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FSI Language Courses

Nathan — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:00:00 +0000

I’m excited about this find. These free language courses were originally written for the United States Foreign Service Institute. You can buy them on Amazon but be ready to pay a lot more than you wanted to spend.

Here’s a list of the courses available (so far):

Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cambodian (Khmer), Cantonese, Chinese, Chinyanja, Czech, Finnish, French, Fula, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kituba, Korean, Lao, Lingala, Luganda Moré, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Sinhala, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Vietnamese, Yoruba

Literacy Center Games

Nathan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:15:12 +0000

I just discovered this alphabetics website. I’m going to try it out on my kids. I suspect they won’t like it as much as some other sites with more bells and whistles, but I think the site’s activities are probably good at teaching alphabetics.

East German Underground

Nathan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:07:17 +0000

No one could successfully accuse and convict me of being a fan of Rammstein, but I think I might like the earlier underground music that came before the band. The underground bands were constantly pushing the limits of the German Democratic Republic (DDR).

I made this discovery while listening to this interview with Paul Landers (Radio Goethe). I enjoyed the old and weird music of Paul Landers and I liked his descriptions of making music in the DDR and of what life was like in the transition after the wall fell.

My German Jukebox

Nathan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:10:44 +0000

With some exceptions, this playlist includes German music that: (1) was recorded in the 1980s or 1990s by German groups, (2) has German lyrics, and (3) doesn’t suck.