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kelly • 19 year old college student in the USA • native english speaker • learning polish • i'm obsessed with the slavic languages and hope to one day learn all of them • my main blog is crackedmilk, so if I follow you it will show up under that one

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WordBrewery is great for improving your vocabulary.  It gives you a random sentence at either beginner, intermediate, advanced or master level, and you can make lists of words or sentences that you’d like to learn.   It includes the following languages:

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[hamletisms-blog]

Hello there! I’m a native Polish speaker and I’ve decided to make this little series of posts concerning the most interesting and/or popular Polish idioms, sayings, and proverbs. I’ve seen a few similar posts on Tumblr, but most of them repeat the same few idioms a maroon nd I really want to introduce you guys to many more sayings in my language. Each post in this series will have around 8-10 sayings and I plan to make such posts once every week. I hope you’ll enjoy them and learn something new! Here is the first installment. You’ll find the later ones in this tag on my blog.

✧ Polish: Co ma piernik do wiatraka? Literal translation: What does a gingerbread have to do with a windmill? Meaning: Used when a person you’re talking to says something completely irrelevant to the whole conversation. Something like: what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

✧ Polish: Tylko krowa nie zmienia zdania. Literal translation: Only a cow doesn’t change its mind. Meaning: People are allowed to change their opinions and views over time. You can use this saying as a comment on this fact.

✧ Polish: Szukać dziury w całym. Literal translation: To be looking for a hole in something that’s whole. Meaning: To quibble, to nitpick. To stubbornly be trying to find fault with something that’s without fault.

✧ Polish: Raz na ruski rok. Literal translation: Once in a Russian year. Meaning: Very rarely, hardly ever. Once in a blue moon.

✧ Polish: Lepszy wróbel w garści niż gołąb na dachu = Lepszy wróbel w garści niż kanarek na dachu. Literal translation: A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon/dove on the roof = A sparrow in the hand is better than a canary on the roof. Meaning: It’s better to hold onto something you already have than to risk losing it while you’re trying to get something else. Basically: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

✧ Polish: Gdzie pieprz rośnie =  Gdzie diabeł mówi dobranoc. Literal translation: Where pepper grows = where the devil says goodnight. Meaning: Somewhere far away, in a distant and unknown place, at the end of the world. 

✧ Polish: Kłamstwo ma krókie nogi. Literal translation: A lie has short legs. Meaning: People will always find out about your lie.

✧ Polish: Dzieci i ryby głosu nie mają. Literal translation: Children and fish don’t have a voice. Meaning: Adults don’t care about children’s opinions; children’s opinions shouldn’t be considered when a family is making important decisions.

[gumiguta]

Hi! Could you recommend some polish movies, that could be good for practise? I'm a at a really beginner level so... thank you!!!!!!! p.s. cartoons are great too.

Titles with * are my favourite ones.

Polish cartoons:

* Reksio (This is absolutely MUST WATCH - there is no spoken dialogue, but this is the best Polish cartoon of all time), 1967-1990

Jacek i Agatka (I think it’s the oldest Polish cartoon, from 1962, but it has quite easy to understand), 1962–1973

* Miś Uszatek, 1975-1987

* Przygody kota Filemona, 1972-1981

Przygód kilka wróbla Ćwirka, 1983-1989

Przygody Baltazara Gąbki, 1969-1970

Bolek i Lolek (not every episode has dialogues), 1963-1986

Plastusiowy pamiętnik, 1980-1981

Polish TV series:

* Alternatywy 4, 1983-1986

* Czterej pancerni i pies, 1966-1970

Zmiennicy, 1987-1988

* Stawka większa niż życie, 1967-1968

* Lalka, 1977-1978

* Ranczo, 2006-2016

* Czterdziestolatek, 1974-1977

Polish short-movies:

* Legendy polskie (Modern versions of Polish legends - brilliant actors, great realization, one of the best Polish short-movies), 2015-

Katedra (no spoken dialogue, but it is MUST WATCH - because of Bagiński and his inspiration of Beksiński’s paintings), 2002

Polish full-movies (they may be difficult to understand, but I highly recommend them):

* Bogowie, 2014

Najlepszy, 2017

* Pianista (It has little Polish dialogues but it is made by Polish director Roman Polański with great music by Wojciech Kilar. A story of a Polish-Jewish pianist, Władysław Szpilman), 2002

* Miś, 1980

* Seksmisja, 1983

Ostatnia rodzina, 2017

Chce się żyć, 2013

Popiół i diament, 1958

Człowiek z marmuru, 1976

Serce miłości, 2017

Polish TV advertisements (no joke):

Biedronka (These advertisements are unconventional because of language-related jokes - they mostly use idioms in non-metaphorical way)

[serena-lingandlang]

man polish is such a lovely language but the masculine-personal, masculine-animate, and masculine-inanimate plural declensions are really making my brain feel like im reading something by someone who just had a midlife crisis and is trying to “spice things up” in their life

[malteseboy]

Okay, it’s actually very simple once you get used to it!

The masculine gender in Polish is split into three categories:

Animate - “Living” things

Inanimate - “Non-living” things

Masc-Personal - Human males

For the plural declension (of adjectives), the plural is split into two: Neuter Plural and Personal-Masculine Plural.

