I recently added a podcast for learning Hindi and two articles on more resources from the BBC Languages website: German and Mandarin Chinese.

Namaste Dosti: The Learn Hindi Podcast for Grammar and Vocabulary for Beginners
BBC Languages Mandarin Chinese
BBC Languages German

Just came across the Learno.com quiver of free foreign language-learning books and wanted to share it here.

We'll do a proper write-up of Learno.com sometime in the not too distant future...

Just ran across info about the Devanagari alphabet on Omniglot.com.

From the site:

The Nāgarī or Devanāgarī alphabet descended from the Brahmi script sometime around the 11th century AD. It was originally developed to write Sanksrit but was later adapted to write many other languages.

The name Devanāgarī is made up of two Sanskrit words: deva, which means god, brahman or celestial, and nāgarī, which means city. The name is variously translated as "script of the city", "heavenly/sacred script of the city" or "[script of the] city of the Gods or priests". The origins and meaning of the name are uncertain.

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It's been a while since I have announced the latest resources to the blog subscribers. Here they are:

Beeld South African News in Afrikaans
Beginning Indonesian Learn Bahasa Indonesia Course
Learn Basic Bahasa Indonesia Phrases at Expat.or.id
SEASite Indonesia Resources for Learning Bahasa
World Nomads iPod Lingo Indonesian Language Podcast
World Nomads iPod Spanish Language Podcasts
World Nomads iPod Japanese Language Podcasts
World Nomads iPod Italian Language Podcasts
World Nomads iPod Mandarin Chinese Language Podcasts
World Nomads iPod Hindi Language Podcasts
World Nomads iPod French Language Podcasts
Learn Arabic Free at Speak7
italki.com Free Skype VoIP and IM Language Partner Community
Study and Learn Afrikaans Easy at EasyAfrikaans.com
Improve Your French with the Lille Podcast from France
Improve Spanish with Español Podcast or Spanish Podcast
Taste of Russian Podcast with Free MP3 Audio and PDF Transcripts

We also published a newsletter for May 2007:

Read the May 2007 Free Language Letter.

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