Language and Linguistics Resources
1. All sites are online and free.
2. It’s hard to separate into Languages and Linguistics because there’s a lot of overlap. Many of these sites could be on either list.
World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Speech Accent Archive - listen to a paragraph read in English by speakers of other languages
List of Languages by Writing Script
List of Endangered Languages
Ethnologue - Information about the languages of the world
23 Maps and Charts on Language
Endangered Languages Project
Articles and videos on linguistics
Google Ngram Viewer - looks at the use of words over time
Concise Encyclopedia of the Languages of the World
Lang-8 - practice writing and receive corrections from native speakers
Tatoeba - find a sentence that uses your word
Harry Potter - listen to the beginning of Harry Potter read in 60+ languages
A User’s Guide to the Best Swear in Every* Language (*obviously not every language. whatever buzzfeed)
Wordreference - the French and Spanish dictionaries are really good, the others are meh
BBC Languages - Not very in depth but offers quite a few small European languages such as Manx, Luxembourgish, and Guernésiais
Languagehelpers.com - Translation, language facts, and information about some scripts
Transparent Language Blogs - occasionally has interesting articles about various languages
Students of the World Penpals - Correspond in your target language with a native speaker
The Polyglot Project - Read books in your target languages; built in translation feature
mylanguages.org - offers a huge variety of languages; introductory/beginner level
SayJack - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
Duolingo but I’m sure you all know this one XD
A-Z Index of Omniglot - SUPER informative resource especially for smaller, lesser known languages; provides information as well as LINKS to learning resources for each language
Dramafever - watch TV in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, and English (they have like one or two in Portuguese as well)
Interesting/fun article about some interesting languages (I don’t really like their use of the word ‘bizarre’ here)
Interesting blog about a guy’s experiences with 37 languages
Look at videos trending on youtube by country
Top websites by country - useful in finding advanced content in your target language
Project Gutenberg - Read books in English, French, Dutch, and Portuguese
Yabla - Watch videos in your target language
Wikitongues - A youtube channel featuring speakers of a wide variety of languages (they have a tumblr too!)
Forvo - listen to words pronounced by native speakers
Rate your foreign language fluency
Lingro - “the coolest dictionary known to hombre”
The world’s most multilingual countries
World Language Store - by products (for example, books) from around the world
Foreign Service Institute Language Courses
Interlinear books - foreign language books with the english translations below
Global Language Online - material drawn from radio, newspaper etc.
Resource list for learning over 50 languages
Tumblr blogs for specific languages - most are inactive but may still be good resources
Read articles in your target language!
Babla - online language dictionaries
Collins Dictionaries Online
Peace Corps Language Courses
Culture Talk - Videos about culture
Innovative Language Learning - Youtube channels teaching over 30 languages
Verbix - CONJUGATES VERBS YAY
Dictionaries for a LOT of languages
Read Grimm’s fairytales in other languages
European radio stations streaming live
How I Learn Languages - pdf of the book by Hungarian polyglot Kató Lomb
Lyrics Training - this is a REALLY FUN way to practice listening
origamiaround
theartofmadeline
snowghoul
discoholicmusic
areudirty
