Many of these sites also offer lessons in other languages, including English.

Feel free to offer additional suggestions.

I personally have found that going to a language school in a Spanish-speaking country (I went to ones in Mexico and Guatemala) and living with a family to be by far the best way to learn Spanish, but these sites can provide good initial exposure and be helpful for later development and practice.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Learning Spanish Online (not in order of preference):

BBC Languages Mi Vida Loca

The BBC also has several other sites for learning Spanish.

Online Spanish Help

Visual Link Spanish

Live Mocha

Busuu

Vocabulix

Lingus TV

Panfu (a virtual world for kids where they can learn Spanish)

Study Spanish

Hello World Spanish

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Doing it daily generated the greatest benefit, but it appears that doing it weekly helped, too.

I don’t plan on trying this with my students anywhere that number of times, but it sounds like a good reflective question to ask now and then.

I’ve added her book on Thanksgiving to The Best Sites To Learn & Teach About Thanksgiving.

And I’ve added her book on Halloween to The Best Websites For Learning About Halloween.

She’s created quite a few other similar interactives,too.

I learned about her from Michelle Henry’s site, which is on The Best Sites For Teachers Of English Language Learners — 2009 list.

I’m adding it to The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own).

Here are some from one year ago:

Voice Of America Special English — From China

A Good Question For Classroom Management

Incredible Website Launches Today!

The Best Tools To Make Simple Graphs Online

The Best Science & Math Sites — 2008

The Best Social Studies WebSites — 2008

“The Best…” Lists Reorganized

And here are some interesting ones from two years ago:

Browser Books Again

Maps Of The World

America’s Favorite Architecture

Neat Music Sites

The Object Of History

In that post, I included links to research done by Zoltán Dörnyei on using visual imagery specifically with English Language Learners.

Today, I learned about another article by him that’s available for PDF download. It’s called New Ways Of Motivating Foreign Language Learners: Generating Vision.

Thanks to Barbara Sakamoto and Dayle Major for the tip.

I also share a list of Post Rank’s analysis of each month’s top posts. Post Rank uses a variety of ways to measure level of “engagement” that readers have with specific blog posts. I have a constantly updated “widget” on my blog’s sidebar that lists these posts, but I thought a monthly post would be helpful/interesting to subscribers who don’t regularly visit the blog itself.

Here are their rankings for the month of November:

The Best Reflective Posts I’ve Written About My Teaching Practice — 2009

The Best Sites For Teachers Of English Language Learners — 2009

The Best Piece Of Classroom Management Advice I’ve Ever Read

An Interesting Thing In Obama’s Speech This Week

The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students — 2009

Do Teachers REALLY Come From The Bottom Third Of Colleges? Or Is That Statistic A Bunch Of Baloney?

So This Is What Obama Was Talking About…

Another Oxford University Press Site

More Sites For Copyright or Royalty-Free Photos

The Best Online Resources For Helping Students Learn To Write Persuasive Essays

Now This Sounds Like An Essential Quality A Teacher Should Have…

A Few Simple Ways To Introduce Reluctant Colleagues To Technology

The Difference Between Praise & Acknowledgment

The Best Ways ESL/EFL/ELL Teachers Can Develop Personal Learning Networks

The Best Sites To Learn About Walls That Separate Us

The Best Online Resources For Teaching & Learning About World War II (Part One)

Neat Lincoln Memorial Interactive

The Best Resources To Learn About The Convention On The Rights Of The Child

Submit A Post To The Next ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival

I’ve added resources that were published this week to The Best Resources To Teach & Learn About The Terrorist Attacks In India, including:

Remembering Mumbai’s Victims is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal published a year after the attacks.

Mumbai Still Vulnerable on Anniversary of Attacks is a New York Times slideshow also published a year after the attacks.

Here’s an excellent online interactive that I’ve added to the list:

The Saskatoon Public Schools Online Learning Center has a nice interactive on latitude and longitude.

I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Create Simple Screenshots.