Basically Neuter Plural refers to anything that is not a male human (Feminine, Neuter, Non-Human Masculine nouns). The Personal-Masculine Plural refers to only human males.

Declension -

Non-Personal – -e

Personal – -i

Example:

nowe psy – new dogs

nowi chłopcy – new boys

Now, the tricky part is that the letter “i,” softens the previous consonant. Here are the endings of the “softening rule” -

-by > -bi

-my > -mi

-ny > -ni

-wy > wi

-ry > rzy

-ły > li

-szy > -si

-ki > -cy

-gi > -dzy

Example:

małe koty - small cats

mali bracia - small brothers

Hope I could help a little bit!

[ideotheque]

[language-princess]

i feel offended

[woailanguages]

Since I’m a huge fan of both Disney and languages I thought that this sort of list is not only fun but also quite helpful and might be useful while learning :)

Cantonese

Croatian

Danish

Dutch

English (Auli'i Cravalho/Alessia Cara)

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Malay

Mandarin (Mainland/Taiwan)

Norwegian

Polish

Portugese (Brazilian/Portugese)

Russian

Serbian

Spanish (Castillan/Latin)

Swedish

Thai

Vietnamese

Bonus: 24 languages version  that actually inspired me to make this post

[polskipolska]

Duolingo: You have mastered the skill Plurals!

Me: Yay, I mastered plurals!!

Narrator: She did not master plurals.

[pannan-art]

My second piece about “Dziady”.

Dziady / Zaduszki / Pominki - remnants of an ancient Slavic feast celebrated in Poland to commemorate the dead. Dziady are usually translated as “Forefathers’ Eve” in the English langauge.

More at @lamus-dworski

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[wordbrewery]

How many words do you need to reach fluency? 

Studying high-frequency words may help you reach your desired level faster and more efficiently. If you know about 3000 words, you can understand 95% of the what you read and hear. These word counts reflect WordBrewery’s level divisions.

[paradokstepesi]

living in a dream 💫

[dailymagyar]

Hungarian vs. Polish :D

[polandgallery]

HOW TO IDENTIFY A SLAVIC LANGUAGE AT A GLANCE?

■ Broadly speaking, Slavic languages can be divided into those using the Cyrillic alphabet and those using the Latin alphabet, but in truth each language has developed its own modified alphabet. These language-specific letters and diacritic signs can serve as surefire clues, but unfortunately the task is much harder with speech, since accents and dialects tend to confuse even the most skilled listeners.

So how do you tell Slavic languages apart?

The Cyrillic alphabet:

BELARUSIAN – ў

■ Belarusian is the only language which uses the letter ў. It sounds similar to an English ‘w’, and the Latin transcription is ‘ŭ’. It is most often encountered in word endings equivalent to the Russian -ov or –ev suffixes, e.g., last names like Быкаў (Bykaŭ) or Някляеў (Nyaklyayeŭ).

UKRAINIAN – ї and є

■ ıf you see an ï amidst Cyrillic letters, you’re most likely reading Ukrainian. This letter is pronounced /ji/, and should not be confused with ‘i’ (/i/), or with ‘й’ (/j/) and ‘и’ (/ɪ/), which all look and sound slightly different.

Ukrainian is also the only language with the letter є ‒ in Russian the corresponding ‘э’ character faces the other way…

BULGARIAN – ъ

■ Ъ is a solid hint that you’re looking at Bulgarian ‒ it even pops up in the name of the country: България.  Though this letter (called ‘yer golyam’/‘ер голям’) also appears in Russian and other Slavic languages, it is not used frequently, whereas it appears regularly in Bulgarian. This is perhaps because it is silent in other Slavic languages, but in Bulgarian it symbolises a schwa sound (like the ‘u’ in ‘turn’). Make sure you don’t confuse it with the soft sign, ‘ь’.

Additional hint: ата is a frequent grammatical ending in Bulgarian.

SERBIAN – ђ and ћ

■ The similar ђ (dzhe) and ћ (tshe) are evidence you’re dealing with Serbian. Serbian Cyrillic doesn’t have many of the letters used in Russian Cyrillic; forget about ‘ё’, ‘й’, ‘щ’, ‘ъ’, ‘ы’, ‘ь’, ‘э’, ‘ю’, and ‘я’. If you want to tell Serbian apart from Russian, you can also look for љ (ly’) њ (ny’) and џ (dʒ), but these are also present in Macedonian.  

MACEDONIAN – Ѓ and Ќ  

■ Macedonian is the only language with the letters Ѓ and Ќ. The little accents over these Cyrillic letters are a surefire way to tell Macedonian apart from Serbian. The letters stand for sounds similar to the English [dʒ] and [t͡ʃ] – the latter sounding really Chinese.

Additionally, Macedonian features the letter ‘s’ [d͡z], which otherwise does not occur in the Cyrillic alphabet.

RUSSIAN

■ Famous for its inverted letters, Russian is probably the most recognizable Slavic language out there. On the other hand it is quite easy to confuse it with Ukrainian, Bulgarian or Serbian, so if you have a full sentence on your hands, it’s best to proceed by elimination using all the tips mentioned above.

