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Holy shit. This is still here.

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General:

Lang-8 (Journal in another language, be corrected by native speakers. Do the same for others by correcting them.)

Livemocha

Polyglot Link

FSI Language

BBC Languages

I Kinda Like Languages

GLOSS (Foreign Language Institute)

My Language Exchange

So You Want to Learn a Language

Mango Languages

Forvo

Learning with Texts

LingQ

South Asian Linguistics

F*ckyeahsouthasia #Language

Open Culture: Free Language Lessons (another masterlist)

Reddit Threads:

Arabic Language

Chinese / Chinese Language

Indonesian

Japanese / Learn Japanese

Korean

Hmong

Learn Vietnamese

Tagalog

Language Learning General

All in Chinese

Asian Dramas

SRS (Spaced Repetition flashcards):

Memrise (Iphone/pad app available)

Anki (droid/i-app avail)

Skritter (Paid: Japanese/Chinese; i-app avail.)

Mnemosyne

Arabic:

Books to Learn Arabic (Blogs list page)

Al3Arabiya

Mandinah Arabic (Free Printable E-books)

Bengali:

Fuckyeahsouthasia - Bengali .zips

So You Want to Learn…Bengali

Learning Bengali

Uchicago - Bengali

Peace Corps Bengali download

Bengala Instructional Materials

Learn to read Bengali

BBC Bengala

Bengali Podcasts

Burmese/Myanmar:

Burmese By Ear or, Essential Myanmar

Burmese Language

Chinese (Mostly/All Mandarin):

Chinese Grammar Wiki

Fluent Flix

Chinese Hacks

Social Mandarin

Hao Hao Report

Hacking Chinese

Reddit Resource List

MDBG

Why Chinese is so damn hard

sugoideas, Taiwanese dramas

Baidu radio, PRC radio stations

Mac TV, Taiwan TV

中文字譜, site for making mnemonics

Chinesepod

Reviewing the Hanzi

Perapera Chinese Firefox add on

Better Chinese (Paid)

China Sprout online retail

Chinese Grammar (eh, looks dull)

More Manhua

Chinese Rage Comics

English Slang in Chinese

Sentence Structure / Particles / Modals

Sinosplice

Pleco for iPhone

Chinese with Serge (he’s pretty clear)

Review the Hanzi forum thread

eStroke

Nciku (search characters by drawing them)

QQ international version / Weibo (Chinese “twitter”) / renren

Apps: Mindsnacks Mandarin ($5, personal recommendation), Manhua Reader App, Pleco, Word Tracer Learn Chinese, Chinese with Pengyou Pal

Books I own: (Far East) Illustrated 300 Chinese Character Dictionary, Reading and Writing Chinese (Tuttle), Chinese Link (favorite textbook so far), Integrated Chinese (Not as good as Chinese Link imho. Less organized/structured in a good format), Basic Spoken Chinese (Tuttle), Schaum’s Chinese Grammar

Gujarati:

Pronunciator

So You want to Learn… [Resource Masterlist]

Eye of India- Alphabet

Another masterlist

Gujarati Learner

Hindi:

Learning-Hindi

NYU - Virtual Hindi

Hindi-Urdu Flagship Resources (pdfs, textbooks, audio, etc)

A Door into Hindi

Indonesian - Bhasa Indonesian:

Indonesian-Online

Korean:

Hangul Type Attack

Seemile (Also learn Chinese)

Talk to Me in Korean

My Korean 1 & 2

Hangul

Busy Atom

Korean Wiki - Hangul

Dictionary

Grammar Dictionary

Radio Korea

Songang Korean Program

Hulu Kdramas

Airang “I Love Korean”

Seoul National University Korean Crash Course

Apps: Korean Letters Lite App (Free/Paid available), Korean Study Buddy App, Learn Sounds of Korean App (currently free)

Korean Champ

Korean Class 101

Hangukdrama and Korean

Learn Korean

Resource List (Also Japanese)

Books: Integrated Korean (Common textbook, friends used/liked it for class), Learn Korean for Beginner’s (Tuttle), Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook.

