Thursday, November 09, 2006

Great website for learning Tibetan

I ran across this today and thought it was pretty neat:

http://www.learntibetan.net/index.htm

A FREE site that shows you how to write in Tibetan and gives you some of the basics.

You can also check out "Tibetan Language Learing Resources" in iTunes - it is a podcast that has vocab lists and videos of dialogs. Looks interesting although I think it is a bit beyond a beginner. It goes along with the textbook Manual of Standard Tibetan by Nicolas Tournadre which is available at amazon.com but pretty expensive at $50.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

French In Action - Learning French On-Line

You all have probably heard of that show that used to be on public television called "French in Action" to learn the basics of the language. You can watch it for FREE at http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html?pop=yes&vodid=148750&pid=684#
Each segment is 30 minutes long. I'll warn you though - I can run it fine at work on my fabulous FREE T1 line but at home on dial-up forget about it :(

Great sites for learning Welsh

If you are interested in Wlesh there are two FREE sites that have complete audio files for you to learn Welsh (I think both are Northern dialect)

http://welshpages.glam.ac.uk/DyfalDonc/CyrchuDD.html (Just click on the #s to get to the lessons - there are videos and audio)

http://www.menai.ac.uk/clicclic/ (Just audio)

Great way to learn Pashto

If you are interested in learning Pashto (spoken in Afghanistan) I found a ton of stuff all for FREE on www.eric.ed.gov. Just type "Pashto" in the search engine and you will find PDF files of a Beginning and Intermediate Textbook (both with answer keys) as well as Readers for additional practice and a glossary.

If you want sound files for the textbook go to
http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/online.html and you can have it all for FREE.

Great Site For Learning Farsi

If you are interested in learning Farsi by all means the best site I have found on the Internet is
www.easypersian.com. It is all free and has about 180 lessons all with sound, shows you how to write, grammar explanations etc. etc. .....the works! It also has lots of great poetry and music clips.