The Latin alphabet:

POLISH – ł

■ If you see the letter ł with the characteristic slash through it, you’re looking at Polish. Ą and ę (which are nasal consonants) are also giveaways but be careful, both letters are also in the Lithuanian alphabet (which is not a Slavic language). Digraphs like ‘sz’, ‘cz’, and ‘dz’, sometimes combined into consonant clusters like ‘prz’, ‘trz’, and ‘szcz’, are clues, but watch out for Hungarian, which has similar consonant clusters.

SLOVAK – ä

■ Slovak is the only Slavic language to use ä, or ‘a s dvoma bodkami’ as the Slovaks call it. It comes up in words like ‘mäso’, ‘sôvä’, ‘rýbä’ (meat, owl, fish) and is pronounced like the English ‘a’ sound in ‘bad’. The same goes for ŕ, which is not used in any other Slavic language.

CZECH – ů

■ The Czech and Slovak alphabets are really similar. To tell them apart, look for the tiny difference in the diacritic sign over the letter r – where Slovak uses ‘ŕ’, the Czech letter has a tiny hook: ř. Also, if you see the letter ů, it’s Czech.

CROATIAN – đ

■ Written Croatian can appear hardly discernible from Slovenian, Czech or Slovak, with which it shares the letters as ‘č’, ‘š’, and ‘ž’, it has an easy distinctive feature ‒ the so-called crossed đ. [dʑ]

BOSNIAN

■ The Bosnian alphabet is indistinguishable from Croatian. To identify the language you would have to dig much deeper and look for differences in vocabulary since Bosnian has some unique words, mostly of Persian and Arabic origin.

SLOVENIAN

■ Slovenian, which is the westernmost Slavic language, is also the most discrete in terms of alphabet. In fact, it has only three special characters, ‘č’, ‘š’, and ‘ž’, which also appear in Czech, Slovak and Croatian. Again, your best bet is to proceed by elimination. (culture.pl)

[spralern]

cute polish vocab

translation of @pycckuu​‘s russian vocab list

narodziny - birth życie - life miłość - love pocałunek - kiss człowiek - human istota ludzka - human being ludzkość, człowieczeństwo - humanity przyjaźń - friendship śmiech - laughter nadzieja - hope radość - joy uśmiech - smile imię - name polik - cheek oko - eye skóra - skin księżyc - moon światło - light Ziemia - Earth gwiazda - star słońce - sun światło słoneczne - sunlight wszechświat - universe świat - world chmura, obłok - cloud pole - field ocean - ocean przyroda, natura - nature niebo - sky świt - dawn przyszłość - future poezja - poetry sztuka - art

( p / i ) urodzić się/rodzić się - to be born -/żyć - to live -/kochać - to love zakochać się/zakochiwać się - to fall in love pocałować/całować - to kiss -/śmiać się - to laugh uśmiechnąć się/uśmiechać się - to smile dotknąć/dotykać - to touch obudzić się/budzić się - to wake up jasno zaświecić/świecić - to shine brightly nauczyć się/uczyć się - to learn

spokojny - calm przyjazny, przyjacielski - friendly dobry - good ciekawy - curious szczęśliwy - happy delikatny - delicate, gentle hojny - generous uprzejmy - kind uczciwy - honest gładki - smooth miękki - soft srebrny - silver świecący - shining, glowing błyszczący - sparkling

[language-princess]

flower - kwiat (m) kwiaty (pl) 

aster - aster (m) astry  azalea - azalia (f) azalie cactus - kaktus (m) kaktusy carnation - goździk (m) goździki crocus - krokus (m) krokusy daffodil - żonkil (m) żonkile  dahlia - dalia (f) dalie  daisy - stokrotka (f) stokrotki  forget-me-not - niezapominajka (f) niezapominajki  freesia - frezja (f) frezje gerbera daisy - gerbera (f) gerbery hollyhock - malwa (f) malwy heather - wrzos (m) wszosy hyacinth - hiacynt (m) hiacynty iris - irys (m) irysy liliac - bez (m) bzy lily - lilia (f) lilie  lily of the valley - konwalia (f) konwalie  narcissus - narcyz (m) narcyzy pansy - bratek (m) bratki  peony - peonia (f) peonie poppy - mak (m) maki  primrose - pierwiosnek (m) pierwiosnki rose - róża (f) róże snowdrop - przebiśnieg (m) przebiśniegi sunflower - słonecznik (m) słoneczniki tulip - tulipan (m) tulipany  violet - fiołek (m) fiołki

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Language Resources Masterpost

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soon-to-be-polyglot:

I hope that this post makes it easier to find what you are looking for!

General

Community: lang-8, SharedLingo, Livemocha, unilang, LingQ, gospeaky

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Here’s my dictionary masterpost!

Afrikaans

Dictionaries: rieme PDF: Grammar of Afrikaans Websites: easyafrikaans, wespeke, heinsuniverse, wikibooks Youtube: learn afrikaans, STEOHENSTONE

Albanian

Dictionaries: argjiro PDF: Albanian Grammar, Peace Corps Albanian, Grammatical Sketch Websites: learnalbanianlanguage, utexas, albanianoverview, Youtube: learnalbanianonline, violagj, Learn Albanian by IALC Group

Amharic

Dictionaries: amharicdictionary, abyssinica PDF: Amharic Basic Course 1, Amharic Basic Course 2 Websites: amharicteacher, learnamharic.ning, learn amharic!, learnamharicnow, amharic.com Youtube: Learn Amharic Ethiopian Language, Learning Amharic Language, MsBissirat

Arabic

Dictionaries: arabdict, almaany, firdaous, lisaanmasry (egyptian), PDF: the Arabic Alphabet, Easy Arabic Grammar, Verbs & Grammar, Colloquial Levantine Arabic, FSI Arabic

Peace Corps Arabic (Chad)

Peace Corps Arabic (Jordanian Arabic Grammar)

Peace Corps Arabic (Mauritania): Hassaniya Grammar Lessons, Grammar

Peace Corps Arabic Moroccan Arabic Textbook

Peace Corps Arabic (Tunisia)

Websites: talkinarabic, arabiconline, learningarabic, salaamarabic, learnarabiconline, madinaharabic, arabic-studio, arabic-alphabet, arabic-course, desert-sky, learning.aljazeera.net, Egyptian Arabic Grammar, SpeakDziri Youtube: Learn Arabic with Maha, Arabic for beginners, arabicpod101, learn lebanese arabic, NassraArabicMethod.com, learn arabic, everyday arabic, Saifi Institute For Arabic Language, ArabicWithNadia, learnarabiclanguage

Armenian

Dictionaries: nayiri, english2armenian PDF: Armenian for everyone, Eastern Armenian for the English-speaking World, Peace Corps Armenian Websites: Armenian Language Lessons, arak29, little Armenia, Aybuben Youtube: Garegin Avetisyan, Karim Musallam           Reading: Haybook. Armenian ebooks

Basque

Dictionaries: elhuyar, euskaltzaindia PDF: Course of Basque, A brief grammar of Euskara Websites: Habe Ikasbil, Hiru, A Brierf Grammar of Euskara Youtube: Learning Basque

Bengali

Dictionaries: bdword, english-bangla PDF: Peace Corps Bengali Websites: Learn to Read Bengali, bangla bolo, virtualbangladesh, bengali podcasts, bangalinet, wikibooks, mybengali, bangla-online Youtube: Enchantress, talkingbees, Barnamala Online Bengali School- BOBS, Learn the Bengali Language

Bulgarian

Dictionaries: diri PDF: FSI Bulgarian (1) (2), Peace Corps Bulgarian, Bulgarian Grammar, Frase Book Bulgaria Travel, Basic Course Websites: Elementary On-Line Bulgarian Grammar, blazingbulgaria, bulgarianlessons, learn-bulgarian.net, Easy Bulgarian, Bulgarian grammar drills Youtube: Merli Uchida, Vasil Todorov, Learn Bulgarian Easily, bulgarianpod101, I learn Bulgarian (Аз уча български)

Burmese

Dictionaries: burmese-dictionary, myordbok PDF: elementary hand-book of the Burmese language Websites: The Free Online Burmese Lessons, seasite, Learn Burmese online, salika, Burmese Script, University of London Youtube: Burmese Lesson, Prof. Bo, maung Lu, BurmeseLanguage, myanducation’s channel, Kenneth Wong, fissace

Cantonese

Dictionaries: cantodict PDF: Basic Cantonese, FSI Cantonese (1) (2) Websites: Learn Cantonese, Learn Cantonese 學廣東話, Cantonese Lessons, Learn Cantonese with Free Lessons, popupcantonese, hkmz, Cantonese Podcasts, wikibooks Youtube: EZCantonese, Cantonese Lessons, LearnCantoneseFast, CarlosDouh, cantoneseclass101

Czech

Dictionaries: seznam, slovnik PDF: Grammar of Czech as a foreign language, Czech Grammar, FSI Czech Websites: ilearnczech, locallingo, the little czech primer, czech grammar, Outline of Czech Grammar, czech-in-prague, wikibooks Youtube: onlineczech, Learn Czech Online, Learn Czech with Rich, czechclass101 CCE: Czech Language Certificate Exam

Danish

PDF: Danish, an essential grammar Websites: Danish Grammar, speak danish, Danish Grammar for English Speakers, copenhagencast Youtube: Danish Lessons with Marty, Danishclass101, TheDanishLessons

Dutch

Dictionaries: mijnwoordenboek, woordenlijst, vandale PDF: Dutch: a comprehensive grammar, Dutch: an essential grammar Websites: learndutch.nu, learndutch.org, taalthuis, dutchgrammar, heardutchhere, dutch for kids Youtube: Learn Dutch With Rozemarijn, learndutch, OnlineDutchLessons, dutchpod101    Conjugation: verbuga Reading: wikikids, kinderverhalen, 1001korteverhalen Listening: 2bdutch