Japanese:

All Japanese All the Time (AJATT method; perhaps worth a read for other languages)

So You Want to Learn Japanese…

Perapera Firefox add on

Reviewing the Kanji

Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese / The app

Beginner’s Guide

Kanji Damage

Tofugu / Textfugu (Some-Paid)

Rikaichan FF/Chrome

Gakuu

Subs2SRS

Hiragana42

Lingualift (Paid)

I Know! (Paid)

Nihon Shock ($25)

Tagorin Dictionary

Read the Kanji

Nihongo Dekimasu

Before Breakfast

Kotodama Typing Game

Real Kana

The Japanese Page

All Kana Aesop’s Fables (Practice translating)

Manga RAWs

Apps: Kana iphone/ipad app (all Japanese game), Ninja worlds (free/paid $3 app), Human Japanese (Free/$10)

How to Read Manga/Watch anime (and understand) in 2 years

Pastebin Reddit Resources

Pera Pera Penguin

Nihongo e na

Jbox Study items

Books I own: Japanese in Mangaland/Kanji in Mangaland, Learning Hiragana & Katakana (Tuttle), The Ultimate Japanese Phrasebook, A Dictionary of Japanese Particles (Kodansha), Essential Japanese Grammar, Barron’s Japanese Grammar, DON’T buy Yookoso! I’m using it right now and I hate it, it’s frustrating and confusing and uses an uncommon Romaji system for far too long. I’ve used six different textbooks in three different languages and this is hands down the worst of any of them. Genki is probably your best bet.

Other Books: Remembering the Kanji

Malay:

Learn Malay

Tamil

F-ckyeahsouthasia’s Tamil

UPenn Tamil

Thai:

Learn Thai

Learning Thai

TV Method Thai (Immersion oral learning)

Learning Thai

Thai-Language

Women Learn Thai — Check the detailed Resources Page.

So You Want to Learn… List:

Ainu, Arabic, Azerbaijani (Azeri), Balinese, Bengali, Burmese (Myanmar), Cantonese (Yue), Cebuano, Fuzhou (Foochow), Gujarati, Hakka, Hindi, Hmong, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese (Basa Jawa/Jawi), Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer (Cambodian), Korean, Kyrgyz, Lao, Malay (Melayu), Malayalam. Mandarin (Chinese), Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Oriya, Pashto, Persian (Farsi, Dari, Tajik/Tajiki), Punjabi (Panjabi), Shanghainese (Wu), Sindhi, Sinhala (Singhalese), Tagalog (Filipino, Pilipino) Taiwanese (Minnan, Southern Min, Hokkien), Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur (Uighur), Uzbek, Vietnamese

Other:

Tumblr tags: #learning _________

Can I become Fluent in ______ in ______ months/weeks/days? No. You can’t.

Can I learn Japanese from just watching Anime/Korean from Kpop/Chinese from Wuxia films? Not on your life. Do you only speak the english you know from Spongebob? N’SYNC? The 300? Didn’t think so.

What about Rosetta Stone? For $180-$399 dollars? Are you insane? The program is built to teach you the Romantic languages. If you buy Rosetta stone for $400, and pass up every free resource on this list, I doubt your desire to actually learn anything. Don’t do it to yourself. That is a lot of money you probably won’t get back.

But I heard that Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Arabic/etc is really difficult: Well if over a billion Chinese people can speak Chinese, why can’t you? No really, don’t let something like this bother you. No, this is not the ease of moving from a English to a Romance language or German, but hey, if you wanted to learn German (and all those ridiculous cases) you’d be doing that.

But what about ______? I have knowledge on resources mostly limited to JPN/CHI/KOR classes. This is a participatory list, which I am more than grateful to take submissions for.

blueklectic

dollsorwhatever

I love her in this sweater o m g

lehanniballector

OMG. Which Moana doll is this because I NEEEED her. (or which head/body combo)

brinty

hello friends britney is here

goodbye friends britney is gone

levelonehulkling

Stay gone

brinty

baawri

castielsteenwolf

woah

urbanoutcasters

EVERY BODY NEEDS TO HEAR THIS

hashtagloveloses

Everyone needs Laverne cox to come to their house and spit truth in front of the mirror

thursday

lafillegauche-deactivated202008

OK GUYS LISTEN UP

I BARELY EVER ASK Y’ALL FOR ANYTHING BUT JUST THIS ONCE

PLEASE COULD YOU WATCH THE HELL OUT OF THIS VIDEO

IT’S A CUTE TORTOISE BUT THAT’S NOT ALL

EVERY PENNY OF VIEWING REVENUE WILL GO TO CHARITIES SUPPORTING SYRIAN REFUGEES IN EUROPE

IT WAS MY FRIEND’S IDEA AND SHE GOT ALAN RICKMAN (no I’m not kidding) TO DO THE VOICEOVER

SO PLEASE

WATCH IT

SHARE IT

LITERALLY REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE

icreateblackimages

The Nutcracker dance you’ve NEVER seen before!

