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Adler, Kurt. Phonetics and Diction in Singing: Italian, French, Spanish, German. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1967.

Chiti, Patricia Adkins, Ed. Phonetic transcriptions by John Glenn Paton. Songs and Duets of Garcia, Malibran and Viardot: Rediscovered Songs by Legendary Singers. Alfred Publishing Co, 1997. 14 songs in Spanish, French and Italian, with phonetic transcriptions, a key to the IPA and notes about the transcriptions.

Coffin, Berton, Ralph Errolle, Werner Singer, and Pierre Delattre. Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias. 2d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982. Large colection of transcriptions of Italian, French, and German lyrics. Not without flaws but still considered a must-have reference.

Leyerle, Anne, and William D. Leyerle, eds. Song Anthology One. 3d Rev. Ed. Geneseo, New York: Leyerle Publications, 1985.

Leyerle, Anne, and William D. Leyerle, eds. Song Anthology Two. Geneseo, New York: Leyerle Publications, 1984.

May, William V. and Craig Tolin. Pronunciation Guide for Choral Literature: French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Spanish. Music Educators' National Conference, 1987.

Moriarty, John. Diction: Italian Latin French German...the sounds and 81 exercises for singing them.Boston, Mass.:E.C.Schirmer, 1975.

Stapp, Marcie. The Singer's Guide to Languages.1991.

Wall, Joan, Robert Caldwell, Tracy Gavilanes, and Sheila Allen. Diction for Singers: A concise reference for English, Italian, Latin, German, French, and Spanish pronunciation. Dallas: Pst... Inc., 1990.

Wall, Joan. International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers: A manual for English and foreign language diction. Dallas: Pst... Inc., 1989.

Agard, Frederick and Di Pietro, Robert. The Sounds of English and Italian. University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Agard, Frederick and Di Pietro, Robert. The Grammatical Structures of English and Italian. University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Collins, B. and Inger Mees. The Sounds of English and Dutch. Leiden University Press, 1984.

Cox, Richard G. Singing in English: A Manual of English Diction for Singers and Choral Directors. American Choral Directors' Association, Lawton OK. Monograph No. 5, 1988; 1990.

Dissertation: Coye, Dale Fincher. A Linguistic Guide to the Pronunciation of English for Actors. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 1979.

Hawn, Henry Gaines. Diction for Singers and Composers. Theo Presser Co., Philadelphia PA, 1928.

Kenyon, John Samuel. American Pronunciation. Tenth Ed. George Wahr Publishing, Ann Arbor, MI 1958.

Kenyon, John Samuel and Thomas Albert Knott. A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English. Merriam-Webster, Springfield, 1953. (This is an older edition; this book is still in print and considered a standard.)

Kökeritz, H. Shakespeare's pronunciation. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1953.

Marshall, Madeleine. The Singer's Manual of English Diction. Schirmer Books, NY, 1953.

Marshall, Yale. Singing Fluent American Vowels. Pro Musica Press, Minneapolis. Revised Version 1994.

Mayer, Lyle. Fundamentals of Voice and Diction. Times Mirror Publ., now in 11th ed. Designed for spoken-diction courses.

Pfautsch, Lloyd. English Diction for Singers. Lawson-Gould Music Publishers, NY 1971.

Stockwell, Robert P. and Bowen, J. Donald. The Sounds of English and Spanish. The University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Uris, Dorothy. To Sing in English: A Guide to Improved Diction. Boosey and Hawkes, NY 1971.

Wells, J. C. Pronunciation Dictionary, Longman, 1990.

Wise, Claude Merton. Applied Phonetics. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1957.

Bosworth, J., T. Toller and A. Campbell, eds. 1972. Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-863101-4.

Clark Hall, J. R. 1984. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-6548-1.

Griffiths, Bill. 1993. A User-Friendly Dictionary of Old English. Heart of Albion Press.

Healey, Antonette diPaolo, ed. (in progress). Dictionary of Old English. The DOE is being published in fascicles; for more information, consult University of Toronto Center for Medieval Studies publications.

Pollington, Stephen. 1993. Wordcraft: Concise Dictionary and Thesaurus, Modern English-Old English. Middlesex: Anglo-Saxon Books. ISBN 1-898281-02-5.

Roberts, Jane and Christian Kay, with Lynne Grundy. A Thesaurus of Old English. London: King's College London Medieval Studies X. Described, with ordering information, in Humanities Computing News, January 1996 (University of Toronto).

Alton, Jeannine, and Brian Jeffery. Bele Buche e Bele Parleure: A Guide to the pronunciation of medieval and Renaissance French for singers and others. London: Tecla Editions, 1976.

Arnold, William H. French Diction for Singers and Speakers. Philadelphia: Ditson, 1912.

Collins French*English English*French Dictionary. Berklee Books, NY, 1985. ISBN 0-425-08295-4. IPA Dictionary. Paperback or hardback, believed to be out-of-print, but a wonderful resource.

Cox, Richard G. The Singer's Manual of German and French Diction. New York: Schirmer, 1970.

Donnan, Thomas M. French Lyric Diction. University Press of America. ISBN 0-8191-9441-7.

Grubb, Thomas. Singing in French: A Manual of French Diction and French Vocal Repertoire. New York: Schirmer, 1979.

Leyerle, Anne, and William D. Leyerle, eds. French Diction Songs: from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Geneseo, New York: Leyerle Publications, 1983.

Mansion, J. E. Harrap's Modern College French and English Dictionary. Charles Scribners' Sons, NY 1972. IPA Dictionary.

Robert, P. Dictionaire alphabétique et analogigue de la langue française. 1973

Rohinsky, Marie-Claire. The Singer's Debussy: The complete songs of Debussy rendered into IPA and word-for-word English translations.Pelion Press, NY, 1987.

Steiner, Roger J. The Bantam New College French and English Dictionary. Bantam Books, NY 1972. IPA Dictionary.

Warnant, Leon. Dictionnaire de la pronunciation française. Editions J. Duculot, Gembloux 1968.

Wierenga, Leanne. French Diction for the Singer: (A Phonetics Workbook). Judith Otto, ed. New York: Kenyon Publications, 1977.

Barber, J. German for Musicians, 1985.

Collins German*English English*German Dictionary. Berklee Books, NY, 1985. ISBN 0-425-08296-2. IPA Dictionary. Paperback or hardback, believed to be out-of-print, but a wonderful resource.

Cox, Richard G. The Singer's Manual of German and French Diction. New York: Schirmer, 1970.

Grebe, Paul, ed. Duden Rechtschreibung der deutchen Sprachen und der Fremdworter. Bibliographisches Institut AG, Mannheim 1958.

Hey, Julius. Der Kleine Hey: Die Kunst des Sprechens. B. Schott's Sohne, Mainz 1956.

