensive, qualification, and business courses. Boston Language Institute. A large language school in Boston, USA, running courses in several foreign languages and EFL. The Institute also runs a translation service. Boston School of Modern Languages. An English language school in Boston, USA. Site text in a wide range or languages, including Hindi, Mandarin and Russian. Cactus Language courses. Offering "language holidays" worldwide, for people who want to take short breaks and language courses to learn, or improve their command of, a language in a native setting. A range of both European and non-European languages available. Capture Spain Language
& Culture Centre for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies. CALES is a division of the University of Science and Technology in Yemen, and is dedicated exclusively to teaching Arabic as foreign language for academic and special purposes. Centre Linguistique pour Etrangers. A French language school in Tours, Loire Valley. Centro Culturale Giacomo Puccini. An Italian language school in Viareggio, Tuscany, teaching certificated courses in Italian at all levels. The school is a member of the Accademia Italiana di Lingua. Site text in English, Japanese, French, German, and Danish. Ceran Lingua International. Organisers of intensive language courses in Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish, at language schools in various countries. CPV - Centro PonteVecchio. An Italian language school in Florence and Tuscany. Churchill House School of English Language. An English language school based in Ramsgate, UK. Colon Language Center. A language school in Hamburg, Germany, teaching 18 languages. Conversa Spanish Language School in Costa Rica. Delta Language School. A Spanish language school in Santander, Spain. Die Deutschlehrer. German language training in Vienna. An association of GSL-teachers in Austria which offers German training courses in small groups and limited number of participants. Don Quijote. A consortium of 8 Spanish language schools in Spain and Latin America. An online Spanish course is also offered. The site has some free resources for language learners, although to access many you need to register. EducaCentre. A language school in St Petersburg, Russia, offering Russian courses for foreigners and English courses for Russians. Educational Centre "ProBa". A language school in St. Petersburg, Russia, teaching Russian as a foreign language. ELC London Street. An English language school in Reading, England. English Language Courses at Perth College. EFL courses in Perth, Scotland. English Schools in Vancouver. A guide to EFL schools in Vancouver, Canada. A sister site to this is English Schools in Toronto. Escuela Montalb�n Granada. A Spanish language school in Andalusia. Eurolingua Institute. Language school offering intensive French courses. EvoliSpanish. A Spanish language school in Barcelona. Site text in Spanish, English, German, Italian, and French. Forester Istituto Internacional. A Spanish language school in Costa Rica. Foyle International Language School. An English language school in Derry, Northern Ireland. Amongst the more usual offerings are courses specifically aimed at gay and lesbian people. Site text in French, German, Chinese, Spanish, and of course English. Hispaniola Language School. A Spanish language school in the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, offering standard and specialised (eg "Spanish for politicians and diplomats") courses. Horizonte. A German language school in Regensburg, Bavaria. Istituto linguistico Mediterraneo. An Italian language school in Tuscany (Pisa and Viareggio), with a range of courses aimed at different target groups, including intensive 'crash courses' in the language. The school also offers courses in Italian cookery and History of Art. Site text in Italian, English, Spanish, French, German, Greek and Japanese. Learn-French.com. A family-run French language school in the Loire valley. GADIR: Escuela Internacional de Espa�ol. A Spanish language school in C�diz, Andalusia. How to teach English with Fun & Games. Teaching manual and audiocassette package. IPEE Language School. A commercial language school in Costa Rica. Killarney School of English. An English language school in Killarney, SW Ireland. Languageconservatory.com. Website of the American Conservatory of Modern Languages, a private school providing customized language instruction in virtually any language for individuals and groups of all ages and abilities. Also offers summer camps in a variety of languages for students aged 6 and up. Learn English. English language school in Bournemouth, on the South coast of England. Learn English in Canada. An English language school in Vancouver, Canada. Website text in 14 world languages. Liden & Denz Russian Language Centre. A language school in St Petersburg. The site includes an online test to assess your current level of Russian. Website text in English, German, Japanese, and French. Linguastar. A Russian language school in St Petersburg. Linguistic Adventures. An agency for language schools in Italy, Spain, and France, with details of the schools and their courses, and even train and ferry schedules to get to them. London Arabic Language School. Courses in Modern Standard Arabic offered for all levels of learner. Site text in English and Arabic. Lyon Bleu International. A French language school in Lyon. Site text in French and English. Macchu Picchu Language School. A Spanish language school in Cusco, Peru. Site text in English. National Registration Center for Study Abroad. The NRCSA is a commercial organisation acting as an agent for over 120 language schools in 28 