Language School Additions

To continue on the language schools theme, I've added a Spanish Language Schools page. There are also a few more resources added to the Language Schools page. There are a lot of language schools, franchises and local schools, so rather than just have a page full of links, I'm taking a representative sampling of schools and making sure I have a few links to sites with a complete and comprehnsive searchable list of schools so people can find exactly what they're looking for.

Language Learning Advisor Newsletter

The first issue of the newsletter went out last week. It's a little behind schedule, but I have lots of material coming. I intend the newsletter (it's reall y more of an e-zine) to be monthly, but since I fell behind, I'm going to publish a few in fairly rapid succession in order to 'catch up.'

If you'd like to see the first issue and you've missed it, you can view it here:
The Language Learning Advisor Newsletter Issue#001

Also, don't forget to sign up for the newsletter!

Italian Language Schools

I recently put up a page on Italian Language Schools. I've been in contact with a few of them recently so it seemed like a good time to put a page up. The problem is - now I need to do that for the other languages, too! So much to do, so little time...

The newsletter is coming along - it's nearly finished. Possibly go out Monday or Tuesday at the latest. The following issue will probably be within two weeks, certainly three.

Also adding resources for Hebrew and French.

Big Layoff

It's been a hideously long time since I posted anything, but I'm about to make up for it with a lot of posts. I've added several more resources to the Language Penpal Resources page. They've also been added to the Language Resources Directory .

I've just added a couple of resources to the Cornish page. I have an enormous backlog of little additions and adjustments to the site. I've been forced way behind schedule. The newsletter has also been behind schedule, but the good news is that I now have an abundance of material for additional pages, articles and the next few issues of the newsletter, which should finally be going out in the next few days!

Newsletter

I'm adding a newsletter feature to the site! I will begin publishing a monthly e-zine, the first of which will go out at the end of January. I will eventually settle on a fairly regular publishing date, probably around the 20th of every month. There will be lots of features, some of which will be unique to the newsletter. Sign up for The Language Learning Advisor Newsletter here.

Language Directory

I've created a language resource directory at http://languageresources.mylinea.com/ There is a link to the directory from the general resources page of the site.

I'm including every link and resource that is on the site, and I will add everything else that I come up with in my net travels. A lot of links aren't appropriate for the site, so I found an easy way to have a directory of language related resources that can have everything that I come across.

Please feel free to take a look at the directory and submit any of your favorite language resources.

Music and Language Learning

I'm adding a few pages on using music to aid language learners. One page, Using Music to Improve Listening Comprehension Skills, includes an article on using music in the classroom. Another, Use Music to Improve Language Skills, includes some of my comments on using music as a supplement to formal language learning methods.

I've turned off comments for this blog because of too many sleazy spam posts. If you'd like to comment on anything, feel free to use the form on my Contact page.

More Language Articles

I've put up a few more language articles. Improve Your Mind Power With Spanish and Learn Spanish: Why Americans Dont are both from article libraries. Both have points that I agree with heartily, it's always good to get the same info from different viewpoints from time to time, which is one of the main reasons I'm putting up articles like these.

Language Articles

I am placing a new section on the site called Language Articles which will be a library of articles from around the internet on language learning, blog entries, articles which I don't really have another place for and anything related to language in general. These will only be copyright-free articles, or just links or references to articles I can't put up, and I'll include comments. I'm a adding a government-sponsored report or two ( like ASL As a Foreign Language Requirement and Age and Language Learning) to get things moving, but there are a lot of things that I want to put there.

Learn Welsh

I've added a Welsh page. I still have to do pages for Breton and Manx to complete the Celtic languages. I know, there are lots of languages that have more speakers and learners than Manx or Breton, and a few people have pointed that out to me, but there are so many languages, pages and resources to research that I simply do whatever interests me at the moment. It's the only way I can continue without being overwhelmed. The languages I'm most interested in myself (Esperanto, Spanish, French and maybe Swedish and Cornish) will get the most attention, any others will appear or expand as I get the opportunity.

I continue adding words to the Spanish Cognates page. This could take a while but it may be a good resource for people as it develops.