Langenscheidt New Pocket German Dictionary. Langenscheidt Books, Berlin, 1970. ISBN 3-468-96105-7. IPA Dictionary. Softback, may no longer be in-print, but a good resource if you can find it.

Kim, Michael. Guide pratique de la diction allemande conçu pour les chanteurs francophones du Québec. Publication Language: French. 40 pp. Publisher: Guérin http://www.guerin-editeur.qc.ca/guerin.html Contact: France Larochelle: mailto:france.larochelle@guerin-editeur.qc.ca This newly released book aims to help French-speakers in Québec learn the pronunciation of literary German, for the purpose of singing classical works. Presupposing no previous knowledge of German or phonetics, sounds prevalent in the French of Québec are compared to those of literary German. There is also an introduction to German metre and how it differs greatly from French metre, and examples of phonetic and metrical analysis of a variety of well-known texts. This work was designed to be very easy to use and technical jargon is kept to a minimum. The German pronuniciation used here is based on Sieb's standard work, "Bühnenaussprache" and other German diction manuals.

Magner, Candace A. Phonetic Readings of Brahms Lieder. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987. ISBN:0810820595 "This is the first pronunication guide to the German in every song composed by Johannes Brahms. Each line of German is presented with its pronunciation clearly spelled in IPA directly below. Included are 297 texts of Brahms lieder and folk songs, along with four appendices cross-referencing the poems by opus number, title, first line, and poet." Still in print, and a must-have for the serious lieder singer, coach or teacher of diction.

Magner, Candace A. Phonetic Readings of Schubert Lieder. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994. ISBN:0810829215 "This work provides a comprehensive pronunciation guide to all the German songs of Franz Schubert. Each line of German is presented with its pronunciation clearly spelled in IPA directly below. Continuing work begun with 'Phonetic Readings of Brahms Lieder,' the book is designed especially for teachers and students of singing who want perfection in their German diction. Included are nearly 600 texts of Schubert Lieder, along with ...appendices cross-referencing the poems by Deutsch (catalog) numbers, title, first line, and poet." An invaluable reference, and a labor of love from one of our own Diction Divas.

Mangold, Max, ed. Duden Ausspracheworterbuch. Duden vol. 6. Bibl. Institut, Mannheim 1974.

Moulton, William G. The Sounds of English and German: The Contrastive Structure Series. Charles A. Ferguson, gen. ed. University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Odom, William. German for Singers: A Textbook of Diction and Phonetics. New York: Schirmer, 1981.

Reinhard, Thilo. The Singer's Schumann, 1989.

Siebs, Theodor. Deutsche Aussprache: reine und gemässigte Hochlautung mit Aussprachewörterbuch, 1969.

Sheil, Richard. A Manual of Foreign Language Dictions for Singers. 4th ed. Edacra Press, Fredonia, NY 1986.

Agard, Frederick and Di Pietro, Robert. The Sounds of English and Italian. University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Agard, Frederick and Di Pietro, Robert. The Grammatical Structures of English and Italian. University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Colorni, Evelna. Singer's Italian: A Manual of Diction and Phonetics. Schirmer Books, NY 1970.

IPA DICTIONARY: Collins Italian*English English*Italian Dictionary. Berklee Books, NY, 1983. ISBN 0-425-05451-9. Paperback or hardback, believed to be out-of-print, but a wonderful IPA dictionary.

Errolle, Ralph. Italian Diction for Singers. Third Ed. Pruett Press, Boulder, CO 1963.

Hippocrene Italian*English English*Italian Dictionary. Hippocrene Books, NY, 1983. ISBN 0-99254-929-4. Hardback, believed to be out-of-print, but a useful IPA dictionary.

Copeman, Harold. Singing in Latin: or, Pronunciation Explor'd. 1990. Oxford (believed to be published privately) Preface by Andrew Parrott. Highly-recommended but hard-to-find book. "Thoroughly-researched look at Latin pronounciation from Medieval to 19th century and in various European traditions."

Diamond, Wilfrid. A Dictionary of Liturgical Latin. Bruce Publishing Co., NY 1961.

Diamond, Wilfrid. Liturgical Latin. Benziger Brothers, Inc. NY 1941.

Hines, B. Singers' Manual of Latin Diction and Phonetics. Schirmer Books, NY 1975.

Jeffers, Ron. Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire Volume 1: Sacred Latin Texts.

Maunder, Richard. Mozart's Requiem: On Preparing a New Edition. Clarendon Press, 1988. Contains an informative appendix on how Latin was sung in Mozart and Haydn's time and region.

Trusler, Ivan. The Choral Director's Latin. University Press of America. Lanham MD, 1987.

Challis, Natalia. The Singer's Rachmaninoff. 1975. Includes original Russian texts with pronunciation in IPA and English translations.

Piatak, Jean & Regina Avrashov. Russian Songs & Arias: Phonetic Readings, Word-by-Word Translations, and a Concise Guide to Russian Diction. Dallas: Pst. Inc., 1991

Castel, Nico. A Singers' Manual of Spanish Lyric Diction. Excalibur Publishing, NY 1994. Includes many dialects and national tendencies.

Collins Spanish*English English*Spanish Dictionary. Berklee Books, NY, 1986. ISBN 0-425-08008-0. Paperback or hardback, believed to be out-of-print, but a wonderful IPA dictionary.

Finch, Diane F. and Ortiz, Hector. A Course in English Phonetics for Spanish Speakers. Heinemann Educational Books, London 1982.

DISSERTATION: Rees-Rohrbacher, Denise. A Spanish Diction Manual for Singers. Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University, 1985, � 1986. Available from University Microfilms International.

Stockwell, Robert P. and Bowen, J. Donald. The Sounds of English and Spanish. The University of Chicago Press, 1970.

BASQUE or EUSKARA Dictionaries:
Basque-English Dictionary by Gorka Aulestia, contains 672 pages, published in 1989. Price: $50.00.
The English-Basque Dicionary by Aulestia and Linda White, contains 416 pages, published in 1990. Price: $45.00.
And the pocket version, by Aulestia and White, the Basque- English, English-Basque Dictionary, paperback, 688 pages, published in 1992. Price: $20.00. All from University of Nevada Press.

PORTUGESE: Modern Portugese. Alfred A. Knopf, NY. Note especially Appendix A: Pronunciation Notes; contains IPA and charts demonstrating articulation with examples and explanations.

Koster, Re. "The Dutch Art Song". The NATS Bulletin Vol 18 (May 1962), no. 2.

Graham, Arthur. "Singing the Neapolitan Song". The NATS Bulletin, Vol. 40, 4 (Mar/Apr 1984). Includes rules for pronunciation of Neapolitan dialect and several popular Neapolitan songs transcribed into IPA.

Austin, John. "Pronunciation of the Middle High German Sections of Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana.'" Choral Journal, Sept. 1995. IPA; compares middle German with modern.

