Who teaches which languages? Spanish and others. How to Record Your Sources

I started learning several languages in Duolingo. I finsished Grman and Esperanto and am now onto Spanish daily and Chinese intermittently (using Chineasy physical flashcards instead). 

Whether you are interested in one language or several, it is handy to keep a list of all the places to go to learn your favourite language or languages. You can do this on your mobile phone. 

Use a spreadsheet in Excel (which is a brand name, known generaically as a matrix, or series of columns divided across). 

Or write on a page in an A4 notebook. Put a sticker on the front of the notebook recording Language Learning and the page number. (You will have to number the pages of your notebook in the top right. I do this wiht all new notebooks.)

Keep updating as you find new sites, or when you want to add a new language. You can also keep a column for your own language if you are teaching English to foreigners or doing a language swap. Here is my work in progress. First I listed the languages. Then I went to the websites of my favourite places, starting with duolingo and Memrise. At the start it is quite time-consuming if you are checking several languages. But once you have the basics it is much faster.

Arabic

Chinese

Danish

Esperato - Duolingo

French - Duolingo

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Latin

Norwegian

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Spanish 

Swedish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Languages I am not learning on Duolingo include Klingon.

You can also learn Dutch, Malay and Urdu, a total of 75 languages, on langmaster.

Here's another. their welcome page was all in Spanish with a testimonial in Spanish. I could understand most of it and put it into Google translate to catch the couple of words I had missed.

https://www.deliberatespanish.com/

Useful Websites

English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_English

Indian government program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_English_(government_program)

Tamil

https://www.wikihow.com/Learn-Tamil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils

https://digitaldefynd.com/best-tamil-language-courses/

https://www.livinglanguage.com/languagedemo/tamilflash/11930/essential-saying-hello

duolingo in January 2021, The Tamil course is 75% complete.

Langmaster

http://www.langmaster.com/lmcom/com/web/en-gb/pages/free-language-online.aspx

Spanish

http://download.langmaster.cz/grammar/en-gb/spanish1/grammar/les01/g05.htm

Duolingo 

Languages available

Chinese, German, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Welsh, Ukrainian

Memrise

Languages available

Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Turkish

Mango

mangolanguages.com 

(see next post)

 

Other Language Websites From Wikipedia's List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_self-study_programs

Flashcards List of Sources from Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flashcard_software

About the Author

Angela Lansbury teacher of English (advanced and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, aspiring polyglot.

How to Blow up Photos to illustrate a travel story

Here's a problem which has been bothering me for some time, finally solved. I was mentoring a friend who is giving a speech to a Toastmasters International speakers' club. His speech is about climbing a mountain (something he actually did) and reaching your goal.

At the top you see the A5 size photo, printed on A4 paper. The paper can be cut using a safety guillotine to make A5, which uses less of your colour ink. 

Below in the centre is the photo as an A4 picture. To the right is the A4 of the right hand half the picture. Finally, you see the two pieces of the left and right half of the picture in A4 stuck together to make A3.

I suggested that he use a photo of the mountain. I was going to suggest he use an A4 picture. I typed A 5 and then thought he could use A5, which is book size, at the start of the speech, and end with A4, twice the size, the size of typing paper. At the end.

But A4 is really too small for a speech to a large room. The feedback speakers often get is to print A3.

Years ago when somebody I knew worked in an office, they had a printer which printed A3. It looked great.

I keep suggesting that somebody could print a picture in two halves A4 and sticky tape them on the back down the seam. But I've never done it.

Today I decided to try it. How do you cut your photo in half? Easy. Any photo programme enables you to select part of your photo. So you simply pick a mid-point and copy the right or left, then print it. (Rotate the picture if needed. Alternatively cut it vertically.)

Then print the two halves.Stick them together. The larger the paper the flimsier it is. You might want to leave it flimsy in order to roll it up. If not, stick it on the back of a piece of card.

Still too large to carry? Then take two pieces of thin card (eg from the back of a shirt, or even a cereal box, or a large card envelope. stick one on the back of each of your A4 pieces and fold where the original fold is. You could even display the A3 photo on a table like an open book.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.