BBC Education - Languages. Lots of online resources and exercises to back up BBC foreign language courses.

BBC World Service. News, articles, and RealAudio broadcasts in a wide range of languages from the World Service.

Bernadotteskolen, Denmark. Aimed at school children, mainly.

Bücher. Links to online books in German, French, English, Latin, Greek, and Russian.

DIALANG. A multinational EU project to develop diagnostic language assessment tools in all the EU's official languages plus Irish, Icelandic and Norwegian (14 languages in all).

Digital Variants. A project based at the University of Edinburgh, with the purpose of making available on the Internet texts by living authors in a range of languages, in various stages of writing.

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature. Page that lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.

European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages. The EBLUL primarily promotes minority languages and cultures within Europe, lobbying the EU to defend and safeguard minority languages and communities. The site has a useful database of links to sites related to lesser-used languages.

EuroStudies Gateway. Part of the Social Sciences Information Gateway (SOSIG), the new EuroStudies gateway provides access to Internet resources about Europe as a region, as well individual countries ranging from issues of international security to the introduction of the Euro.

Foreign Languages for Travellers. Basic words and expressions in a wide range of languages, both text and sound. You can also search for a particular word/phrase to be translated into all the languages.

Goethe Tests. Language and vocabulary tests in 16 languages, including lesser-taught languages (eg Finnish, Czech, Estonian), for printing out and using in class. There's also a directory of language schools in the target languages. Site text in all the target languages.

Guide de la Radio et des Medias. Links to thousands of webcasting radio and TV websites worldwide, sorted by country and by type. Website text in French.

ICT4LT. A multinational EU project to develop online training courses in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for language teachers in the UK, Finland, and Italy.

International Station. RealAudio radio broadcasts in Polish, Russian, Austrian and German, Arabic, Bulgarian, and Serbian.

Jim Becker's resources for foreign languages. Includes resources for French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Latin, Italian, and a list of best sites for language teachers. The text-only version is a little easier on the eyes than the default version.

Join the Club. A multinational, EU-funded project to set up community-based language learning clubs in a number of European countries. Site text in Swedish and English.

Languages Made Clear. Free online beginners courses in a number of (mainly European) languages, including Russian and Esperanto, together with detailed grammar references. The lessons are text only, but there are some audio clips in the pronunciation section. Languages Made Clear is an ongoing non-profit project which anyone who's willing to contribute can join as a member and help out with the website.

The Learning Group: Personalised Learning Games. Create your own language learning game online (as a Java applet), or play games created by other authors.

The Less Commonly Taught Languages Project. Resources for LCTLs (defined as all languages bar English, French, Spanish, and German). Hosted by the Centre for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA).

Lingua Estrangiera. A large collection of teaching resources for Portuguese teachers of foreign languages. Site text in Portuguese.

Linguanet Europa. A multilingual, virtual resources centre to support the teaching of foreign languages, offering access to a collection of over 1000 resources. Lingu@net Europa is accessible in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

LinguaWeb. Advanced learning materials, as audio and text, focussing on everyday and business situations in Polish, Irish, and German. LinguaWeb is an EU Leonardo project.

Le Monde Diplomatique. The French left-wing weekly paper online, including translations in German, Italian, English, and Mexican Spanish, with back issues online.

LOWLANDS-L. A discussion list for "Lowlands languages", defined as Germanic languages that developed in the low-lying areas adjacent to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, primarily Dutch, Zeelandic, Frisian, Limburgish and Low Saxon, but including descendants of those languages, including Afrikaans, English and Scots. The site also has a large number of annotated links to sites relevant to these languages.

My Language Exchange. Online community where language learners can find a native speaker partner to help each other improve foreign language skills. The site facilitates online language exchange learning via email, text chat and voice chat by providing guidelines and lesson plans. It claims to be one of the largest language communities on the web today. It also has a fun section where members can exchange expressions and slang by creating, playing and discussing phrasal Hangman word games.

NETGLOS: The Multilingual Internet Glossary Project. An online glossary of Internet terms in 10 different languages.

The Online Books Page. An index to thousands of books available online in a wide variety of languages.

The On-Line Books Page. A searchable database of links to over 12,000 books online, the vast majority English-language. There's also a page of links to online libraries of non-English-language texts. (No relation to the link above.)

Project Romanova. A new, neutral "interlanguage" for speakers of Romance languages, consisting of words taken from French, Italian, Spanish, and Portugese. The site has a pronunciation guide, and brief grammars and dictionaries. Site text in English and the Romance languages.

Verbix. Online conjugation of verbs in over 50 languages, and large vocabularies of verbs between language pairs (eg Catalan-Italian). When you get a verb conjugation (eg finire), you also get cross-references to similarly-conjugated verbs, and to equivalent verbs in many other languages. You can also download a trial version of Verbix for Windows. A very useful resource for language learners. Recommended.

Voice of America. News reports and audio webcasts in a wide variety of languages, particularly non-Western, as well as English transcripts. A useful language resource, albeit a little politically unsound.

World Radio Network (WRN). Recorded and live RealAudio feeds from over 20 countries worldwide.