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Charlearn This program is meant to help you learn to recognise foreign characters, taking just a few minutes each day. It remembers which characters you have recently found difficult and what you confuse them with. It uses a simple HTML user interface, the appearance of which can be customised by user-supplied stylesheets or normal browser customisation.

Gradint Gradint is a program that can be used to make your own self-study audio tapes for learning foreign-language vocabulary. You can use it to help with a course, to prepare for speaking assignments, or just to keep track of the vocabulary you come across.

Hanzim Hanzim ("Hanzi Master") is an interactive visual dictionary for learning and seeing relationships between Chinese radicals, characters, and compounds. All the characters with a given radical, phonetic component, or pronunciation can be displayed, as well as all words containing a character, with English meanings. Either simplified or traditional characters can be used. The main character is displayed in a box near the center. Compounds employing it in the initial position are listed to its right; those employing it in the final position are listed to its left. Characters with the same radical are listed in the lower left, those with the same remaining component (character sans radical) in the middle, and those with the same pronunciation are on the right. Clicking on any character on the screen makes it the new main character. The text box just above the main character contains the pinyin representation of that character. You can click in there, type in a new pinyin string, and hit return to pull up the first character in the program's dictionary with that pronunciation. Hanzim can also be used as a dictionary (zidian and cidian). You can look up Chinese characters and compounds by radical or pinyin. It's faster and easier to look up characters and compounds with this program than with a conventional dictionary (either by stroke or pronunciation) or a pocket electronic translator. You can also look up compounds by typing English words in the definition area.

Kanjidrill 'kdrill' helps people learn Japanese 'Kanji' characters. It started as a simple multiple choice Kanji quiz program, to help people learn Japanese characters, but it now has different guess formats, history options, and a dictionary function. Users can look words up in Romaji, SKIP, four-corner, cut-n-paste, radical lookup, and English search.

Pythoneol Pythoneol is an all-in-one program that helps English speakers learn Spanish. It features pronunciation, verb conjugation, a dictionary with over 70,000 words, a thesaurus, quizzes, full-text translation, idioms, a verb browser, and a large reference section.

Reciteword 'reciteword' is designed to help Chinese-speaking people study and learn English, particularly by reciting English words. It has an attractive interface which maintains the user's interest while practicing. It is skinnable, supports sound, and comes with over 400 books. Currently the program is in Chinese and supports learning only the English language. It is suitable for both secondary school students and adults.

Step into Chinese Step Into Chinese is a flexible language-mining tool to assist English speakers seeking to understand Chinese language. The lack of a one-to-one correspondence between Chinese characters and the corresponding Pinyin is often regarded as the greatest difficulty facing learners of Chinese. Step Into Chinese has been designed to address exactly this difficulty.

Vocabulink Vocabulink is devoted to helping you learn foreign languages as quickly and effortlessly as possible. We do this by focusing only on vocabulary building. Once you have a base of vocabulary to build on, you just have to begin using the language in whatever way you want. Read a book or a website in the language. Talk to native speakers. Watch movies or listen to radio shows. With a solid vocabulary, learning becomes a leisure activity.

WebVocab WebVocab is a simple game/tool that replaces words in your Web browser (Firefox) with their user specified second language equivalent. This allows you to easily incorporate vocabulary study into your daily Web surfing.