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 Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:35 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:56 pm
http://lang-8.com - write a journal/blog in a language you're learning and have it corrected by native speakers.
http://smart.fm - a spaced-time-repetition (STR) website that's great for memorizing vocabulary. There are official "lists" (or whatever the heck they call them now) for Japanese and Chinese (and English), but you can make your own for any language.
http://ichi2.net/anki/ - another popular STR program, this one is a lot simpler than smart.fm and can be used offline.
http://alljapaneseallthetime.com - Ok, this one is TECHNICALLY made for Japanese, but the real purpose of it is to propose a way of studying foreign languages through insane amounts of immersion. So its ideas can be used for any language.
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:18 pm
Transparent LanguagesThis website has a lot of free resourses as well as paid ones. I use their free word of the day that comes in several languages and they add new ones a lot. I also read their language blogs. My favorite program of theirs is Byki. It's my favorite spaced repitition system because It's very flexible. I can study a lot in one day or nothing. I don't like how smart fm and anki stop giving words from a deck or a goal after a certain point. The downside is you have to pay to make your own lists. Although this shouldn't be too much of a problem for popular languages like Spanish, German, and French, where there are thousands of free lists to choose from. Those who are studying more uncommon languages might want to buy it. I think it is worth the price, since it goes on sale for much less than the normal price all the time.
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:06 am
I tried out Byki, and you're right, it's a lot better than anything else. I really like the method it uses.
I'm really struggling with reading the hangul. I can do the individual letters just fine, but I just seem to get stuck reading them within words. I'm going to try to make a Byki list that focuses on the word block, and see if that helps.
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:29 pm
I like GLOSS, it's made by the U.S military for self-studiers. After searching for your language, if you click on an article's name you get word drills, but if you click on (which I like better) "View Source" it has an article, an audio recording of it and English translation.
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 6:12 pm
As I said in the german thread...
Write out what you read. If one is reading a book or article in a different language, read it once (looking up words one doesn't know), then hand write out what one is reading in pencil (looking up words that you don't know again). Then take a break. Take at least an hour break. When one comes back, start inking in what one wrote in pencil (again, looking up what one doesn't recognize or know). As I said before, it takes forever, but it works wonders.
Listening to music in the target language is also good.
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:11 pm
I recently found this site ( http://www.listenlive.eu/index.html ) that lists popular radio stations for any European county. After selecting a country it also lists the location (city-wise) and format of the stations, which helps if you're going for a specific accent or looking for a specific type of radio station. =D
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