English

Dictionaries: yourdictionary, Dictionary of Unusual Words PDF: Oxford guide to English grammar Websites: English as a Second Language Podcast, english grammar, english banana, perfect-english-grammar, learn-english-online, learnenglish, learnenglish-online, alison Youtube: Voice & Accent Training, Daily Video Vocabulary, Learn English with Let’s Talk, Englishclass101 Grammar & Spelling checker: spellcheckplus

Esperanto

Dictionaries: majstro Websites: lernu, esperanto-chicago, esperantofre, The Sixteen Rules of Esperanto Grammar Youtube: American Esperantist

Estonian

Dictionaries: dictionary.ee, dukelupus, eki.ee PDF: The Estonian Language, Grammatical Case in Estonian Websites: engetranslations, keeleklikk, panglosskool, Estonian language blog, Estonian Language Course, Estonian Morphology Guide Youtube: Little Miss Squirrel

Farsi

Dictionaries: dictionary-farsi, farsidic PDF: FSI Spoken Persian, Persian for Beginners, Websites: easypersian, PersianDee, jahanshiri, learn-persian, persian language online, Persian Online, Virtual Persian, Let’s Learn Persian, persian grammar guide, chaiandconversation Youtube: Farsi Wizard, Farsi or Persian, Persian Online Academy, Reza Nazari, persianpod101

Finnish

Dictionaries: kaannos, fincd, ilmainensanakirja PDF: FSI Conversational (Textbook) (Workbook), Finnish for Beginners Websites: uuno, tavataan taas, uusi kielemee, a taste of finnish, venla, Finnish grammar, thefinnishteacher Youtube: inFinnish, finnishpod101 Reading: puhutaan-suomea

French

Dictionaries: linternaute PDF: French Pronunciation

Peace Corps French (Cameroon)

Peace Corps French (Mali)

FSI French (1) (2) (Belgium)

Websites: frenchstepbystep, french-today, french-online, talkinfrench, lingvist, frenchtutorial, bonjour, français interactif, the french experiment, frenchcrazy, frenchbyfrench, lawless french, tex’s french grammar, Allons!, phonetique Youtube: Alexa Polidoro, FRENCH FROM BEGINNERS TO ADVANCED, Comme une Française, YouLearnFrench, frenchpod101, Frencheezee Grammar & Spelling checker: bonpatron Reading: historiettes Listening: news in slow french

Fulani

PDF: Fula Basic Course, Peace Corps Pulaar (Mauritania) (Gambia), LEARNER’S GUIDE TO PULAR  Websites: Adamawa Fulfulde Youtube: FulanITales, Learn Fulani Online

Georgian

Dictionaries: translate.ge PDF: Georgian Grammar, Peace Corps Georgian, a learner’s grammar Websites: georgian-language, THE GEORGIAN LANGUAGE , georgianweb, georgian language & culture, funkygeorgian, Youtube: learn Georgian language, Georgian Language, საბავშვო არხი

German

Dictionaries: langenscheidt, duden PDF: FSI German (1) (2) Websites: german-grammar, deutsch-lernen, dw, umich, learn-german-easily, canoo, flageorgia, Basic German, germanlanguageguide, german.net Youtube: Deutsch für Euch, Lern Deutsch mit Herrn Antrim, germanpod101, DW – Deutsch lernen, Deutsch Lernen Conjugation: cactus2000 Reading: Leselupe, germanstories Listening: slowgerman, Kindergeschichten Goethe-Zertifikat: Goethe-Zertifikat TestDaF: What is the TestDaF?

Greek

Dictionaries: greek-language PDF: FSI Greek (1) (2) (3) Websites: filoglossia, greek grammar, kypros, greek language, Learning Greek Videos, agni, ellopos Youtube: linaaaap1, Christos, Papaloizos Publications - Learn Greek the Easy Way, greekpod101

Hausa

PDF: Introduction to the Hausa Language, Hausa Basic Course, Hausa Grammatical Sketch, Hausa language Websites: Teach Yourself Hausa, Hausa Basic Course, Youtube: MSUHausa, Hausa Lessons

Hebrew

Dictionaries: morfix PDF: FSI Hebrew Websites: teach me hebrew, hebrew, learn hebrew pod, free hebrew, hebrewverb, learn hebrew easily, do it in hebrew, hebrew-courses, Youtube: Matan Stein, Learn to Speak Hebrew, Ori Ben, bnaiorpueblo, hebrewpod101, eTeacherHebrew           Conjugation: hebrew-verbs

Hindi

Dictionaries: hindi-english PDF: Learn Hindi through English Websites: hindi grammar online, learning-hindi, virtual hindi, mind ur hindi, a door to hindi, hindilanguage, learn hindi online, hindiGym, hindikunj Youtube: LEARN HINDI with Anil Mahato, itwasnoteasy, CrazyLassi, Spoken Hindi, hindipod101, learn hindi through english Writing: Devanagari script tutor

Hungarian

Dictionaries: topszotar PDF: FSI Hungarian (1) (2), Practical Hungarian Grammar, Websites: hungarianreference, magyarora, hungarotips, hungarian-language-teacher, Hungarian Language Page, Let’s learn Hungarian, A Hungarian Language Course, wikibooks Youtube: HungarianProject, Teacher Hungarian, Eszter Gottschall, Dolores Kostić, Hungarian Lesson With Zsuzsi, survivinghungary, hungarianpod101

