#wikibooks

[conlangcrab]

Try also:

-> @444names and the Markov chain procedural name generator.

-> @444namesplus and the WordGen by JasonTank, as well as Awkwords.

-> The Wiktionary and Wikibooks' real life names from various countries, cultures and religions.

-> @cryptolangsguy and the wonder of cryptolangs in general, on r/cryptolangs (as well, check out the GitHub cryptolang encoder by MurderWho).

While this method is fun shit and giggles, and I used it before, nowadays I find it way too basic/mindless for my taste.

Cheers .w.b

[benami-central]

#WikiBooks 👉 User:#FilipovićZoran 📚

[veggietale]

did you guys know wikipedia has recipes

[angelofthewaterss]

Always remember that there are so many free resources and books available online that are waiting to be found.

[wolfcat-hybrid]

So. The recipe was a little vague at some points. So I took notes on my final results, yield, stuff like that, and (after some encouragement from a lovely admin) updated the Official Wiki Pączki recipe. And then a different admin asked if I happened to have any photos of the finished product and

!!!!!! I MADE THOSE!!!! :DDD

Ya boi('s pączki) is the face of the wikibook's pączki recipe page!

This power is going to go to my head. I'm going to put this on my résumé

...

(Also, it is apparently rare for people to try out a wikibook recipe and report back on the results, which I think is a shame! If anybody out there likes to cook, maybe think about sharing some notes? It's easy and makes you feel very smart :] )

OK quick question

[junadeo]

ok well that is just not true

[mostlyghostly42]

language learning websites list

Endonym Map: World Map of Country Names in Their Local Languages 

Dropbox - linguistics - Simplify your life 

Dropbox - language textbooks - Simplify your life 

Ethnologue | Languages of the world 

Etymonline - Online Etymology Dictionary 

spanish

Spanish (Mexico) Vocabulary 

spanish_grammar.pdf 

Spanish 1/The Basics - Wikiversity 

portuguese

Portuguese Language/Introduction - Wikiversity 

Portuguese/Contents - Wikibooks, open books for an open world 

asl

Learn How to Sign - YouTube 

American Sign Language 1 - Fall 2023 

other languages

Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting First Nations/American Indian languages 

Arabic from the Beginning - YouTube 

Urdu/Hindi language and literature: resources for study 

Learn Urdu online, Urdu language & alphabets learning | Aamozish 

translation

DeepL Translate: The world's most accurate translator 

World Free Translators Dictionaries Encyclopedias 

ipa/pronunciation

Interactive IPA 

IPA i-charts (2023) 

IPA Chart��

Forvo: the pronunciation dictionary. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers 

writing systems

ScriptSource - Writing systems, computers and people 

World Writing Systems 

toki pona

Toki Pona 

sona pona

CEFR Analysis for toki pona

mun! - Learn Toki Pona!

lipu Linku

lipu pi jan Ne

lipu sona pona

sitelen sitelen

Toki Pona Dictionary

lipu lili pona

Wikipesija

lipu pi ijo pi toki pona

printable dictionary

sike pona

nasin toki pona—a good way to speak

lipu nimi

semantic spaces dictionary

toki pona | lipu pi soweli nata

Toki Pona

telo misikeke

[fail-eacan]

@cheadarchesse Irish Language Resources

Learning

-Irish Wikibook online textbook

-Philo-Celtic free online Irish classes

-if you have money, learnirishonline.com

-songsinirish.com provides visual lyrics

-Daltaí na Gaeilge

-Tóin Gaeilge

-Try your local library you might be suprised. I found Short Stories in Irish and a translated Alice in Wonderland at mine, and I live in the middle of nowhere upstate NY

Media

-TG4 (I like ros na rún) many shows are available on youtube including ros na rún

Spotify stuff:

-playlists: As Gaeilge by lianblasse, ceol ❤️ as gaeilge by yours truly, Ceol as gaeilge by Sharon Carty

-podcasts: Gaeilge Weekly, Gaeilge Abú, Gaeilge13 Inermediate Irish Podcast, Podchraoladh na Gaelgals, Daly Dose of Gaeilge, Gaeilge don Mheánscoil, and more!

Practice

-Duolingo

-An Siopa Leabhar (they have a Heartstopper in Irish coming out soon! I preordered :) )

-Foras na Gaeilge

-Cula4 Spraoi

-The Internet Archive (free online books)

-Nuacht1

Irish gov cites to check out if you’re bored that may or may not be helpful

-ainm.ie

-dúchas.ie

-celt.ucc.ie

-aistear.ie

-isos.dias.ie

Community

-Discord servers! Found on disboard: Sciortaí agus Stocaí, Amhráin na dTonna

-Irish language AO3! Super fun, write fic and get feedback!

