Entries from June 2007 ↓
June 13th, 2007 — Online Resources
Looking for newspapers from a particular country? Online Newspapers presents you with drop-down lists for each major area of the world:
- North America
- South America
- Central America
- Asia
- Asia Pacific
- South East Asia
- South Pacific
- Middle East
- Africa
- West Indies
Each drop-down list contains countries that exist within the area. Once you select a country, a list of newspapers from the country is presented.
Not only is this an excellent language learning resource, it’s also great for learning about other countries and cultures as well.
June 8th, 2007 — Online Resources
Need language learning materials? Your local library is a great place to “check-out.” (Har har.) Libraries are not only limited to books — many also offer tapes, CDs, VHS casettes, and even DVDs. I’ve personally come across many FSI (Foreign Service Institute) courses, Pimsleur courses, and many books too.
Libraries are incredibly useful for previewing material. Preview it at the library or bring it home for a few days or weeks to give things a thorough look. If you like it enough, buy it online or at your local bookstore.
The only thing bad about libraries is going there to find something — waiting for a free computer, or even worse, browsing through the card catalogue. Not anymore — WorldCat to the rescue.
WorldCat makes finding material at your local libraries easy. “Search for an item in libraries near you.” Try it out — it’s free!
June 3rd, 2007 — Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Malagasy, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, Romany, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Yiddish
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) is one of the most beloved books existing on this planet by both children and adults alike. Luckily for language learners, it’s one of the most translated as well. With over one-hundred translations, this book is perfect for creating your own dual-language student reader.
Unfortunately, obtaining The Little Prince can be a slow process for most languages in the United States. The easiest places to obtain the book are the slowest to order (special orders/general slowness). However, if you want a good student-level book that you can obtain in many, many languages, The Little Prince is a great choice.
You can purchase The Little Prince from WorldLanguage.com and Multilingual Books from TLP: Page 1 and TLP: Page 2. Beware of ridiculously slow orders (and high prices, probably due to import costs).
Because of the slowness and high prices, I have compiled a list of translations that you can purchase from Amazon directly (note that I have only included items that are in stock). The list is small, but useful for many.
- Arabic
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin
- Spanish
You can also find The Little Prince online in numerous places. However, the work is under copyright (in the U.S. at least) and is most likely posted illegally. I’ll leave it up to you to do your own searching if you wish. Here are the titles for languages I’ve found thus far:
- Afrikaans — Die Klein Prinsie
- Albanian — Princi I Vogel
- Arabic — al-Amîr al-Saghîr
- Armenian — Pokrig Ishkhane
- Bengali — Khude Rajkumar
- Bulgarian — Malkiyat Prints
- Catalan — El petit príncep
- Croatian — Mali Princ
- Danish — Lille Prins
- English — The Little Prince
- Estonian — Väike prints
- Finnish — Pikku Prinssi
- French — Le Petit Prince
- French Regional, Gascon — Lo Prinçot
- French Regional, Languedocien — Lo Princilhon
- Galician — O Principiño
- German — Der Kleine Prinz
- German Regional, Alemannisch — Dr chlei Prinz
- German Regional, Alsatian — D’r klein Prinz
- German Regional, Bavarian — Da kloa Prinz
- German Regional, Fränkisch — Der klaa Prinz
- German Regional, Hessisch — De klaane Prinz
- German Regional, Kölsch — Dä kleine Prinz
- German Regional, Luxemburgisch — De Klenge Prënz
- German Regional, Pfälzisch — De kläne Prinz
- German Regional, Saxon (Low) — De kütte Prinz
- German Regional, Swabian — Dr kleine Prinz
- Greek — O míkros príngipas
- Hebrew — Ha-nasikh ha-qatan
- Hindi — Chhota Rajkumar
- Hungarian — A kis herceg
- Italian — Il Piccolo Principe
- Italian Regional, Ladin — Le Pice Prinz
- Italian Regional, Napoletano-Calabrese — O Princepe Piccerillo
- Japanese — Hoshi No Ojisama
- Korean — Orin Wang-ja
- Kurdish — Mirzaye Bicuk
- Latin — Regulus
- Latvian — Mazais princis
- Malagasy — Ilay Andriandahy Kely
- Norwegian — Den lille prinsen
- Persian — Shahriar Kudzhulu
- Polish — Maly Ksiaze
- Portuguese — O Principezinho
- Portuguese (Brazilian) — O Pequeno Príncipe
- Romanian — Micul print
- Romansch — Igl Pitschen Prenci
- Romany — O Cino Krajoro
- Serbo-Croatian — Mali Kraljevic
- Slovak — Malý princ
- Slovenian — Mali princ
- Spanish — El Principito
- Swedish — Lille prinsen
- Tamil — Kutti Ilavarasan
- Thai — Jâau Chaai Nóoi
- Turkish — