vocabulary

This just in from the Babbel blog:

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There’s always a little bit of anxiety that comes along with traveling abroad, whether for business or for pleasure. Possible scenario, night before — for example — the flight to Berlin, a sudden pang: “Oh right, they speak German in Germany, and I don’t even know how to say ‘how are you’. How am I going to manage to order my morning coffee?!?”

We at Babbel have now developed a stress-reducing linguistic survival kit (and perhaps path to that caffeine fix in a foreign country) for the last-minute language learner: the Mini-Vocab Package. Compiled especially for the spontaneous traveler, it offers essential words and phrases - in German, French, Spanish, Italian and English - to get through that first encounter with the locals unscathed.

For those who’ve got a little more time before the big trip, besides the Mini-Vocab, there are twenty other in-depth packages for all relevant situations while traveling, from leaving the airport to arriving at the car rental desk. There is of course also the opportunity to hook up with someone from Babbel’s now more than 350,000-strong community to chat, trade travel tips or set up a language exchange.

To go directly to the newly compiled Mini-Vocab package, click here. If you are not already registered at Babbel, after a quick and easy registration you will be taken straight through to travel vocabulary. For our press release, click here.

From Mara at Babbel

Hello, Hola, Bonjour, Buongiorno, Hallo!

Babbel.com, the intuitively designed online language learning platform, has just released a Mini-Vocab Package specially designed for the last minute traveler. It offers all the essential vocabulary for that first encounter with the locals in Spanish, French, German, Italian and English.

Take a look at the Babbel Blog (http://blog.babbel.com) for more information.

Thanks and happy learning!

Mara

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There's a write-up on Freestyle Language about a Quizlet vocabulary stack of high-frequency (common) Polish verbs taken directly from the Swadesh list.

Recently, two other resources were added on the site relating to Polish, aspect in Slavic languages and action-oriented language-learning:

English-Polish Science Vocabulary Translations
Aspect in Slavic Languages w/Specific Examples using Polish Perfect vs Imperfect Verbs

Just came across a website with a list of how to say "cat" in 60 different languages!

FYI: I just named my new cat "Popoki", after the Hawaiian word for cat. I call her Poki for short, but that's just too much information about my feline friend.

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

From the site:

The purpose of this site is to give elementary students of Indonesian the opportunity to practise and review basic vocabulary, grammar and sentence structures as they work through their course and prepare for the examination. Each unit contains a range of exercises of various types, including:

* Multiple-choice quizzes
* Gap-fill exercises
* Matching exercises
* Short-answer questions
* Word-ordering exercises
* Sentence-ordering exercises
* Crosswords

All the exercises are interactive, so you can check your answers and get hints and feedback as you work.

Visit Beginning Indonesian