Language Tutorial

I just really want to learn Russian so is there a good free site to learn the language? Mabe with step by step and audio aids.

masterrussian.com is good for a starter =)

There's a really good book called the Penguin New Russian Course!! You should take a look at it =) Anything more and you can email me, I'm trying to learn Russian

I Love Spanish!

Si tu castellano es avanzado, puedes llegar a nivel intermedio de portugués en un año y a un nivel avanzado en dos o tres, tomando aproximadamente tres horas de clase semanales durante nueve meses al año. En mi caso, soy hablante nativa de castellano e hice el profesorado de portugués en la Embajada de Brasil en Buenos Aires en tres años. El profesorado nacional de portugués en Buenos Aires, en la escuela superior de Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández" tiene un plan de cuatro años de estudios y acepta ingresantes sin conocimientos previos de portugués. Espero que estos ejemplos te den una idea.

There are about 10 people that will be traveling to Tanzania several times and we all want to learn to speak swahili, we are all adults. We are looking for someone to teach us one day a week. We are in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. Please reply to this with a way to contact if you can help! Thank You!

I suggest posting your add here:

http://tulsa.craigslist.org/

I understand that Japanese is a very hard language, but I'm willing to learn. Can anyone give me some guidelines?
Is there any way that doesn't involve a teacher?
OK, I'm confused, should I learn Katakana or Hiragana first?

Guide or teacher it is best to have the help of a person who has gone before. To start you should learn hiragana as you can write everything in it. But, you should not neglect katakana. And, you should start in using kanji as soon as you've hiragana down. Japanese is a mix of all three. While you are learning hiragana you can learn to pronounce Japanese. That part is very simple. To learn by yourself you will need some books on grammar. I think grasping the grammar and learning to read and write kanji are what makes Japanese seem difficult. Kanji just takes time. You can learn about 100 a year. You just write them CORRECTLY over and over. and it gets easier and begins to make sense. When you write them also you learn the pronunciations (the Chinese and Japanese readings called onyomi and kunyomi.) Japanese syntax is SubjectObjectVerb.and is aided by postpositionals called particles or joshi in Japanese. A good book on grammar should have ample examples of this. And, the other difficulty is verbs and their conjugations. Learning hiragana will help you with this, you will see. Just realise that you are going to have to put some time in to learn it.
I found that teachers can help with the kinds of things that we learn in school. Reading and writing kanji would be one of the things that I found classes helpful with. But, it was a college class on Japanese overall. And, also friends in particular native speakers will inform you of your shortcommings. They are teachers.
I taught Japanese in college here and basically you need to know hiragana. Katakana is used like we use italics for foreign words and for emphasis. It is the same syllables as hiragana over again. Learn hiragana first.
I basically taught Japanese grammar as I thought that the most important to learn and yes there are various levels of politeness but you only need to learn one to start and the verbs and endings that go along with that. You will learn the others almost automatically. As Japanese is frought with polite expressions.
I repeat you need to learn the postpositionals (particles) and the verb conjugations… knowing hiragana will help you with this.

i would like it if i learned italian quickly and i want to be fluent.

Rosetta Stone

I have checked the Rosetta Stone software and that is over $200. I was wondering if any one knows of any kind of software/books that you can learn German from for under $100.

http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/default.aspx

That's the FSI language courses from the '60s. It's got a good German course and it's free!
The downside is that it's somewhat boring and just focuses on grammar drills and such. Also, some of the words are a little dated.

http://www.assimil.com/

That's a company's site that makes really good books to learn languages. There's a german course in English, and if you speak French there are several courses. You can buy the books + CDs on amazon for pretty cheap and they're great.

I'm 13 but I'm waaaaay behind in French, does anyone know a website where I can learn French and have fun, like with cutesy games and activites and stuff? Something colourful to get my attention. Or just a site in general that you think could be helpful…Help much appreciated!

Well my German teacher keeps pushing http://www.languagesonline.org.uk, they also have French though.

And there's always http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/french/ The BBC has a very good selection of revision and games in most subjects at most levels.

I'm interested in learning how to speak Arabic but I don't feel like learning how to write in Arabic. Is it possible to speak it without learning the alphabet or learning how to write in Arabic? Any suggestions on how to learn it?

Generally speaking it is possible. But you would completely have to rely onto your ear and use transcription methods if you need to write something down in order to memorize words and expressions. It is possible but I am convinced that it would be by far more difficult way than using ten days of your time for learning Arabic alphabet. Since I learned Arabic in school, I can tell you that Arabic alphabet isn't difficult to learn at all. As a matter of fact, it is quite easy, you need about 10 days to master it (28 letter signs in 4 variants depending on their position within a word, my point is, nothing harder than learning English alphabet, actually much easier) and from my experience I noticed that Arabic is in strong connection with its alphabet, you can see logical connections between different words more easily, you can find roots, you can get into the structure of the language if its written in Arabic. All of that helps you learn and it is a great savor of time although it doesn't seem like that at first glance.

Hi,
How do you change the language in Dreamweaver? Because my tutorial is in french and I want to change the language to french so I can understand better.

oh it is easy miss .. you just need to press on
Ctrl + U
And then going to General and change spelling dictonary..
in the bottom.

I am a Russian girl who wants to learn English language and grammar. I am looking for online English language books for Russians. Can you please help me find resources on internet?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Francesca
Paid if not too costly is alright also.
Note: Somebody else is typing this for me.

do a google search for 'englishtips'. Click the website at the top of the list .. im sure you will find something useful there .. but don't tell anyone I told you ok?