Icelandic

Dictionaries: snara PDF: The Syntax of Icelandic Websites: icelandiconline, icelandic grammar exercises, An Icelandic minigrammar, Viltu læra íslensku?, Icelandic Grammar Notebook, wikibooks Youtube: Cool Icelandic Lessons, TransparentIcelandic Conjugations & declensions: Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls

Indonesian

Dictionaries: kamus, sederet PDF: students guide to indonesian grammar, Peace Corps Indonesian (1) (2) (3), Understanding Indonesian Grammar Websites: bahasaKita, beginning Indonesian, Learning Indonesian Online, the indonesian way, Learning Bahasa Indonesia, bahasa-corner, seasite, indodic, learning Indonesian, wikibooks Youtube: iracarolina2001, learn indonesian, indonesianpod101

Irish

Dictionaries: focloir, potafocal PDF: how the language works, Websites: easy irish, daltai, irishlanguage.net, nualeargais, erinsweb, easyirish, gaeilge.ie Youtube: Speak Irish Now LLC, Easy Irish/Gaeilge/Gaelic, Transparent Irish, Irish Language Lessons, Dale Kelly, Gaelic Galore

Italian

Dictionaries: garzantilinguistica PDF: Modern Italian Grammar, Basic Italian, FSI Italian (1) (2) Websites: italian-online, oneworlditaliano, onlineitalianclub, la grammatica italiana, italianlanguageguide, cyberitalian, Free Internet Italian Grammar, zapitalian, iluss, Test your Italian on line, poliglo, italianizeyourself, mitspeakitalian, audibleitalian Youtube: Pensa in Italiano!, Italian for Beginners, italianpod101, Learn Italian with Lucrezia, Sgrammaticando Conjugation: italian-verbs, Coniuga i verbi Reading: ilnarrastorie, vikidia CILS / CELI: Esempi prove di esami, Italian Diploma exam samples, Diploma CILS

Japanese

Dictionaries: jisho, tangorin, PDF: Japanese Grammar Guide, An Introduction to Japanese Syntax, Grammar & Language, Let’s learn Japanese (1) (2) Websites: thejapanesepage, guidetojapanese, freejapaneselessons, learn-japanese-adventure, japaneseclass, nihongoichiban, Visualizing Japanese Grammar, marugotoweb, tofugu, jplang, eigo21 Youtube: LearningJapanese, japanesepod101 Writing: skritter, kanjidamage, kana-invaders, Kanji alive JLPT: jlpt.jp, jlpt-practice, jlptbootcamp, JLPT Level

Kannada

Dictionaries: shabdkosh PDF: kannada lesson, Kannada Manual, Websites: kannadabaruthe, Spoken Kannada, learn Kannada, languagereef Youtube: Learn Kannada Language, Learning Kannada

Kazakh

Dictionaries: lugat PDF: Peace Corps Kazakh Websites: Grammatical Sketch with Affix List, my astana, Kazakh phrasebook Youtube: Maksat Imangazi

Khmer

Dictionaries: angkor-planet, kheng PDF: FSI Cambodian (1) (2), Khmer Grammar Websites: seasite, naturalkhmer, Bong Thom, learnkhmernow, i speak khmer Youtube: CambodianSchool, Khmer Lesson, Khmer Lessons

Korean

Dictionaries: naver, daum, ybmallinall PDF: Korean From Zero 1, my korean 1, my korean 2, a grammar guide, FSI Korean Course (1) (2), Essential Grammar Websites: kosnet, talktomeinkorean, korean grammar plus, zkorean, howtostudykorean, soganguniversity, learnkoreanlp, korean language education center, Matthew’s Study & Reference Guide, cuk.edu, indiana, learnkorean, lets learn korean, berkeley university, learnkoreanlanguage, genkikorean, wikibooks, grammar dictionary, indiana.edu, korean-course, Youtube: KBS World TV, talktomeinkorean, Free Korean Lessons 101, fluentkorean, GO! Billy Korean, koreanclass101, 뽀로로 Conjugation: hangulsoup, dongsa TOPIK: TOPIK Guide, 날다람쥐

Latin

Dictionaries: latin-dictionary PDF: Beginner’s Latin Book, Latin for Beginners, New Latin Grammar Websites: Latin Grammar Resources, beginner’s latin, i learn latin, nugae latinae Youtube: latintutorial, The London Latin Course, Latin Lessons

Latvian

Dictionaries: letonika, dictionary PDF:  Latvian: an Essential Grammar, Peace Corps Latvian Websites: The Latvian Language, Latvian Grammar, learning latvian, Kursa satura rādītājs, learn latvian online Youtube: LearnLatvian, LatvianWords4u, Learning Latvian with Lienite

Lithuanian

Dictionaries: anglu-lietuviu, dict.lt PDF: A short grammar of Lithuanian Websites: saylabas, Lithuanian Language Lessons, debeselis, lithuanian out loud, Hermes Youtube: videomokykla, Learn Lithuanian, LithuaniaForYou, Lithuanian language, LTvideocourse

