Update 01/04/04

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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.
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.
London Arabic Language School. Courses in Modern Standard Arabic offered for all levels of learner. Site text in English and Arabic.
Villa Dante School. An Italian language school in Tropea, Calabria, offering residential courses at all levels. Site text in English.
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.
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.
Abril Escuela de Español. A Spanish language school in Madrid, Spain. Website text in Dutch, Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese.
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.
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.
Universpain. A Spanish language school in Salamanca, Spain, offering long-term and intensive courses in Spanish, including a course in translation.
Teaching English. An online, free to use, 'labour exchange' for employers and job seekers in EFL across the world. An online teacher's forum is planned.
CactusTeachers. An admissions service for internationally recognised TEFL qualifications, such as the Cambridge CELTA and Trinity CertTESOL. The site has detailed information on various EFL schools worldwide teaching recognised qualifications, including each school's application form. There's also advice on applying for courses, and articles from first-time EFL teachers 'in the field', plus useful links for novice EFL teachers.
Reports on videoconferencing in the Language Classroom. Links to reports, websites and papers on the use of VC in foreign language teaching.
Telecollaboration. Resources for foreign language teachers using internet communication tools for teaching and intercultural exchanges.
Moodle. An Open Source VLE project, with strong language support (available in 34 languages) and based on social constructionist pedagogy. One to watch as a strong competitor to proprietary commercial VLEs.
Danish lessons online. A 10-day course in beginners Danish for English speakers, including audio clips, grammar, a pronunciation guide, common phrases, and useful links for learners of Danish. The audio clips are implemented in Flash, so a Flash player is required.
Speech accent archive. A large database of the accentuated speech of native and non-native English speakers from a wide range of origins, reading the same English paragraph, with phonetic transcription.
Teachmaster. Free software for compiling and learning vocabularies. Language files can be downloaded to provide the interface in languages other than Germand or English - at the time of writing, French, Italian and Portuguese were available.
O Emigrante/Mundo Português. An online magazine for Portuguese emigrants worldwide.
Biografías y Vidas. A large, searchable collection of biographies of famous people of all nationalities. Site text in Spanish.
RealFrench.net. A large collection of language resources for English-speaking learners of French at all levels, including grammars, interactive exercises, a verb conjugator, 'web quest' worksheets for students, links to relevant sites, print resources for teachers, and more. Hosted at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Recommended.
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.
Turas Teanga. An Irish language course from Ireland's national broadcaster Radio Telefis Éireann. There's a short online beginner's course comprising six lessons with video clips (Real format) and simple exercises, based on the book and DVD course of the same name. There's also a useful list of links resources for learners of Irish.
Argomenti i Fakti Kazakhstan. Online version of a Kazakhstan weekly newspaper. Site text in Russian.
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.
Learn Spanish in Spain. A guide to learning Spanish at language schools in Spain, with advice on choosing schools, accommodation, and other practicalities, based on the experiences of the site author, Tommy Tokstad.

Deleted links

The following links have been removed because their hostnames couldn't be looked up (perhaps the domain has lapsed/changed), the URL gave a 404 Not Found error, the site or page was otherwise unreachable, or the site had otherwise become unsuitable for the collection.

Español. A large collection of links to Spanish and Spanish-related sites, hosted by the Institute of Applied Language Studies at Edinburgh University.

New Categories

A category for Weblogs (or 'blogs' if you must) has been added to the Internet section.