Kwadwo Sampany-Kessie gives a quick review of books that are good for learning Chinese. But which one is the best Chinese book? On his channel there will be ...
The best language exchange apps and websites to find conversation exchange partners online. A complete list updated & including the most exciting newcomers!
Language immersion is the key to learning a foreign language. FluentU brings language learning to life through language immersion with real-world videos.
ADS-L is a discussion list for members of the American Dialect Society and interested non-members. Among our members are linguists, grammarians, dictionary editors and lexicographers, writers, journalists, professors and other academics, students at all levels, researchers, librarians, translators, independent scholars, and language amateurs. Our primary topic of conversation is dialects of North American English, but we do wander off topic frequently.
The result of over twenty years of research, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR) is exactly what its title says it is: a framework of reference. It was designed to provide a transparent, coherent and comprehensive basis for the elaboration of language syllabuses and curriculum guidelines, the design of teaching and learning materials, and the assessment of foreign language proficiency.
This site was designed for Kanji practice for learners of Japanese at Dartmouth College, NH, USA. Each page presents a brush stroke, a quicktime movie showing the formation of the character, two print variations, and two audio clips of sample sentences with
What is the role of language in social interaction? What does language
bring to social encounters? We argue that language can be conceived of as a tool for
interacting minds, enabling especially effective and flexible forms of social coordination,
perspective-taking and joint action. In a review of evidence from a broad range of
disciplines, we pursue elaborations of the language-as-a-tool metaphor, exploring four
ways in which language is employed in facilitation of social interaction. We argue that
language dramatically extends the possibility-space for interaction, facilitates the profiling
and navigation of joint attentional scenes, enables the sharing of situation models and
action plans, and mediates the cultural shaping of interacting minds.
This is a collection of Erlang example programs. The document is also available as a postscript or pdf file. All the programs referred to are available in the archive examples-2.0.tgz. The programs attempt to do useful things, thus you will find complete