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Number Eight of Newsletter for Free Language Learning Materials is Out
Welcome to the Eighth Edition of The Free Language Letter. 25 new free resources for 12 languages have been added to the site. There are not as many updates as usual because I have been working behind the scenes on the new overview pages for each language. Quick View of What's Inside
New! Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese Overview Pages
As I did for the Spanish language before the last newsletter, I have now completed four more language overview sections. Now you will find new homes on Free Language for Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. These overview pages are basically a single spot where all the resources for a given language are brought together for users to quickly view and navigate. I like to think they are quite packed with excellent resources for learning the respective languages. :) Some are more filled than others, and the overview pages do include an overview of the language, a list of resources for learning the language, podcasts, news resources, a tag cloud, InternetTV stations, recommended software, an aggregator link and feed and other such useful info. Now Available: 34 Languages :)
With some of the major changes I have been working on, I have also slipped in a large number of new languages. Since the last newsletter, this includes Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian, Latin, Polish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Before you get too excited, know that I cheated a bit on most of these and they list mainly resources for learning languages socially, and do not yet list specific resources for those languages. Catalan, Polish and Swedish are the exceptions with one specific resource for each plus the social resources. Specific resources for the rest will come as soon as I can manage! OK, onto the latest resources added for specific languages and other such goodness. CatalanEnglishBlabbinit.com Blabbinit Learn English with Podcasts, Comics, Karaoke, Blogs, Videos and Chat FrenchFrenchLingQ.com French LingQ Podcast with Free iTunes iPod MP3 Audio using Linguist Method by Steve Kaufmann GermanGermanLingQ.com German LingQ Podcast with Free iTunes iPod MP3 Audio using Linguist Method by Steve Kaufmann ItalianCaféBabel.com Café Babel Local European Political, Economic and Cultural News Magazine in Italian and 6 Other Languages JapaneseMandarin ChineseEnterZon.com Zon MSU Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) for Learning Mandarin Chinese Interactively PolishPortuguesePortugueseLingQ.com Portuguese LingQ Podcast with iTunes MP3 Audio using Linguist Method by Steve Kaufmann RussianSpanishSpanishLingQ.com Spanish LingQ Podcast with Free iTunes MP3 Audio using Linguist Method by Steve Kaufmann SwedishSocial Language LearningBelow are the latest additions to the social language learning section. Babbel.com Virtual FlashCard Language Share Site w/English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Tools and Video Game-Like Interface News Feeds
Below are the most recently added news feeds that Free Language syndicates. CaféBabel.com Café Babel Local European Political, Economic and Cultural News Magazine in Catalan and 6 Other Languages Featured Resource
Lingro is a truly useful site with a decidedly free and open approach to multi-lingual dictionaries and online web translation. It provides users with quick and powerful online translation dictionaries and study tools, vocabulary lists and games. The site is "committed to building the Web's largest collection of open dictionaries." I was struck by the straight-forward, no nonsense approach to open content. The site content is empowered and protected by the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 License. In short, this means the multilingual dictionaries can be copied, adapted and distributed with proper attribution. Equally, content editors must allow their additions to continue to be worked with under the same license. Thus, in an open and free way, lingro appeals to the users for help in creating "relevant translations and definitions" for the these language translation dictionaries. Since I published the original article, several new changes have been in the works at the Lingro headquarters. Here's a list on their blog of some of the major improvements. There is also a great sections for webmasters that explains how to integrate Lingro into your website. Also added is a new feature for showing each user's personalized reading/vocabulary profile. They are really cranking it out over there and I send lots of good vibes to this crew that is working to improve Public Domain tools for language learning. :) Continue reading about Lingro. Language FactoidMandarin Chinese is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and south-western China. When taken as a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, the Mandarin dialects have more speakers than any other language. Factoid thanks to Wikipedia. 看你下一次!Chapman By cman at 2008-04-01 22:38 | Afrikaans | Arabic | Brazilian Portuguese | Cantonese | China | Czech | Dutch | English | European Portuguese | Free Information | Free Language | French | German | Hebrew | Hindi | Hungarian | Information | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Language Learning | Mandarin Chinese | Online Projects | Podcasting | Podcasts | Polish | Portuguese | Russian | Site Changes | Spanish | Swahili | Swedish | Video Podcasting | Video Podcasts | Vietnamese | Web 2.0 | add new comment | 638 reads
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