Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Language Links

All right, I'll list some of my favorite language websites, such as blogs, learning websites, YouTube channels, etc. for other people to check out.

My favorite language forum:

http://www.how-to-learn-any-language.com

My favorite blog:

This blog is about both natural languages and international auxiliary languages. He also writes considerably about space exporation and technology. It is written by a Canadian working in Seoul as a translator.

http://www.pagef30.com

Another blog, by an Australian author & scientist trying to write literature for an international audience:

http://joyoflanguages.blogspot.com

Naomi Chambers's language blog:

http://thepolyglotexperience.blogspot.com

A blog by a young man sampling 37 languages and deciding on one, kind of like The Bachelor for languages:

http://37languages.wordpress.com

His second blog:

http://pardonmynorwegian.tumblr.com/

ikindalikelanguages blog:

http://ikindalikelanguages.com/blog

Language courses at this site:

http://ikindalikelanguages.com/lab/courses.php

Last blog:

http://languagegeek.net

Some learning materials:

Jim Becker's website, links for 14 languages, the one below is for Spanish:

http://www.uni.edu/becker/spanish3.html

Spanish conjugation trainer:

http://www.spaleon.com/index.php

Spanish basics, plus a site to connect with Spanish-speaking learners of English, by chat or as a pen pal. Completely free. No, I haven't tried it yet.

http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm

German:

Deutsch - Warum Nicht? Great site to teach the basics of German, produced by the Goethe Institut and Radio Deutsche Welle. It's a four part course with 26 lessons in each part. This is the site in German.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,2163,00.html

Paul Joyce's German website, a professor at the University of Portsmouth in the UK. I highly suggest reading his "Why learn German?" section:

http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio/index.html

Some YouTube channels:

Alkantre, aka Dr. Peter Browne, a Spanish professor at, I think, the University of Texas, and top-notch polyglot. The cool thing about him is he comments on new users' channels and videos, sometimes in random languages, LOL.

http://www.youtube.com/user/alkantre

Brian Greco, a young teenager who makes great review videos. He's interested in IALs and more unusual languages, such as Navajo (he has Rosetta Stone Navajo) and languages from the South Pacific.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BrianonLanguage

Cody, from Minnesota, a college student who is interested in German, Chinese, Swahili, Arabic, and probably many more.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Codylanguagesblog

A great Latin channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Evan1965

Anthony Lauder's channel, great even if you aren't interested in Czech, since he talks about issues everyone learning languages could benefit from hearing:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FluentCzech

Glossika, a YouTube polyglot heavyweight:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Glossika

A female polyglot:

http://www.youtube.com/user/katrudy7

Probably one of the biggest language channels on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/laoshu505000

Professor Alexander Arguelles's channel, probably the biggest language channel on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ProfASAr

And many others. I don't want to list anymore right now, since this post is long enough.

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