countries, through which you can register for courses and which will take care of practical travel and accommodation arrangements. Pacific-Global Language Centre. An English language school in Vancouver, Canada. Porta d'Oriente. An Italian language school in Otranto, near Lecce, the most Eastern city on the Italian peninsula. Quality-courses.com. A Spanish language school with teaching Centres in various locations throughout Spain, offering a range of intensive, individualised, and specialised courses. Site text in Spanish, English, Italian, German, Dutch and French. Russian Village. A Russian language school in the countryside close to Moscow. Scuola d'Italiano Roma. An Italian language school in Rome. The site also has some useful and up-to-date teaching materials in Italian. Scuola Leonarda da Vinci. An Italian language school in Italy, with schools in Rome, Florence, and Siena. Scuola Porta d'Oriente. An Italian language school in Otranto, Apulia, offering general and specialised courses, including courses for children. Website text in English, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Spain BCN. A school teaching Spanish for foreigners in Barcelona. Spanish Language School in Guadalajara, Mexico. As well as information about the school, Guadalajara, and Mexico, there's also a large and eclectic collection of annotated links - some language-related, some not - to the school's "link partners". SprachCaffe. A consortium of study abroad language schools for native language learning in Europe, North America, and Cuba, covering a range of European languages. Torri di Babele. An Italian language school in Rome. Site text in English. Universpain. A Spanish language school in Salamanca, Spain, offering long-term and intensive courses in Spanish, including a course in translation. Villa Dante School. An Italian language school in Tropea, Calabria, offering residential courses at all levels. Site text in English. Vis � vis. An organisation providing French language courses in France, Belgium, and Canada. World Intuition. Providers of tuition in a wide range of languages, including lesser-taught languages such as Finnish, based in London. Worldwide Classrooms. A large index of over 10,000 language schools, sorted by country.
Online CoursesAulaDiez. Online, interactive courses in Spanish, including a preparation course for DELE (Diplomas de Espa�ol como Lengua Extranjera) exams. Boston Language Centre. Provider of online, interactive, multimedia English language courses. There's a sample lesson, and a placement test to assess which course would be suitable. Didaskalos. Online multimedia courses in Italian for beginner- and intermediate-level learners. The site also has some free resources, including proverbs, news articles, numbers and units of measure, and recipes, which may be of some use to learners and teachers of Italian. Eloquence: French Lessons on the Web. An online multimedia beginners course in French. You can view a demo lesson, and subscribe online. ESL Online Distance Learning Course. A teacher-guided online course in EFL using RealAudio and web-based interactivity. You can sign up for a free 3-week trial on the website. Executive English. Online multimedia English courses for "Business Professionals". eViews. Listening exercises for advanced English students, using native speaker interviews. i-to-i. The company provides TEFL and Spanish courses, online and in situ, and volunteer and paid TEFL placements in a wide range of countries worldwide. Learn French on the Web. A beginners French course delivered by Internet and telephone. LearnPlus. Online interactive courses in Beginner's German and Spanish. There's a trial lesson available in each language, for which you need a Flash or Shockwave plugin. Learn Spanish. An online programme for learning Spanish, with an optional self-study pack for home learning. There's a trial lesson on the site. Learn Spanish Online. Interactive online courses in Spanish, with trial lessons online (requiring the Shockwave plugin). The site also has some links for teachers, and a guide to selected Spanish language schools in various Spanish-speaking countries. MEd in ICT for TESOL. An online postgraduate course in Information & Communications Technology for EFL teachers run from the University of Hull, using the Merlin course delivery system. Optimnem. Online courses in French, English, and German for beginner- and intermediate-level students, using "spatial learning strategies" in conjunction with tutor-based online teaching. Sample worksheets, texts, and language resources are available on site. PEAK English: Distance Learning ESL. An online American English course incorporating audio and online exercises. Spanish Net College. Online courses in Spanish at all levels, based on a traditional classroom paradigm with online "class meetings". Resources and DirectoriesAgora Marketplace. A commercial site mainly devoted to a directory of language publications, products, and publishers. Lingualearn. An online resource centre offering advice, information,links and other resources for language learners and teachers. Covers the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Dutch, Hebrew and Swedish. O-Hayo Sensei. A newsletter of English Teaching jobs in Japan. PedagoNet. Learning Material and Resource Centre. A classified ads service for language professionals. Tutors Online. A directory of private tutors in a wide range of subjects, including languages, in the UK. Searchable by subject and location. You can register as a tutor in the directory for an annual fee. www.modlangs.co.uk. An online subscription service providing educational materials for language teachers in the UK.
