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English

Beastly Garden of Wordy Delights - Did you know that a group of butterflies is called a "flutter"? Or that a baby mouse is called a "pinky"? This site has lots of interesting animal vocabulary.

Grammar Gorillas - Practice recognizing parts of speech and earn bananas for the gorilla!

Thesaurus.com - Free online Roget's Thesaurus of the English Language.

WordCentral - Merriam-Webster's Word Central offers kids a student dictionary, Daily Buzzword, and interactive word games. Includes homework help and lesson plans for teachers.

Your Dictionary - The Web's most comprehensive and authoritative language portal with every resource needed for language study and improvement in more than 250 languages.

French

Le Conjugueur - Enter a verb and see its conjugated forms, or enter the conjugated form of a verb and find its infinitive and tense.

L'escale - Lots of online games and activities for kids - all in French!

Les jeux de Lulu, le lutin malin - Dozens more online French games.

Adopt an Escargot - This fun site allows school classes to "adopt" some escargots, and then send in stories and pictures of their adventures, but you don't have to adopt one to read some of the stories!

La bibliothèque qui rayonne en ligne! The best of the Web....en FRANCAIS!

World Book French Online World Book Online Encyclopedia in French.

American Sign Language

Basic Guide to American Sign Language - A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms

Other Languages - Dictionaries

Altavista's Babel Fish Translator - You can enter some text, or a website address, and get it translated into another language!

ForeignWord: Multi-language Dictionaries - Links to hundreds of online dictionaries and translation engines and thousands of specialized glossaries.

Internet Picture Dictionary - Free, online multilingual picture dictionary with interactive activities for English, and other languages.