lehanniballector

I want the whole damn thing done this way.

youareoutofyourelementdonny

juicyvelourtracksuit

roboticreborn-deactivated201811

GOOD LUCK

dbttiger

thgchoir

no offense but this is literally the most neurotypical thing i have ever seen

pyrrhicgoddess-deactivated20180

Uhhhh… no. This is what they teach you in therapy to deal with BPD and general depression. When I got out of the hospital after hurting myself a second time, I got put into intensive outpatient program for people being released from mental hospitals as a way to monitor and help transition them into getting them efficient long-term care. This is something they stressed, especially for people with general depression. When you want to stay at home and hide in your bed, forcing yourself to do the opposite is what is helpful. For me, who struggles with self harm- “I want to really slice my arm up. The opposite would be to put lotion on my skin (or whatever would be better, like drawing on my skin) the opposite is the better decision.” It doesn’t always work because of course mental health isn’t that easy, but this is part of what’s called mindfulness (they say this all the time in therapy)

Being mindful of these is what puts you on the path to recovery. If you’re mindful, you are able to live in that moment and try your best to remember these better options.

I swear to god, I don’t get why some people on this website straight up reject good recovery help like this because either they a)have never been in therapy so don’t understand in context how to use these coping tactics. Or b)want to insist that all therapists and psych doctors are neurotypical and have zero idea what they are talking about. (Just so ya know, they teach this in DBT, the therapy used to help BPD. The psychologist who came up with DBT actually had BPD, so….a neurotypical women didn’t come up with this.)

greenjudy

I have clinical OCD and for me, exposure therapy–a version of “do the opposite”–has been fundamental. I’ve had huge improvement in the last year, but I’m 100% clear that if I hadn’t done my best to follow this protocol I’d be fucked. I have a lot of empathy for that moment when you’re just too tired to fight and you check the stove or you wash your hands or go back to the office at midnight to make sure the door is locked. But the kind of therapeutic approach outlined above has been crucial for me.

It’s hard to do. I’ve weathered panic attacks trying to follow this protocol. But I’ve gotten remarkable results. I was afraid to touch the surfaces in my house, okay? I was afraid to touch my own feet, afraid to touch my parrot–deliberately exposing myself to “contamination” has helped me heal. I can’t speak for people with other issues, but this has helped my anxiety and OCD.

cameoamalthea

I feel that tumblr, in an effort to be accepting of mental illness, has become anti-recovery. Having a mental illness does not make you a bad person. There is nothing morally wrong with having a mental illness anymore than more than there’s something morally wrong with having the flu. However, if you’re “ill” physically or mentally, something is wrong in the sense that you are unwell and to alleviate that you should try to get better. While there is not “cure” for mental illness, there are ways to get better.

There was a post on tumblr where someone with ADHD posted about how much you can get done when you focus and was attacked for posting about being “nuerotypical” - when she was posting about the relief she got from being on an medication to treat her illness.

I saw another post going around tumblr that said something along the line of “you control your thoughts, why not choose to have happy thoughts” which again was shot down as “nuerotypical” but while you don’t have control over what thoughts come into your mind, you absolutely can and should choose to have happy thoughts. In DBT we call this “positive self talk”.

I’m in DBT to help treat PTSD stemming from child abuse. The abuse and abandonment I experienced destroyed my self esteem and created a lot of anxiety over upsetting other people. DBT has taught me to recognize when my thoughts are distorting realty ‘no one likes you’ and answer back ‘plenty of people like you, you don’t need everyone to like you, especially if the relationship doesn’t make you happy’, to respond to the thought ‘I’m so worthless’ with ‘you’re really great and have accomplished something’

And it’s not easy to challenge your thoughts, it’s a skill that’s learned and it’s hard to force yourself to think something that doesn’t seem authentic or even seems wrong to think - it’s hard to be encouraging towards yourself when you hate yourself - but you force yourself to be aware of your thoughts and push back when you fall into unhealthy patterns

That isn’t “so neurotypical” that’s recovery.

Not shaming mental illness doesn’t mean shaming RECOVERY.

Pro-Recovery isn’t anti-disability.

Do not shame healthy behaviors as “neurotypical”.

Learning healthy behaviors and taking steps to treat mental illness and disorders including taking medication if that’s what works for you is important. You shouldn’t be ashamed if you have mental illness, but you shouldn’t say ‘well I’m not neurotypical therefor I can’t do anything to get better’ - while there is no cure for mental illness, there is a lot you can do to get better, to function better, to manage your mental illness and be safer, happier, and healthier for it.