Posts Tagged ‘alphabets’
Feb
Feb
Finding the sounds of Italian
Category: General, Italian · Tags: alphabets,Google,learning materials,using the web,YouTube
Some people have the fortune of a life that allows lots of travel, and for them, the best way to learn a language is, without a doubt, immersion in a country that speaks the language. For most of us, though, our careers or families keep us planted in one spot for most of the year.…
Feb
Feb
The sounds of Italian
Now that we’ve got our alphabets learned, let’s take a deeper look at the sounds of letters and letter combinations, and learn a little bit about spelling.
Mar
Mar
My first impressions after learning the Arabic alphabet
Last weekend I decided to learn to read Arabic. I’m not talking about learning any words, building any vocabulary, or even being able to communicate or understand anything. I just wanted to learn how to read this strange-looking language.
Mar
Mar
Esperanto, a first look
Since choosing to become an active member of the language blogging community, I have started seing Esperanto mentioned a lot. While I have had some basic understanding of what Esperanto is, I didn’t really know any details about it. After seeing it mentioned a few times in response to last week’s post about reasons to learn Spanish, I decided to take a little time to discover what Esperanto is about.
Apr
Apr
It's easy to learn the Russian alphabet!
In a comment on a recent post, someone pointed out that he was learning Czech and that my Russian posts are helpful even though he can’t understand any of the Russian words that I write. Today, I’d like to show everyone how easy it is to learn the Russian alphabet and start understanding those things I write.
Apr
Apr
The sounds of French
When I first got started this with Italian, I started by looking for the alphabet and its sounds, and I used YouTube to hear them correctly pronounced by a native Italian speaker. But several of my readers are learning French, and I never really got things started for them. So today I’d like to just explore the sounds of French.
May
May
Let's learn the Greek alphabet!
Alphabets are scary things — when you understand an alphabet, you are sufficiently equipped to intuit many things about the text written in it, even if you don’t actually know a word of that language. However, when you don’t understand the alphabet, you find yourself saying, “It’s all Greek to me!”
Jan
Jan
Typing in Greek
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m not yet spending any actual time studying… the Greek language. I plan to begin studying intensely when February begins, but for now the most important step is comfortably reading and writing in the native Greek alphabet. Once I begin focused study, I don’t want my progress to