Category Archives: Resources

Grimm Grammar for German

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Josh

The Texas Language Technology Center of the University of Texas has a very nice online grammar of German, Grimm Grammar. A snippet from their about page: Welcome to Grimm Grammar, an irreverent revival and shameless exploitation of 19th-century Grimm Fairy … Continue reading →

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Video-Thema from Deutsche Welle

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Josh

Yesterday I learned about a new offering from Deutsche Welle, Video-Thema. Every week they put up a new video complete with exercises, transcript, and glossary. Apparently, they started this up at the beginning of the year; I’ve no idea how … Continue reading →

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Yabla – Foreign Language Videos With Subtitles and Translations

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Josh

I recently learned about a website called Yabla, which offers Spanish and French videos complete with transcripts and translations: Only Yabla language immersion sites give you authentic television, music videos, drama, interviews, travel, and Yabla exclusive shoots from throughout the … Continue reading →

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Using Google As A Teacher

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Josh

Jim Stroud from EnglishCafe.com wrote an interesting document about using Google as an aid to language learning. Many of his tips involve using Google’s vast text index to compare a search to what Google has on hand, for example: 3. … Continue reading →

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Lingro.com – Awesome Online Dictionary

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Josh

I recently came across lingro.com through my ‘net travels, and while it could be improved in many areas, it’s already one of my favorite tools. While the site has a regular dictionary look-up, what I really love is the overlay … Continue reading →

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Princeton Russian in a zip file

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Josh

Harold let me know that the Princeton Russian course, which I had made a torrent file for, is now available as a zip file from freelanguagecourses.com. I can assure you from experience that getting it from that site will be … Continue reading →

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A torrent of the Princeton Russian courses

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Josh

I posted previously about the wonderful Russian courses available for free from Princeton. They have, however, recently taken the courses down. This happened once before in the past, and the courses were later put back up, but there’s no real … Continue reading →

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Wheelock’s Latin 6th Edition Answer Key

Posted on July 5, 2007 by Josh

UPDATE: Ignore all of the below (or at least the links!) Textkit.com no longer hosts the answer key. I was able to find it here, however; save it while it’s there, as I’m not sure how long it will remain. … Continue reading →

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Google Translate now has a dictionary

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Josh

Google recently released their new dictionary feature on their translate page. While they offer fairly simple translations (and don’t give any contextual information about the translations – yet), something I thought was pretty cool was that they do offer a … Continue reading →

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Slow German podcast from Annik Rubens

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Josh

I blogged earlier this month about listening to Schlaflos in München to work on your German listening skills. In my previous post, I neglected to mention that Annik also offers a special version of Schlaflos for learners of German, Slow … Continue reading →

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