Software Suppliers, Developers and ProductsArabic Teacher. Language learning software for Arabic, covering all levels from Beginner to Advanced. Auralog.com. Auralog is a company specialising in foreign language learning software and online services. alainpechon.com. Software to help learners of English, French, and German, by highlighting common or similar words in all three languages. ANOTEK. Producers of multimedia CDROMs for Greek language learning. Arabic Teacher. Software (Macintosh) for all levels of Arabic learner, featuring 620 lessons and 700 hours of coursework. Bayware Inc. American supplier of Chinese and Japanese software with downloadable demos available. Berg Soft. Producers of Just as Spoken, a phonetic transcription tool allowing you to insert phonetic symbols into Winword, Excel and WordPerfect documents. A demo version can be downloaded from the site. BetterAccent. Software to practice pronunciation of American English. A free demo is downloadable from the site. 'Cab Software. Producers of Vocab, a shareware vocabulary building tool for Macintosh (a Windows version is anticipated), downloadable from the site. Camsoft UK. UK supplier of a wide range of software. Case Learning Systems. Producers of CALL software for beginners in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Finnish. Cheng & Tsui Company. American supplier of Chinese, Korean and Japanese software and books. Deep Thought Software. Producers of verb conjugation software, which include verb games which students can play across a local network or the Internet . There are plans to make the software runnable from the website. Dentro l'Italiano. A CDROM-based "multimedia course" in Italian. A downloadable demo is available if you register (for free) with the site. DynEd International. "A multimedia developer of English language (ESL/EFL/ELT) and foreign language learning products on CD-ROM for adults and children." Ectaco. Producers and suppliers of electronic hand-held dictionaries, translating software, and language tools. Demo versions of the software are available for downloading. Echo Glossary Program. An application which allows you to create your own interactive, multimedia glossary in English. A shareware version is downloadable from the Web site. Edubright Educational Software. Developers of Colorphonics, a phonetics-based teaching application for students of English. Eurotalk. Developers of CALL CDROMs in a wide range of languages. Gerry's Vocabulary Database. EFL software for teaching and learning language through exposure to vocabulary in context. Demo version downloadable from website. The title is registered with the UK Government Curriculum Online scheme. HomeWorkLang. Russian language vocabulary training software for Russian language learning, which includes the facility for the teacher to create customised exercises. A fully-functioning evaluation version can be downloaded from the site. Interactive Language Learning. An authoring system for language teachers, which creates a variety of language exercises (gapfill, text jumble, etc) as Java applets and HTML pages. Interlex Associates. Writers of Interlex Lab for Spanish and Salsa (free download of DOS version). Korean Software Digest. Suppliers of a wide range of Korean language software products. Language Intelligence. Developers of multimedia CALL software, incorporating speech analysis, for French and Spanish. Trial versions are available for download from the website. Language Partners International. Producers of translation and localisation tools, trial versions of which can be downloaded from the site. The site also has a Reference Center with papers on translation and localisation. Language Publications Interactive. The makers of the award-winning Who is Oscar Lake? CALL software. Libra Multimedia.Details of their CDROM language products. You can also order a free demo CDROM. Lingonet. Producers of multimedia EFL CALL software, some of which is downloadable from the site. Mantex Information Design. Developers of EFL software (demo downloads available) and books on writing skills. Multilinguae.com. A subscription-based online service which allows teachers to create a range of interactive and printable language exercises, and maintain their own databases of content (vocabularly, verbs, etc), on the Multilinguae server. Features include student scoring and tracking. Priberam Inform�tica. Supplier of Portuguese dictionaries and spell-checkers. Primrose Publishing. Makers of the "Tick-Tack" range of CALL software. Pronunciation in American English. A CDROM for people who currently speak English as a foreign language to improve their pronunciation, in particular stress, intonation and rhythm. 