Making Chinese Red Envelopes
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/do/chineseredenvelopes.html

One Chinese New Year tradition is for families to give red envelopes to people they care about, notes this site, which provides a list of materials and instructions for a craft project to make the envelopes.

Activities in French for Young Children
www.coindespetits.com

The Coin des Petits site has stories and interactive activities for young children. Topics include friends and animals, celebrations, and rainy-day activities. The site is all in French.

Odes of Horace
www.merriampark.com/horace.htm

This site includes biographical information about the Roman poet Horace, as well as his odes in Latin and with English translations. There are also links to other sites that provide information about Horace and about Latin prose and poetry.

A Project About the Berlin Wall
www.websterschools.org/classrooms/dunne/BerlinWall.html

Developed by teacher Christine Dunne for her German I class, The Berlin Wall includes links to sites for information about the wall and a list of 30 questions that her eighth grade students had about the era of the wall. The questions address facts that she says the students believed to be important for all U.S. students to know.

Japanese Language Resource Center
www.kanjistep.com/main.shtml

Kanjistep.com is a step-by-step introduction to the Japanese language. Created by the Japanese Language Resource Center to provide information about the Japanese language, culture, and other topics related to Japan, the site states that its goal is to help students of Japanese to master the language and build a global community of people interested in Japan, its language, and culture.

Literature in Other Languages
www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html

The Bibliotheca Augustana website has texts in a number of different languages, including French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish.

Resources for Teachers from Target
http://sites.target.com/site/en/company/page.jsp?contentId=WCMP04-031770

Target has donated more than $200 million to schools through its “Take Charge of Education” program, and its website has resources for teachers as well as information about the grants the company awards. Those include 5,000 grants of up to $800 for field trips for teachers, arts grants for programs and organizations, and early childhood reading grants. Target also sponsors family reading nights and a “Letters about Literature” contest for students held in partnership with the Library of Congress. 

Spanish Language Exercises
http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/self-check.html

This site features self-check exercises that include adjectives, conjunctions, numbers, pronouns, syntax, verbs, and vocabulary. There are also videos and exercises on art and literature.

Table Manners Around the World
www.fekids.com/img/kln/flash/DontGrossOutTheWorld.swf

Should you finish everything on your plate in China? How do you ask a chef in France for ketchup? What do you use to cut the potatoes on
your plate in Germany? How do you show appreciation of your meal if you are dining with Japanese hosts or if you are eating with an Inuit family in Canada? This entertaining website for kids has a quiz that will help them learn about what is—and isn’t—considered polite around the world.

Resources for Learning Pashto
www.southasia.upenn.edu/pashto

Organized by Wilma Heston with the University of Pennsylvania, this Site has language instructions and teaching materials for Pashto and resources for the study of Pashto literature.

Chinese Family Titles
www.kwanfamily.info/familytitles/familytitle.html

The chart of Chinese family titles found at this site is divided by generation with spouses listed together. It provides the relationship, as
well the formal and informal versions in both Cantonese and Mandarin. Color is used to differentiate between generations and sexes.

E-Learning Resource Library
www.curriculumbits.com

Curriculumbits is an online interactive resource library that includes a number of lessons, quizzes, and games in a variety of subject areas,
and among the resources currently available are French and German language learning activities. 

Universal Currency Converter
www.xe.com/ucc

The Universal Currency Converter website contains the top 85 currencies sorted by country name; however, the 10 most popular currencies are listed first. According to the site, the currency and foreign exchange rate calculations use live, up-to-the-minute mid-market currency rates. In addition, currencies that are obsolete or are being phased out are indicated.

New Government Website for Learning English
www.usalearns.org

U.S.A. Learns is a free website that is the result of an outgrowth of a project of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy. It is intended to help adults learn English, as well as improve their basic reading, writing, speaking, and life skills. The site is in both English and Spanish.