Advice

-Switch your keyboard to the Irish one, it’s much easier to use fadas

-LEARN PRONUNCIATION RULES or you will be screwed

-Ask questions!

-Find something to speak ONLY Irish to. Maybe a person but that’s hard. A pet, a stuffed animal. Try out your new vocab on them.

Ádh mór, mo chara! Lmk if you find anything else!

[desigrrrl]

List of Telugu learning Resources

Writing

Script: about, history and development, impact of writing tools in its evolution

Alphabet: multibhashi, wikipedia, wikibooks, edzym

Reading

Textbook: intensive course (archive.org), ncert school books, ap scert school books, ts scert school books, hindi-telugu praimaru, grammar (written in telugu)

Prose: kids’ stories, stories, collected manuscripts, parikini, soundaryalahari, barrister parvateesam, history, translated quran,

Poetry: kinnerasani patalu, movie songs book, maha prasthanam, tyagaraja kirtanalu

Blog/Misc: chandamama kathalu magazine, kavithalu, saaranga magazine, hasam magazine, bharati magazine, swathi weekly, sakshi news

Dictionaries: andhrabharati, tel-eng by sankaranarayana, eng-tel by venkatacharyulu, tel-eng by percival, tel-sans, hin-tel.

Vocabulary

MyLanguages

MeaningInHindi

1000MostCommonWords

proverbs: sametalu (written in telugu)

Grammar

malik’s absolutely goated guide

praveen ragi

vakyam (written in telugu)

Apps

Mango

Multibhashi (android)

HelloTalk

Dasubhashitam (android)

Learn Spoken Telugu From English (android)

Websites

Languages Home

Goethe-Verlag

LearningTelugu

Learn 101

Desi Bantu

YouTube - Native

Telugu teachers: telugu vanam, teach me telugu, pr learning hub,

Beginner level/Kids content: koo koo tv, jum jum tv, paa paa tv, horror planet

General: permit room, sumakka, chai bisket, naa anveshana, my vilage show, ragadi, chitra alochana, thyview, mahathalli, vikramaditya, yevarra meerantha, aye jude, dhethadi, chari not sorry

YouTube - Learners

Mexico: Christina

USA: Kari, Isaac Richards, Manasa (Danya), Omar Crockett

Italy: Franchesca /Telugutalian

Denmark: BigAReact

Poland: Zbigsbujji Chetlur

Sweden: Karl Svanberg

Online Keyboards

lexilogos

typingbaba

branah

gate2home

[queensqueercourt]

awesome how wikibooks has tons of recipies submitted by its users but like. theirs no review system. nothing at all. printing a cookbook of all recipes on wikibooks called "how much faith do you put in strangers on the internet and how good their food is"

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Bubble Point

The bubble point, or the bubble point curve, is the point at which a liquid of multiple components starts to boil, similar to a solidius line, the point at which above a solid of multiple components starts to melt. As with a solidus line, a bubble point does not exist for a pure substance, only a boiling point. Bubble points/curves are paired with dew points/curves, between which is the boiling range of the substances in question. Though it is not common for metals and alloys to include vapor phases on a phase diagram, diagrams for organic substances, such as the benzene-toluene diagram shown above, are often created showing the bubble point.

Sources/Further Reading: (Image source - Wikibooks) (Global Spec) (Wikipedia)

[thoughtportal]

Other cool wiki things

Wikisource – The Free Library – is a Wikimedia Foundation project to create a growing free content online library of source texts, as well as translations of source texts in any language.

Welcome to Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.

Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. We aim to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it. Thus etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.

[not-ester]

Hello! Do you have any advice on where to start to learn Greek history ? I have a book that starts with the Minoan Civilization, is that a good starting point?

Yeah, I would consider it a great starting point!

So, regarding source hunting (I'm linking everything at the bottom):

1) JSTOR - Digital library of academic journals- needs an account

2) AUTH's digital library - More modern history heavy and solely in Greek (unfortunately)

3) Wikipaedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource etc. - always in combination with another source ofc

4) Internet Archive

5) Last but not least, storebuying or borrowing books from libraries, each with their own advantage; you may take notes directly on the book with the former while the latter is cost-efficient.

