“Overhear conversation involving NYC native” “Ignore content, listen to rates of rhoticity”
Labov would be proud!
| Posted 2 months ago | 9 notes |
Why, I do not, Annie!
| Posted 2 months ago | 0 notes |
“Philosoraptor asks question about English Language” “Totally know the answer from Lign 101”
| Posted 2 months ago | 8 notes |
“Overhear conversation in language you don’t speak” “Spend next twenty minutes analyzing the hell out of it”
| Posted 2 months ago | 19 notes |
“Dine at ethnic restaurant” “Know how everything is pronounced”
| Posted 4 months ago | 12 notes |
“Admit it. You have listened to Disney songs in at least six languages.”
| Posted 5 months ago | 53 notes |
“Hear Katy Perry sing ‘no’”
“/nʌ’ouʊ/”
| Posted 5 months ago | 13 notes |
French
- http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/home - I absolutely love this website. It has everything!
- http://french.speak7.com/
- http://www.bonjour.com/ - Shows pronunciations of words/phrases (which is extremely helpful) But it has limited vocab
- http://www.french-at-a-touch.com/Words-Phrases/basic_phrases_links.htm
German
- http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0„9572,00.html -You have to register, but it’s a great way to learn German
- http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio/index.html
Italian
Spanish
- http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm
- http://www.123teachme.com/ - Has games, verb conjugations, text translator, grammar, quizzes, and more!
- http://www.studyspanish.com/
- http://spanish.speak7.com/
Chinese
- http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese - What I love about this site is the pinyin to character tool
Japanese
- http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/
- http://www.learn-japanese.info/
- http://www.learnjapanesefree.com/
- http://www.learnjapanese.com/ - Has slang expressions, grammar, common phrases, vocabulary and more
- http://japanese-phrases.sakura.ne.jp/
Greek
- http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon - Greek to English, English to Greek Dictionary (Modern and Ancient Greek)
- http://www.101languages.net/greek/basics.html
General Language Sites
- http://www.fodors.com/language/ - Has Spanish, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese
- http://www.omniglot.com/ - Has basic phrases in almost any language along with idioms and sayings
- http://www.wordreference.com/ - Any language (French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, etc.) to English dictionary
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ - Basic phrases and vocab in French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
- http://www.languagehelpers.com/ - Has Chinese, Czech, French, German, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
- http://www.smartphrase.com/index.shtml -Has Italian, French, German, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, and Portuguese. Random phrase generator
- http://www.101languages.net/vocabulary/vocabulary.html - Has Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish
Language resource master post? Yes, please!
I thought I’d pass this very useful resource along for anyone that missed it!
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“Move to Scotland; ‘I find your lack of diphthongs disturbing’”
| Posted 6 months ago | 12 notes |
![[Top line: “Speak to someone from another English-speaking country” Bottom Line: “Immediately regard your own American accent as inferior”]
I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but it happens to me altogether too often.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lss2775m7G1qm9k97o1_400.jpg "[Top line: “Speak to someone from another English-speaking country” Bottom Line: “Immediately regard your own American accent as inferior”]
I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but it happens to me altogether too often.")
[Top line: “Speak to someone from another English-speaking country” Bottom Line: “Immediately regard your own American accent as inferior”]
I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but it happens to me altogether too often.
| Posted 7 months ago | 25 notes |
