Saturday, January 22, 2005

How could I overlook the Chinese?

China - one quarter of the world's population, political and economic juggernaut of the 21st century, and I still managed to avoid doing a Learning Chinese page. How silly of me. No longer. I've put up the page and it's attendant Chinese Language Resources page. Although French, Spanish and Italian are the most popular languages for my visitors, I wonder how long before Chinese really gets rolling. Someone looking far forward would be well advised to start learning Chinese now, rather than wait until it's 'in vogue' a few years from now. I think Hindi could rise in significance in the next few years as well. Maybe it'll take me that long to do a page for that language, too.

I finally finished out the methods pages with a Classes, Schools and Tutors page. Also, I added an Italian Language Resources page.

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Methods and Methods

I've finally ironed out most of the language learning methods pages. I've added an Audio-only Methods page, a Software Methods page and a page for Book-Audio Combo methods . Only one more to go. I've also been looking around for some Italian and Chinese resources for those pages.

Friday, January 14, 2005

Lot 'o Stuff

I've been doing a lot of housecleaning on the site. The How to Learn Languages page is being completely revamped. It is spinning off the Language Learning Methods and the Language Learning Tips pages. The methods page has been around for a while, but I'm adding additional pages to that one. I've already finished pages for Books and online methods and the other types are in the works and will be done in the next few days.

I'm afraid the Product Reviews page will have to remain nearly barren for a while, as I continue to add some flesh to this skeleton.

Sunday, January 09, 2005

More minor adjustments

For those who have asked, the Esperanto page will not have a separate resources page, at least not for now. The major languages, like Spanish and French, all have lots of resources, but Esperanto doesn't have as many that are as useful. I expect to add to those other resource pages eventually.

I think I'll do pages for less commonly studied languages like I did the Esperanto page. I was looking into Swedish, and the number of really useful resources are relatively few. I think I'll just put them all on one page with the recommendations, it'll be a lot simpler for now.

And, yes, there is supposed to be more to the Pimsleur review. There was a lot of text to that (and I could've gone a lot more, too!) so I'll be finishing that soon.

Friday, January 07, 2005

Long way to go

I've done a bit more cleaning up to the Learning Spanish page, and fixed some of the resource pages - Spanish Resources and French Resources. If I didn't have enough friends and penpals on my case, I've also added the Contact page so that hordes of complete strangers can get on my case now as well! Really, I'm kidding, I do like feedback form everybody.

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

So, here's the blog

I have had numerous requests to blog my updates to the site and some of my personal experiences with languages in general, so here we are. After a long hiatus from doing anything related to Language Learning Advisor, I am back in full force. I will now and henceforth flesh out the site as best as I can.

I have made some improvements to the Learning French page, cleaning things up a bit. I still want to add some supplements, like verb books and vocabulary builders and what-not. All the language pages need that, but the site is still in some kind of 'skeletal' stage, and so I'll be doing more 'fleshing' until I can get around to that.