Languages

A center for learning with the Internet. Interactive exercises, audio files, literature, games, comics, news, fiction and other useful resources to help you learn online.

Free lessons and online courses with more than 1000 audio files.

Includes courses, phrases, and travel information.

Basic words and phases for studying German.

Beginner's and advanced German lessons, mainly focusing on grammar.

Information from Ethnologue on the Swedish language, with short bibliography.

Lets you compose a page of Yiddish text from your web browser. Also converts between a growing list of Yiddish computer file formats and character encodings.

Online version of a book by Koenraad Elst, published by Aditya Prakashan in New Delhi (India). It oulines the latest arguments (including those in linguistics) for and against the prehistoric invasion of India by Indo-European speakers.

Latin language information: history of Latin, Latin names, Latin links, map of the empire, and gallery of images.

From the UCLA Language Materials Project.

Features information on the Examination in the Czech language on the Level A1 as a condition for permanent residence in the CR.

A very thorough reference grammar of the Macedonian language, by Victor Friedman. Part of the Reference Grammar Network of the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center.

A very thorough reference grammar of the Polish language, by Ron F. Feldstein. Part of the Reference Grammar Network of the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center.

A searchable 150 million word collection of samples of written and spoken Russian from a wide range of texts in electronic form. The corpus represents modern Russian in all the variety of genres, styles, territorial and social variants of usage.

Sections organized by parts of speech. Includes Java exercises.

Introduces the Russian alphabet; includes some practice exercises and sound files. Does not require Russian fonts to be installed.

Online Russian course, grammar lessons, vocabulary and translation tools. Specific focus on language used for dating, relationships and marriage.

Video lessons, grammar, and quizzes for beginning and intermediate learners.

Free online Russian courses for beginner and intermediate language learners. Get help from native Russian speakers.

A database that analyzes/synthesizes forms and whole paradigms of Russian words. Entry by English translations also available. Best viewed with special fonts (downloadable onsite).

Download the TITUS font from here.

Description of English usage in Hong Kong.

Encyclopedia article on Tamil-English pidgin.

An open-source phrasebook at Wikitravel.

A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Francophone Louisiana.

Board members, records and bylaws, local workshops, form downloads, mailing list, links.

Offers video remote interpreting across the United States.

African-American, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native-American, and other minority status interpreters can discuss interpreting issues.

Group falls under the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Mission is to promote better communication between interpreters who are Deaf and hearing, native signers and non-native signers and Deaf community members.

Learn and practice your Estonian with a native speaker in a language exchange via email, text chat, and voice chat.

Bilingual library of Hawaiian language materials including online edition of the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian language dictionary, nineteenth century newspaper archives and the "Baibala Hemolele."

Broad overview on technology and Hawaiian language revival.

Paper by Diane Massam and Carolyn Smallwood of the University of Toronto comparing predication in two typologically diverse languages to account for differences in word order.

A short introduction to the spoken language of Bali, Indonesia, with instructions for learning and pronouncing some basic words and phrases.

Basic lessons in Cebuano grammar and free penpal addresses.

A description of Indonesian, including phonology, grammar and examples of foreign loan words.

Interactive language lessons, online dictionaries, and articles on language and culture, from the SEAsite project at Illinois University.

Tutorial for English speakers who want to learn to speak Tagalog. Available on CD-ROM.

Learn Tagalog vocabulary for English speakers, or Tagalogs can learn English. Works on computers and smartphones.

Information on Scottish Gaelic including an online forum for Gaelic supporters.

The differences between American and British English, explored by a Brit living in Texas.

Download Ralph Hancock's shareware utility and fonts for writing Unicode Greek in Word 97/2000. Includes converters for numerous other encodings, and an optional autocorrect feature for accenting commonly-typed words automatically.

Includes online dictionaries and advice on installing and using Gujarati-compatible computer fonts.

Introduction to the Hindi language and script in Dutch and English.

Selected links about hinduism. A collection of Sanskrit maxims.

Panini's "Ashtadhyayi" grammar software for Win (including the dhatupatha and Renou's French translation).

Charts of noun cases and verb suffixes; link to graphemes and pronunciation.

Collection of free downloadable Latin grammars and readers in PDF format.

Program dealing with linguistic processing of Latin language words. This includes for time being declension and conjugation (morphology), with plans to upgrade code to support more processing, even on syntactic level. [Python, open source].

A Biblically-based Latin program specifically geared toward the 8-18 year old Christian homeschooler. Fora, games, sample pages, and articles available on site.