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Resources I use to study Mongolian online

Feel free to drop more suggestions in the comments if you know any good sites!

NAVER Korean-Mongolian dictionary

There is a sizeable Mongolian community in Korea and vice versa, so the Korean-language NAVER dictionary has a bunch of vocab. They have dictionaries for other languages that use English on that site, so I expect them to add a Mongolian one in the coming years.

Wiktionary

Wiktionary is my best friend for any language! They even have the traditional script for many of the words on there <3

cjv lang

They have a pretty good site for the traditional script and spelling! I don't use it a lot but it's a good reference if you forget the letters.

Live Lingua Peace Corps Mongolian Flashcards

The BEST pdf for grammar out there. It explains things clearly compared to many others I've tried.

Tatoeba

I like translating sentences when studying languages, so this is a must-visit any time I study. They currently have 2636 sentences in Mongolian.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Google Translate supports Mongolian. It doesn't always do a good job, but it can translate short sentences well.

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Where Can I Learn Latin Online?

Here are the various avenues you can go to learn Latin online.

Latin Derivatives. Find over 1750 Latin derivatives, along with definitions and usage in sentences.

Conjuguemos. Teachers and students can use this site to learn Latin (among other languages) through games and activities, which are automatically graded. They request a small payment, but will waive the fee if you cannot afford it.

Linney's Latin Class.com. William E. Linney literally wrote the book on teaching Latin and shares lessons for self-learners and homeschoolers here that include pages from his text, lectures, and homework.

Latin Language Builds Powerful English Vocabulary. Get an overview of Latin and tips for learning it easily along with links to helpful resources.

Latin: The Language of Rome Fun Worksheet #1. For $1 you can download this Latin worksheet to use personally or in the classroom. This teacher also has other versions of Latin worksheets available for the same price.

Learn Latin Quickly. This website is run by an individual as a hobby, but provides tons of information on Latin and learning Latin.

KET Distance Learning – Latin 1. Go through the lessons here in your own time, then move up to Latin 2 and Latin 3 after completing this class.

Beginners' Latin. This online tutorial doesn't require you know any Latin and steps you through the basics with twelve lessons, reference material, activities, and more.

Latin Grammar. A great resource for learning Latin, this site provides information on the five noun declensions and the four verb conjugations as well as several irregularities.

Latinitium. An online website to start learning Latin with a free e‑mail course from Latin teacher and speaker Daniel Pettersson, M.A.

Polymathy/ScorpioMartianus. A Youtube channel by Latin speaker Luke Ranieri, who teaches Latin for beginners hosted live on his YouTube Channel.

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I’m interested in learning Latin, where would you suggest I start?

So exciting! I'll try to keep this short:

I recommend starting with this very short informal intro, especially if you don't have a strong grasp on technical terms about grammar (most textbooks take that for granted). Latin grammar follows a rigid organisational system and the earlier you understand how it works, the easier it will be to learn the rest of the language. The 18-page PDF in the link uses English examples and practice questions to go through basic Latin grammar concepts and tables. It doesn't go through less basic things like participles or conditional clauses, but it does explain everything you need to know in order to learn those more easily. It also includes a hyperlinked list of good online resources for self-taught Latin and Greek students.

If you want to work through a textbook, Wheelock's Latin is probably the most widely used and comes with a lot of accompanying resources and guides (even though the official website looks older than Rome). Ecce Romani may be a bit more approachable and there are plenty of unofficial online lessons and guides made to go along with it. Those are my top two personally; I know some people like Latin Via Ovid because the practice texts are adapted from an actual ancient text about different myths, but imho I don't think it's as good a starting point if you're teaching yourself from scratch. Keep in mind that they'll all follow different formats for conjugation/declension tables, which can make it a bit confusing to switch between them; the short intro in that first link is a good way to understand how these charts work well enough to use them no matter the format.

There are tons of free resources online, even including full recordings of lessons, live study groups to join, communities with forum posting, and written-out explanations. For any individual concept that's troubling you, there are almost definitely multiple youtube videos of someone in front of a whiteboard saying it differently from the textbooks. Again, there's a good list included in that first document.

For practice in reading and understanding without deliberately translating, it's fun to try reading Latin translations of books you already know well in English, like Harrius Potter, Hobbitus Ille, Winnie Ille Pu, Alicia In Terra Mirabili, and many, many more, most of which are free on Archive and/or can be bought as physical copies.