PAMPHLET: De Angelis, Michael and Nicolatti Montani. The Correct Pronunciation of Latin According to Roman Usage. St. Gregory Guild, Inc. Philadelphia, PA 1937.

Boire, Paula A. "Introduction to Romanian Art Song". The NATS Bulletin Vol 48 (Nov 1991), no.4.

Anderson, Lois Eve. "Hows and Whys of Scandinavian Singing". The NATS Bulletin, Vol 26 (Oct 1969), no. 2.

Arias, Enrique Alberto. "Contemporary Argentinian Vocal Literature". The NATS Bulletin Vol 41 (Jan 1985), no. 9.

Lief, Arthur. The Singer's Guide to Brahms Lieder: A Pronunciation Aid to Famous Brahms Songs. Created and produced by Arthur Lief. Record Album. [Older, may be available through interlibrary loan.]

Lief, Arthur. Singer's Guide to Classic French Songs: A Pronunciation Aid to Famous French Songs. Record Album. Created and produced by Arthur Lief. [Older, may be available through interlibrary loan.]

RECORD ALBUM. Singer's Guide to Classic Italian Songs: A Pronunciation Aid to Famous Italian Songs. Created and produced by Arthur Lief.

Lief, Arthur. The Singer's Guide to Schubert Lieder: A Pronunciation Aid to Famous Schubert Songs. Created and produced by Arthur Lief. Record Album. [Older, may be available through interlibrary loan.]

Singher, Martial. Martial Singher Recites French Poems Set to Music by French Composers.

RECORD ALBUM. Soprano's Guide to Italian Opera Arias: A Pronunciation Aid to Famous Italian Arias. Created and produced by Arthur Lief.

A Singer's Guide to the IPA is a new CD-Rom developed by Dr. Karen Jensen of Canada. This is a multimedia course in IPA with interactive exercises for learning vocal physiology and the sounds and symbols of English, Italian, French and German. For more information, contact Dr. Jensen via e-mail at kjensen@cc.umanitoba.ca.

Random House's partner in CD-ROM language courses is Syracuse Language Systems http://www.syrlang.com/

AltaVista Translation Service: Online Translator for major European languages: http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate

Aria Texts: not always in transcription, but a useful database of aria-texts. The Aria Database: a searchable database of arias including synopses, translations, and sound files can be found at http://www.aria-database.com.

Aaron's World Language Home Page http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/8324/index.html lists culture and reading sites for a wide variety of languages.

ARTFL Project. The Artificial Languages Project's 150 million word database. http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html

Berkeley's Foreign Language Resources:
http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~thorne/HumanResources.html

Robert Beard's Web of Foreign Language Dictionaries. http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html One of the best on the web.

CD-ROM language courses Random House's partner is Syracuse Language Systems http://www.syrlang.com/

Dictsearch: All-in-one dictionary search. http://www.ctv.es/USERS/alberfon/dicsear1.htm

Siebs, Theodor. Deutsche Hochsprache Buhnenaussprache. Walter De Gruyter and Co., Berlin, 1958.

Expressions for travelers spoken in RealAudio in French, German, Italian, Spanish http://www.fodors.com/language

The Foreign Language Learning Center's Page of Links to links on Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish (Latin America; Mexico; Spain) language, culture, music, etc. Well worth checking out. http://fllc.smu.edu/language_links.html

Virtual Library Language Page. http://www.hardlink.com/WWW_Virtual_Library_Language.html

Human Languages Page. http://www.june29.com/HLP/

International Language Department offers interactive language lessons as shareware--French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. First lesson free; inexpensive. Uses Real Audio. http://www.ild.com/

Languages for Travelers by Travlang includes basic vocabulary in several dozen languages, with sound files demonstrating proper pronunciation. Also features links to sites offering more information on individual languages. http://www.travlang.com/languages/

Living Language Courses, http://www.fodors.com/language/

Links to interactive language lessons, foreign language resources, on-line dictionaries, and pronouncing dictionaries. http://scholar.urc.ac.ru/B_Friend/Language_Page/

The LOGOS Dictionary allows you to search over 6.7 million entries for words or phrases, and see an approximate equivalent in any of 31 languages. We recommend you have either a working knowledge of a language (or have someone proofread the results) before trusting this kind of translation too much;-) but this is a useful and free service. http://www.logos.it/query/query.html

Pimsleur International language courses. Site includes RealAudio. http://www.esl.net/mbt/pimsleur.html

Phonetics: External Links http://www-uilots.let.ruu.nl/www/themagroepen/Fonetiek/links_en.html An excellent page of linguistic links on the web, compiled by Universiteit Utrecht

Research-It! Your one-stop reference desk. 22+language word-translations and much more. A great bookmark site. http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html.

Rivende Language Dictionaries and Translators:
Rivende Dictionaries and translators; language cources; language chat sites; travel the world. http://rivendel.com/~ric/resources/dictionary.html.

Travlang's translating dictionaries: searchable, large list of free resources. Find translations between any of several languages, including Esperanto. Site includes a free downloadable translating program. http://dictionaries.travlang.com/

Routledge Publishers - http://www.routledge.com carries translation dictionaries, including CD-Rom titles and a huge selection of language-learning books, tapes, CDs, and packages including the following: Colloquial Russian, Colloquial Albanian, Greek, Chinese, Cambodian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Dutch, Persian, Lithuanian, Ukranian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Malay, Somali, Slovak, Czech, French, Latvian, Estonian, Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic (Levantine) Arabic (Egyptian) Arabic (Gulf and Saudi), Polish, Italian, Basque, Welsh, Danish, Cantonese, Korean, Swedish, Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian, German, Romanian, Gujarati, Japanese, Norwegian, Urdu, Hindi, Panjabi, Turkish, Indonesian, Amharic, Slovene and Finnish!

Song Texts: not always in transcription or translation, but a useful database of song-texts. http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/

Wordbot Home Page. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kgolden/wordbot.html. Automates translations from any webpage using any on-line dictionary.

WWW Links to Foreign Language Resources. Multi-language from American Sign Language to Russian. A new site still under development, but you may find a few gems here. http://www.uiowa.edu/~coe2/divisions/candi/fle/link.html

The Chinese/Japanese/Korean English Dictionary Database. Requires special fonts. http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/cjkdict.htm

JGuide http://fuji.stanford.edu/jguide/lang/ Stanford University's online guide to Japan Information Resources contains many links to web-sourcing the Japanese language. Strongly recommended as a starting point for your search.

Bob Barsanti's Shakespeare Page http://www.capecod.net/~bbarsant/class/shakespeare.html

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

The Elizabethan Review http://www.elizreview.com

The Folger Library http://www.folger.edu

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/

Usegroup: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare.

English: source listings on the development of English. http://www.uv.es/~filing/fonodiacronica.htm

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's English as a Second Language Home Page. http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/esl/

Old English Pages at http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/old_english.html

A Beginner's Guide to Offline Language Materials: Pre-Modern English at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1615/rhahn/lowlands/english_offline.htm

Chansons françaises (French song texts): http://www.math.umn.edu/~foursov/chansons/

France: Culture, Language, Travel. The Wharton Group and Ian C. Mills bring you a mega-site treasure-trove of francophilia. Under Music you'll find a short history of French Music Through the Ages. Languages reveals a brief history of French language with links to information on its dialects and offshoots. Dictionaries has the Travlang online, plus links to other online resources and language sites. A free chat-room (ironically perhaps, limited to discussion in English) is available for French and France related discussions: educators may request a block of time to give a presentation or moderate a discussion. A myriad of links and topics for your enjoyment and edifications may be found at http://cyberzone.net/wharton/France.

French Dictionary online. http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html

Netmusik - liens musicaux: tablatures et paroles:a page of links primarily addressing French music and song lyrics. http://www.netmusik.com/liens/tablature.html

Dutch/Flemish: An online dictionary of Dutch: WNT - Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal: http://www.hobby.nl/~charon/wnt.html

German Dictionary online. Translates single words, phrases, gives idiomatic use. http://dict.leo.org/dict/

Langenscheidt German Dictionary online. http://www.langenscheidt.de/dictio/dictio.htm

German Translation--requires a basic knowledge of German. http://www.gmsmuc.de/english/trans.html

Latin dictionary:translates single words from Latin to English. http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/Latin.htm

Latin Resources Online http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/4634/latin.html Check out this outstanding webpage of Latin Resources Online, which includes sections on Latin Pronunciation.

Latin Whitaker Words: translates Latin words and phrases into English. http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.pl

Latin dictionary and grammar aid: http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm

UC-Berkeley's Dictionaries on the Internet is a good place to start. Links to on-line dictionaries in Russian, Czech, Estonian, Ukranian, Slovene, Belorussian, and Hungarian. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Slavic/diction.html

Online Dictionary, cz->eng, eng->cz!! http://www.mtranslations.cz/dict.htm

Introductory Course: also has links to other Hungarian & Swedish http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~arubin/hungarian.html

A useful Hungarian Dictionary online http://www.sztaki.hu

Hungarian Language Course Online. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~arubin/hungarian.html#intro

Dictionary http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~polak/slownik/ this is an online translation, eng->polish, small, and needs full screen to see the whole thing.

English-Russian Dictionary online http://www.isf.ru/cgi-bin/stas/dict/engrus.pl

Finnish Online dictionary eng-fin-eng http://www.mofile.fi

Finnish newsgroup sfnet.keskustelu.kieli

Finnish Pronunciation Page. http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/finnish.pronunciation.html

ICELANDIC: Grammar guide http://islandia.no/mius.com/people.mimir/

Swedish Online course: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~arubin/swedish.html

LANIC Lists. Wonderful list of links to resources for Latin American languages, brought to you by the University of Texas' LANIC Project. http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/languages/

Spanish Dictionaries online from the Anaya Group. Resources include Spanish-Spanish (definitions), Spanish-English, and English-Spanish. Simple to use, includes common expressions of speech. http://www3.anaya.es/diccionario/diccionar.htm

Comparison of Scottish and Irish Gaelic. http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/ga-ge/coimeas.html

The Gaelic and Gaelic Culture Homepage. Info and Links. http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaelic/gaelic.html

Gaelic Language Basics http://www.millsann.com/Gaelnet/eire/langbas.html

Gaelic Language Reader (lessons in the language) http://nexus.brocku.ca/rogawa/gaelic

Na hAmhráin http://www.webcom.com/liam/gaelsong/list.html Gaelic Song Archive of Gaelic song lyrics

Irish Folk Song Lyrics, with links to similar sites. http://www.dawnrain.com/home/lyrics.htm

Irish language lessons with RealAudio pronunciation, http://www.maths.tcd.ie/gaeilge/lessons.html

Gaeilge ar an Ghréasán (Gaelic on The Net) http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/gaeilge.html Not completely in English, (although there are some English subtitles) but an astonishing page of links to Everything Gaelic on the Net, from language lessons to computer software to just about anything else you can think of.

Irish Gaelic: A source for Irish Gaelic sci-fi lovers: http://www.larkover.org/lists/darkover-lovers/msg01033.html

Learning Irish online: weekly tutorials from "The Irish People." No sound files unfortunately, but an interesting site full of information on language and pronunciation. http://inac.org/IrishPeople/gaelic/Lesson1.html

The Mining Company list of links http://goireland.miningco.com/msub13.htm

Dennis King's Word of the Day site. This site has links to Celtic language discussion groups and other links to Celtic language sites, inlcluding an article on Modern Irish Spelling and Pronunciation. http://www.lincolnu.edu/~focal/index.html

Scots Gaelic: Gaelic Learners materials online http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/ionnsachadh/

Gaelic Net http://www.gaelic.net/ "the definitive resource for learners and native speakers of Scots Gaelic"

Gaelic Songtexts http://w3.laval.com/~donaldm/songs.htm Some Gaelic songs and translations

Elementary Course in Gaelic http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/ionnsachadh/ECG

Scottish Newsgroup: the_innkeeper@electricscotland.com It covers all things Celtic, whether Scottish or not. They have information on everything from topography of Celtic lands, songs, zoology, travel, languages, etc., in readable English. Recommended for those members wanting info. on Celtic songs , Gaelic, 'inner meanings', poetry, sources, etc.

Welsh Online Course http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/welsh Chapter 1 is pronunciation.

Grammar http://www.sola-sole.com/gramat.htm

Sources for Catalan translation:http://www.cercat.com/lincaweb/htm/eng.html

An online Basque dictionary from LOGOS: http://www.logos.it/query/queryeu.html

Another Basque online dictionary:http://www.gy.com/online/baol.htm

General info about the Basque language http://weber.u.washington.edu/~buber/Basque/Euskara/lang1.html

A downloadable free course on Basque language http://www.eirelink.com/alanking/introduc.htm

Links to Books for learning Basque: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~buber/Basque/Euskara/lang3.html

A listing of books regarding Basque, including dictionaries http://www.scs.unr.edu/~bstudies/books.html

Listen to Basque music: http://www.basquearts.com/marketplace/

http://ttt.esperanto.org/us/USEJ/world/index.html Highly informative page of info and links concerning the origins, pronunciation and use of Esperanto.

Mo'o and Lolo's Hawaiian Cyber Dictionary Online. 5,000 Hawaiian words, including a Guide To Pronunciation and a bonus Find Your Name in Hawaiian section. Fun! http://www.hisurf.com/cgi-bin/DM/dictionary.cgi

Choral Diction:
Sue, Larry. "Choral Diction, Part 1 of 7." An introductory discussion. http://www.choraegus.com/LW/dissertations/diction/part1.html.

