Language Learning Resources

Russian
Sites for Grammar
http://masterrussian.com/ - Lessons and vocabulary
http://www.russianlessons.net/ - Beginner lessons and the site I use for referencing basic grammar
http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/ - My favourite site for grammar, goes right from the basics to what you need to construct complex sentences. Great examples with sentences and exercises.
Dictionaries
wordreference.com - Already been mentioned, but usually has good explanations and examples
http://ru.thefreedictionary.com/ - A Russian-Russian dictionary that usually just gives synonyms, but still okay
http://slovari.yandex.ru/ - Yandex is pretty much the Russian Google. So yeah.
News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/ - The BBC news in Russian. Articles usually get translated a few hours or a day after they appear in English.
http://www.pravda.ru/ - Pravda's still going, and pretty popular.
http://www.vesti.ru/ - Just a news site
http://ytro.ru/ - Just another one
http://lenta.ru/ - And another one
TV
http://itv.1tv.ru/ - Stream Russia's First Channel
http://www.1tv.ru/videoarchiver/ - Loads of full and free shows from First Channel's archive
rutracker.org - Download just about anything. Like, anything. In a forum format, so you can browse shows/films/music/comics and download at will.
http://www.internytv.ru/online.php - Watch Интерны online, it's kinda like a Russian Scrubs. Pretty funny.

---KOREAN---

http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com - General lessons and hangul for beginners

http://talktomeinkorean.com/ - Lessons and culture from beginner to advanced

http://www.learnkorean.com/ - More general lessons, good for beginners

---JAPANESE---

http://www.geocities.jp/mutasanjp/ - Kokugo Worksheets for Japanese elementary school students, good for intermediate learners of Japanese

http://www.geocities.jp/leeobasan/index.html - More Kokugo Worksheets, science, culture and Japanese style home-schooling worksheets, also has some beginner lessons for English speakers

http://www.coscom.co.jp/index.html - Great website for reading practice, has new articles up every day in japanese for news and weather with vocabulary and kanji readings so you can read the news that real Japanese people are reading and get used to the words you'll see on the news

http://kanjidamage.com/ - Fantastic site to learn how to read kanji

---MANDARIN CHINESE---

http://chinasprout.com/ - Amazing store with tons of textbooks, games etc for learning chinese language. Most books have the option to choose between simplified and traditional characters as well. If you need to order a chinese textbook, I recommend buying from here.

http://www.chinese4kids.net/ - Good site, has cartoons, lessons and activities. Aimed at kids, but it's suitable for beginners as well.

JAPANESE

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http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
It's a firefox module. Indispensable if you don't want to open a dictionary tab for each word you see.

MISC
http://www.wordreference.com/
another global dictionary I like.
http://www.memrise.com/home/
Flashcards. I like it better than Anki. Users can add a mnemonic for each word but it's often lame.

SPANISH

http://www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm
Almost everything you need to know on grammar.
http://www.youtube.com/user/languagenow
This motherfucker is a professional teacher, he will teach you about spanish AND portuguese.

http://www.spanishdict.com/dictionary
Best dictionary I came across so far, it contains a lot of idioms.

http://www.ctspanish.com/idioms/idioms.htm
http://www.languagerealm.com/spanish/spanishslang.php
Idioms and idioms and some slang.

More JAPANESE

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete
Awesome guide on grammar.
http://www.nihongoresources.com/
The lessons are very heavy, but it has a dictionary. I use it to learn jouyou kanji!

http://jisho.org/kanji/
Will find the kanji you're looking for with kana and number of strokes.

http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japonais/Grammaire/Introduction
http://www.dictionnaire-japonais.com/rechercher.php
First one is a succinct grammar guide, second is a dictionary. Sorry it's in french but it can still be useful so I'll post them.

Finnish

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Finnish.htm

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Finnish.html
website full of useful links

lojban.org has the best learning materials for the language. There is the Lojban Reference Manual (basically for all your obscure questions and wonderings on the language and such) and "Lojban for Beginners", which is a good place to start. Use the flash card app "anki" for learning the vocabulary.When installed, search for "lojban" and download the most downloaded deck (the one on the top).

well i found this website very useful.
you can make an account and it has courses, exercises and audio. many languages available to learn and for free.
http://www.livemocha.com/

Anonymous 10/24/11(Mon)14:22 No.16029

    For all the folks looking into Icelandic;
    http://icelandiconline.is/

    Great website that goes over the basics, and is generally a great resource for learning the language. Some institutes have adopted it as an acceptable prerequisite for more advanced courses, and it is also helpful with Old Norse.

    Other useful Icelandic links;
    http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/IcelOnline/Search.TEId.html
    >Free online Icelandic dictionary. You tend to search by headwords, but it can check the entire entry as well, which is useful for common phrases with particular declensions

    bin.arnastofnun.is/
    >Free declension database. Put in the word you want, select the box marked "Leit að beygingarmynd" so that it searches the entire entry in case you're trying to figure out the head-word, and then go. You need to know the category, and it's only in Icelandic (learn that vocabulary!), but it's useful.

    I also have an Old Norse textbook on my computer, but it's a terrible, terrible book, and I've only used it because it gets you reading texts quickly.

    Hope this shit helps out anyone looking into Icelandic. Very good language to get into, and it really forces you to think about what you're saying

Jisho.org is probably one of the better dictionaries out there.

General resources I've stumbled upon:

http://www.fluentin3months.com/language-hacking-guide/

http://www.polyglotproject.com/

http://www.ielanguages.com/

Try Pimsleur am using it for french and i find it way better the Rosetta Stone

also for french:
http://leconjugueur.com is great for learning verb tenses

Old English:

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oe_clarkhall_about.html

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/index.html

http://www.etymonline.com/

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

http://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/

http://hord.ca/projects/eow/

http://wordhord.org/nasb/

Contrary to popular belief, I don't believe that Old English people pronounced the second letter in a word the way we think.
Nobody pronounces the "e" in "like", do they?
If you do a comparitive study of Western Germanic languages, you will see the inconsistency of Otto Jeperson's work in understanding the great vowel shift. In the first part of English history, we used to be a runic language; over a period of time, we switched from runes to their Latin counterparts. (Note: we did not use the Latin rules for writing Old English, just the alphabet); and eventually the Norman invaded and gave us a completely new setup.
Mainly, the only reason that people mistake words for sounding that way, was because the Anglo Saxons wrote in a Scandinavian way; consider Anglo saxon a west Germanic language written in Icelandic, but pronounced in English.

Those are really good sources btw.

for german: http://deutschkurse.dw-world.de/KursPlattform/WebObjects/KursPlattform.woa/wa/UAAuthDA/auth?par=G5n9
hc0PUIqm93qsNXWNH45V0

yet to have a look at it myself, but it comes highly recommended. Cba to tidy up the link

http://www.learnoasis.com/

Assimil > all other language resources


A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar - Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui
A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar - Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui
A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar - Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui
The Handbook of Japanese Adverbs and Adjectives - Taeko Kimiya
The Japanese Particle Workbook - Taeko Kimiya