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Foreign Language Education : Images, Video, Audio
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Library Resources for Finding Images
Find images to help your students understand new skills.
Find images in the UW-Madison's Digital Collections Center and other digital image collections at UW-Madison.
- University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsThe University of Wisconsin Digital Collections provides free and open access to digital resources, including images, slides, maps, prints, and posters, that support the teaching and resources needs of the UW Community.
Online Resources for Finding Images
Free, copyright-friendly image collections on the Web.
- Creative CommonsCreative Commons images are free of traditional copyright restrictions.
Using Images Responsibly
Images aren't free! Learn how not to get busted for copyright infringement.
- Using Images: Copyright and ReproductionLibGuide created by MIT on Copyright & Fair Use.
Audio
Try searching iTunes or the web for free language podcasts in a wide variety of languages.
- News in Slow SpanishPodcast where native speakers of Spanish discuss grammar, expressions and weekly news in simplified, slow-paced Spanish.
- RFI, Learn French OnlineResources for advanced beginner to intermediate French language learners.
- Amnistia Internacional, Informativo Semanal en audioWeekly podcast produced by Spanish chapter of Amnesty International.
FLE Videos
Instructional and informational videos useful for lesson planning or learning new skills.
- teachertubeTry search terms such as foreign language or the name of the language you are interested in followed by the world lesson. (i.e. Spanish Lesson)
- LingusTV"Learn Spanish by watching TV."
3 minute videos for beginning, intermediate and advanced Spanish language learners. - WebTVFree streaming video covering current events, sports and celebrity. Hosted by the website of Argentina's main newspaper "Clarin."
Digital Libraries
- StoryPlace - The Children's Digital LibraryStoryPlace, an interactive web site, came about to provide children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers. In the summer of 1999, a team of Children's Librarians and Specialists got together with in-house web developers to begin development on this exciting site.
- MirafloresProvides portal to dozens of digitized Spanish-language books in the public domain. Plus has open source dictionaries.
Reference Tools
- LEO DictionariesLEO GmbH is a leading provider of online dictionaries for the language pairs English ⇔ German, English ⇔ Spanish, French ⇔ German, Spanish ⇔ German, Italian ⇔ German, Chinese ⇔ German, Russian ⇔ German, Portuguese ⇔ German and Polish ⇔ German.
- Like a SpaniardFor slang and idioms from Spain.
- SlangopediaFor Italian slang.
- UCLA Language Materials Project, Language ProfilesLanguage profiles based on geography and linguistic features.
- WordreferenceFeatures verb conjugator and free access to dictionaries mostly for Romance languages.
