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Spring Awakening
In which my thoughts turn to studying Chinese, Arabic, and Russian.
Last week I thought to myself, it would be cool to learn some Chinese characters right around now. Even though I spent a little time on Chinese some years back, I focused on spoken skills and pinyin and never learned…
Reviews
Omniglot
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, General, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Yiddish, Websites
This encyclopedia of writing systems and languages is a longtime labor of love of Simon Ager, an Englishman who now lives in Wales. He started the site way back in the Internet dark ages of 1998. Omniglot contains information on…
Pimsleur Irish
Irish, Audio Lessons
A Pimsleur lesson is a highly interactive, highly effective audio language-learning experience. I love Pimsleur. I am obsessed with Pimsleur. I’ve used it for every language I’ve studied so far. Unfortunately, Irish is clearly not a big source…
Arabic Television
Arabic, Radio/TV/Video/Film
Watching foreign-language television can be a useful learning tool, and cable TV often provides access to different worlds’ worth of television. On Time Warner Cable in New York City, for example, channel 507 is as of this writing the Arabic Channel,…