Update 04/11/05

New Links
Deleted links
New categories

Sorry about the rather long delay for this update, but it does have quite a few extra sites. There are kots more Gaelic sites added on this update, not unrelated to my taking the distance Gaelic course (An Cùrsa Inntrigidh) run by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye.

New Links

Textalyser. An online text analyser which will analyse blocks of pasted text, or a web page from a URL, and parse it to obtain statistics such as word count, average syllable length, readability, word frequency, etc. A handy little utility.
Translated.net. A free machine translator for a range of language pairs in European and Asian languages, acting as a promotion for a translation agency. An interesting wrinkle is that you can specify a text subject, eg Chemistry, IT, Physics, etc.
Arabic Windows: Arabicizing Windows Applications to Read and Write Arabic. Detailed technical instructions on how to configure MS Windows, and word processors and web browsers running under Windows, to display and write Arabic. The paper also has a number of online references users can follow up.
Country names in various languages. A list of names of countries in a wide variety of languages, including many minority languages, sorted by the English name of the country. A nice little reference for when you forget, say, what "Sweden" is in Gaelic.
The Chinese Outpost. Subtitled "Demystifying Chinese Since 1998" this site contains a wealth of resources on spoken and written Chinese, including a tutorial in Mandarin.
Trieste Verb Conjugator. A useful Italian verb conjugator hosted at the University of Trieste. Enter any verb for conjugation in any tense in active, passive, or reflexive forms. The no-frills interface is a refreshing relief from the eye-mangling designs of so many language sites.
Virtual Department of Dutch. An online collaboration of four UK universities with the Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) in order to enhance the teaching of Dutch Studies across UK universities. The site offers a range of free Study Packs in Dutch language, history and culture.
Wisconsin Online Resource Center. This large repository of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) has 18 RLOs, at the time of writing, in a ABE/ESL section, with titles such as Essay Writing and Leaving a Telephone Message. The RLOs, and indeed the site as a whole, are implemented in Flash.
Into the Blogsphere. A title that sounds like a crass 1950s B-movie, but a site that contains serious analyses and critiques of weblogs and weblog communities, including studies of the pedagogical value of weblogs.
Search online Gaelic dictionaries. An English-language interface to search up to four online dictionaries - two Scots Gaelic, one Irish, one Manx. You can search by headword, word or substring.
Definition of Celtic Language. A page at WordIQ.com with the history and etymology of Celtic languages, and links to further information on the various languages in the family.
Gaelic Thesaurus. Surely the first of its kind, hosted at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye. The Gaelic-language interface only takes Gaelic search terms, but returns results in English and Gaelic. Recommended.
Scottish Gaelic first names. An alphabetical list of first names in Gaelic and their English equivalents (eg Margaret - Mairead).
Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail. Website of the Royal National Mod, an annual festival of Gaelic language and culture held in Scotland. The site has some useful resources for learners, including a dictionary and some annotated Gaelic links.
TAIC Gàidhlig Leaners Resource. Over 50 lessons for Gaelic beginners, in HTML and PDF formats, with audio files, grammatical appendices, supplements, vocabularies, and a pronunciation guide.
Stuth ionnsachadh na Gàidhlig air an Eadarlìon. A nice collection of briefly-annotated links to useful sites for Gaelic learners.

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.

Pedro's Dictionaries A long list of links to online dictionaries, sorted by language.
Country and Language Lookup. Look up the countries in a which a particular language is spoken, or the languages spoken in a particular country and how many people speak them.
Italian verbs. Regular verb forms, and some irregular verbs, conjugated.
Teaching English. An online, free to use, 'labour exchange' for employers and job seekers in EFL across the world.

New Categories

No categories added on this update.