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Radio and TV (on this page)
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Websites and Portals (on this page)
Websites for learning Languages (on this page)

Everything Spanish
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This page was last updated March 30 2008.



Books for learning Languages

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[Pimsleur Japanese]
Pimsleur Japanese I

By Pimsleur

Audio CD. Reader reviews indicate that this course is very effective.
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Click here for Audio Cassette edition

[Japanese ]
Japanese Step by Step: An Innovative Approach to Speaking and Reading Japanese

By Gene Nishi

An inexpensive self-study text for Japanese.
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[Pimsleur Romanian]
Pimsleur Romanian

By Pimsleur

Audio Cassette. There aren't too many good methods for learning Romanian. This is one of them.
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Click here for CD edition

[Chinese grammar]
Beginner's Chinese (Beginner's Foreign Language)

By Yong Ho

A good book for starting to learn Mandarin. Not for pronunciation, but gives a good foundation in grammar and vocabulary.
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The Assimil method for learning languages. French, Hungarian, Spanish, German, Catalan, Hebrew, Portuguese and others. It's worth waiting for delivery.
Assimil

[Pimsleur Chinese language learning]
Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Instant Conversational Language.

By Pimsleur

If you don't get the tones of Chinese right, you'll be very popular as a comedian! You'll be saying things that make no sense at all!
In order to learn to speak Mandarin Chinese, you need to start by hearing it! This introductory Pimsleur course gets you started correctly. You learn by listening and imitating. About $33. If you decide to go on to longer Pimsleur courses, you can offer this one for sale in the Amazon Marketplace or Ebay, so you won't lose your investment.
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[Pimsleur Chinese language learning]
Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin): 2nd Ed. (Quick & Simple)

By Pimsleur

For about $14 this audio CD set will get you over the initial difficulty of Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. You won't learn many words, but it gives you an excellent start.
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[Chinese language writing learning]
Easy Chinese Tutor I (Mandarin) (CD-ROM)

By Edward C. Chang

Learn to write Chinese in small, manageable steps. About $26.
Inspect/Order Easy Chinese Tutor I (Mandarin) (CD-ROM) from Amazon.com

[Pimsleur Chinese language learning]
Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) I

By Pimsleur

This is the full course in Mandarin. For about $235 you get the complete level 1 course. All customer reviews are good. Get this and get serious about speaking Mandarin. This is the way to start.
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[Pimsleur Chinese language learning]
Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) II

By Pimsleur

All the reviews are good for this course. This course can get you up to simple conversation. You will be understood, if you have been listening and imitating all along. You won't learn many words, but it gives you an excellent start.
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[Pimsleur Chinese language learning]
Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) III

By Pimsleur

If you complete this course you will have confidence in your ability to speak Mandarin Chinese. Your pronunciation will be what is required for conversing with native speakers. You will need to expand your vocabulary and learn the written language.
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On-Line Dictionaries

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On line dictionary and word translator. Quite good. Knows that an English word has several meanings! Also gives expressions containing the word. Gives meanings for English classifiers such as "ear" (of corn) and "cake" (of soap)

Dictionary for many languages

Dictionaries for many languages

Foreignword.com - Dictionary Search Tool - DictSearch - Search on-line

Dictionary. Type in an English word, it gives meaning, synonyms in English, plus translation into several other languages.

Translators' Dictionary (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish) From WinDi Multilingual Dictionaries Translates words, not phrases.

Swedish / English Dictionary By Jan Edmund Carlsen Opens your browser to full screen without asking.

Swedish / English dictionary and translator From LingvoSoft

Swedish / French Dictionary By Jan Edmund Carlsen

Dictionary From Allwords.com Definitions in Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, German.

Online Multiple Language Dictionary From Ultralingua.net Also other languages. Well designed, but not complete.

Online English-Romanian-English Dictionary From dictionare.com

Romanian / English dictionary and translator From LingvoSoft

Romanian-English Dictionary From Babylon.com

Common Romanian greetings From lingua.fc-tic.net

Online English Hungarian, Hungarian English Dictionary From Consulting.medios.fi

Dutch, Swedish, Romanian, Finnish, Danish, Chinese Dictionary, Verb Conjugator By Logos.it Definitions, translations, antonyms, words in context. A lot of interesting things on the site. Stay around and browse.

Hebrew-English Dictionary From Babylon.com

Turkish-English Dictionary From Babylon.com

Language Dictionaries By Anthony Goubard useful dictionaries with many different language pairs


Language Translating

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A Translator from Russia. Quite good.

FreeTranslation.com

Langenberg translation

Translator, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian By reverso.net


Radio and TV

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Internet broadcasts change their addresses frequently. These were accurate as of March 2008.

