Langology

"In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize."

Great Page on Australian language, Australian English, Aboriginal English, and if you are Australian you are invited to record your voice to contribute to their research.

Yabla Interactive develops cutting-edge multimedia technologies designed with language learning and media localization in mind. Further, Yabla develops products which expoit these technologies by blending them with authentic television, film and music in a variety of languages, providing non-natives with effective, content-driven acquisition experiences that are enjoyably pursued on a regular basis.

Lyrics Training is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills like english through the music and lyrics of the songs.

Signing Savvy is the most complete online sign language video dictionary. Signing Savvy contains several thousand high resolution videos of American Sign Language (ASL) signs, fingerspelled words, and other common signs used within the United States and Canada. Signing Savvy is an ideal resource to use while you learn sign language. It also is an excellent reference for your day-to-day sign language needs.

The Arabic word 'meedan' - ميدان - means 'a town square' or 'gathering place.' Meedan.net is a digital town square where you can share conversation and links about world events with speakers outside your language community. Everything that gets posted on meedan.net is mirrored in Arabic and English - whether it's the headlines you read, the comments you write, or the articles you share.

With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.

Professor Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, discusses the importance of preserving dying languages. He describes his experience living with the Piraha people in Brazil, and explores what Piraha, both the people and the language, can teach us about human nature.

This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German and Spanish

Wordorigins.org is devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to etymology. Etymology is the study of word origins. (

The City of Languages (Game) - Goethe Institute

Las lenguas del mundo / Language Planisphere

Learn about National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project, working to document endangered languages. Get language facts, photos, map, and more.

Hello-Hello is a FREE language learning website with a community of individuals that help each other during the learning process.

Fun with #language, language and linguistic news, links, events, research and more.

This page was created to encourage people to speak Arabic in their daily life, be proud of the Arabic language and also to preserve this lovely language from the danger of decline or turning into some strange modern language that would make it loose its' wonderful beauties.

American Sign Language (or ASL) is the dominant sign language of the Deaf community in the United States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, and in parts of Mexico

"The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages."

Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world, the place where you´ll find millions of words pronounced in their original languages. Cool, isn´t it? Be a part of this cultural phenomenon now!

Bab.la is interactive: You can enter your own translation, create your own language test or your own vocabulary flashcard set. babla - Loving Languages!