This is a continuation of the Learning Arabic Video series we have been featuring over our last several posts on Arabic.
Entries from September 2008
Learning Arabic in English Video Part 1-4
September 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Arabic · Middle Eastern Languages
Learning a Language Through Games
September 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Well don’t get too excited! This article is a little more technical in its consideration of the best ways to learn a new language and how to become part of a “language” community in a broad sense. Whether its Russian, Spanish, or French, I still think it has some benefits for the potential language learner.
Tags: French · Spanish · Russian · Main
The Language Barrier: Teaching Chinese to Your Children
September 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This is an interesting article on growing up as a Chinese American and the advantages and challenges regarding teaching Mandarin to second and third generation.
Tags: Chinese · Asian Languages
Turkish Star Wars
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments
For our more advanced Turkish students, a snippet from Turkish Star Wars, with subtitles in Turkish! Enjoy!
Tags: Turkish · Asian Languages
A Brief History of the Turkish and Greek Partition of Cyprus
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments
While this is more political in a sense, it does touch upon the cultural and linguistic changes among Turkish speakers and Greek speakers.
Tags: Greek · Turkish · European Languages
New Language Specific Websites
September 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Some friends of the Language Chronicle have just released a variety of language specific websites. We’d like to pass them some traffic and hope you will take advantage of these new websites.
Tags: Chinese · Mexican · Italian · Brazilian Portuguese · French · Arabic · Middle Eastern Languages · Russian · Spanish · European Languages
The Basque Language and People
September 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
This is a very informative post and on the Basque people, historically and linguistically.
Tags: Basque · European Languages
Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo Language Resources
September 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Just a brief post. This is a website providing a number of Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo language resources as well as a forum.
Tags: Igbo · Yoruba · Hausa · African Languages
Greek Independent Study Guide
September 1st, 2008 · No Comments
The following is a brief discussion about a new Greek language independent study guide. An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek
It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. This Independent Study Guide is intended to help students who are learning Greek […]
Tags: Greek · European Languages