Most Beautiful Language in the World

I'm adding another survey to the site. I was just wondering what other people thought was the Most Beautiful Language . I have my own opinions, but I thought it would be neat to collect as many other opinions as possible. I included space for the most beautiful spoken language and the most beautiful written language.

Lots of other changes and additions coming to the site as well.

Polish and Spanish

Julio Foppoli wrote a great little article a while ago on using the prepositions 'por' and 'para'in Spanish. I found it very useful and added it to the site.

I've finally added a page on Polish. I will be adding many more pages in the days to come.

The Speak Any Language forum appears to be finished. I know there had been a few hacks disrupting the site in the past. I felt the site never really had a fair chance to get off the ground. It's too bad, but luckily there are lot of alternative language forums.

Pimsleur Swedish

I've written a review for Pimsleur Swedish . I've decided to begin to add language-specific reviews of Pimsleur products that I've actually used. Although the format of each Pimsleur product is pretty much the same, I thought at least I could highlight some of the differences that come up with some languages. And, of course, I could explain with some examples why I don't like their shorter products but do like the Comprehensive courses. I'll be adding others for Spanish Comprehensive, Japanese Instant Conversation, French Comprehensive and Italian Comprehensive. Other examples of shorter courses will probably follow.

Ouch, it's been a while since I posted anything here. I've made some changes to the Language Learning Experiences Survey page. I've split the previous poll into two polls on the same page in order to clarify whether the questions were about current or past language learning experiences. If you havn't done so already, please take a moment to fill out one or both of these polls.

I've also had a few more articles recently published off-site. You can read Learn Languages for Free and Learning Languages On Your Own - What You Can Expect to Achieve on ezinearticles.com.

Thai and Byki

I've added a page for Thai. Other language pages should be coming fairly steadily.

I've been including a link to a free vocabulary trainer from Transparent Language on many of the language pages on the site. It's a great way to begin learning a language for free. There is a version for many different languages. Free Before You Know It™ download

I've also updated the results on the Hardest Language to Learn Survey page.

New Pimsleur Courses

Simon and Schuster has been updating their Pimsleur line of products. They expanded their Farsi Compact course to a full 30 lesson Comprehensive level 1 course late in 2005. They have done the same for Czech, Korean and Thai, and they are adding a Comprehensive Level 1 course for Hindi in October. Other additions include Turkish Comprehensive Level 1 (in December 2006), Hebrew Level 2 and Eastern Arabic Level 2 in early 2007. Let's hope they continue to add to and expand on their current line of products. Personally, I would like to see a Swedish Comprehensive course, but I know there are other languages that are probably more lucrative for Simon and Schuster.

Easiest Language to Learn Survey Update

There are some results for the Easiest Language to Learn Survey page. I waited to get a reasonable sampling before compiling some responses. I took the sampling on August 15th, but I have only posted the results now. There have been plenty of other responses since then, so I will most likely update the results on the survey pages on a fairly regular basis, at least for a little while.

Thanks to everyone who took a moment to fill out this survey or any of the others. They will remain on the site in order to continue to gather info from new visitors.

Learn Greek

The most recent issue of the newsletter went out last week. If you missed it, you can view Issue#003 here.

I've also added a Learn Greek page on the site. This page is for Modern Greek, but a page for Classical Greek is coming up soon to keep adding to my 'dead languages' pages.

Language Learning Experiences Survey

Another survey on the site I just added is Language Learning Experiences Survey. It's a general survey to gather info about peoples language study habits. Please fill it out if you have a moment.

Read my recent article What Makes One Language Harder or Easier Than Another? on Ezinearticles.com

Language Surveys Pages

Here comes the flood ... I've put up some survey pages in order to gather some information from visitors. The Surveys page will have links to surveys as I add them, as well as links to other sites that have similar information. The Hardest Language to Learn Survey has been on the site for a while in a few locations. Now I have a permanent home for it. There is also some results on that page for anyone who is interested. I also added an Easiest Language to Learn Survey . Please participate and fill out these simple forms if you haven't already. I will be adding others in the near future and I will update results from time to time.