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SparkNotes More Spanish Vocabulary Study Cards

5 Spanish, Flashcards, Vocabulary

I love this SparkNotes product. It is a well-constructed box of 1,000 well-constructed Spanish vocabulary cards, and is the successor to another box of 1,000 cards, Spanish Vocabulary Study Cards, from the same company. Unfortunately, since using them, I have learned…

Let’s Speak Korean

Korean, Radio/TV/Video/Film

I didn’t use this “Let’s Speak Korean” video series in my own studies, but one of my readers pointed it out to me, so I am passing the information on to you.

Omniglot

5 Arabic, Dutch, English, French, General, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Yiddish, Websites

This encyclopedia of writing systems and languages is a longtime labor of love of Simon Ager, an Englishman who now lives in Wales. He started the site way back in the Internet dark ages of 1998. Omniglot contains information on…

Open Letter

General, Websites, Bookstores/Libraries

This non-profit publisher at the University of Rochester is dedicated to fixing a persistent imbalance: writing in English gets translated and shipped all over the world, but only three percent of the books published in the U.S. are works…

The International Phonetic Association

This Organization Is More Than 125 Years Old

General, Websites, Organizations

Established in 1886 in Paris, the International Phonetic Association (IPA) seeks “to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science.” Compulsive language learners will inevitably come across the organization’s International Phonetic Alphabet,…

Foreign Language Expertise

5 General, Websites

This is the website of a true language lover and impressive autodidact, Alexander Arguelles, who is inspired in his language-learning efforts by his wish to read the world’s great works in their original languages.

Quizzes from ESL Language Studies Abroad

4 Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Tests

This company has free online quizzes for German, Italian, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and English. Try one! They’re fun. Although I haven’t tested all of them, the ones I have taken struck me as very…

Biedronka

3-5 Polish, Food and Drink

This Greenpoint food store has a heavily Polish clientele. When I was there walking up and down the aisles, I heard and saw nonstop Polish, on the food and in the air. It is not the most attractively laid-out…

Learning Spanish Like Crazy

Spanish, Audio Lessons, Multimedia

I haven’t tried Learning Spanish Like Crazy, but one of my readers described it as “right up there with Pimsleur in my opinion, but focus[ing] on more informal Spanish than what’s in Pimsleur’s course.” My impression,…