Browse the website or use the app to immediately gain access to the front page of hundreds of newspapers around the world, complete with a downloadable, readable PDF version. This is quite useful for language instruction based on lessons from today's world news.
Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Polish phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Polish is spoken.
There is a recent surge in the number of graduates who are looking in to teaching English as a Second Language, many of whom are looking for opportunities overseas.
Knowing how to travel is a lifelong experience, much like learning a language. When you can't just chat it up with the locals, one of the main cues you can go by is body language.
A Lonely Planet article entitled "Travel Etiquette 101: Body Language" gives a humorous and useful insight into examples of body language from Russia, India, Japan, China, Nepal, Morocco and more.
What's perhaps even more curious and entertaining is the sheer volume of comments - people chiming in with specific examples from all around the globe.
book2 is an outstanding resource for learning the basics of many languages.
This project sticks out by offering around 1600 combinations of languages, such as Japanese to English, Chinese to Arabic, etc, to use for exposure.
The method involves learning a series of short audio sequences to become comfortable in specific situations (introductions, meeting people, getting around, etc) common in daily life.
It's interesting that this specific book will become familiar to you in itself, so recalling the same material in new languages might be accelerated. Once you've memorized the whole audio sequence in one language, why not move on to another?
Ethnologue provides a web and print catalog of the world's known living languages. It's encyclopedic research is available on their site and can be browsed in many ways including by language name, country name, language family and endangered languages.
This website is great for learning about the world's languages.
An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages.
Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Norwegian phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Norwegian is spoken.
Busuu is now offering a way to learn Polish and Turkish online for free. This adds to their repertiore of free language resources which also includes English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian and French.
Busuu also offers free mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Merhaba and Cześć (in other words, ‘hello’ in Turkish and Polish)!
You can now learn Turkish and Polish online in addition to the 7 languages we already offer on busuu.com! And just like our other interactive language courses, the Turkish and Polish courses are completely free! Start learning Turkish or Polish today!
Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Macedonian phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Macedonian is spoken.
Denshi Jisho is a free online Japanese dictionary that leverages the powerful WWWJDIC Project to provide users with a way to find words, kanji, kanji by radicals and even sentences. It is very lightweight and loads quickly!
The site has a version that is optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch.
A forum is also available for discussions about Japanese words, kanji and more.