However, this will be much more rewarding once you've built up some vocabulary and grammar, and might be frustrating or discouraging if you try the long ones too early, especially since they sometimes use words irregularly to convey modern meanings.

There are also a handful of recently-written stories in Latin targeted at students who like this kind of practice more. The German Netflix series Barbarians has all the Roman characters speaking in real Latin, and listening to it with subtitles can help build your ear for what sounds right.

Those are my recs for where to start! If you're stuck on something and can't find a good explanation, you can also send me an ask about it and I'm always happy to lay out how I think about it (even if my response times are irregular).

Good luck and enjoy!

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Latin Resources

Mango Languages (you can get full access through a library card!!)

Duolingo (i mean, duh.)

YouTube Channel #1

YouTube Channel #2

Salvadorbonaparte's MEGA folder (link to post where it was shared)

i'll add more later but that's all i have for now :)

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do u have any advice for ppl who want to study linguistics and languages but couldnt afford to study it at school?? thanks if you answer this, have a great day

yeah! you can easily download textbooks online and study from them AND I do have a dropbox full of linguistics textbooks!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qm7x5dz8fu4bdlp/AADshTfRGZG5JZALkDV6wFlwa?dl=0 

it includes phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, morphology, and etymology. 

I also have another dropbox folder full of language textbooks:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tdm26h60ccl9pe1/AABg0B3mOGaWLG9Kfyuvut6wa?dl=0

As of November 6: Includes 83 textbooks including Arabic, ASL, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh :)

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Mogolian Language Resources

I finally got around to combining and sorting through the various material, so here are the materials that I currently use!

Memrises Mongolian 1/Mongolian 2 Great courses for learning the alphabet (the non-traditional Cyrillic script) and some basics e.g. introduction, some basic verbs.

CJV Langs Traditional Mongolian Script. A solid intro to the traditional writing script. I'm sticking to the cyrillic script for now, but this may come in useful in the future.

Open163 Mongolian Basics (Chinese). Another great video course from Inner Mongolia University for learning mongolian basics and pronunciation. The only possible issue is that it's entirely in Chinese and the traditional script is used.

MGL Radio. My level isn't high enough to understand it, but for now it's good to understand how spoken mongolian sounds and later for listening practise.

Radio Garden. This site allows you to listen to various radio programs from pretty much any country in the world, so it's great not just for mongolian.

MNB. This newsite may be currently a tad too advanced, but it's still good reading practice nonetheless.

This site. I love this site, this is a free collection of works in and translated into Mongolian. Reading Dostoevsky in Mongolian is a challenge that I one day will attempt.

Apps

Gertrainer. This is a relatively new app (6 months old?), which had a pretty good collection of vocabulary. The only downside is that the pronunciation recordings are available only in the paid version which comes at around 5 euros per month or 30 per year. Something to consider if I choose to study Mongolian more intensively, but for now I'm quite content with my current pace.

Ling. This seems to be also ok, but it charges a subscription fee and I am not ready for this commitment yet.

Simply. This is quite basic but it covers some vocab in the free version, with the rest of the vocab charging a fee.

Learn Mongolian. This is also has quite a solid vocabulary set, with pronunciations included.

There appear to be quite a few language schools offering lessons over zoom and classes in person (in Mongolia) but I have no idea if they're legitimate or not.

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does anyone have links to mongolian resources?

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fun summer idea to keep yourself sane: learn a lesser known, endangered, critically endangered, or extinct language!

Im currently learning Ainu and it feels cool to be a part of keeping it alive. A great resource i’ve been using is So You Want To Learn A Language, but there are some lesser spoken languages on Drops. (Ex.: Galician, Igbo, Irish, Persian, Samoan, Māori, etc.)

Another resource I really like is LingoHut. It’s free and has lessons for languages like Macedonian, Armenian, Malay, Urdu, etc.

Have fun learning!

スイ　ウヌカラアン　ロ！☻

(p.s. this doesn’t just have to be for the summer! you can learn a language anytime ☻)

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hello langblr. are there any resources for kyukyuan? ive been interested in it for so long.

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hello langblr. are there any resources for Ryukyuan? ive been interested in it for so long.

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hi there :) i was just wondering if you have any resources to learn bengali? my bf really wants to learn the language and i am unfortunately quite bad at speaking it myself and we’re struggling to find good resources on it. thank you!

Hi there! My Bengali folder currently has 5 resources in it.

