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An interesting -but very valid- approach to learning a new language. Noun cases, which don't exist in English, are especially challenging for students of German, Russian or Greek, for example.
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Digital Dialects language learning
33 reviews • digitaldialects.com
From the page: "This site contains free to use interactive games for learning languages and links to study resources. Activities require the use of Flash Player, which you already have if you can see the satellite moving below. "
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French language: Internationally used French phrases
Ohhhh, that's it, Stumble - bring me the good stuff! A big list of french phrases and mots justes* that have wound their way into English conversation. It's entertaining as etymology, but downright fun to read through the list in a haughty Parisien accent**. ... more
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Comparative table of languages and language profiles for...
19 reviews • how-to-learn-any-language.com
I never found French to be that difficult, since a lot of English words are derived from Norman French, plus it's quite regular. English has the most irregular verbs of all the languages and has a huge vocabulary to learn.
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How Language Works (Edition 3.0): Table of Contents
Better bring a drink with you...better make that several...this stuff is the driest of the dry. By the time you read it you could write 2 novels. By the time you use it you'll have been dead a hundred years. It reminds me of a writing correspondence-course I took 35 years... more
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Japanese for the Western Brain
13 reviews • sheepdogdesign.net
Some articles about the theory behind Japanese language relative to English. For those of us who want to know "why" instead of just "how"--a very intriguing read.
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Japanese & Phrases & Vocabulary & Basics
Basic Japanese, and from my very very limited knowledge of the language, it's accurate too.
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Language Exchange Community - Practice and Learn Foreign...
39 reviews • mylanguageexchange.com
From the page: "Find a partner at the online community and practice your second language (any language) with a native speaker who is learning your language. " Offers free as well as "gold" membership. The gold is quite inexpensive, but you can use... more
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Exploratorium Magazine: Language
44 reviews • exploratorium.edu
WE DON'T ASK OURSELVES where languages come from because they just seem to be there: French in France, English in England, Chinese in China, Japanese in Japan, and so forth. Yet if we go back only a few thousand years, none of these languages were spoken in their... more
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Yingzi
From the page: "If English was written like Chinese The English spelling system is such a pain, we'd might as well switch to hanzi-- Chinese characters. How should we go about it?" This is fascinating stuff.
