Culture Centers and Associations

Chinatown Los Angeles

This site provides listings of events in Chinatown, name of local Chinese Associations, and description of Chinatown’s walking tour.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

The Society was created in 1975 to promote the heritage of Chinese and Chinese-American community in Southern California.

The Croatian Cultural Center

The Croatian Cultural Center, a non-profit organization, offers low cost Croatian language courses.

Korean Cultural Center

Officially sponsored by the Korean government's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the center promotes Korean language, literature and culture.

Federation of Alliances Francaises (AF) USA

For the last 100 years, the mission of AF has been to promote French language and francophone culture.

The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles

The Institut is dedicated in promoting an understanding of Germany through cultural, political, and social life.

Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles

The site provides a variety of information on learning Italian, internship programs, studying abroad, an online calendar of events, and much more.

Olvera Street

Provides list of cultural events and information on Docent Tours on Olvera Street and surrounding area.

Languages of the World

Ethnologue

A great site that catalogs world languages

Omniglot

Covers 150 different alphabets and writing systems in the world.

Multilingual Resources

Babel Fish Translations

Translates words, phrases or text from Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish

Google Translate

Google translation site.

iLoveLanguages

Guide to language-related internet resources.

LOGOS Dictionary

Multilingual on-line dictionary. Searches on words or phrases. More than 5 million words in the database.

Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms

This glossary of common and technical medical terms is available in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. There is an English language dictionary for term definitions. From the European Commission.

Translating Dictionaries - travlang

Translates your words from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech, Afrikaans, Latin, or Esperanto, as well as from each of these languages to the others. Includes phrases.

Your Dictionary.Com

Internet directory of dictionaries with more than 800 dictionaries in over 160 different languages. Contains the following sections: languages; multilingual; specialized, thesauri and other vocabulary aids; and an index of other dictionary indexes.

Magazines & Newspapers

ABYZ News Links

Newspapers, news media and news sources from around the world.

International Newspapers

A list of newspapers by country from the Internet Public Library.

En Español

Sitios en Espanol