You should also check out blogs like @banglanotebook

I have a Bengali Hashtag on my blog that you can browse for more resources, vocabulary lists and other things I reblogged about Bengali

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this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Turkish. It will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! also, please let me know if any of the links suddenly stop working. 

alphabet

1

2

exercises

apps

book recommendations

201 turkish verbs: fully conjugated in all the tenses - talat sait halman

conjugators

logosconjugator

verbix

courses

babbel

duolingo

elon.io

handsonturkish

learnturkishonline

memrise courses [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

mondly

turkishclass101

dictionaries

grammar

antonyms [&exercises]

aorist tense

cases

circumflex

conjunctions

consonant alternation

consonant harmony

consonant harmony: word mutation [&exercises]

expressing “too much”a

future tense

grammatical cases

infinitives and plurals

locative case [&exercises]

major vowel harmony

minor vowel harmony

noun recognition

noun states

noun states: ablative case [&exercises] [&more exercises]

noun states: dative case [&exercises] [&more exercises]

noun states: locative case [&exercises] [&more exercises]

past tense in noun sentences

personal possessive pronouns [&exercises]

personal pronouns [&exercises]

personal suffixes

prepositions

present tense [1]

possession adjectives

question suffix [&exercises]

subject participles

suffixes

suffix mutation [&exercises]

to be [+1] [negative] [positive]

var and yok [1] [2]

vowels , vowel rules

vowel harmony [1]

vowel harmony in -e suffixes [&exercises]

vowel harmony in -i suffixes [&exercises]

vowel harmony in noun sentences

vowel harmony: -me, -ma negative suffixes [&exercises]

vowel harmony: -mek, -mak suffixes [&exercises]

vowel loss

with, by, and [&exercises]

lessons

forum of user-contributed lessons

loecsen

turkish2learn

literature

poetry

news

cumhuriyet

milliyet

sozcu

pronunciation

pronunciation dictionary

quizzes & exercises

pick the correct noun case

vocabulary games

vocabulary quizzes

radio

euronews

radyodinle.fm

radyoodtu

trt radio

university radio

tumblrs

turkishlearning

verbs

single syllable verbs

vocabulary

colors

cozy words

culture [&audio]

expressions of time

family [&audio]

greetings [& audio]

houses [&audio]

idioms

loanwords from other languages

science [&audio]

swadesh list

“thank you”

tourism [&audio]

transportation [&audio]

youtube

learnturkishchannel

The Travel Linguist

turkishpod101

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Resource List for Learning Bengali/Bangla

Hello! Do you want to learn Bengali/Bangla but don't know where to start? Then I've got the perfect resource list for you and you can find its link below! Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve it. Here is what the resource list contains;

"Handmade" resources on certain grammar concepts for easy understanding.

Resources on learning the script.

Websites to practice reading the script.

Documents to enhance your Bengali vocabulary.

Notes on Colloquial Bengali.

Music playlists

List of podcasts/audiobooks And a compiled + organized list of websites you can use to get hold of Bengali grammar!

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Resources For Learning Norwegian

A1/A2

Books

The Mystery of Nils -  “ We all hate text books that begin with “Hello, what’s your name?”, don’t we? “The Mystery of Nils” is a coherent story, which starts very simply, but develops into a fascinating novel.”

Norsk på 123 - has online exercises as well, don’t need a book to complete the exercises

Colloquial Norwegian - “provides a step-by-step course in Norwegian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Norwegian in a broad range of situations.”

På Vei - A1-A2, workbook and textbook, these are used by most courses in Norway to teach Norwegian as a foreign language to adults; online exercises 

Ordbøkene - dictionary, nynorsk og bokmål

Apps

Duolingo - usually a good place to start, great for a free resource

Babbel - subscription service, teaches grammar and vocab, has a speaking component

Drops - has a free version, only 5 minutes every 10 hours, vocab only, variety of topics, gameifies language learning

Memrise - I haven’t really used this, seems like you can choose different courses but I’m not sure about the quality of the courses, has a free version

Ordbøkene - app version of this dictionary

Sites

Klar Tale - meant for people with dyslexia or those learning Norwegian

Ordbøkene - dictionary, nynorsk og bokmål

Grammatikk.com - has PDFs with grammar explanations and some grammar drills (they need to be printed though)

Courses

Introduction to Norwegian (UiO) -  Learn to speak, write and understand basic Norwegian with this free four-week course. Can be followed with the Introduction to Norwegian 2

