--- Travel Related Services ---

Worldwide Hotel Database

European Traffic Signs and Road Rules

Make Reservations On-Line

• Internet Travel Network, Travelocity (SABRE), Expedia, Flifo Cyber Travel Agent, PCTravel, Trip Link. Realtime airline reservation and purchasing.
• Travel Secrets Consolidator Airfares Many international flights at big discounts.
• Global Travel Network Airlines, Cruises, Hotels, Car Rentals ...
• Airlines of the Web
• Where is a flight right now? Will it be on time? Check Flyte Trax!
• Alamo Rent A Car, the Avis Galaxy, Dollar Rent A Car, and Thrifty Car Rental. Realtime car rental reservations.

--- Language Related Services ---

Award Winning
Foreign Languages for Travelers

Learn a new language!
Now over 50 languages!!

Translating Dictionaries
Translate between many languages, all free!

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  travlang's Word of the Day

  Learn a new word every day via the web or free by e-mail!
  The word for Thu Jul 24 is How much does this cost?
  
  
• Ergane: A freeware multi-lingual translating programme for Windows

Schilling, Peso, Drachma, Kroner, Forint ...

• OANDA Currency Converter Daily, back through 1990.
• Koblas Currency Converter weekly.
• MasterCard's ATM Locator

Need an umbrella?

• Intellicast's World Weather, and the CNN Weather Page.
• USA Weather: NBC's Intellicast, USA Today, The Weather Channel, Weather Cams "see" the weather live
• USA Ski Reports

The latest news and deals

• American Express' Last minute travel bargains
• Daily TravelGram
• Travel Weekly News
• Pathfinder Travel's Hot Deals.
• Vacation Travel News.
• Newsletter Access: List of Travel Newsletters

• The Human Languages
• Foreign Language and Culture
• Dartmouth College Language Resource Center
• Yamada Language Guides Language pointers and Font archives
• Yahoo's Human Languages and Linguistics page
• Ethnologue Database
• A Web of On-Line Grammars
• The Languages of the World by Computers and the Internet
• Less Commonly Taught Languages from the Univ. of Minnesota
• Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources
• Universal Survey of Languages
• Computer Assisted Language Learning
• International House for ESL/EFL students and teachers.
• Multilingual Word Match Game in Java.
• Earth Words for Internet Citizens
• TransWord Foreign Language Tests

On-line Hotels

• travlang's Worldwide Hotel Database Find a hotel and save up to 40%!
• Places to Stay On-line reservations for Hotels, Inns, and Resorts
• Hotels and Travel on the Net
• Worldwide Hotel Directory
• Hotel Discounts
• TravelWeb
• Triple One Travel Directory B&B's and more
• Bed and Breakfasts Searchable
• Travel Wiz's Hotel Info
• Global Travel Apartments Temporary accomodations for rent around the world.
• The Internet Guide to Hostelling

Riding the rails

• RailServer Custom European Rail Schedules
• Eurorail, Europe by Eurail, European Railways
• USA's Amtrak
• Subway Navigator search subways routes of the world
• Yahoo's Train links
  
  
• Greyhound US Bus Lines, schedules and information

Hitting the slopes!

SkiConditions.com
Search by Ski Area Name:
and/or Destination:

• Travelers' Japanese with Voice
• Basic Phrases for Eastern European Languages
• Slovak for tourists
• A Welsh Course, Words in Welsh
• Jacques Léon's French Lessons
• Hebrew Pages with text and sounds
• Tyler Chambers' Web Spanish Lessons
• Greek Through the Internet
• Lucio Chiappetti's Web Italian Lessons
• Chinese Multimedia Tutorial.
• Korean through English.
• Speaking Chinese.
• Languages and Scripts of India
• Some basic Thai phrases
• Learn Catalan.
• Croatian Language - Basic Phrases, (US Mirror)
• Serbian Language Page
• Estonian Language Page
• Esperanto Page
• Hungarian Language Course
• Indonesian-English Conversation
• Euskara, the Basque language
• Survival Maltese for Travelers
• Introduction to Hö-ló-oë (text only)
• Galician Language and Galicia
• Tamil language
• Kualono Hawaiian Language page
• Sesotho - Southern Sotho
• Curso de Quechua (en Español - in Spanish only)
• A Basic American Sign Language Dictionary
• Languages of the Suriname
• Wolof and Mandinka Resources
• Australian Casual - Aussie Slang Page
• Internation Language Development Conversational introductions to several languages
• Earth Words for Internet citizens
• The most compact word list for a new foreign language.
• Sounds of the World's Animals A fun page for learning about other languages.
• walk&talk Die Reisesprachführer der neuen Generation. (PDF files of phrase books for travelers - German Only)

