The Language Resource Thread

[Zay]

Language

First off, my homepage and personal favorite. Short news clips in 6 languages with transcripts:
http://www.euronews.net/

General Languages
The Language log: http://tinyurl.com/3ouno



A goldmine, here you should find information and resources for any language you can think of http://www.omniglot.com/




Almost as good as the last: http://tinyurl.com/z2frb



A very active language forum: http://forum.wordreference.com/index.php



General language database: http://www.word2word.com./



This is a Czech radio that you can listen and read in several language: http://www.radio.cz/en/



Good General Resource for many languages (like word2word); www.ilovelanguages.com

General Linguistics


Proto-Indo European Databases: http://tinyurl.com/jas5b
http://tinyurl.com/hfwlk



General Amerindian



Nahuatl Vocabulary: http://tinyurl.com/ekgj4


A huge contribution of links from half-wit goon.
http://www.native-languages.org/
http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language/langlinks.htm
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAlanguage.html
http://www.indians.org/welker/americas.htm
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/language.html
http://www.plumsite.com/palace/native.htm
http://www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/lang.html
http://www.ewebtribe.com/NACulture/lang.html




Arabic

Good Arabic Site from the University of Texas:
http://tinyurl.com/kus4n
http://www.arab2.com/learn-arabic/lesson-01.htm
http://www.arabicnews.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/news/
http://www.4arabs.com/links/
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/arabic.htm
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/language/lang.htm
http://www.funwitharabic.com/
http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/links/link-arabic.htm (Links) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/arabic_lit.html (Literature) http://www.islamic-knowledge.com/Arabic_Language.htm (Resource) http://www.shariahprogram.ca/Arabic-alphabet.shtml
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Reading_Arabic http://www.convertstoislam.org/learning/arabic_linksfornewMuslims.htm
http://www.fatwa-online.com/downloads/dow002/
Lebanese http://abcleb.com/

Good, structured intro to arabic. http://www.madinaharabic.com/Index.htm

Kuwaiti TV (Arabic): www.media.kw.org

The Arabic resource thread from Word Reference: http://tinyurl.com/evtn8

http://www.geckil.com/~harvest/arabic/

Levantine/Eastern Arabic http://tinyurl.com/hxjbm
http://tinyurl.com/h8ynk


Berber
Courtesy of 2600 gitano http://wapurl.co.uk/?I3RJ6VY
http://wapurl.co.uk/?IOLA8ZG

Mandarin CHINESE:
Free MIT Chinese course: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/36828

Hands down the best chinese podcasts. They get addicting. www.chinesepod.com

Sponsored by the chinese government: www.linese.com


Dutch

www.taalunieversum.org
http://www.learndutch.org/
www.nos.nl
www.nos.nl/jeugdjournaal/voorpagina/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/zdle7
http://portal.omroep.nl/uitzendinggemist/
www.dutchgrammar.com
Totse’s own dutch guide: http://tinyurl.com/jodop

Finnish
http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/FinnishForForeigners/


French

This is the best site to start French from scratch http://laits.utexas.edu/fi/

French Radio: http://www.europe1.fr/

That's a link to a site with a good selection of French stuff. http://tinyurl.com/p6gh9

Watch televised France 2 news casts. Three editions daily. (Free of course) http://jt.france2.fr/

French http://www.lepointdufle.net



German
German quotes: http://msd.twoday.net/

http://www.ganz.ac.nz/phorum-3.2.1/
go to NCEA worksheets or worksheets for many good German language resources compiled by German high school teachers in New Zealand.

Great German Site to Start from scratch. http://www.allemand-online.de/

German Readings: http://tinyurl.com/jmhon

Kick ass online dictionary: http://dict.leo.org

German http://tinyurl.com/qah5f



Japanese
www.japanese-online.com

http://www.pikkle.com/jgram/

http://www.tjf.or.jp/eng/ge/ge04ofuro.htm

http://www.grandgent.com/tom/j/

http://www.manythings.org/japanese/links/'

http://www.nuthatch.com/kanjicards/

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.rowley/resources.html

http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/

http://web.uvic.ca/kanji-gold/ Kanji Gold is a program that organizes the Kanji systematically according to how Japanese kids learn it, and it has most of what you'll want.

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html If you get a J-PenPal you might not be able to install the IME for win2000 systems, so this is a Word Processor that basically allows you to type in Japanese, it also has a nice Kanji feature lookup ability.
http://www.thejapanesepage2.com/kanji/junban.htm Shows basic Kanji Stroke order.
http://www.thejapanesepage2.com/kanji/kanjimenu.htm That site has a cool PDF of Kanji and there meaning you can download it and print em for studying on the go. (Level 4 is equal to Level 1)

http://maktos.jimmyseal.net/jip.html Kinda gives basic Japanese and casual Japanese. It's pretty useful. Also tells you alot of common words which is always nice to know.

http://www.pikkle.com/jgram / Japanese Gramamar site.