Norwegian for Beginners (NTNU) -  Master the basics of the Norwegian language. Gain confidence in speaking and understanding common phrases. Can be followed with Part 2 and Part 3

Podcasts

Norsklærer Karense - from a Norwegian teacher aimed at those who are learning

Klar Tale

Youtube

Norwegian Teacher Karin -  “This is absolutely free online Norwegian lessons. The language I’m teaching is not exactly Bokmål nor Nynorsk. It’s an east dialect and I don’t think you will have much problem with bokmål after this. :) And everyone will understand this“

Norsklærer Karense -  “Denne YouTube-kanalen har jeg laget for å hjelpe alle som lærer norsk til å bli flinkere i norsk. Ettersom jeg har jobbet lenge som norsklærer og undervist mange tusen elever, vet jeg hva som kan være vanskelig når man  lærer norsk.“

B1/B2

Books

Stein på Stein - B1, textbook and workbook, continuation of På Vei, online exercises here

Her på Berget - B2/C1, textbook and workbook, continuation of Stein på Stein;  online exercises

Sites

NRK- news site

Klart det! - B2, online exercises

Podcasts

Språkteigen - Her kan du høre om nye ord og gamle ord, ny forskning og rare språkfenomener.

Ekko - culture podcast on a wide range of topics; lots of interviews so dialects can be difficult; episodes are fairly short

Oppdatert - det lille du trenger for å henge med på sakene alle snakker om; fairly short episodes 

Gamle Greier - stories about historical artifacts found in the National Library; episodes are about 30 minutes

Nyhetsmorgen - a daily morning news podcast from NRK, great way to hear a variety of dialects; episodes are 90 minutes

Forklart -  De største nyhetssakene forklart på 15 minutter

*These are just a few - NRK has a ton of great podcasts on a variety of topics available here or on the NRK Radio app. Chances are they have something you are interested in!

C1

Books

I Samme Båt - workbook and textbook, this is the only C1 book I’ve found but I’m not sure it’s worth the money. It’s mostly vocab/phrases, but does have exercises too

at this level, you can pretty much read any book you want in Norwegian

Sites

Kompetanse Norge - practice for C1 test

Bergenstest.com - to prepare for the Bergenstest (B2-C1), paid

Sites to Test Yourself

Kompetanse Norge - site with information on the Norskprøve, has practice tests and exercises for A1-B2

Bergens Test examples - B2/C1

UiO 

ARealMe.com - test your vocab, compares the size of your estimated vocab to the general population

Language Trainers listening and language level

*updated March 28th, 2022

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Full Bengali/Bangla-Resource Index

This was hard, but I've been interested in Bangla forever.

As many online bengali/bangla learning resources I could find. Thanks to Reddit r/bengalilanguage and r/languagelearning for most of the links on this list. That being said, I have not used all of these sites, but as someone who is weary of online webpages and downloading malicious links, I can tell you that as far as I know, everything is safe to use! (new list organization)

CREDITS TO u/LawrenceWoodman

alllanguageresources

washington university course

mybangladiary (wordpress)

banglatangla

omniglot

sisimpur - youtube

glossika

mango languages

Bengali with Baneebee - youtube

read bengali books online

CREDITS TO TUMBLR

goethe verlang

babadada

so you want to learn a language? (another resource list)

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Full Latvian-Resource Index

Been a while, but I'm picking up on Latvian so here is some resources I've collected :)

As many online latvian learning resources I could find. Thanks to Reddit r/latvia, r/learnlatvian and r/polyglot for most of the links on this list. That being said, I have not used all of these sites, but as someone who is weary of online webpages and downloading malicious links, I can tell you that as far as I know, everything is safe to use! (new list organization)

YOUTUBE CHANNELS

IndoLatvian

IrregularLatvian

LearnLatvian (and their wordpress)

APPS

Ling

Latvian Verbs

WEBSITES

maciunmacies.valoda.lv

elaipa.lv

letonika.lv

tezaurs.lv

LanguagePhrases

Ling Archives

Lingohut

Pinhok

OTHER

someone made a google drive of stuff.. I haven't looked through it but I'll link it here (update, the folders are empty.)

Declensions and Conjugations chart.. here

For sure more coming, but this is what I have right now.

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bengali resources

latvian resources

norwegian resources

polish resources

latin resources

general/mixed resources