Nigel Kennedy & Kroke Band Sheet Music??

One of my favorite CDs of all time is Nigel Kennedy and Kroke Band's East Meets East. I'm a violinist myself and it would just drive me mad with sheer delight if I could find the sheet music for the pieces on the CD. I've searched and searched to exhaustion and have had no luck. Anyone know where I could find it???

Hebrew Gutenberg Project

For those of you familiar with the Gutenberg Project which has tons of literary works online for free you will like this one:

http://benyehuda.org/

It works on basically the same concept except the writers showcased are all in Hebrew. I ran across it when I was looking for poetry by Chaim Nachman Bialik.

Hebrew resources tend to be pretty tough to find on the internet for some reason. I have lots of texts in Hebrew but what I was curious about is if there were any recordings of Bialik's poems actually being read in Hebrew. If anyone knows a resource let me know and I'll post it.

Estonian Literature

Many thanks to Aive for sending along this link:

http://www.estlit.ee/index.php?id=10439

A great resource for learning about Estonian writers - it also has lots of excerpts from their works.

Dual Language Books

I ran across this site:

http://www.book2.de/

A HUGE collection of about any language you can think of with FREE audio and some FREE texts. Some files are complete but a lot say "demo version" so I don't know if a lot of the site is still in progress but you can also buy the texts at amazon.com if you want a book format for around $10).

It seems to cover all the basics like family, restaurants, some grammar etc. From what I've seen so far it is an interesting start in some languages that are more difficult to find resources on like Icelandic, Lithuanian, Estonia, Latvian, Bosnian and Ukrainian to name a few.

Terrific Arabic Class

I ran across this by accident today:

http://www.lqtoronto.com/

and thought that for those of you interested in studying Arabic this is an unbelievably great resource. It has hours and hours of FREE DVD video downloads, books, exercises.....the works. I've started taking the course myself and love it. Just a couple of things to be aware of:

1. The teacher is fantastic - he explains things very slowly which is so important in Arabic. The grammar is really complicated, he makes it seem simple. One thing to note though - it appears that he is not a native speaker. He seems to be teaching a group of Urdu speakers and I believe he probably is as well. It's not a huge deal, he really knows his stuff so it doesn't detract from the course at all.

2. It is part of a course done at a mosque so on occasion there are references to the Qu'ran. No big deal, there is nothing overtly "religious" about the course. He is teaching you standard Arabic - the textbooks are full of all the standard phrases like this is a house, this is a pen etc.

Victor Pelevin Audio

I've heard about the modern Russian writer Victor Pelevin for some time but have never gotten around to reading his books. So I finally picked one up at the store the other day. Meanwhile, I found this site that has audio recordings of some of his work in Russian that you might like:

http://pelevin.nov.ru/audio/

Fantastic French Site

OK this is one of the better things I've run across in a while:

http://www.audiocite.net/

It's all completely FREE French audio. Poems, Books, you name it. Mainly classics - but honestly it looks like a pretty broad selection overall. The other really great thing is from what I can tell it includes transcripts as well and it doesn't look like you have to register and get secret passwords, promise them your first born etc. A very well organized and easy to navigate site. Not for beginners though - it's all in French. But I think if you at least have the basics down you can probably work your way through the site and get something out of it.

Ukrainian Poetry

I found a really nice site:

http://poetry.uazone.net/english.html

It has Ukrainian poetry translated into English and if you look at the tabs at the bottom of the page you can go to "poetry" which has a HUGE selection of poetry in Ukrainian only and some of the other tabs have folk song lyrics etc.

On your travels through internet land also check out Kvtika Cisyk she is a Ukrainian folk singer who has a spectacular voice. Ukrainian folk and choral music is really beautiful also. I wish I had kept the links of some of the stuff I have downloaded recently - if I'm able to round those up I'll post them.

Ukrainian Lessons

Here's the best link I have found so far:

http://www.lww-cetl.ac.uk/ukrainian/index.htm

More concentrated on reading - but it does seem to cover the basics for those of us who know nothing about it. Enjoy!

FSI Courses

This is a fairly old link but it has a ton of great FREE materials - books and audio:

http://fsi-language-courses.com/default.aspx

It's actually the Foreign Service Institute. Their courses teach you the basics in a wide variety of languages. I've just started the Georgian module and although it's pretty basic it seems to be well put together. A great tool for beginner's or people just curious about various languages.

Central Asian Languages

I ran across a great new module from Indiana Univ. today:

http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar/intermediate.php

It features Mongolian, Tajiki, Uzbek, Pashto and Uyghur.

Unfortunately it is only for intermediate level readers but if you fit into that category then this is a great FREE resource.

Mongolian Resource

I'm still in a fascination mode with Mongolian after seeing the recent film about Genghis Khan called "Mongol." I love their ancient script and I think the sounds are so unique. So I found this site which I think is very interesting:

http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/reso1.html

It shows you the script in detail and has some translation exercises as well as grammar points.