Modern Languages

A wide variety of online dictionaries, language forums, apps, and other tools. Wordreference.com supplies commercial web services in addition to its free resources.

This advertiser-supported site bills itself as a unique translation tool that returns search results from its index of bilingual sties. Translators can used context to compare their work with how others have glossed similar phrases.

This Geographic Information System (GIS) map of the United States is useful in understanding second language use and distribution.

This advertising-supported site has been based in France since its founding in 2000. Lexicool catalogs and links to free multilingual dictionaries from around the web, as well as downloadable software and other tools useful to language learners.

Free web based language learning platform that offers simple interface, fun translation, listening, matching and speaking exercises. Apps available for Android and iTunes.

The World Digital Library is a project of the Library of Congress and UNESCO that makes high-quality international materials available free of charge. The collection is searchable by language, place, topic, and other properties.

This project of Brown University's department of Italian Studies hosts extensive in-depth resources on Boccaccio's Decameron and its context. Includes maps, bibliographies, and more.

This site serves up over seven hundred years' of commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy. Over seventy commentaries are included and the custom Dante Lab reader allows for side by side comparisons of the original text, translations, and scholarly annotation. Includes powerful search features.

Hosted by the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, University of Virginia, The World of Dante "offers a digital environment for the study of the Comedy." Includes illustrations from historic editions of the work, maps, music and more.

This is an online exhibition of Renaissance-era Dante editions mostly from the Zahn collection at the University of Notre Dame. The resources within are extensive, although the site itself has a dated look and feel.