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RECENT DISCOVERIES

Ted Talks

Top thinkers, best quality video, full transcripts - a gold mine

Tales Etc.

Over 300 stories, written by teachers and others from many countries, excellent stuff, divided into Under 8, 8 to 12, and Teenage. Format: HTML. Stuart Stories and Tales Etc.

Huge collection of "Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts," in slightly inconvenient FTP format with pages of disclaimers etc.
Tip: Choose Raw Text format when asked.

Huge collection of usable texts; plus for younger language learners some excellent sound/text-picture vocabulary builders in several themes.

Stupendous collection; good hard-to-find teen stuff.

Great Science Fiction; many formats for free download - RTF then Save As text plus minor editing should work for Lextutor input; plus some accompanying CD sound files at companion site Fifth Imperium (then click 'CD Listing')

Plays old and new; clean format; voluntary free log-in.

Adolescent and up; hundreds of literary texts in convenient single-page format.
Tip: Watch for occasional bits of publicity from the margins that get mixed in with the texts.

Many ready-to-go texts old and new, plus collections of texts by same author for e.g. stylistic analysis with various Lextutor tools.
Tip: OTA sends download link to your email address.

Revolutiuonary web-based, user-built encyclopedia of 500,000+ hyper-cross-referenced articles on many topics

Plus Wiki Light for language learners

3341 (and growing) texts written in "basic vocabulary"
Tip:

While notions of 'Basic English' and '2000 words' are mentioned, the principles of vocabulary selection are not entirely clear.

Some digging required - not all links lead to completed articles (readers are invited to write them!)

From long-time Lextuor users at from Seneca College in Ontario.

Pairs of newspaper-based stories in two series, plus examples of how to use them in ESL activities.

Very useful and usable collection of new short stories with lots of potential for use with advanced adolescents. Convenient page divisions.
Tip:

One or two pop-ups may appear -- click them away.

Stories come with friendly "Printable" versions - no pics etc.

1,400 great short stories - mainly new - for teens and kids (rated PG etc) - forms a set with collection just above

Mainly adult; hundreds of complete texts; public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Tip: Choose Local copy when asked in downloading.

FRENCH

Top pick

The "incontournable" Francais Facile listen
and Listen + Text
from Radio France Internationale.

Languages on the Web

Excellent source of bilingual & parallel texts at http://www.lonweb.org/
English, French and many others

PRESSE QUÉBECOISE

Le Devoir
La Presse
Le Soleil

PRESSE FRANÇAISE

Le Monde
  > Le Monde Diplomatique
Le Figaro
Le Canard Enchainé

UQAC

Surprising and huge "bibliothèque numérique des Classiques des Sciences Sociales" - 5,000+ titles, well organized - from Jean-Marie Tremblay, Univ. Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC)
UQAC SS Classiques

STATS CANADA

Statistique Canada

WIKI EN FRANÇAIS

Textes WIKI

CONTES

ABU : la Bibliothèque Universelle French classics (some translations). Big collection.

Good French kid story sites

TibooParc

MULTILINGUAL

Logos Multilingual e-Translation Portal

Huge collection of stories in many languages, some with sound recordings; see especially 'stories for children/bibliothèque pour petits'; also dictionary, trace-a-word-through-several-authors, and many other features.