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The Free Language Letter - February 5, 2007

First Edition

This is the first of a series of newsletters to inform those interested about the latest happenings at Free Language. These newsletters are sent out via email as well as posted on the Free Language website in the newsletter section of the site.

These newsletters will be sent out at most once a week, and more likely about once or twice a month. The frequency depends on the activity in the community.

New Happenings

Less than a week go on February 1, 2007, version 2 of FreeLanguage.org was released. The new site is built with Drupal 4.7 and uses many contributed modules to make all the functionality possible. For more specific information of the Drupal aspects of this website, please visit the release announcement at Conscious Manifestations.

Many months of planning and work were put into launching this new software. The information architecture was carefully planned, and work is still being done to implement many of the planned features for the site, including user accounts and a better organized web feeds section.

Included in the web feeds section are both podcasts and blog feeds regarding learning specific languages, as well as a news section for news feeds in these languages.

The site was launched with a base of 12 languages:

Once there are plenty of resources for learning these 12 major world languages, the community will continued to add more languages as quickly as is effectively possible.

New Resources

Lots of new resources were added with the launching of the new site, including language-learning podcasts and video podcasts for 12 languages. These resources are listed below, categorized by language.

Some languages have more resources than others, and work is being done to equal out the resources as much as possible. Much content is forthcoming in the next two weeks and beyond.

The Blog

Side notes about updates and other such chatter are noted in the blog. Please check in there for frequent updates on the status of the site and other goodies that don't necessarily belong in the main content of the site.