LANGUAGE LEARNING MASTERPOST
For all of those who want to learn a language but don’t know where to start, need extra help as you learn it, or if you’re just bored. These are the resources I’ve gathered over the last few months (feel free to add to it!)
General sites with grammar/sounds/pronunciation for a wide variety of languages
My Languages
BBC Language
How to Learn Any Language
Effective Language Learning
Conjuguemos
The Polyglot Project
Linguanaut
More specific sites, targeted at one language
German here and here
Spanish here and here
French here here and here
Italian here and here
Japanese here
Chinese here and here
Korean here and here
Vietnamese here
For all ya’ll auditory learners
an online radio/tv
spanish site w/ web series and programs
-also, foreign language mixes on 8tracks
some german ones
a few spanish ones
some french mixes
some italian mixes
some russian mixes
some mandarin mixes
some japanese mixes
Interactive language-exchanging sites where you can make friends and meet natives wOWie
livemocha
interpals
polyglotclub
sharedtalk
couchsurfing
memrise
babbel
duolingo
Tips, advice, and motivation to give you that extra push
5 Tips to Get You Started
a blog on language-hacking tips
have some motivational videos that provide language courses (Speak from Day 1 and Pimsleur Approach)
6 ways to roll your r
another language blog
For those interested in linguistics, here are 15 interesting articles on the field
for funsies!!!
i’ve found quite a few resources for irish gaelic, a really beautiful but complex language that you can challenge yourself to learn
linguistic facts about the language and some study tips
here’s an online radio
pronunciation and a youtube channel
Irish Language Today
want to learn a language that doesn’t exist???? there are tutorials here here and here on how to write gallifreyan and a tutorial here on how to write the numbers
If i find more content, I’ll edit this and add it right away. Good luck and have fun!
Some of this stuff and more found here in my resources post :D
Resources are da best because then you can’t use it as an excuse not to learn a language :3
