Also generously covered are language schools, career and employment services, professional organizations, and technology-based teaching services. The end material includes a glossary of Web-related technical terms, jargon, and slang in English. Finally, the book ends with the scholar's diversion of choice, an annotated bibliography of Internet guidebooks, followed by selected foreign language resources that include URLs for sites in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Throughout, Blyth offers a wealth of URLs that transport the reader to online tutorials and to sites for learning virtually any language. Screen shots richly illustrate the sites and supplement the book's lucid explanations.
Every chapter ends with a concise summary that restates the main purposes.
One can think of Untangling the Web as a collection of menus of resources for learning any of the plethora of human languages commonly spoken or obscurely studied. Nonce's Guide to Language and Culture on the Internet Reprinted with permission. For many American students, it is already more common to encounter a different language on the Internet than anywhere else. So it makes sense then to study a language in the context in which it is used, including the context of cyberspace. As a general introduction to language and culture on the Internet, this new, updated edition of Untangling the Web can be used profitably with any language textbook, regardless of the language or level.