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Update 13/03/06
Lots more Gaelic sites added on this update, not unrelated to my taking
the distance Gaelic course (An
Cùrsa Inntrigidh) run by Sabhal
Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye.
New Links
- CALL 4 All. Described as a
"A
Virtual Encyclopedia of all major language learning links, Web dictionaries
and Computer-Assisted Language Learning organizations in the world" ,
this site aims to be the definitive compendium of links to sites and
resources in Computer-Aided Language Learning (CALL). Links are briefly
annotated, and sorted alphabetically by title.
- Colin
and Cumberland. The website of the BBC Gaelic learners series
for children full of Flash games, quizzes, animations, all with audio
clips. Great fun for kids and regressing adults :)
- Litir
do Luchd-ionnsachaidh. The famous Letter to Gaelic Learners,
broadcast weekly by Ruaridh MacIlleathain on BBC Radio
nan Gaidheal. Each 'letter' consists of a story with linguistic
help and vocabulary, and is available as a downloadable MP3 audio
clip and a PDF transcript. The service is aimed at learners with
some experience of Gaelic.
- Tir nam Blòg. A nice
(we)blog written entirely in Gaelic, with links to as many other Gaelic
blogs as the author can find (hence the name).
- Gaelcast. A podcast in Gaelic.
As the 'casts' are in MP3 format you can play them on your computer
with MP3 software, or download them to play on a MP3 player or even
an iPod. The casts are quite up-to-date and not too hard to understand
for this beginner, and provide some nice native speaker listening.
Recommended.
- Taigh
na Gàidhlig. A forum for learners of Gaelic, the successor
to the late lamented forum at savegaelic.org which went 'off air'
in January 2006.
- Wikipedia Gaelic. The famous
contributory online encylopaedia with a Gaelic interface and Gaelic
language articles.
- Lá. "
The
World's Irish language daily ", with news, sport, articles,
and more. The daily edition can be downloaded as a free PDF file
for offline printing.
- Portuguese Food
Dictionary. Culinary terms in English and Portuguese, sortable
by either language and alphabetically.
- Arabic Teacher. Language
learning software for Arabic, covering all levels from Beginner to
Advanced.
- Babylon Idiomas. Spanish
language schools in Spain (Valencia, Barcelona) and Argentina (Buenos
Aires), offering a range of intensive, qualification, and business
courses.
- Spanish language online
radios. Links to over 400 online Spanish-language radio stations
across the Spanish-speaking world, sorted by country. The site also has
some useful, well-annotated links to other online resources for learners.
- Scottish
Gàidhlig language & culture. A forum set up as a near-clone
of the late, lamented savegaelic.org learners forum, and run by a
very enthusiastic learner called Màirìn based
in Maryland, USA, who also maintains the Learner's
Gàidhlig Google group.
- Gaelic Learners.
My own rather quiet Google group for learners of Gaelic, mostly but
not exclusively aimed at students following courses run by Sabhal Mòr
Ostaig.
Deleted links
The following links have been removed because their hostnames couldn't
be looked up (perhaps the domain has lapsed/changed), the URL gave a
404 Not Found error, the site or page was otherwise unreachable, or the
site had otherwise become unsuitable for the collection.
- En Este
País: El español de las ciencias sociales. An online
multimedia course in Spanish specifically oriented to the language
of Social Sciences. Access to the course requires Microsoft Internet
Explorer 4.0 or above.
- Spanish
Links. A collection of links for teachers and learners of Spanish,
sorted by topic (Literature, Music, Politics, etc). Some of the pages
have "scavenger hunts" to encourage students to explore topics in
greater depth.
- European Language
Resources Association. The ELRA is a non-profit organisation
which maintains an online repository of language resources ("recorded
speech databases, lexicons, grammars, text corpora, and terminological
data") for sale to ELRA members and non-members. {Deleted as the site
no longer offers these resources.}
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