Eleventh Edition of the Free Language Newsletter
Welcome to the Eleventh Edition of the Free Language Letter!
With 15 new resources for learning 15 languages, two of our very own brand new language videos plus loads more, the Eleventh Edition of the Free Language Letter is stacked!
What's Inside
- New! Language Video Screencasts
- 15 New Free Resources for Learning 15 Languages
- Language Product Tips
- New Free Language YouTube Channel
- Follow us on Twitter
- Open Content
- Polyglot Culture
- OpenOffice.org Language Extensions
- Language Industry
- Guest Article
- Language Factoid: Oromo
New! Language Video Screencasts
We have initiated a humble effort to disseminate much of the good info found on Free Language via video screencasts that make it easy to get a picture of learning languages online for free while kicking back, watching and soaking up info rather than reading through loads of material. Here are the first two of many upcoming video screencasts!
Video Screencast 1
How to Learn Languages Online for Free, Video Screencast Part 1: General Introduction
With this video we offer a 10-minute intro to useful sites for learning languages online for free. The web tour covers essential resources for vocabulary, grammar, dictionaries, translation, verb conjugation, language exchange and more.
Video Screencast 2
The BBC is such an amazing resource for learning languages online for free that we've done a 6-minute video showing how you can effectively use this resource to learn at least the basics of 36+ languages.
View all of our video screencasts.
New Free Language YouTube Channel
We have started a channel on YouTube for our screencasts:
http://www.youtube.com/user/freelanguageorg
You can help us a lot by rating and commenting on these videos on YouTube.
Follow us on Twitter
We've got a Twitter address for those interested in following our tweets:
http://twitter.com/freelanguage
Language Product Tips
Getting Deals on Language Products
Our Language Marketplace has Been Upgraded!
How to Get Pimsleur Language Products for Cheap including Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and more
How To Get Rosetta Stone Cheap for Any Language including Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian and more
Review Guide: How to Get Cheap Deals on Talking Electronic Translators plus Funny Spanish/English Animated Language Video
Language Deals on your Mobile Device
Thanks to feedback from users, we have decided to launch a mobile language shop for users who are using mobile devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, etc) to surf the web to shop and buy language products.
We have worked to make this new website as fast, simple to use and easy to read from a mobile device as possible. We have spared the bling and whatnot to give you a site that just plain works for shopping online via your mobile phone, with features and searches already in place specifically for language products.
We feel this is a valuable service for anyone interested in finding and purchasing language products online via any mobile device!
New Resources
Here is a list of the new resources for learning languages free that have been added to the site.
As well as adding Body Language to the line-up, this time around we focused on getting some links to languages that we only have a few links for (Dutch, Swedish, Irish Gaelic, Oromo and Thai), as well as continuing to build out our resources for some of the more popular languages like English, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
Body Language
Chinese (Mandarin)
Dutch
English
German
Irish Gaelic
Japanese
Korean
Oromo
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Multilingual
Open Content
Open content is content that is Free and Open to the General Public. This means we all own it! This side of languages and language learning is growing fast and will soon be one of the best ways to learn languages online simply because everyone can contribute :)
Polyglot Culture
From time to time we like to add resources that are fun for polyglots (folks who speak several languages) and language lovers. This is a fun article about using Wikipedia for some serious language goodies.
Polyglot Culture: Quick Wikipedia Tip for Multilingual Language Surfing Goodness
OpenOffice.org Language Extensions
OpenOffice.org has become a widely popular Free and Open solution for those needing a full suite of office applications. Here we point out some of their language extensions.
Language Industry
From time to time language industry events take place that need to be highlighted. The Language Show at the end of October 2009 is one such convention.
Guest Article
We're testing out the idea of letting guests publish articles on Free Language. If you are interested in submitting a guest article and receiving links, please contact us with your proposed, totally original, article and we'll get back to you!
The New Google Method of Translating
Language Factoid: Oromo
Oromo, also known as Afaan Oromoo, Oromiffa(a), Afan Boran, Afan Arsi, and sometimes in other languages by variant spellings of these names (Oromic, Afan Oromo, etc.), is an Afro-Asiatic language, and the most widely spoken of the Cushitic family. It is spoken as a first language by more than 25 million Oromo and neighboring peoples in Ethiopia and Kenya, such as the Werji. Older publications refer to the language as "Galla", a term that is resented by Oromo people and no longer used.
Find resources for learning Oromo online.
Nagayattii!
That's "Goodybe" in Oromo. As we say goodbye this time, we want you to know that we welcome feedback from our growing user community. Please contact us if you have resources to suggest, constructive criticism, ideas to improve our website and any other such goodies. They are greatly appreciated :)
Best of luck in your language endeavors,
Chapman
Free Language
http://freelanguage.org
Submitted by polyglot on Tue, 2009-10-20 12:38.
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