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Amazon Buchhandlung: Die UK version der bekanntesten Buchhandlung. Hier können Sie Schnäppchen machen. 

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BBC Languages site: Includes lots of BBC material

BBC Learning English: This excellent site is a must for all learners of English. Contains a wide variety of activities including some exellent listening tasks based on authentic and topical material and it's all free!  We strongly recommend that you register today!

 BBC World Service: This is the Web version of the BBC's excellent news service. As well as texts, you'll find sound and video clips too - running under RealPlayer. Schedules of broadcasts can also be found here.

Blackwell's Bookshop: An enormous bookshop in Oxford. You can order books online. Delivery is quick!

The British Council: The British Council is the UK's international organisation for educational and cultural relations. Its purpose is to enhance the UK's reputation in the world as a valued partner. It does this by creating opportunities for people worldwide with programmes in education, English language teaching, the arts, science, governance and information through a network of 230 offices and teaching centres in 109 countries. The British Council receives a grant-in-aid from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and earns income from teaching English, conducting British examinations and managing development and training contracts.

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Cliché Finder: Just the ticket for people who like to incorporate hackneyed and/or boring phrases into their essays. Search for a word and this search engine will return any clichés which use that phrase, e.g. "in the pink", "kill the goose that lays the golden eggs", "talk through your hat", "feather your nest", "keep a stiff upper lip"...

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Deutsche Welle: German news service. Useful short snippets for learners of German. Also available in many other languages.

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst: An organisation that provides information and assistance for students wishing to study in Germany, and for German students wishing to study abroad


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Encyclopaedia Britannica: You have to pay $5 a month to subscribe, but you can do a sample search and use the encyclopaedia for a trial period.

english-4u.com: Lesson plans and tips available free of charge. all you have to do is register.

english-to-go.com: Commercially produced lessons based on articles from Reuters News Agency. Lessons are at five levels.

Euronews: A news round-up in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Arabic. This site is maintained by the Lyon-based Euronews company, which is now owned by ITN. The news is presented here from a European perspective.

Europa - The official website of the European Union.

European Language Council: A professional language association which aims to act as a forum and a lobby group.

European Schoolnet: Links to school networks all over Europe.

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Flo-Joe: A resource for teachers and students preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE) and the Certificate in Advanced English (CAE). Includes interactive practice tests, strategy training, a writing class and forums. The site is updated with new vocabulary every day.

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Goethe-Institute's jetzt online Magazine: A nice idea, a Web magazine for young learners of German. Useful language teaching and learning materials.

The Guardian newspaper: See especially The Guardian Learning Resources site and the Education Unlimited site.

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IATEFL: The UK-based International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. The equivalent US-based association is TESOL.

IIK: Institut für interkulturelle Kommunikation. Offers language courses, language tests and puzzles, teacher training. Develops multimedia software for business language in German, French, Spanish and Danish. Lists a variety of German-language search engines. A handy site.

The Institute of Linguists: The UK-based association for the languages profession.

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Kidon Media-Link: This is where you find links to all kinds of media - newspapers, magazines, websites, press agencies, radio and TV stations - all over the world. A remarkable resource for language learners and teachers.

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Langenscheidts Dictionary: An online version of Langenscheidt's bilingual dictionaries in English/German & English/Spanish.

University of Leeds: A good set of links produced by The Language Centre.

LinguaCentral: A useful collection of language resources and links.

Lingua Direct A great site for booking language courses worldwide at reduced prices.

Lingu@NET: This is the link to the revamped Lingu@NET site at Liverpool John Moores University. Lingu@NET is managed by CILT and aims to be a virtual resources centre to support the teaching of modern foreign languages.


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National Curriculum: These Web pages bring together the complete revised National Curriculum for 5 to 16 year olds for all the required subjects in England. The pages include revised sections on ICT and Modern Foreign Languages - an improvement on the previous version.

NetRadio: Radio worldwide on the Web, from easy listening to head-banging hard rock.

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Penguin Classics: A useful site for literature buffs. Descriptions of many of the classical works of literature published by Penguin Books. Resources for both teachers and readers, as well as information on books that have been made into films - including forthcoming TV broadcasts. There is also an online bulletin board for people who want to join in worldwide discussions about literature.

Prestige Network: Distributors of foreign language versions of all Microsoft products. Also multilingual word-processing products, OCR software, speech recognition software, foreign language keyboards, translation software .

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RealPlayer: A plug-in used for playing sound and video files downloaded from the Web. You can also use it to listen to live radio stations and view TV stations broadcast over the Web. I like the Country Music station in Alberta - very relaxing while you're word-processing. If you dont have RealPlayer on your system, then download it from here.

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Der Spiegel: The online version of the well-known German news magazine.

Staffordshire MFL website: A useful site for modern language teachers. Contains links, contacts, resources, lists of publishers, and suggested tasks and activities for students.

Die Süddeutsche Zeitung

Systran: One of the oldest and most reliable MT packages - now known as Babelfish. If you find a page in a language you can't understand - or if you key in your own text - you can get it translated almost instantaneously. Common European language pairs are covered. Systran works pretty well within its limitations, and it can certainly convey the gist of a document and indicate if it's worth having it translated properly. So far this translation service is free, but there is limit on the length of the text you can submit.

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Tagesschau: Short news texts in German, plus sound and video clips if you have RealPlayer installed on your computer system. Ideal for keeping up with the news, but the sound and video quality leaves a lot to be desired, especially for the language learner.

TESOL:  The US-based association for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. The equivalent UK-based association is IATEFL.

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University of Victoria, Canada: This is an excellent site for anybody wishing to learn German.