Operas and their Composers: A Pronouncing Dictionary. Approx. 100 names of operas and their composers with attached sound files that provide pronunciation. http://gray.music.rhodes.edu/operahtmls/works.html

Cantonese Pronunciations "S. L. Wong's A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton." http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Canton/

Chinese Character Pronunciations: Mandarin and Cantonese. http://www.webcom.com/ocrat/reaf/

Fun in Chinese http://www.dlc.com/funEC.html discusses the rise and fall of pitch, and gives some sample phrases.

Languages: Chinese Online. http://eleaston.home.mindspring.com/html/chinese.html Excellent set of links to language tools, sites, and programs for learning and teaching Chinese. Note especially the links under "Listen and Speak."

Poetry Recordings. http://www.chinapage.org/sound/m0pje97q.ram RealAudio recordings of readings of Chinese poetry. From the "China the Beautiful" website.

Survival Chinese. http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/ctutor.html .au sound recordings of recorded phrases in Chinese. Designed as an intro to "survival" Chinese, interesting as examples of the pitch and inflection of the language.

Fun in Japanese http://www.dlc.com/funEJ.html The pronunciation of Japanese Vowels and sample phrases.

The Japan Food Guide's Japanese Pronunciation Page. http://www.bento.com/rf_pron.html

Intro to Japanese. http://www.ntt.co.jp/japan/japanese Once you get through all the ads;-) you can find a good, free online intro to Japanese language course at this site (complete with sound files), as well as information about Japanese culture and other interests.

Fun in Korean: The Romanization of Korean Pronunciation http://www.dlc.com/funEK.html An intro to sounds and phrases, can also be viewed in Korean characters.

ELIZABETHAN ENGLISH: online guide and drill to Shakespearean pronunciation at http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html. Includes sound files.

Elizabethan English Recordings: 20th Century readings from some of the Sonnets and excerpts from some of the plays at http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/020994_harp_ITH.html.

Eisenson, Jon. Voice and Diction: A Program for Improvement, 7th ed., 1997, Allyn & Bacon. ISBN 0-205-19869-4, 436pgs. Designed for spoken-diction, uses IPA, and addresses resional American accent traps. Info at http://www.abacon.com/books/ab_0205198694.html.

Fowler's Modern English Usage. R.W. Burchfield, Ed. 3rd ed., Oxford Press, 1996, 896 pp, ISBN 0-19-869126-2. http://www.oup-usa.org/docs/0198691262.html The newest edition of this dictionary now uses IPA.

Forward, Geoffrey G. and Elisabeth Howard. American Diction for Singers. Book with optional 2-cassette set. Info and ordering at http://www.shakespeare-usa.com/speechmasters/amdicbook.htm.

Farish, Stephen. French Diction for Singers, Gore Publishing Co., Denton TX, 1994.15 songs complete with poems, phonetic transcriptions, translations, and notes. Contains lessons and songs with poems, phonetic transcriptions, translations, and performance notes. An excellent addition to or basis for a French Diction course. Ordering info: http://wjmusic.com

French, Medieval French Song
http://home.worldcom.ch/~obettens/index.html#tdm

Sanford, Sally A. Online Comparison of French and Italian Singing in the 17th Century. This wonderful website includes a wealth of high-quality audio samples, and a well-researched discussion of singing styles in 17th C Italy and France. http://www.sscm.harvard.edu/jscm/v1/no1/sanford.html. A Diction Domain Super Site!

Dutch/Flemish: A site of links to print and online sources, with sound samples of dialects: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Roger_Thijs/langbel.htm

Kim, Michael. Guide pratique de la diction allemande conçu pour les chanteurs francophones du Québec. Publication Language: French. 40 pp. Publisher: Guérin http://www.guerin-editeur.qc.ca/guerin.html Contact: France Larochelle: mailto:france.larochelle@guerin-editeur.qc.ca TThe author states: this soon-to-be released book aims to help French-speakers in Québec learn the pronunciation of literary German, for the purpose of singing classical works. Presupposing no previous knowledge of German or phonetics, sounds prevalent in the French of Québec are compared to those of literary German. There is also an introduction to German metre and how it differs greatly from French metre, and examples of phonetic and metrical analysis of a variety of well-known texts. This work was designed to be very easy to use and technical jargon is kept to a minimum. The German pronuniciation used here is based on Siebs' standard work, "Bühnenaussprache" and other German diction manuals.

Languages: German Online. http://eleaston.home.mindspring.com/html/german.html Excellent set of links to language tools, sites, and programs for learning and teaching German.

The Hebrew Alphabet and sample words online, with sound files. http://www.feduja.org/commserv/heschel/children/hebrew.stm

Alfabeto e Pronuncia (Alphabet and Pronunciation) http://www.cyberitalian.com/html/alphabet.htm This well-done page has charming graphics and gives sample words and .wav soundfiles for each of the letters (foreign and domestic) used in Italian. A nice resource for any teacher or beginning student of Italian diction.

The Italian Electronic Classroom (TM) http://www.dnai.com/~alexcat/classroom.html "is a project of Centro Studi ItalianiTM, aimed at providing free on-line, useful information on difficult aspects of the Italian language to students, teachers, translators, writers." Contains links to pages on info such as consonant doubling and its handling in dictionaries (http://www.dnai.com/~alexcat/doubling.html)

Italian Diction Rules. Dr. Jean-Ronald LaFond's excellent Italian diction rules, downloadable in Mac and Windows formats from his Lyric Singer's Diction site. http://grove.ufl.edu/~lafond/

Languages: http://eleaston.home.mindspring.com/html/italian.html Excellent set of links to language tools, sites, and programs for learning and teaching Italian.

A highly cool place is the Virtual Museum of Neapolitan Song: http://www.voxneapolis.it/net/virtual.museum/it_home.htm . It includes texts, composer/poet biographies, incipits of music, pictures of the original editions and sound files in .WAV format. If you live to hear Caruso sing 'O Sole Mio, this is the place.

Latin Resources Online http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/4634/latin.html Check out this outstanding webpage of Latin Resources Online, which includes sections on Latin Pronunciation.

Latin Choral Diction:
Dahlman, Hank. Carmina Burana: A Pronunciation Guide. Available through the author: hdahlman@wright.edu

Languages: Albanian Online. http://eleaston.home.mindspring.com/html/albanian.html Excellent set of links to language tools, sites, and programs for learning and teaching Albanian. Note especially the links to language and dialects.

Languages: Croatian Online. http://eleaston.home.mindspring.com/html/croatian.html Excellent set of links to language tools, sites, and programs for learning and teaching Croatian. Note especially the links to pronunciation and fonts.

