1. WISER: Modern Languages Lucile Deslignères Librarian, Language Centre librarian@lang.ox.ac.uk

2. “The 3 Cs: commitment, continuity and communication” Commitment requires dedication and focus Continuity incremental process over time Communication use and employ the language meaningfully and in real contexts, so you can see the immediate usefulness of it. From Dante Cerulo, Italian Tutor at the Language Centre

3. Aims Find valuable resources for learning modern languages Use resources offered by Oxford and from other referential sites Make use of the language you are learning in your searches Find tools for non-latin writing systems Search non-English search engines

4. SOLO Searching: Simple and Advanced search Browsing: put language in subject box + Language Centre Library/library of choice Video guide to searching at http://languagelibraryatoxford.blogspot.com

5. OXLIP+ For advanced levels. Which database?Which database? Browse by subject Search if you know the name, cross-search (as a starter) Use the "i" button for information about database coverage For Dictionaries Oxford Reference Online or CREDO

6. OXLIP+ News NexisUK for Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish. Search by keyword in the languageNexisUK Factiva browse the news from Bulgarian to Turkish, some audio facilitiesFactiva News in Chinese? Japanese? Russian? Browse by subject in OxLIP+ and get help from Subject ConsultantsSubject Consultants

7. e-books Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg has audio books in Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Russian, Spanish and many many more ! Google books beware of language limits facilities, best is to go to the Google of the language you are studyingGoogle books The online Books PageThe online Books Page mostly English but quality links for Foreign Languages in the Archives E-booksE-books (as objects)

8. Non-Latin writing systems Chinese, Japanese, Russian: how do I type ? How do I learn how to type? Options on PC/MAC computers for installing cyrillic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese Options on web: James Naughton’s pagesJames Naughton’s pages Others such as Arabic, Mongolian: some options on computers and web

9. Searching the web Blind Search Blind Search compares between Google, Yahoo and Bing GoogleGoogle but which one? Be cautious with the Language Search facilities. Best is to go to Google.fr for French searches, Google.ru for Russian searches etc… Google.frGoogle.ru Advanced searches: exact title search, search within a site, use the language script (paste or type) Phil Bradley’s Phil Bradley’s list of search engines by countries

10. Browsing the web GATEWAYS: BUBLBUBL SITES: As starters Omniglot and WikipediaOmniglotWikipedia For learning at beginner’s level BBCBBC for less commonly taught languages UCLAUCLA Browsing/searching Delicious pagesDelicious pages

11. Language Centres AULC Cambridge Language Centre, King’s College London, SOAS… and many others…AULC Oxford University Language Centre Language links: individual, multilingual, Library blog, Language Exchange Programmes, WebLearn (Chinese, French, German pages)

12. Start-up page & blogs Start-up page: audio and video material http://www.netvibes.com/languagelibrary http://www.google.com/ig Blogs (great for learning how to type) Top 100 language blogs from Lexiophiles

13. Other ways… MIT open course: Chinese, German, Japanese, French, SpanishMIT open course Mobile phone “aps” Facebook Online radio Skype Twitter Youtube

14. Where to go from here? Other WISER sessionsWISER SOLO, OxLIP+, Key News Resources Finding quality information on the internet Session organised by your Language Subject Consultant: Arabic, French, Russian etc… Getting information to come to you Forthcoming: Sources for Medievalists Next year: Learning a Language

15. Reference Bradley, Phil, Internet Q&A in Library & Information Update, p.22, Sept 09 for http://blindsearch.fejus.comhttp://blindsearch.fejus.com http://socialouls.wetpaint.comhttp://socialouls.wetpaint.com for everything related to web 2.0 technologies (flickr, facebook, netvibes, twitter, wiki etc…) WISER presentation archives http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/training/wiser Thank you to Hitomi Hall and Minh Chung, for their advice on writing tools for, respectively, Japanese and Chinese. ©Oxford University Language Centre and Oxford University Library Services