Mandarin

Dictionaries: dict.cn, linedict.com, mdbg PDF: Peace Corps Mandarin, FSI Chinese Websites: arch Chinese,  chinese-tools, yoyochinese, popupchinese, cctv, sinosplice, most commom characters, Basic Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, mitlearningchinese, chinesehacks, pinyinpractice Youtube: Fiona Tian, yangyang cheng, learnchinesewithemma, Chineseclass101, minnaxiao, learn chinese now Reading: chinesereadingpractice Writing: skritter HSK: Important HSK Test Practice Materials, HSK Vocabulary and Sample Tests, HSK tests levels 1-6, Past papers

Marathi

Dictionaries: shabdkosh Websites: my marathi learning, mind ur marathi, kaushiklele-learnmarathi, languagereef Youtube: APPUSERIESMARATHI, Kaushik Lele, Pioneers Education

Mongolian

Dictionaries: bolor-toli, englishmongolian PDF: Peace Corps Mongolian Websites: study mongolian, Mongolian Lessons, indiana.edu, funky mongolian Youtube: mongolianlanguage, MongolHel

Norwegian

Dictionaries: ordnett PDF: FSI Norwegian, An essential grammar Websites: Norwegian on the web, norwegianlanguage, sons of norway, norwegian4people, Stein på Stein, norwords Youtube: Norwegian Teacher - Karin, Learn Norwegian Naturally, Courses Norwegian, norwegianpod101

Polish

Dictionaries: ling.pl PDF: Polish Grammar, FSI Polish Course, Advanced Polish Websites: Mówić po polsku, course in the Polish language, skwierzyna, learn polish feel good, wikibooks Youtube: Polish For Beginners, Uczmy Się Polskiego (Let’s Learn Polish), Course of Polish, Kanał użytkownika learnpolisheu, polishpod101 Egzaminy Certyfikatowe z Języka Polskiego jako Obcego: info

Portuguese

Dictionaries: portuguesedictionary PDF: FSI Brazilian Portuguese (1) (2), Phrasebook Websites: easyportuguese, oneness, tá falado, Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Guide, portugueselanguageguide, learn portuguese with rafa, learning portuguese, sonia-portuguese Youtube: EuroPortuguese LA, Practice Portuguese, Tradutex Portuguese Lessons, ILearn Portuguese, Beto Dias Channel, portuguesepod101

Punjabi

Dictionaries: ijunoon, shabdkosh PDF: A Reference Grammar of Punjabi, A START IN PUNJABI, How to learn Punjabi Websites: learnpunjabi, Overview of Punjabi Grammar, wikibooks, maa.com.au Youtube: Hardeep Singh, Speak Punjabi Lessons, Panti Akhar

Romanian

Dictionaries: dictionare PDF: Romanian Grammar, FSI Romanian Grammar, Romanian: an essential grammar Websites: rolang, romanian lessons, learnro, easy romanian Youtube: LearnRomanian WithNico, QuickRomanian, rolangschool, Learn Romanian, Romanian Language Quickies      

Russian

Dictionaries: multitran PDF: A Comprehensive Russian Grammar, A Basic Modern Russian Grammar, Russian Grammar, FSI Russian Course Websites: masterrussian, learn russian step by step, russianforeveryone, yesrussian, study-languages-online, russianlessons, learn-russian, funrussian, russianforfree, russian-translation-pros, worddive Youtube: ROU Russian, funrussian, Antonia Romaker, Easy Russian, R for Russian, learn russian easily, Ru-land, Russian grammar, russianpod101, Listening: rutube, bestrussiantv, top-russian-movies TORFL: Training tests

Serbo-Croatian

Dictionaries: hrvatski-rjecnik (Croatian) PDF: FSI Serbo-Croatian (1) (2), A Handbook of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian, Websites: serbianlesson, srpskibre, International Serbian Language Course, funky serbian, learn-croatian, easy-croatian, basic-croatian, visit-croatia Youtube: Learning Croatian, learning croatian, Learn Serbian, Learnserbian, monicacorbett26, learnserbianquickly, Lidija Novakovic      

Spanish

Dictionaries: spanishdict PDF: FSI Spanish (1) (2) (3) (4) (Puerto Rico) (Spain) (Latin America), Words and Phrases, Modern Spanish Grammar Websites: learn-spanish-online, Spanish Language & Culture, studyspanish, Spanish Grammar, Grammar Exercises, Spanish Grammar in Context, notes in spanish, bowdoin Youtube: Señor Hey, Butterfly Spanish, Maria Español, spanishpod101, Tu escuela de español, LightSpeedSpanish, Tio Spanish, ProfeDeELE.es Listening: newsinslowspanish Reading: cuentos infantiles, cuentos para chicos Grammar & Spelling checker: spanishchecker DELE: Description of DELE

Swahili

PDF: FSI Swahili Websites: Swahili language & culture, Kiswahili kwa Komputa, kiswahili.net, the swahili coast, learn kiSwahili, swahili website, magical kenya Youtube: swahili101, Tuwaze mawazo, swahilipod101

Swedish

Dictionaries: tyda, ord PDF: FSI Swedish Course, Jag lär mig svenska Websites: Swedish Grammar, onlineswedish, swedishlesson, worddive, lysator Youtube: LearningSvenska, Swedish2go, GoSwedish, swedishpod101, the swedish lad