List of broadcasters from many countries. By Humanitas-international

List of broadcasters from many countries By Internettvlist.com

List of broadcasters from many countries By Beelinetv.com

Directory of podcasts from many countries By Podcastdirectory.com

List of broadcasters from many countries. By Dxworld

List of broadcasters from many countries. By Open Directory Project

Turkish Radio, list of stations from ituner.com. Listen online

Romanian Radio from Radio Romania International

Romanian Radio, list of stations from ituner.com. Listen online

Romanian Radio, Kiss FM from Kissfm.ro. Listen online

Romanian TV from Tvr.ro. Watch online

Hebrew Radio, list of stations from ituner.com. Listen online

Broadcast Live Radio and TV from many countries

Watch live TV on the Internet

VOA Many languages

Chinese Russian Turkish Radio VOA Shortwave schedule From VOA. Listen on your shortwave radio

BBC

BRS Media > Web-Radio 2000 > International

Comfm TV and Radio - many countries.

Live Internet Radio Stations Europe

Die Deutche Welle - Several languages

The Voice of Russia. Many languages!

Radio Canada Internationale. Several languages

Radio Budapest Listen online. German, Russian, Hungarian

Radio Austria International. Several languages

Swedish Radio Radio Sweden. Shortwave broadcast schedule

Swedish Radio From Radio Sweden. Listen on line

Israel, Hebrew radio From Kol Israel. Listen on line

Israel, Hebrew radio From Kol Israel. Listen on line

Shortwave radio in Hebrew, French, Spanish, Russian, Yiddish, Hungarian, Romanian From Kol Israel OVERSEAS SERVICE

Dutch radio From Radio Netherlands. Listen on line. Other languages.

Vatican City Radio many languages

Norwegian Radio and TV From Radio Norway: click on "hor pa nettradio" Registration required.

Radio Prague in Czech, English, German, French, Spanish, Russian From Czech Radio: listen live, and shortwave frequencies

Swedish, Korean, Thai, Hindi, Urdu, Chinese, Persian, Swahili, Vietnamese Radio from Radio Japan. Listen online. Other languages as well

Online radio in several languages Radio Free Europe

Websites of internet broadcasters from dxworld Scroll to Radio Station Web Pages.

List of TV available on the web from Free-internet-tv.cz



























































Newspapers and Magazines

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Magazines from many countries

Newspapers from many countries

List of Newspapers and Magazines from many countries

Swedish newspaper Expressen website

Subscribe to Romanian Journal Of International Affairs

Subscribe to Romanian Review


Websites and Portals

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Swedish Yellow Pages from Gulasidorna.se.

Romanian Yellow Pages from Romania.

Romanian Portal Kappa.ro.

Romanian Portal Romania.org


Websites for learning Languages

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HTML Character Codes for several languages From Penn State University How to type accents and letters in non-Latin alphabets.

ALT key codes for typing non-standard characters in Windows From Keyboard Help

Various languages: Slang and very impolite language By Alternative Dictionary. Crude

On Line Encyclopedia in various languages From Wikipedia. Scroll down for other languages

Introductory Japanese Tutorial From About.com, with sound

Japanese Lessons Online From NHK

Learn Turkish and learn about Turkey From OnlineTurkish.com

Learn Turkish online From Wikipedia

On Line Encyclopedia in Swedish From Wikipedia

Introduction to Swedish By Urban Sikeborg

Learn Swedish online From Wikipedia

Fun English/Swedish picture dictionary from Enchantedlearning.com

Swedish verb conjugations By Verbix.com

Learn Mandarin Chinese online BBC

Common Romanian greetings From lingua.fc-tic.net

Romanian proverbs From Wikiquote

Learn Romanian online From Wikipedia

On Line Encyclopedia in Romanian From Wikipedia

Romanian verb conjugator By Verbix.com

Interesting site! Type in some Romanian text, it will read it out loud From Expressivo.com

On Line Encyclopedia in Dutch From Wikipedia

Biblical Hebrew From Bible101.org

Biblical Hebrew From Hebrew4christians

Bible in Hebrew From Fourmilab.ch without vowels

The Kaddish in English and Hebrew From Mnemotrix.com Transliterated, translated into English. Hebrew has vowels.

The Kaddish in English, Hebrew and Russian From Weilfuneralhome.com Transliteration, translation into English and Russian. Hebrew has vowels.

Hebrew prayers, with English transliteration and translation From Jewishappleseed.org includes the Blessing: Baruch Atah Adonai.

Hebrew Alphabet From Akhlah.com Scroll to "Learn Hebrew"

Hebrew Lessons From Hebrew World/Living Israeli Hebrew many topics here

Hebrew Expressions From Learnhebrew.org.il

Modern Hebrew for Beginners: Tutorial From U of Texas at Austin. An excellent interactive introduction to modern Hebrew

Hebrew Songs From Groups.msn.com Hava Nagila, Hinneh ma tov, Shalom Aleichem, Ha Tikvah

On Line Encyclopedia in Hebrew From Wikipedia

Learn Hebrew online From Wikipedia

Improve your Fluency with Various Languages with your Short Wave Radio Liston on the air














































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