Rosetta Project - is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building an online archive of all documented human languages. The Rosetta Archive provides nearly 100,000 pages of material documenting over 2,500 languages.

Language & Linguistics - examines the mental & physical aspects of speech, why foreign speakers pronounce words differently from native speakers, how we learn language, why languages change, how changes spread through populations, endangered languages, dialects, & sign language.

Do You Speak American? companion website for a film that takes us cross-country to examine the dynamic state of American English; how many varieties of American English are there? Topics include 100 common mispronunciations, how language is changing, local color in American literature, & regional writers. (NEH)

Language Arts and Literature: Peace Corps features lessons based on folk tales, poems, and letters from the experiences of Peace Corps volunteers -- examine writing techniques: vivid images, powerful descriptions, balanced sentences, parallelism, and more; read folk tales from Togo, Macedonian, Romania, and Russia; learn about structure and patterns in folk tales. (Peace Corps)

Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection - features 185 manuscripts & a 40-foot funerary scroll of the Naxi people of Yunnan Province, China. This is the largest collection of Naxi writings outside of China & is considered among the finest in the world. The Naxi use a unique pictographic writing system. It is the only living pictographic language in the world today.

Language Courses and Teacher Workshops

• FSI language books - published by the State Department; they include audio
• Peace Corps' World Wise Schools language courses along with Desination videos
• Language Resource Centers - a gateway to 15 centers that support foreign language instruction from nationally and internationally recognized language professionals: language-learning materials, professional development workshops, and research. (Department of Education)
• Literacy - teaching reading, comprehension, vocabulary and writing in every classroom, struggling adolescent readers, narrative writing, expository compositions, persuasive writing, reading and writing in math and science, reading and writing for limited English proficient students, literature and the arts, and more. (Department of Education)
• Foreign Languages - presentations and handouts on teaching Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Russian, and Spanish; topics include assessments, classroom activities, culture, interpersonal communication, journal writing, modern methods for teaching all languages, vocabulary, and more. (Department of Education)