Tagalog

Dictionaries: pinoydictionary, tagalog-dictionary PDF: Peace Corps Tagalog, Essential Tagalog Grammar Websites: learningtagalog, seasite.niu, learn-tagalog, tagaloglang, pinoydirectory, Tagalog Phrases Youtube: learntagalog, Learn Tagalog with Fides, Tagalog Made Easy, alanmillet, filipinopod101

Tamil

Dictionaries: tamildict, shabdkosh PDF: Colloquial Tamil, A Grammar of modern Tamil, Tamil Morphology, Basic Lessons Websites: thetamillanguage, ibiblio, Tamil Grammar, TamilO, A Grammar of Spoken Tamil, learning-tamil, tamil tutor, tamilcube, languagereef Youtube: desidame4eva, MagicBox Tamil ELS Kids Channel, செல்லமே செல்லம்

Telugu

Dictionaries: telugudictionary, andhrabharati, telugupedia PDF: Conversational Telugu Websites: learningtelugu, languagereef, classle, telugubasha, telugu website Youtube: Learn Telugu through English, Krishna Krish, Easy Learning Ways.com

Thai

Dictionaries: linedict, thai2english PDF: FSI Thai Course (1) (2) (Grammar), Thai Grammar Websites: kruuweeteachthai, learningcentre, learnthaiwithmod, speakingthai, slice-of-thai, thai-language, Fundamentals of the Thai Language, Thai Basic Reader, speak real Thai Youtube: ThaiwithMod, kruuweeteachthai, thaipod101, Thai Language Hut School, learn2speakthai, My Thai Language School, learningthai

Turkish

Dictionaries: seslisözlük, tureng PDF: FSI Turkish Course (1) (2), Turkish Grammar, teach yourself turkish Websites: turkishteatime, turkishbasics, totally-turkish, elon, turkishclass, easy-turkish, turkishlanguage, Turkish Test, learnturkish, I’m learning Turkish Youtube: Learn Turkish with Burcu, OnlineTurkishLessons, totallyturkish, turkishclass101

Urdu

Dictionaries: urduenglishdictionary, urduWord, urdu123 Websites: A door into Urdu, learnurdulanguage, Learn to Read Urdu, urdu-english Youtube: Learn Urdu with Muneeb, EDUCATION PYRAMID UAE, Mohammed Chughtai

Vietnamese

Dictionaries: tratu soha, viet dictionary, vdict PDF: FSI Vietnamese Course (1) (2), Colloquial Vietnamese, Basic Phrases, Introduction Websites: seasite, LEARN VIỆT, hoctiengviet-online, hanoilanguagetours, Learning Vietnamese Online Youtube: Learn how to speak Vietnamese, Learn Vietnamese With Annie, Vietnamese for Beginners, Vietnamesepod101

Welsh

Dictionaries: Geiriadur PDF: Some basic rules of Welsh grammar Websites: learn-welsh, Learn Welsh now, siaradcymraeg, Croeso: Beginners’ Welsh, A Welsh Course Youtube: Learn Welsh with Will, MyWelshTV, Welsh Plus, Learn Welsh, IkkyLee

Wolof

PDF: Wolof Lessons, Wolof Grammar, Wolof Grammar Manual Websites: wolofonline, UCLA Wolof Web Site, laaf.me Youtube: Moustapha Sarr

Xhosa

Dictionaries: gononda PDF: Xhosa Grammar, grammatical sketch Websites: Izifundo zesiXhosa, unisa, learnxhosa Youtube: XhosaKhaya

Yorùbá

Dictionaries: yourubadictionary, aroadeyorubadictionary PDF: FSI (Basic) (Intermediate), Yoruba: A Grammar Sketch Websites: Yorùbá Yé Mi, learn yoruba, Learning Yoruba, Yoruba Classroom Youtube: YorubaSpeaker, necksonUtube, Yoruba language tutorial for medical personnel, Learning Yoruba, IKWYSinteractive

Zulu

Dictionaries: isiZulu.net PDF: Zulu-Handbook, An Introduction to Zulu Language Websites: isiZulunet, sifunda isiZulu, unisa, wikibooks, LEARN THE ZULU LANGUAGE Youtube: Learn NDebele/Zulu, Sharl Henning

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epic language learning resource

this is ReadLang. it is a cute little website that gives you all kinds of texts to read in your learning language.

when you sign in, you go to a dashboard that shares your progress so far. because i have just joined this website today, i’m still working on the opening progress page.

right now, i’m working on finding cool stuff to read in spanish. ReadLang will give you texts in your target language at the level and word count you want! check it out, it is pretty cool.

don’t know a word? click it! ReadLang will define it for you. free accounts will let you get 10 translations per day, but paid accounts ($5 per month) can get unlimited translations per day. you’ll be able to see your translations here:

lastly, there are flashcards. this is a really useful feature. it even charts the amount of studying you did each day. 

i’m definitely adding this to my favorite list for online language resources. reading is an excellent way of studying a new language, and ReadLang makes it easier to do just that.