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Language aides

• BBC Languages section. Highly recommended!
  Whether you want to brush-up your language skills for your holiday to Greece or your business needs - the BBC can guide you through the basics.
  
  
• BBC World Service
  Improve your reading and listening skills with BBC World Service - which produces news in 43 different languages.
  
  
• CILT The National Centre for Languages
  The National Centre for Languages provide many courses for those who wish to learn a language and teacher training.
  
  
• Language Advantage
  Find the best and most innovative ways to get the language advantage!
  Learn over 100 languages!*
  Learn Arabic, Cantonese Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and many more from Afrikaans to Zulu. Get the competitive advantage with language translation, language services and language jobs.
  *Being pedantic, I don't believe that's possible. It should read something like this:
  Learn from our range of over 100 languages
  
  Nit-picking aside, I'm rather please at finding this place, it really is a goldmine for linguists. I particularly liked this snippet:
  
  Welcome to language advantage kids!
  
  Kids can learn a new language effortlessly until they are 12.
  Give them the language advantage now!
  
  Expose your children to other languages from day one. 'It's too young!' you may declare. In fact, research shows that children learn other languages like their mother tongue up to the age of about two or three and easily after that until the teenage years. And experts say that learning a second language does not harm the development of the first language - if anything - it enhances it ... especially if it is fun!
  
  Given this is true, don't you find it intriguing that languages are never taught to children until senior / high school in the UK. A flaw in the core curriculum, I find.
  
  
  
• The International TEFL Corporation
  Taking a TEFL certificate course provides the opportunity to travel and work around the world, to gain knowledge and experience of foreign cultures and languages and to embark upon a career in teaching. No previous teaching experience or specialist qualifications are required. The only requirement is fluency in English.
  
  
• Google language tools
  
  
• [ ] Multilingo Translation Service
  Language translation service providing the highest quality translation service in all languages across a wide spectrum of subjects.
  
  
• Language Translator: Language To Language
  
  
• Transparent Language ~ great selection of easy to use language software
  
  
• Word Reference
  A free online translation dictionary. Just type in your word for a quick definition, or join the international languages forum.
  
  
•   Zompish: Count to ten in (at least) 4,777 languages
  Yep, the Zompist, among his other resources, has compiled a list of numbers in thousands of languages - even goes to Arabic sub dialects, Olde English and Middle English! Amazing!