The Librarian's Internet: Learning a Language Online

One of the best ways to help kids learn English (or any language) is to provide them with pictures of the words. This cool dictionary designed for elementary age kids comes in English, plus bilingual versions in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Italian. Created by: Enchanted Learning Software, Mercer Island, WA. Don't Miss: The phonetic (romaji) words in the Japanese/English dictionary. They make learning Japanese fun and easy!

This dictionary for middle through high school kids comes in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish, with words grouped by topics, such as animals, colors, school, sports, and transportation. Students can browse by letter, or by any of 15 special categories. Created by: Peter Hudson, professor, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Don't Miss: The fun and challenging "flash cards," and "fill-in-the-blank" and "stinky spelling" activities.

Check out this great page that's loaded with English-language games, quizzes, flash cards, word puzzles, interactive hangman games, and more. Created by: Charles I. Kelly, Lawrence E. Kelly, teachers, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan. Don't Miss: The "Reading English Signs" for common signage that kids need to understand, as well as the "Sentence Singer" and "Flash Flashcards." The "Random Sentence Generator" is fascinating—add your name and it will become part of the sentences. Plug-ins: Java-enabled browser, Flash plug-in.

Here are more than 1,000 fun activities for young ESL learners, including grammar and vocabulary quizzes, arranged into easy, medium, and difficult categories. Created by: Various teacher contributors, as part of a project by the Internet TESL [Teachers of English as a Second Language] Journal (iteslj.org). Don't Miss : The unique bilingual quizzes in various languages, from German and French to Swedish and Thai. Plug-ins: Java-enabled browser, Flash plug-in.

This site offers flash cards with cool graphics—check out the ghosts, trolls, and aliens on the "prepositions" cards—printable word searches, and crossword puzzles designed for elementary through middle school kids. Created by: Chris Gunn, an ESL teacher based in Korea, and others. Don't Miss: The "Wizard" and "Potion" books, and "Harry Potter worksheets" for magical (and kid-appropriate) learning activities.