10% of all profits are donated to UNICEF. Pronunciation Power. Multimedia software products for learning English with emphasis on pronunciation. Question Mark Computing. Developers of Question Mark software for quizzes, tests, and surveys. ReadEasy. Hypermedia software which presents books by English authors (GB Shaw, RL Stevenson, and EA Poe, at the time of writing), in the original English, annotated and translated for German readers. Demo versions can be downloaded from the website. The Rosetta Stone Language Library. Producers of CALL software in a wide range of languages. Demo versions are downloadable from the site. Scottie-Teachware. Software for learning German, English, French, and Latin. A demo version can be downloaded from the site. SmartLite Software. Developers of WinAsks Professional, "software for creating, managing and analyzing multimedia questionnaires and surveys". A shareware version of WinAsks can be downloaded from the website. TalkFast. Resellers of a wide range of language-learning software "for adult and professional needs". Tomino. UK suppliers of Linkword and Rosetta Stone software, and the Champs Elys�es audio magazine, as well. The site has an online demo of Linkword. Trados translation tools. Developers of translation software, demo versions of which are downloadable from the website. Translation Experts. Producers of machine translation software for PCs and handheld devices, for a wide range of language pairs. Wida Software.CALL software development and distribution. WinDi. Developers of translation software for Windows in 7 European languages. An evaluation version of the software is available for download from the site. Words and Tools. Software for authoring web-based interactive tests and exercises for language learners of English and Spanish, primarily vocabulary and grammar exercises. The website has a number of functioning demos.
Teaching MaterialsBlank. A 3-dimensional word game for learners of English. Instant Lessons. EFL teaching materials based on news stories from Reuters. There's a free sample lesson on the website. Lote Teaching Aids. Sellers of foreign language classroom materials in a range of languages for language teachers. Questique Crossword Game. A Scrabble-like board game which can be used by teachers of English as a teaching aid. Spanish Dial-a-Verb. 'Verb wheels' for students and teachers of Spanish. TEFL Games Co. Producers of Word Up, a quiz-style board game to aid learners of English at all levels. The site has some sample questions from the game. Virtual Learning EnvironmentsBlackboard. Home of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) formerly known as CourseInfo. Teachers can create their own courses on the website for free. Merlin.University of Hull Foundation courses in English for business and general communication, which can be followed from anywhere in the world using the Internet-based Merlin learning environment. WebCT. Home of the widely-used Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). You can download a trial version of the software, and there are also WebCT 'communities' in Spanish, Italian, French, and German, which you can join in. OtherAntwerpAnnie - Interpretation and Translation Service. Freelance translator in Dutch, Flemish, French, German, and English. English Consulting and Language Reference Services. The consultancy provides a "grammar clinic" for English, and editing and proofreading services. The website also has information on the history of English and a language trivia game. Le Fran�ais Fantastique. Text materials - teaching aids, flash cards, bingo, etc - for teachers of French as a foreign language. Language Technology Centre. The LTC provides a range of services including a catalogue of multimedia software,language training, software localisation and language technology consultancy. MediaSync International. A company providing "multilingual multimedia solutions" for the Web. Portside Language Services. Providers of interpreting services in a range of languages to/from English, and of intensive English teaching.
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