World Politics
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Visit the embassies and consulates of the world. The embassies are often good starting links for many cultural and language-related links. In English.
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Elections around the World. A very informative, complete site which gives you the results of presidential and parlementary elections in all countries. A must see. In English.
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Rulers of the World The presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, and other heads of state now and then. In English.
International Organizations
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The United Nations. Visit the United Nations Homepage. In English, French, and Spanish.
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The Nobel Foundation. Visit the official web site of the Nobel Foundation and learn all about this unique organization. Find out who has won the Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Peace throughout the years. Also visit the new Electronic Nobel Museum. An excellent site for understanding our times and our world.
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The Olympics. Take a look at the HomePage of the International Olympic Movement. In English and French>
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Amnesty International. Read about Amnesty's ongoing campaign again the violations of human rights the world over. In English.
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Greenpeace. Greenpeace International Homepage. Learn about the worldwide situation concerning nuclear waste, ozone, toxic dumping, and a host of other relevant international issues. You can find numerous reports and very clear position statement from the folks at Greenpeace. In English.
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UNESCO. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. In English and French.
Television around the World
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Scola. Scola now carries dozens of full, thirty-minute news programs fresh from countries all over the world. They have two channels, and you can watch the news of your favorite country of language using RealPlayer. Check the schedule first to find out when your program comes on. As of yet, Scola is not yet archiving the programs, so that you can watch the news of a given country at any time of the day.
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Yahoo TV in various countries
Radio around the World
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MIT list of live foreign radio This is your best source for an exhaustive list of foreign language radio stations that broadcast over the internet. Check out the international bitcasters because they give you live or recorded radio in the language. Unfortunately, it is not possible to determine from the list whether the radio station broadcasts the native language or round the clock, American, Rock and Roll!
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Voice of America This well-know broadcasting tool of the United States now offers you the chance to listen to their daily broadcast in many different languages. Another nice site for polyglottes.
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Now you can listen to a wide variety of news programs in some 35 languages with the Deutsche Welle. .
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Vatican Radio Listen to the Vatican news in six languages with RealAudio. In English, German, Spanish, French, Swedish, and Polish. Also included in this site is the complete listing of the shortwave and satelite sites for the Vatican radio news in 37 languages, including Esperanto.
Newspapers around the World
Kiosko This is an excellent site if you need to find a newspaper or magazine anywhere in the world. As of today, November 26, 1998, Kiosko has 6406 links for more than 200 nations! The site is in Swedish, but you can also click on Esperanto and English versions. A must see!
Music around the World
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World Anthem Database The words to national anthems from some 86 countries. From Albania to Zimbabwe. You can read the lyrics, in the original language, of the nation's national anthem. In many cases, an English translation follows the text. A very nice, attractive site, useful for kids in school to get an international perspective.
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World Opera Houses Visit the opera houses of Italy, Germany, Austria, and other countries. Though some links are out of date, this international list is the most complete one that I have found. Listed by country. In English.
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Silent Night in 65 Languages. Here is one international Christmas site dedicated to one Christmas song: Stille Nacht. See the lyrics for more than 60 languages and 100 versions including that of Esperanto.
Language Sources
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Alta Vista, Systran Translator Type in your own text, cut and paste a paragraph, or just type in a URL to get, at times some fairly good translations. You have ten translation sequences possible: Englih to Spanish, or to French, or to Portuguese, or to German, or to Italian, and the reverse.
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Human Languages Page A very nice and large (1800 links) catalogue of language sources for more than a hundred languages. A great place to start your research on any particular language.
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Yamada Language Center A good source for dozens of language fonts, from Chinese to Cree, from Thai to Turkish. Also dozens of links to large and small languges.
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Yahoo Languages A nice starting point for your language research.
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Ethnologue. Would you like to know what languages are spoken in a given country? Or, in what countries is Spanish spoken? Then, come look at SIL's Ethnologue, a great source for all polyglottes. In English.
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The top one hundred languages of the world. Come see which languages are the most spoken in the world. Provided by Ethnologue, in English.
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Web Search in 25 Languages. The AltaVista search engine. A great way to find original documents only in the language you want.
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Translate from and to more than 50 languages, including Esperanto.
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Language Identifier. Write something in one of twelve languages, and the Language Identifier will. . . identity the language for you.
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Countries and Languages of the world. What are the languages spoken in a given country? In what countries is a given language spoken? This page is in Esperanto, but most everyone should be able to read the country and language names without much difficulty. In Esperanto.
Language Learning Aids
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Online dictionaries for 130 foreign languages. Visit R. Beard's amazing collection of some 400 dictionaries. This is a must see for all polyglottes!
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Conjugate your Verbs!. Conjugue is a nice set of software, for free, that will conjugate verbs in some twenty languages! You no longer need to buy those bulky reference works on verb conjugations! Languages included are: Catalan, French, Occitan, Galicien, Italian, Portuguese, Roumanian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Setu, Gothic, Latin, Old English, and Middle High German.
Schools and Study Abroad
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American Schools abroad A comprehensive list of American schools overseas, prepared by the US State Department. In English.
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World Learning If you are interested in international education and training, check out this site. Here you will find the Experiment in international Learning, Semester Abroad Programs, Masters in Foreign Language Teaching, International Cultural Relations and so on. In English.
