A Little Vocabulary Love: Foreign Language / ESL Vocabulary Resources

These sites have exercises to help students in ESL or foreign language classes learn new vocabulary words:


imendi
http://imendi.com/

verbs-online
http://www.verbs-online.com/index.htm

Vocabulix
http://www.vocabulix.com/framer.html

Voxy
http://voxy.com/
This site provides short news articles, games and life skills lessons for ESL students learning new vocabulary. The audience is only Spanish speakers at the moment, but it could probably be used for other ESL learners as well.


Vocabulary for the visual or auditory learner:

Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
http://capl.washjeff.edu/index.php
Provides pictures to illustrate vocabulary in English or other languages.

Forvo
http://www.forvo.com/
Forvo allows people to submit audio pronunciations for words. Listen to variations from speakers from various backgrounds and vote on the best ones.

22frames
http://www.22frames.com/
This site collects videos from around that web that have had captions/subtitles added. It might be useful for ESL learners.

Lingus.tv
http://www.lingus.tv/
Useful for learning Spanish, the site includes video dialogues, translations, and vocabulary guides.

Use the vocabulary that you learned:


MakeBeliefsComix
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
Make simple comic strips with ready made characters, dialouge bubbles and props. The program accepts special characters from other languages as well. You can use the Type It website to create the dialouge if you need to insert special characters in Spanish, French or German.