September 25, 1999
MIT Foreign Radio List This month, Linguafest has chosen the MIT list for the second time, as the list has now surpassed 9000 radio stations on the web!
How many languages are spoken in Iraq? How many people speak each langauge? Where else are these languages spoken? Visit the Ethnologue site on Iraq to find answers to these interesting questions.
November 9, 1998
Honduras, La Prensa This week LinguaFest has decided to feature a leading newspaper from
Honduras, La Prensa. Find out more about this Central American country in the aftermath of Hurricaine Mitch.
November 2, 1998
Human Rights under Pinochet.Pinochet. You be the judge. This web site has started listing the names of the some 3,000 dead or disappeared under the Pinochet regime in Chile. Read about the circumstances, the concentration camps, the jails. Soon this site will start producing the list of the perpetrators of this dark period of Chilean history.
October 26, 1998
Israel and PalestineIn this historic week of the siging of the peace accord between Israel and Palestine, come visit web sites from these two countries.
October 19, 1998
The Nobel FoundationVisit 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.
October 12, 1998
MIT Foreign Radio ListListen live to your favorite foreign language by accessing MIT's list
of foreign radio stations. Dozens of languages. Hundreds of stations.
A great site.
Turn on Scola Television and tune in to some fifty international news programs, documentaries, and other programs on their 24-hour-a-day, two-channel programing. From China to Chile, from Russia to Romania, you will find all kinds of foreign languages for your viewing delight!
On September 27, 1998, SPD candidate, Gerhard Schroder, ended the 16-year reign of Helmut Kohl. Visit, in German. Visit the winning party, SPD, in this week's historic German elections.
