hausa

From the site:

Hello ("Sannu"). This website is dedicated to anyone interested in learning and promoting the Hausa language, the people's culture and tribe. My name is Sam Odiaka.There aren't many resources on learning the Hausa language on the Internet (that I could find), so I decided to put some up myself.Before you start, may I remind you one of the famious Hausa Proverb: Karatu,farkonka madaci, karshenka zuma ("it may be bitter to begin study but the endis sweet")Hausa is one of the major languages of Nigeria. It is the main lingua franca ("A medium of communication between peoples of different languages") throughout Niger and the northern two-thirds of Nigeria.

Visit Teach Yourself Hausa

Here are the next twelve languages to be added to the site:

Afrikaans
Bahasa Indonesian
Bengali
Farsi
Hausa
Hebrew
Korean
Polish
Tagalog Filipino
Thai
Swahili
Vietnamese

I am considering what languages to add for the next round of 12 languages.

The idea is to choose the languages that will be most useful to most people.

Here are some candidates:

Swahili
Farsi
Swedish
Hungarian
Vietnamese
Thai
Korean
Bengali
Bahasa Indonesian
Afrikaans
Polish
Greek
Hausa
Ukranian
Croatian
Czech
Slovakian
Hebrew
Danish
Albanian
Armenian
Norwegian
Dutch
Georgian
Tagalog Filipino
Belorussian
Bulgarian
Romanian

Some of the factors I have been considering are the world's most widely spoken languages and most commonly used languages on the internet.

There are a few more than 12 there... we'll see.

I wanted to give a little bit of web love out to a great site that has loads and loads of links to online resources for learning world languages. It is called I Love Languages.

I just added a couple of resources.

The first is a unique site that lets you create your own flashcards called The Flashcard Exchange.

The other is a fabulous Italian language resource called The Italian Online Classroom.