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Concordia Language Schools Language learning for kids in a total immersion, camp environment. In English.
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Are you an exchange student, or would you like to be one? Here is a page for you.
Texts and Sites Translated into Multiple Languages
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The Lord's Prayer in 770 languages.
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Silent Night in 65 Languages. Here is one international Christmas site dedicated to one Christmas song: Stille Nacht. See the lyrics for more than 60 languages and 100 versions including that of Eseranto.
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Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address translated into 30 languages.
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Merry Christmas. Christmas greetings in more than 80 languages. Feliz Navidad!
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Reader's Digest Worldwide. Browse through the Reader's Digest sites from 11 countries. More sites will be added.
World Demographical Information
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World Factbook Your best source for information about individual countries with geographical, demographical, and much other information.
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ABC News Country Guides Attractive, thumbnail sketches of all the worlds countries. About 30 pieces of important demographic and economic data, including the country's languages and religions, birthrates and deathrates, imports and exports, and so on. Also included are a simple map of the country, its flag and national anthem and a brief historical paragraph.
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The World's Population Clock. In the broad sense of the term, how many brothers and sisters did you have as of five minutes ago? And last month? And the month before last? World population data from the United States Census Bureau. In English.
World Geographical Information
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Atlas on-line
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Maps of the world's countries. MapQuest allows you to get a map of any country in the world. Also, you can select a city, big or small, and then get a map for that part of the country. This is excellent background material for the foreign language class.
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Time zones of the world Is it the same time in Germany as in France? In Brazil as in Peru? Now, you kind find out with this map of the time zones of our world.
International Business and Commmerce Links
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International Dialing Codes. Area codes that you need both to dial in, and to dial out of a country. Quick and useful list.
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International Calling Codes. Want to telephone someone in a foreign country? Don't know what the person's area code is? Then, check the prefix in this site. By the way, for Moscow, it is 095.
- Postal Rates in Various Countries. How much does it cost to mail a letter from Germany, or Denmark, or Brazil? Come to this site to find out. Also, to make your exact calculations as to stamp cost, you may want to refer to the Xenon Currency Table.
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What is the name of the currency of a given country? How much is it worth today? Ask Xenon.
Transportation and around the World
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Subway (Underground)Maps for all over the world.
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Travel Warnings The US State Department's list of which countries to avoid, and the typcial problems encounted by tourists when visiting certain foreign countries. In English.
Country Materials
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Flags of the World The best site for an all-inclusive repository of flags from all over the world, including historical and regional ones.
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Flags of all Countries A good site for flags and also has other nice links concerning immigration. There is also a link for purchasing flags.
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Fluttering Flags of the World FG&A (Free GIFs and Animations). A great site that provides animated flags from dozens of countries. A real delight for those of us who like to design international web pages!
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Flag Days of the World A great, colorful and clear little site that lists major world holidays in which countries fly their flags. Go through their calendar day by day, and find the some one thousand or so flag days.
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Listen to national anthems from all over the world.
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Another good source for national anthems.
World Cams
WorldCams Go look at your favorite country or city in real time with Leonard's CamWorld.
Christmas around the World
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Silent Night in 65 Languages. Here is one international Christmas site dedicated to one Christmas song: Stille Nacht. See the lyrics for more than 60 languages and 100 versions including that of Eseranto.
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Christmas Carols. Lyrics to many famous Christmas Carols in French, German, Latin, Polish, and other languages. This page is a good start, but there are a couple of misplaced languages.
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Christmas around the World Click on a country, and learn about the customs for Christmas in that land. Also, you can click on "Christmas in many Languages" to find out how to say "Merry Christmas" in dozens of languages. Great for teachers and kids.
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Christmas Customs around the World. Thumbnail sketches of how Christmas is celebrated in more than 30 countries. In English.
Other Sites
Immigration Superhighway. A wealth of information about immigrating and living in the United States. Visa information, forms, interesting articles and much, much more make this site a good reference source for anyone coming to the USA to live, work, or study.
Travel Health Online. An excellent comprehensive source of health information for the traveler. Whether you are going to Andorra, the Antilles, or Zambia, you will find this site very useful. Can you drink the local water? What shots do you need? Even what the quality of the local blood supply is.
Tongue Twisters. This is one of the most pleasant language sites I have ever seen: Forty nine languages are respresentated with more than 850 tongue twisters and their translations in English! In English, and forty- eight other languages. For fun, try this one in Swahili: Kale kakuku kadogo ka kaka kako wapi kaka? (meaning: Where are your chickens, brother?!)
International Cooking. This is a nice, tastefully designed web sight which describes the traditional cuisines of some 18 countries. If you enjoy ethnic cuisines, this is the place for you. In English.
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International Adoption and Child AbductionRelevant information prepared by the United States State Department. In English.
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Baby Names around the World. My wife and I were looking at names for our new baby due in April, and lo and behold, we found names for the newborns in dozens of languages! Enjoy! In English.
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Sign Languages from all over the World. Links to organizations for the deaf from more than 50 countries. Presented by Deaf World Web.
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The White Pages. Look up the telephone number of your friends who live in foreign countries. White Pages are now included for 11 countries. This is the website I use when I call my in-laws in France.