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/index.html Japanese Grammar site.

http://www.Freelang.net You can download a vague little dictionary in Romaji. Its not to good but it helps.

http://www.animelyrics.com If you listen to Japanese music, why not learn the lyrics

http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/ Non-Formal informaton about Japan Life. Also grammar

www.nuthatch.com/kanjicards/500 Common Kanji printable Flashcards and viewable online.

www2.gol.com/users/jpc/Japan/Kanji/KanjiLearn / An online kanji Flashcard viewer for like work. http://www.Yookoso.com has a bunch of links and a very good mailinglist for Grammar-A-Day


http://lrnj.com / Download the program it teaches you Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries in a quick amount of time. It also will teach 200 Kanji characters.

Latin
Latin Radio: http://www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/

Latin Forum: http://forum.catholic.org/viewtopic.php?t=4088

http://www.textkit.com/

http://www.mentalcode.com/latin/

http://www.sprachprofi.de.vu/

Hebrew
Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew Dictionary: http://milon.morfix.co.il/Default.aspx


Italian

Guide to Italian, in Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/fwszc

This is an Italian course that's great for complete beginners. http://tinyurl.com/2x6g5

Portuguese

Guide to learning Portuguese in Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/eq6l6 http://tinyurl.com/zz6t2

RUSSIAN
http://tinyurl.com/hbdez
http://tinyurl.com/fbovo
http://tinyurl.com/zetyb
http://learningrussian.com/
http://masterrussian.com
http://tinyurl.com/g49ft
http://www.russianlessons.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_grammar
Learn the russian alphabet http://tinyurl.com/glnve
Russian: http://langintro.com/rintro/index.htm


Spanish
My guide on trilling your R’s: http://tinyurl.com/jjkpm


Spanish http://www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish2.html

Multi purpose verb conjugation tool for Spanish, French, and German:
http://conjuguemos.com/home/index.html



Here are some short stories to read once you learn enough latin.
http://tinyurl.com/ks2ym


Swedish
http://tinyurl.com/lhdnr
http://www.slayradio.org/mastering_swedish.php
http://tinyurl.com/hdpl9


Ukrainian
http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/pub/websites/ufl/index.htm

[Mirana]

I was just expecting a bunch of tutorials on different languages, but there's plenty more to, great post.

[Zay]

I was just expecting a bunch of tutorials on different languages, but there's plenty more to, great post.

Thanks. I thought I had lost this thread when totse died but then I found a word file in my documents with it preserved!

[Yggdrasil]

Thanks. I thought I had lost this thread when totse died but then I found a word file in my documents with it preserved!

Good thing you did! There's plenty of here for everyone to learn from. Sad to consider the only thread I managed to salvage from Totse was the porn thread :rolleyes:

[Zygo Orbitale]

I have a similar document. I know there is redundancy in this, I'll try an edit them out.

-Romani-
http://www2.arnes.si/~eusmith/Romany/

-Japanese-
http://home.earthlink.net/~royk4/NIHONGO.html
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi-inon
http://www.kantango.com/
http://www.msu.edu/~lakejess/kanjigame.html
http://japanese.about.com/blvocaburary.htm
http://www.bdbtjapan.com/eigojapanbbs/
http://iteslj.org/v/j/
http://mercury.ecis.nagoya-u.ac.jp/cgi-bin/WebCMJ.dll
http://homepage3.nifty.com/jgrammar/
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/grammar/1.htm
http://hikyaku.com/dico/onmyog.html
http://www.bdbtjapan.com/

-Korean-
http://www.learn-korean.net/
http://www.mct.go.kr/hangeul/

-Chinese-
http://www.chinese-forums.com/archive/index.php/
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/18253
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/default.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/Lesson/183276.htm
http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_learning/node_316.htm
http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en/node_2.htm
http://www.audioforum.com/index.php?crn=3082&action=show&show_products_mode=cat_click
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
http://www.chinese-forums.com/archive/index.php/
http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en/node_2.htm
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/mandarin-chinese/index.html