An excellent overview: "An Introduction to the Pronunciation of Czech for English-speaking foreigners" by Jiri Hedanek at Charles University. http://www.ff.cuni.cz/departments/fu/jh/jh-czpro.html or full index at http://www.ff.cuni.cz/departments/fu/jh/ghindex.html

A quick reference to Czech pronunciation: http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~mmartin/languages/czech/pronounce.html

Czech Pronunciation: sample phrases with audio files at http://www.ctknews.com/tutor/tutor1.htm

Pronunciation: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~arubin/hu0.html

Hungarian Pronunciation Tutor. Links and samples from commercially-available software. http://homepage.interaccess.com/~jas/hungarian_pronunciation.shtml

Online Talking Dictionary http://www.ae.poznan.pl/~pjk/tree/potd.htm

Polish Dictionary: An online English-to-Polish dictionary (The site is in Polish...) http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~anthon/slownik.html

Polish Dictionary: A bi-lingual English-to-Polish dictionary http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~polak/slownik/

Languages: Polish Online. http://eleaston.home.mindspring.com/html/polish.html Excellent set of links to language tools, sites, and programs for learning and teaching Polish. Note especially the links to sounds and pronunciation.

Travlang's Guide to Polish Pronunciation. http://www.travlang.com/languages/polish/pronounce.english.html

Russian Choral Music. Commercially-available Diction Tapes and Guides for Russian Choral Singing. http://www.musicarussica.com/files/dictiont.html

Cyrillic Alphabet. http://www.colby.edu/library/collections/technical_services/wp/Cyrillic.html Colby College's snazzy little chart of the Cyrillic Alphabet and its pronunciation.

Cyrillic Alphabet. http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/language/russian-alphabet.html Cyrillic Alphabet chart with pronunciation soundfiles.

Cyrillic Alphabet. http://www.infoservices.com/site/alpha.html Cyrillic Alphabet pronunciation and transliteration chart.

Languages: Russian Online. http://eleaston.home.mindspring.com/html/russian.html Excellent set of links to language tools, sites, and programs for learning and teaching Russian. Note especially the links to alphabet and phonetics.

Robert Beard's excellent online Russian Grammar and Pronunciation Guide. http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/russian/language/

Russian Language Software. http://www.colby.edu/personal/astrukov/libra/ Andrei Strukov's page where you can download your choice of several Russian pronunciation and drill software programs for the Macintosh.

Russian Language Software and More. George Mitrevski's Knowledge Design Page, filled with wonderful ideas and info on creating language resources on the Web, and a selection of free Russian software downloads for the Macintosh platform. If you teach diction or are interested in creating a website, check this out. http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/knowledge/index.html A Diction Domain Super Site!

Finnish Pronunciation http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/finnish.pronunciation.html

Icelandic:talking, some words with sound, but not a dictionary, just a few phrases: http://www.saga.is/Netcafe/Iceland/Icelandic

Swedish Online course: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~arubin/swedish.html
pronunciation: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~arubin/sw0.html

Languages: Spanish Online http://eleaston.home.mindspring.com/html/spanish.html Excellent set of links to language tools, sites, and programs for learning and teaching Spanish. Note especially the links to pronouncing Castillian Spanish.

Cockburn, Craig. Singing in Gaelic. http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~craig/gaelsong.html Craig Cockburn's article on singing style and wordstress in Gaelic.

Gaelic Lessons On-Line by Neil McEwan. http://www.geocities.com/~rjmccaffery/lang/irish1.html Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic Lessons on the 'net - includes pronunciation and accompanying readings.

A Beginner's Guide to Irish Gaelic Pronunciation is a very thorough source designed to aid beginners and people completely unfamiliar with Irish Gaelic with basic pronunciation. http://www.standingstones.com or http://www.sirius.com/~ststones/gaelpron.htm

Irish Gaelic Dialects by Panu Höglund http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/gramadach/canuinti.html Explains the differences between different Irish Gaelic regional dialects.

Irish Pronunciation http://www.lincolnu.edu/~focal/irishsp.htm

Irish Gaelic Pronunciation. http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bj333/HomePage.prono.html Pronunciation of Irish Gaelic covers the basics of vowels, consonants, aspiration and eclipsis.

Irish Pronunciation: For a slightly simplified pronunciation guide, try http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bj333/HomePage.prono.html This page also has links to Irish music.

Irish language lessons with RealAudio pronunciation, http://www.maths.tcd.ie/gaeilge/lessons.html

Uncle Dale's Guide to Pronunciation of Gaelic [humor] http://www.wwisp.com/~dwisely/gaelic.html

Gaelic Net http://www.gaelic.net/ gaelic.net - "the definitive resource for learners and native speakers of Scots Gaelic"

Gaelic Net Archives and Forum http://www.gaelic.net/forum/forum.html Archives of the gaelic.net forum where you can also post specific questions about Scots Gaelic pronunciation here and have "the experts" answer you.

Scots Gaelic: Sounds of Gaelic, Beginner's guide to pronunciation of Scottish Gaelic is at rec.music.celtic

Scots Gaelic Pronunciation Guide http://www.dalriada.co.uk/Archives/gaelpron.htm Scots Gaelic Pronunciation, a good summary and sample words and phrases.

Welsh Online Course http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/welsh Chapter 1 is pronunciation.

Australian English: An Australian IPA dictionary, The Pocket Macquarie Dictionary from The Jacaranda Press Distributor, 1990. Order and info at http://www.macnet.mq.edu.au/bookshop/title.html.

Pronunciation http://www.sola-sole.com/gphonolo.htm

Some info about Basque pronunciation http://weber.u.washington.edu/~buber/Basque/Euskara/lang.lt.html

A downloadable free course on Basque language http://www.eirelink.com/alanking/introduc.htm

Want to hear what Basque sounds like? http://www.teleport.com/~napoleon/basque/audiosample.html

Basque Pronunciation at the start of a beginning course http://www.gaudenbat.com/ikastola/index.htm

Everything you always wanted to know about the Basque Fricative sound: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~buber/Basque/Euskara/lang2.html

A treatise on the Basque use of the letter H? http://weber.u.washington.edu/~buber/Basque/Euskara/h.html

Links to Books for learning Basque: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~buber/Basque/Euskara/lang3.html

A listing of books regarding Basque, including dictionaries http://www.scs.unr.edu/~bstudies/books.html

Klingon Diction, anyone? For you Klingon Opera fans, check out http://www.kli.org/kli/sounds.html

A bit of Occitan Linguistics.
This interesting site features an Occitan language tutorial, a few song text translations, general information about the Occitan language, and links to related sites. Begin your journey at http://www.multimania.com/simorre/oc/lingoc.htm.

Welcome to the Walloon language page! What? You've never heard of Walloon?! Don't trust us on this one; check it out for yourself at http://www.wallonie.com/wallang/index.htm

Mandarin Chinese Software. http://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/Newsletters/Currents/Vol4.3/Mandarin.html Developing Mandarin Pronunciation Courseware. Article and examples of a commercially-available software course.

