Entries from September 2008

Learning Arabic in English Video Part 1-4

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments

This is a continuation of the Learning Arabic Video series we have been featuring over our last several posts on Arabic.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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Tags: Greek · European Languages