More language resources (classical)

Of course, for those who want their languages classical (that is, classical Latin and Greek), may I recommend www.textkit.com. This is a most valuable resource, in that Greek and Latin primers of the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries have been converted to pdf files and made available on the internet. These texts include primers, prose composition, and explicated classical texts such as The Iliad and The Annead.

And for those of you who want language courses which include sound files, may I recommend www.kypros.org. This website touts itself as the largest online course in Greek. While it mainly teaches modern Greek, it also includes a course in classical Greek, and promises to produce more such courses. It would be worth further examination. While I've been unable so far to find any online Latin courses which include sound files, may I also recommend an approach to Latin as a living language here, based on the teaching of Fr. Reginald Foster.

For Latin and Greek resources, I must recommend the Oxford University Classics Resources webpage. Another good source for online Classical resources is the Blind Bookworm's Guide to Latin and Greek, which has a wealth of links to other Greek and Latin pages in the internet.

Some Language Resources

This is going to be organized better later, but I have come to the conclusion that it is better to get it out today and imperfectly, than to wait forever until things are finally perfect.

The first website that I would recommend would be FSI Language Courses. This is a nonprofit group, who take FSI language courses (which were made by the U.S. Government at public expense, and which are in the public domain), and put the tapes and records into sound files, and the language manuals into pdf files. So far, they have gotten 21 languages online free, from Amharic to Vietnamese.

If one wants to learn how to learn a language, a good beginning can be found here. While I think that I have something to add to the matter, I believe that I will wait until I have something more substantive to add here.

Of course, if you want a bit more range as regards the number of languages taught, may I recommend Word2Word. While this is a link to a good number of different language websites on the internet, the most interesting thing for me is this link: one to online courses for more than one hundred languages.

Enjoy.