Speech Analysis: Phonetics Laboratory at the University of Victoria, B.C., describes several speech-analysis/feedback computer programs developed by UCLA. Also has links to pictures of phonetic research.http://web.uvic.ca/ling/phonlab.html
See also UCLA ordering page (for software) http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/software.htm

http://www.linguistsoftware.com/li.htm Commercial, Downloadable fonts.

Summer Institute of Linguistics. True Type and Post-script type 1 fonts, made available to the general linguistic community at no charge. A 930+ character set can be obtained commercially. http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html. A Diction Domain Super Site!

World Language Resources--commercial IPA fonts. http://www.worldlanguage.com/ipa.htm

IPA Fonts and Links: commercial and free fonts, links, IPA info. http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipafonts.html

http://tex.ksu.ru/ljm/doc/html/fontfaq/cf_11.htmlSome are free.

Font Finder: Sources of Language Fonts on the Internet, brought to you by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/. This is the motherlode of all fonts sources, most of which are downloadable. Links galore. A Diction Domain Super Site!

Another Fontfinder, downloadable from University of Oregon's Yamada language center: http://babel.uoregon.edu/FontLayout/FontMain.html They even have Klingon, Romulan, and Tolkein, in addition to the more boring things like Cherokee, Cree, Tamil and Morse Code, and of course IPA.

Gschwind, Mike. Mike Gschwind's notes on international fonts. Technical info and leads/links to specialty language font sources. http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/gschwind.html

Shareware fonts for POLISH: http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/polish.html where you can download "Cracow" for Macintosh, or "European" for Windows

English: The newest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is now available at some libraries and university servers online. The offline version is complete with new! IPA transcription/pronunciations; the publisher's description suggests the IPA may not be included in the online version. If you have access to the online version, please contact us and let us know what you find.

ASCII Equivalents to IPA: http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~laker/ipa/ Contains .wav files of sample sounds.

ASCII Equivalents to IPA: in French, contains sample .au soundfiles. http://home.worldcom.ch/~obettens/alphabet.html

ASCII Equivalents to IPA: Four schematic charts for computer-use of IPA phonemes; OR how to email and web-publish in IPA without a special font. http://www-uilots.let.ruu.nl/~Hugo.Quene/phonchar.html

International Phonetic Association. http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html

Language Games:free IPA card games to spice up your diction classroom activities. Fun classroom activites for learning and using phonetics, developed for undergraduate linguistics courses but easily adaptable for music diction. Offers IPA card decks for sale as well.http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~linguist/soemarmo/games/menu.htm A Diction Domain Super Site!

Now you can order a set of 300 Magnetic IPA tiles;120 of them have point values on them, so you (or your students) can play a phonetic version of Scrabble. http://www.cascadilla.com/magpho.html.

Online Phonetics Course from the Department of Linguistics, University of Lausanne. Available in English or French. (NB: we suggest you download the latest version of Quicktime3 to access the online soundfiles.) http://www.unil.ch/ling/phonetique/api-eng.html. A Diction Domain Super Site!

Gaelic Languages Info Page http://www.ceantar.org/ A well-rounded site, contains links to online dictionaries, groups, teaching, classes, books, and other information.

The Linguist List: Dictionaries, etc. http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/dictionaries.html This is a wonderful resource for dictionaries and courses, from Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University. A Goldmine, and a Diction Domain Super Site!

Wolof and Mandinka Resources: http://persweb.wabash.edu/student/gajigoo/gambia/Langabot.htm has references to downloadable text files and database files for study of Mandinka and Wolof. Lots of songs there! :-)

Bibliography of Gambian Related Publications http://persweb.wabash.edu/student/gajigoo/gambia/biblio/citations/lang.htm

Levsoft Hebrew Resources http://www.levsoftware.com/ is a Software company specializing in Hebrew language and learning.Commercial products, including Hebrew prayers with music at http://www.levsoftware.com/pbidx.htm

Hebrew fonts: Hebrew Fonts for your Computer For Windows: gopher://shamash.org:70/hh/computers/hebrew-fonts/win3 For MacIntosh: gopher://shamash.org:70/hh/computers/hebrew-fonts/macintosh For Everything Else: gopher://israel.nysernet.org:70/hh/computers/hebrew-fonts

More Hebrew fonts and information: http://www.stanford.edu/~nadav/hebrew.html

Hebrew instructional software: http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/software.html

Yamada: downloadable Hebrew fonts: http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/hebrew.html

Wilson, Kathleen L. with Arden Hopkin. The Art Song in Latin America: Selected Works by Twentieth-Century Composers. Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press, 1998. [With 29-page diction section by Arden Hopkin.]

Gary A. Smith's German Pronunciation Program http://www.wm.edu/CAS/modlang/gasmit/pronunciation/pronunce.htm Gary Smith from the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William and Mary has created this website-tutorial on the pronunciation of spoken German. Contains sections on Spelling, Capitalization, Minimal pairs, Vowels, and sample words and soundfiles.

German Pronunciation Tutor for English Native Speakers http://holtz.phon.ucl.ac.uk/wbt/tutorial/Irene/irenev1.htm This online tutorial contains two sections: "section 1 deals with sounds that are difficult to articulate" and section 2 "deals with sounds that are easy to produce, however the difficult thing about them is that they appear in different places in a word than they would in English." Includes examples and .wav files.

German Tongue Twisters http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/german-faq/part1/faq-doc-9.html Just for fun, try out these examples of German from the folks at soc.culture.german

German Online Dictionaries http://web.uvic.ca/german/149/dict.html links to a series of German online dictionaries

German for Beginners 2. http://web.uvic.ca/german/149/anfang.html Online language course for spoken German, with fun exercises.

American Association of Teachers of German Homepage http://www.aatg.org/ Lots of info and leads to resources.

Links to German Language Learning Sites. http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~europe/language.htm An excellent page of links to a wide variety of German resources, including online dictionaries, grammar and lessons.

Michael Shaughnessy's online German Language Learning Software: an Annotated Bibliography. A Guide to German Language Learning Software designed for Educators http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/german/bib.htm Interested in adapting spoken-language courseware for your diction class or lab? Check out this outstanding page of links and reviews of the most popular and currently-available German language software products.

(Modern) German Music Database Online http://artsci.wustl.edu/~glcory/music/gmd.html Need a new twist to motivate your diction students? Here's a database of modern German music lyrics. NB: the word "transcribed" as used on this site means "copied down" or "printed out" NOT phonetically transcribed.

SAMPA Pages: German. Consonants, vowels, sample words and their ASCII-equivalent IPA transcriptions, from SAMPA http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/german.htm

ASCII-equivalents from SAMPA. The SAMPA Homepage http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm SAMPA (Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet) is a machine-readable phonetic alphabet. Developed by phoneticians, it originally covered Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian, and has been expanded to cover Norwegian, Swedish, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Bulgarian, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian. See this page for an overview as well as links to special sounds of the above languages.