Maps around the World

• MapBlast Interactive Maps!
• BigBook Map: USA Maps, Zoom to street level, Searchable
• Delorme's ZipMaps and AAA Mapquest maps generated for any US zip code and travel route - GREAT!
• Microsoft's Automap Road Atlas Demo. Get written directions for driving in the USA:
  starting point:

destination:
  
  
• Magellan Maps Thousands of Maps from Pathfinder
• MapQuest!: USA Road Maps, Trip Planner.
• Avis Galaxy Maps Street maps of most of the USA.
• PCL Map Collection Maps of Countries and Cities worldwide.
• How far is it? Distance calculator
• Earth Viewer: "Realtime" views of the Earth.
• Realtime Traffic in: California, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Manitoba, Orange County, Phoenix, San Diego, and Seattle.
• And for more interesting places to drive, see Road Trip USA.

Useful Telephone and Mail Info:

• U.S. 800 numbers for Airlines
• U.S. 800 numbers for Car Rental Companies
• U.S. 800 numbers for Hotels
• AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder.
• International Dialing Codes - Dialing to and from any country in the world.
• World Telephone Plug Guide - How to connect your modem around the world.
• U.S. Zip+4 Code Lookup.

Are we there yet??

• Klutz Kids Travel Backseat fun for those long drives.
• Penny Whistle Traveling with Kids Book Planning and activities for travel with the kids.

General Travel Resources

Pathfinder's

• Atevo
• BizTrav International
• Lonely Planet Online "Down to earth travel information"
• Rec.Travel Library, or mirrors in Canada, Thailand, and Singapore.
• Microsoft's Expedia
• TRAVEL WEEKLY
• The Travel Channel Online.
• TravelEZ
• Travel Source
• Travelspots
• HotWired: World Beat
• Travelocity On-line reservations, Destination Info, more.
• Epicurious Travel
• traveltales.com - Keeping you connected while on the road
• The Opinionated Traveler
• Travel Vision
• Travel Wiz
• TraXXX - Alles was Reisen Schöner macht (auf Deutsch)
• The Down Under Travelers Webzine
• Where to get tourist information - worldwide.
• Worldwide Travel Brochures - how to get over 10,000 brochures.
• TravelTips Magazine
• Travigator
• U.S. State Department Travel Warnings
• Foreign Entry Requirements for U.S. Citizens for all countries.
• CAMWORLD Real time images from around the world.

On-line Translating Dictionaries:

• travlang's Translating Dictionaries: Covering more and more languages, and always free! English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Afrikaans, Esperanto ...

• ARTFL (Chicago) English-French and French-English Dictionaries.
• Japanese <-> English Dictionary, (or mirrors in Canada and California).
• A small English-Spanish and Spanish-English Dictionary
• English-Italian and Italian-English Dictionaries.
• English-Russian Dictionary
• English-Hungarian, Hungarian-English Dictionary
• Czech-English and English-Czech Dictionary
  
• English-Slovene Dictionary, Slovene-English Dictionary
• English-Estonian Dictionary
• Finnish-English-Finnish dictionary
• Swedish-English Dictionary
• English-Belarussian dictionary
• Polish-English dictionary
• Indonesian-English Dictionary
• English-Chinese Dictionary or see the Chinese Character Genealogy
• Sanskrit - English - Sanskrit DIctionary
• The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary (Kamusi Project).
• Hawaiian - English Dictionary
• Esperanto - English Translator
• The Alternative Dictionaries: Slang and "dirty" words in various languages, updatable.
  

  Multilingual Dictionaries:

• travlang's Translating Dictionaries covering an ever expanding list of languages!
• New Eurodicautom Experimental European Languages Translator (old Eurodicautom), or a direct ECHO telnet connection.
• The LOGOS Dictionary between many languages; you can add to it too.
• Internet Dictionary Project
  

  Translating Software:

• Globalink with FREE machine translations into and from English and French, German, Spanish and Italian. And their WebTranslator.
• Globalink Brazil
• WinDi Dictionary from English to French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, or Portuguese. Also try the WinDi Verb Conjugator.
• Internet Dictionary Project
  

  Translating Services:

• Legal Translations, Benemann Translation Center, LOGOS Fee for translation by humans services.

Language Schools and Student Exchange Programs:

• Edunet A great list of schools teaching languages all around the world and resources for studying abroad.
• AFS Intercultural Programs, and Pacific Intercultural Exchange High School Student Exchange Programs

World Cultures:

• One-World Global Calendar Holidays and events around the world
• Event Seeker Worldwide calendar of events

Multilingual On-line Bookstores

• World of Reading
• Multilingual Books and Tapes