Languages

Some witty epigram about languages TBD

General

• Babel Fish
• Verbix -- conjugations galore
• Indo-European Languages -- a very nice set of tutorials on languages and linguistics
• TravLang's Translating Dictionaries
• Homework Help at about.com -- with resources for several languages. They are awesome.
• Yahoo! News is published in several languages.
• Learning Languages other than English
• Learning Languages -- courtesy of F. X. Micheloud
• Omniglot -- a guide to writing systems

English

• Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com -- where you can also find links to sites concerning grammar, punctuation, style, writing, etc.
• Bartleby.com -- a huge English language and literature reference
• The Literature Network has some more literature.
• The Internet Grammar of English
• englishpage.com
• english-zone.com
• Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
• The Online English Grammar
• English Grammar Resource

French

• french.about.com is exceptionally well done.
• Tex's French Reference Grammar -- "a French grammar Texas style." Quite good.
• Dictionary
• A French tutorial
• French grammar
• John Walker's resources for learning French
• News:  Le Monde  Le Figaro  Yahoo! Actualités
• Some French classics

German

• Dictionary
• german.about.com
• The German Electronic Textbook at The College of William and Mary
• The Internet Handbook of German Grammar
• News:  Frankfurter Allgemeine  Die Welt  N-TV  Yahoo! Nachrichten  German News
• Neue Horizonte -- the very useful homepage of my first German textbook

Russian

• An Interactive Online Reference Grammar is quite good.
• Dictionary -- which only works for Windows and Mac, and you need to download their fonts
• Learn the Russian alphabet by example, with pronunciation, and with a little vocabulary.
• George Mitrevski has great resources for beginners.
• Master Russian
• Learning Russian
• Russian Language Mentor -- If you already know some Russian, this is a good place for practice.
• RussNet
• Slavophilia
• News:  газета.ru

Spanish

• spanish.about.com
• Learn Spanish
• Dictionary
• A picture dictionary

Esperanto

• Good places to start:  .net  .org  .nu
• Organizations:  World  North America  USA (youth)  New England  MIT
• lernu! is a new site for learning Esperanto. Exceptionally well done.
• The Free Esperanto Course and Gerda Malaperis! -- Learn Esperanto on the web, for free, with a tutor. I would recommend that beginners take the FEC even if they're using lernu!.
• Dictionary
• La TTT-ejo de Bertilo contains more advanced material.
• Don Harlow has a lot of stuff about Esperanto.
• Pasporta Servo is the Esperantist's ticket to cheap world travel.
• A rather large vocabulary list

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Last update: 2009-07-12