Indonesian Script. http://www2.osk.threewebnet.or.jp/~mcmaster/home1.htm Free online lessons for learning Indonesian online, available in either English or Japanese.

Russian Web Tutor http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/RWT/welcome.html Auburn University's online Russian tutor, designed for spoken Russian.

"About Dialects and High German" http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/dialects.htm A very informative article reprinted online from the Newsletter of the Indiana German Heritage Society.

Online Presentations in and about Lowlands Languages http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1615/rhahn/lowlands/lowlands-links.htm "The purpose of this guide is to present categorized lists of links to online resources in and about the Lowlands languages (Dutch, Frisian, Low Saxon [Low German]) and their descendents (Afrikaans, English, Scots, pidgins and creoles)."

Beginners' Guides to Offline Lowlands Language Materials http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1615/rhahn/lowlands/guides_offline.htm "The purpose of these guides is to provide categorized lists of references to offline (i.e., printed or recorded) materials suitable for persons who wish to familiarize themselves with or acquire "Lowlands" languages at the beginners' or early intermediate level." Includes Afrikaans Dutch (including "Flemish"),English (Pre-Modern), Frisian, Low Saxon (Low German), and Scots.

McMaster University Bookstore Homepage http://bookstore.services.mcmaster.ca/default.html Will sell to public world-wide, great source for textbooks. Foreign-language learning textbook listings begin http://bookstore.services.mcmaster.ca/home/trade/booklists/FOREIGNLANGUAGE1.html

Ross,Dr. Kelley L. The Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian. http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm Truly outstanding web-resource discussing the origins and known information about the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian, with references to other early languages. Interesting reading, complete with graphics and a chart of sounds/symbols

World Language Resources http://www.worldlanguage.com/ Commercial site featuring a vast selection of language-learning and oriented products.

Evan Kirshenbaum's ASCII equivalents for IPA:
"This article describes a standard scheme for representing IPA transcriptions in ASCII for use in Usenet articles and email." http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/faq.html/ This is also one of the primary sources for the Diction Domain's ASCII IPA Equivalents for Singers scheme.

The Diction Domain ASCII IPA Equivalents for Singers:
Brought to you by your very own Diction Divas, this is a chart of some of the most popular IPA phonemes used by singers, and how to write them using standard keyboard characters. A must for anyone who wants to accurately describe phonetic sounds over the Internet, in online newsgroups and webpages, or anywhere a phonetic font or graphics are not readily available. The fun begins at http://www.la.unm.edu:8001/~magner/DDipaeqiv2.html!

Gartside, Robert. Interpreting the Songs of Maurice Ravel. Leyerle Publications, 1992.

Gartside, Robert. Interpreting the Songs of Gabriel Faur�. Leyerle Publiscations, 1996.

Stapp, Marcie. The Singer's Guide to Languages. Can be purchased through The Music Rack at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 1201 Ortega Street, S.F. CA 94122. One of our readers describes this book as "a wonderful source for singers unfamiliar with the IPA. It contains a very comprehensive list of all the standard IPA symbols, examples of each symbol in Italian, French ,German and English, as well as separate sections devoted to each of the aforementioned languages where she provides a lot of transcribing and translating tips. She also gives a good explanation of verb conjugation for each language, parts of speech, gender, etc." (L.S.)

Learning Regional and Foreign Accents Check the tapes designed to aid actors learn regional US accents and foreign language accents. They are put out by David Alan Stern's Dialect Accent Specialists, who can be reached at http://www.bypass.com/~dasinc/ You can also order the books through Samuel French c� Amazon, and Baker's plays http://www.bakersplays.com/dialect.htm

A Web of Online Dictionaries. Robert Beard's excellent resource can be found at http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html

French Dictionary. This might be the motherload of French dictionaries. http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/dico.html

A series of online translating dictionaries - one word at a time, bi-directional. Simple to use but limited in scope. http://www.savergen.com/onldict/por.html Languages include: Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.

HarperCollins Italian-English, English-Italian dictionary [contributors, Gabriella Bacchelli...et al.] 1995 ISBN 0-06-275517-X Both Italian and English IPA transcriptions. Hardback. Good explanations of usage.

Il Nuovo Zingarelli: Vocabolario della Lingua Italiana de Nicola Zingarelli. Italian-Italian dictionary, non-translating, but the Bible of Italian dictionaries. IPA transcriptions.11th edition, 1986 -(there are more recent editions available).

Babylon Translation software. "Babylon is a revolutionary software utility that enables the user to instantly translate English words and expressions to it's own language." Currently for Windows, a Macintosh version is in development. Free and downloadble from http://www.babylon.com/eng/about/index.html

Resources for Studying Human Speech http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dillon/PhonResources.html George Dillon's outstanding collection of resources about the study of human speech. From freeware programs to IPA transcription tools, you can find it here. Topics include: Phones and Phonemes of English, Speech Waveform Analysis, Text to Speech (TTS) Synthesizers, Speech Recognition, Archives and Search Index. A Diction Domain Super Site!

More Russian and Slavic Resources than you can shake a stick at! http://libweb.sdsu.edu/scidiv/russlav.html has numerous links including Russian language resources, the on-line abstracts from the Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in the WWW, Old Church Slavonic texts, and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.

Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font Archive http://www.dtcc.edu/~berlin/fonts.html A site for many different fonts/languages to download as freeware or shareware. Windows only.

Match Software Font Foundry http://www.matchfonts.com/ Foreign language fonts for download for both Mac and PC.

Flute Pronunciation Resource http://users.uniserve.com/~lwk/ppguide.htm Prof. MacMahon and Robin Horne's collection of sound files and (non-IPA) pronunciation guide to composers related to the flute. Useful for other genres as well, and an interesting project, especially since many of the sound files were recorded by the composers themselves.

German online dictionaries http://www.quickdic.de/e_dic.html Nicely organized site for translating words and idioms. Includes a free downloadable database, more powerful than the online version, for Windows 95, 98, and NT. Also has a fun vocabulary game.

German online dictionaries http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/sear Largest site for translating words and idioms. Includes a free downloadable database, more powerful than the online version, for Windows. Other links also.

African Languages http://www.orient.gu.se/afrikanska/khsrefs.html Studies in African Languages homepage. Bibliography of resources, including click dialects, Bush dialects and many more. An excellent source to begin your studies.

Xhosa language: Warren Shibles' website lists monograph on african clicks at http://facstaff.uww.edu/shiblesw/phonetic.html

The Language Hub Bookstore http://www.cetrodftt.com/langhub/transbooks.htm The Language Hub Bookstore specializes in references to books and materials on languages. Well-organized, includes a page of links to regional dialects and unusual language resources.

English to Xhosa Translation Page http://mokennon.albion.edu/English.htm Just in case you needed one.:-)

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This site was originated October 26, 1997 by the Diction Divas, Candace Magner and Yvonne Dechance.

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