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Literature, Communications, Foreign Languages, & Grammar
- ASL - American Sign Language Browser - Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site, an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them. This web site was created in 1997 to provide an online sign language resource.
- ASL - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders - The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) is one of the Institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- ASL- American Sign Language Fingerspelling - Provides an interactive demonstration of using individual letter signs for creating words. Enter a word and see the word spelled. Also includes a quiz.
- Communication- History Channel Speeches - An audio and video collection of famous American speeches in the fields of politics, sports, entertainment, art and science.
- Communications - Ask Oxford - (C&P) A site dedicated to words and language. Lots of fun information as well as links to other sites and a searchable imformation base.
- Communications - Meanings and Origins of Phrases, Sayings and Idiom - (C) An alphabetical listing of phrases, proverbs, euphemisms, etc. Find the meaning of phrases in popular culture, literature, etc. with this site's free dictionary section. Searching phrases for a particular concept, as you would a thesaurus, requires a fee.
- Communications- American Rhetoric - site has a searchable speech bank with over 5,000 speeches in a variety of formats. It also has links to communication journals and associations
- French- Tex's French Grammar - A user-friendly guide to French grammar. Individual grammar items are explained in English. The site also includes self-correcting fill-in-the-blank exercises.
- General Languages- Bing language translation - This site allows you to translate words, phrases and documents to or from English and many other languages.
- General Languages- ESOL Flash Cards - Download hundreds of free flash cards. Every set of flashcards comes in color and 3 different sizes to make teaching easier. The Big set is great for vocabulary presentation, the Medium set is good for teaching small groups of students and playing language learning games. The Small sets of pictures are great for ESL games such as Down-Pass or Go Fish.
- General Languages- I Love Languages - Lists sites offering instruction, translation, online publications, schools, and other aides to speaking and understanding languages spoken around the world
- Grammar - Guide to Grammar and Writing - (C) Provides help for many areas of grammar and composition.
- Grammar - Hit Parade of Errors - (C) This guide describes the ways to avoid the most common errors in style, grammar, and punctuation.
- Grammar- Your Dictionary.com - A collection of dictionaries and thesauri, which includes rhyming dictionaries, multilingual resources, word games, and specialized dictionaries.
- Literature - African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - (C) A collection of transcribed texts of 19th century writings by African American women.
- Literature - Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - C) A collection of digital documents which includes items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.
- Literature - ClassicReader.com - (C) Read classic books, short stories, and plays online. Includes Shakespeare. Searchable, both at the title level and within each work.
- Literature - Early Modern Literary Studies - (P) This page gathers links to a number of sixteenth and seventeenth century resource materials which can be found on the Internet, as well as others which have a more general appeal and those which catalogue resources of interest to literary, art, and cultural scholars. A portal covering early modern art, architecture, science, religion, music and culture.
- Literature - Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts - A source of full-text tales with links to other collections.
- Literature - Inter-Play - (C) An On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals. Despite being sometimes difficult to use, this Web site offers searches of a hefty database of plays in collections and periodicals.
- Literature - IPL's Online Literary Criticism Collection - (P) From the Internet Public Library, the site contains critical and biographical websites focusing primarily (but not exclusively) on British and American authors and their works from pre-1500 to the present time. Can be browsed by author, title or literary period. Contains the site's collection development policy and instructions on using the collection.
- Literature - Literary Gothic - (C&P) A web site concerned with Literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, classic Gothic fiction (1764-1820) and related literature prior to the mid-twentieth century. Authors include Guy de Maupassant, Dorothy Gilman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and hundreds more. Site is a combination of original biographical sketches, critical essays, and links.
- Literature - Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - (C&P) A guide to resources that address Shakespeare's work, providing links to criticism, biography, and other materials.
- Literature - Online Books Page - (C&P) A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
- Literature - Oxford Text Archive - (C) An archive of several thousand electronic texts and linquistic corpora in a variety of languages. Holdings include works by individual authors and standard reference works.
- Literature - Poets.org - (C) The official website of Academy of American Poets, Poets.org offers hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of more than 500 poets, almost 2,000 poems, and audio clips of 150 poems. Selected articles from the American Poet journal are also available.
- Literature - Reader's Advisory - (C&P) This site has a large variety of reading lists for every age group and has links to additional websites.
- Literature - Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database - (C) An online index to over 60,000 historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror.
- Literature - Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color - (C) A collection of biography and criticism of women authors of primarily Black or Latino heritage. Includes a page on Zora Neale Hurston, Black author from Florida.
- Literature- Project Gutenberg - A website containing virtual editions of more than 27,000 books that are available for download free of charge.
- Spanish- Learn Spanish - A free online tutorial with sections on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and verbs.
- Spanish- Spanish Language Lessons - Good review items for beginner and intermediate Spanish students. Includes a basic Spanish self-contained course and an intermediate audio magazine with quizzes.