Multimedia Language Resources

Grammar

• Engaging and interactive learning tools
• Grammar exercises
• Grammar for beginners
• Beginning French
• La grammaire de l'absurde(Introductory level)
• The French Tutorial
• Verb Conjugation
• Exercises de Français

Vocabulary

• Quia quizzes
• Vocabulary exercises

Listening and Speaking

• French Radio
• Learn French with TV5
• Ma France BBC
• Elementary French

Reading

• Le Monde
• Newspapers
• Petites Annonces (Classifieds)
• Jacques Prevert
• Bibliothèque Nationale
• French Global Village
• Dictionary or French Encyclopedia

Writing

• Learn French with the Internet
• Writing Exercises
• French Verb Conjugation
• French Comic book
• French resources writing better

For those interested in speaking French and in learning more about Francophone culture, there are opportunities to take advantage of right here in Charlotte.

• The International House of Charlotte holds French conversation hours.
• There is a world-wide organization of Franco-phones and French loving folks called the Alliance Française. Charlotte has its own chapter and sponsors lots of neat events/contests/etc.
• If interested in business with France, you might like to join the French-American Business Alliance of the Carolinas.
• Charlotte has a Sister City in France: Limoges.

Grammar

• Exercises for all levels and skill areas
• German online
• Interactive self-correcting Practice
• Internet Handbook of German Grammar
• Learning Games
• Grammar, Vocab, Writing, Culture, Videos, Lyrics

Vocabulary

• Online German-English Dictionary
• Verb Conjugator
• Free Flash Cards
• German Dictionary
• Online Exercises and Practice
• Practice for German as a Foreign Language
• Exercises
• Worksheets

Pronunciation

• German Pronunciation
• German Alphabet

Listening and Speaking

• Learn German online

Reading

• German & European News
• German Magazines and Newspapers
• Reading Texts
• Practice for Reading and Vocab
• Cultural Readings
• Picture Stories
• Spiegel
• Fairy Tale Collection

Writing

• Exercises for all levels & skill areas
• Online German-English Dictionary
• The German "Rechtschreibung" Rules
• Universal Verb Conjugation

• The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
• Anne Frank
• Deutsches Museum
• German Unification
• Language Learning Playground/German Study/Aguilar
• Holiday Language Sites
• Neuschwanstein

Grammar

• Learn Spanish online
• Gramatica
• Spanish: Estar with conditions and emotions
• Spanish Grammar
• Interactive self-correcting practice exercises(QUIA)
• Learn Spanish by watching Spanish videos for language learners
• Verb Conjugations

Vocabulary

• ​​​Learning Vocabulary
• Learn Spanish online
• Listening to basic Spanish
• Learning Alphabet, Numbers, articles
• Word Reference

Pronunciation

• Basic Spanish Word Pronunciation
• Study Spanish Pronunciation
• Learning the letters and Sounds in Spanish
• Spanish Pronunciation Guide

Listening and Speaking

• Exercises for listening and practice pronunciation
• News in Spanish in slow
• Learning Spanish by listening audios

Reading

• Lecturas paso a paso
• Don Quijote Spanish Language Learning
• CNN in Spanish
• HOLA noticias

Writing

Verb Conjugator

• Spanish US.com (Language, Culture, People)
• Cervantes Institute from Spain
• Diego Rivera
• Spanish Language Guide
• Don Quijote
• Spanish Music

• Vocabulary links
• English writing rules
• English Irregular Verb List
• English Types of Verbs
• English Verb Tenses

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is used by many colleges, universities, and professions to test ability in academic and professional English. The TOEFL Preparation courses teach academic and professional language for non-native speakers of English with an emphasis on reading, listening, speaking, writing, and test-taking skills.

For more information about the Academic (for-credit) ESL courses, please visit the foreign languages courses page.