-Spanish-
http://www.elcuento.com/
http://www.platiquemos-letstalk.com/
http://www.learner.org/catalog/series75.html
http://www.caslt.org/research/splisten.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news/
http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html#spanish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/index.shtml
http://spanish.about.com/
http://spanish.about.com/od/learnspanishgrammar/
http://www.learn-spanish-online.de/exercises/content/exercises.htm
http://www.caslt.org/research/spgrammar.htm
http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm
http://www.learn-spanish-guide.com/
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/
http://www.spaleon.com/index.php
http://eleaston.com/spanish.html
http://www.wannalearn.com/Academic_Subjects/World_Languages/Spanish/
http://www.spanish4all.com/
http://www.spanishpronto.com/spanishpronto/spanishtools.html
http://www.spanish-kit.net/
http://www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish2.html
http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/informcomm2.htm

-German-
http://www.german.ac.nz/
http://faculty.acu.edu/~goebeld/maerchen/maermenu.htm
http://www.learner.org/resources/series104.html

-Russian-
http://www.elcuento.com/
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/rees/rees2000/step2.pl
http://www.kulichki.com/
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/russian-studies/Humor/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/russian-studies/Literature/
http://www.lib.ru/
http://www.rusf.ru/
http://www.ibiblio.org/sergei/Daily/Daily.html
http://www.russianlessons.net/forum/index.php
http://www.geocities.com/fontboard/cyrillic.html?20064
http://www.stanwardine.com/russification.htm

edit: That should be it.

[Zygo Orbitale]

Spanish
My guide on trilling your R’s: http://tinyurl.com/jjkpm


Since this is a dead link, here it is:



So, I will try to describe it as best as I can...
You have to place the tip of your tongue about half a centimeter behind your teeth. Only the tip of your tongue should touch the roof of your mouth, and it should be a little further back than where you would touch to pronounce the letter t.
The exact spot is the following: Have you noticed that the curb of the roof of your mouth doesn't start immediately behind your teeth but a little further back? The tip of your tongue should touch the exact spot where the curb of your roof starts. No other part of your tongue should touch your roof.
Start by trying to say Trrrrrrrr. If your tongue doesn't vibrate it means you are keeping it too stiff. You should keep it into place, but loosen the tip a bit so that it can do the trilling.

[water bottle]

Where's the fucking Albanian :mad:

srslytho, good thread.

[SLIM]

The Ukrainian link doesn't work. My dad is Ukrainian, but he's always working now and always too tired to teach me properly. I only know odd little bits.

Got any working links specifically for Ukrainian?
I don't fancy going through a ton of google searches that ask me to pay. I searched scrapetorrent and couldn't find anything besides porn.

[Zay]

The Ukrainian link doesn't work. My dad is Ukrainian, but he's always working now and always too tired to teach me properly. I only know odd little bits.

Got any working links specifically for Ukrainian?
I don't fancy going through a ton of google searches that ask me to pay. I searched scrapetorrent and couldn't find anything besides porn.

Looks like they changed the link. I searched around on the main page and found it.


http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/pub/websites/ufl/index.htm

Looks like an excellent resource. You'll be offering free candy to kids on the streets of kiev in no time :p

[Gthe]

I didnt see this listed but i find this website very useful for an overview of a variety of languages

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Languages_bookshelf

As far as the the french section goes it is a great way to pick up the language again or to start from scratch.

http://learnfrench.elanguageschool.net/
----> Another great site for beginning french, not to sure about the other guides for the other 9 languages but if its anything like the french guide then it'll get anyone interested started.

[Rizzo in a box]

Thanks for this. I've been meaning to relearn German and get a truly proper grasp of Latin & I'm guessing a few of these links might help.

[Yggdrasil]

For all of those interested in sprucing up their speech by dabbling in Latin, I've found a rather nice link.

http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html

[Yggdrasil]

For some reason I found this thread stickied in GS this morning. I don't know how this thread got there, all I know is that it's chock-full of useful information, so if I may, I'm just going to go ahead and sticky it here now.

[bryan2k11]

-Chinese-
http://www.chinese-forums.com/archive/index.php/
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/18253
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/default.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
http://www.china.org.cn/english/feat...son/183276.htm
http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_learning/node_316.htm
http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en/node_2.htm
http://www.audioforum.com/index.php?...mode=cat_click
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
http://www.chinese-forums.com/archive/index.php/
http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en/node_2.htm
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com...ese/index.html

Any site but http://www.chinese-forums.com I would recommend for Chinese. At this crappy site, the administrators and moderators are do whatever they like and hates it when you correct their faults! These a--holes blocked me from the site and these other people on the forums are on their side because they're all idiotic foreigners who don't know better, have no jobs and went and messed up China. They don't have jobs. Forum my a--! I hate people who I correct and are unappreciative of your help when I'm Chinese and when I'm correct, they give me minus points, what a group these people are. I hate what they do. They don't know sh-t and are smart alecks at best. I would recommend that NOBODY go there because it's a sucky site.

[Cagun]

thanks, this is one of the most useful list of Chinese resources I've found online :)