REALIA Database for Foreign Language Teaching

REALIA is database of images put together by language faculty and librarians from the GLCA and NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education). The REALIA Project can be found here:

http://www.realiaproject.org/

REALIA is a searchable database that provides language instructors with images accessible via the Web. These images are royalty-free and submitted by faculty from colleges throughout the United States. It focuses on images of that should be helpful in the teaching of modern languages and cultures.

Current languages are French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Arabic and Chinese are in the works, but these aren't in the database yet. REALIA includes the ability to compare images side by side as well as download to PowerPoint.