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Title: Mixtec Resources
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Did you know that there are approximately 20,000 Mixtecs in Ventura County, California? Find resources to support indigenous people, including a radio show for indigenous Mexicans in Oxnard, California, a youth group for mentorship, a Mixtec translation service, and literacy classes for adults, on the MICOP website: http://mixteco.org/
For more language resources, including books and recorded stories in Mixtec, check out the West Coast Mixtecs website, targeted at Mixtec language speakers in Washington, Oregon, and California, but rich with resources for anyone living anywhere: http://www.westcoastmixtecs.com/
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Title: Arabic Resources about the Environment
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From https://mailchi.mp/qfi/arabic-k-12-bulletin-may-1-993421?e=feb2c9cab6
Planning a unit on the environment and/or climate change? Gergana Boft (Arabic professor at Ohio State University) has compiled a list of resources in English and Arabic to teach about the environment in the Arab world. Access the list at https://bit.ly/2IvXhMv
Source: Arabic K-12 Teachers Network
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Title: MEOC Middle East Book Awards Offer Classrooms Sets of Books
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From https://www.qfi.org/opportunities/meoc-educator-book-awards/
Each year, the Middle East Outreach Council (MEOC) sponsors the Middle East Book Awards to recognize outstanding work that contributes to a more meaningful understanding of the region. QFI and MEOC have partnered to make these award-winning books by Arab authors or about the Middle East available to primary- and secondary-school teachers and schools.
Teachers can apply for up to three classroom sets of one of the MEOC award-winning books. If selected, teachers receive the requested books and develop a lesson plan or classroom activity related to the book s/he selected. That resource may be shared on Al-Masdar at teachalmasdar.com.
The grant program is open year-round and applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
For full details and to apply, go to https://www.qfi.org/opportunities/meoc-educator-book-awards/
Source: Qatar Foundation International
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Title: Resources for Learning Vietnamese
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From http://morevietnamese.com
From the More Vietnamese blog, here's an extensive collection of resources for learning Vietnamese: http://morevietnamese.com/resource-list/
Source: More Vietnamese
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Title: Free Resources from Bite-sized Chinese
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From https://bitesizedchinese.com
Bite-sized Chinese is a company that offers some for-sale apps and other resources for learning Chinese, with a special focus on writing. They also have some free resources available that may be of interest to teacher: a short collection of lessons (https://bitesizedchinese.com/lessons/), and a larger collection of worksheets for beginners (https://bitesizedchinese.com/free-chinese-worksheets-download/).
Source: Bite-sized Chinese
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Title: Practice Character Writing with the Chinese Worksheet Generator
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Create worksheets for your students to practice writing characters with the simple Chinese Worksheet Generator online tool. Type the characters you want your students to practice (multi-character words can be grouped together as well), and the program will generate a worksheet in which parts of the character are progressively grayed out for writing practice.
This tool is available at http://chineseworksheetgenerator.org/
Source: Chinese Worksheet Generator
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Title: Free Spanish and Mandarin Materials from PandaTree
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From https://www.pandatree.com/
PandaTree sells Spanish and Chinese lessons for children, but they also have some free resources for both languages. Find games, reading materials, videos, and more by browsing the available resources.
For Spanish, go here: https://www.pandatree.com/FreeLearningSpanishResources
For Mandarin, go here: https://www.pandatree.com/FreeLearningMandarinResources
Source: PandaTree
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Title: FinnFest 2019
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From https://finnfest.us/finnfest-2019/
Each year, FinnFest USA creates a pop-up town celebrating the connections between Finland and the USA. In 2019, the festival travels to Detroit from September 19-22. Thursday will involve three all-day seminars (Labor History, Genealogy, and Finnish language learning). On Friday/Saturday, seminars and workshops will share space and time with a tori featuring booths selling products and presenting information. On Sunday, guided tours will unwrap both historic and contemporary Detroit. All-ages community events celebrating Finnish America through song, food, and folk dancing are also daily occurrences. There will be opportunities to learn Finnish, to enjoy nature at the historic Finn Camp, and to connect with old friends and make new ones.
Learn more about FinnFest at https://finnfest.us/finnfest-2019/
Source: FinnFest
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Title: Four Board Games to Improve German Skills
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German board games involve working with other players to be successful. Here are descriptions of four different games that can be played in German, with special attention to specific areas of German language that they may help players to improve in: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/german/german-board-games/
Source: FluentU
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Title: Online Resources for Learning Oscan
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From https://katherinemcdonald.net/teaching-2/teaching-current/salavs-learn-oscan-online/
Oscan is a language spoken and written in central and southern Italy from around 500 BCE to 50 BCE. It is closely related to Latin, but is a language in its own right. Oscan was in use in many areas that are now of great archaeological importance, including Pompeii and Herculaneum.
This website has a short course for learning some Oscan, including some help learning the alphabets used to write Oscan, basic vocabulary and grammar, and some exercises for you to complete.
It is available at https://katherinemcdonald.net/teaching-2/teaching-current/salavs-learn-oscan-online/
Source: SALAVS
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