Languages
On Guides
- Modern Language Review, The Modern Humanities Research Association
- Skoldatanätet : Lexikon Dictionaries from Swedish to many others.
- Textkit Resource for learning Greek and Latin. The site contains tons of grammars, readers, and tutorials for learning Ancient Greek and Latin. Textkit also hosts 89 classical eBooks, forums, and study groups. Sign-up for the Textkit vocabularily learning tool to receive e-mail lessons tailored to your skill level.
- Looking for a language exchange partner? Try Skype. Hazar.com has set-up a language exchange program.
- Two great spanish blogs for casual reading are Pixel y Dixel and La Petite Claudine.
- Folkets synonymlexikon
- Svensk-dansk-norskt lexikon (Nordiska språksekretariatets).
- Lexin på danska (dansk-svenskt och dansk-turkiskt lexikon).
- Lexin på norska (norsk-engelskt lexikon).
- Bokmålsordbok och nynorskordbok (Dokumentasjonsprosjektet).
- Svenska och engelska datatermer (Svenska datatermgruppen).
- Engelsk-estniskt lexikon (Institute of Baltic Studies).
- Svensk-tysk ordbok av Otto Hoppe, från 1919.
- Tysk-svensk ordbok av G. Rosenberger, från 1894.
- Lista med över tusen lexikon för olika språk.
- Textkit is the Internet's largest provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers, currently 146 free books to choose from.
- Omniglot.com A guide to written language with alphabets, syllabies etc.
- The Vocabula Review
- Ultralingua.com Commercial translation service
- Faisal Quotes
- Quoteland
- Brainyquote
- Kuchlings Quotes
- Bierce's Devil's Dictionary
- Russianmentor.net Russian language course. Excellent. Contemporary, one of the best.
- Публичная электронная библиотека Е.Пескина(Russian)
- Sais : On the air Fairly good authentic texts to read.
- Russian Webcasts Excellent archive and updated content of webcasts, with transcripts.
- Russnet.org Culture & language learning. Sign-in required.
Click the "Skype Me" button to contact a speaking partner in Turkish English German French Spanish Italian, Japanese Russian, Danish, Chinese or Portuguese.
another great free page coming out of the University of Texas at Austin. This site contains 85 modules, each containing 6 videos of native speakers discussing various topics.
Merlot is a good place to start (249 search results for "spanish"). I like these grammar exercises to polish up specific grammar topics that give me trouble and Ultralingua for translations and conjugations. The BBC also has a great program for Spanish, as well as French, German and Italian.
Russian
Other Languages
- Latvian course Quite good, with audio.
- Hindi Lessons
- Serbianschool.com
- Learndutch.org
- Polish language
- Icelandic Online
- Cenasianet.org US portal for learning languages of Central Asia.
- UCLA Language materials project
- UCLA Turkish tutor Based on a TV show. Good for beginners.
- Wengu Delightfully designed page with Chinese books in Chinese and in translation. And more impressive is the ability to click on characters and get dictionary translations, and related words using the same character.
- Ocrat Mirror Chinese learning in a Python format. Impressive.