Regarding specific sources:

1) Directly from contemporary authors (it'd be preferable if you found a copy of their work with notes).

2) Oxford University's handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean

Unfortunately I don't have any other sources to recommend as I never note them done after reading them 🥲

A thing I did was use the school books as a jumping board (you can't look for something if you don't know it exists!), which have been digitalised by the ministry of education, but the translation's gonna be painful.

(I find these fascinating, although you could probs find a complete list somewhere)

(These are the digitalised school books and Google translate on mobile actually does an okay-ish job.)

You could also always use my stuff as a jumping board

[bxrleskque]

Full Polish-Resource Index

As many online polish learning resources I could find. Thanks to Reddit r/learnpolish 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!

Lingovu - Polish Short stories

Wiktionary - Dictionary

High Frequency Verb List - Quizlet set for frequently used verbs

Polish Grammar In A Nutshell - Online pdf

LearnPolishFeelGood - Grammar Exercises

A Concise Polish Grammar - Polish Grammar pdf

Elementary Polish - Webpage

Wikibooks - Polish Pronounciation

Children's Library - Children's books in Polish

Parallel Texts - Polish reading online

LearnPolishToday - Polish cases crash course

Lektorek - Webpage textbok

Duolingo Forum - Grammar notes forum for Duolingo

CourseOfPolish - Webpage

Gov.pl - Polish government webpage + has resources for foreigners

PolskiNaWynos - Webpage

[jewish-vents]

Re-connection/re-conversion after my ancestors were forced to renounce decades ago feels impossible.

No “working” shuls in my area (aka they’re all tourist traps but none offer services nor have Rabbis there). One Chabad, sure, but I’ve heard horror stories about the organisation and I’m too paranoid to go. 

No fellow Jews in my school. I’m the only one here. The only thing I can do is read stuff about our history and traditions from the internet and learn Hebrew on Duolingo and Ladino on Wikibooks and pray in the mornings and nights and hope that maybe if I do this for long enough one day I’ll feel like I truly am a part of the tribe.

I can’t ask my mum about what our grandpa (technically my great-grandpa) did. His traditions, his level of observance, his sect. Did he fast on Yom? Did he keep Kosher? Did he regularly wear a Kipa? I will never know because they never knew him as a Jew. He was already faking Catholicism to survive by the time his oldest daughter came along. 

I’m trying to be what he would want me to be, and in doing so I feel like I’m chasing ghosts.

Do I, like many other things in my life, just put this off? Wait solemnly for the moment I turn 18 and can make my own decisions and go on my own journey to find myself, sit for the next to years I have left and try to fit in the best I can?

(-@secondary-star)

Am I correct in thinking your family lived in Spain before the Expulsion and Inquisition?

Do any of our followers have books, websites, or other resources that could be used to learn about or connect with that specific Jewish culture?-🐞

[vexacarnivorous]

hello! i'm a new college student, and the syllabus says c and java are the languages they'll teach in the first two semester. could you direct me to some resources or someone who could help if you're not interested? no pressure, thank you!

hey! i'm unsure how helpful my advice will be because i've only dabbled in c and java, but i can certainly point you in the right direction. i know how much of a pain searching for beginner-friendly resources can be. good luck in your studies, and welcome to college!

GENERAL:

there are a lot of community-curated resources in the tag awesome-list on github. check it out here, and have fun going through them all because you'll never escape

w3schools is great for referencing

this basically gives you the equivalent to a bachelor's degree in computer science and is completely free

freecomputerbooks has a c and java language category. i can't recommend you specific books though

i only discovered wikiversity was a thing when i became an adult, which is a right shame. there's free courses for computer science and information technology

C LANGUAGE:

harvard has an online course called cs50 you can find for free on freecodecamp's youtube channel (the cs50 website also includes notes for the course). it introduces computer science (and the basics of c) pretty nicely

wikiversity's "C Programming" and its wikibook companion

freecodecamp's "C Programming Handbook for Beginners"

if you ever get confused about pointers: A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C

commonly asked c programming questions & answers are in this FAQ

the article "What A C Programmer Should Know About Memory" (a bit more intermediate)

JAVA LANGUAGE:

the wikibook "Java Programming"

wikiversity's java portal has links to both internal and external java resources. i'd recommend looking through it

freecodecamp's "The Java Handbook – Learn Java Programming for Beginners"

freecodecamp's online course "Java Programming for Beginners"

dev.java's "Learn Java"

the free training course offered by oracle

if anyone else has anything to add, feel free to chime in! i hope this helps :)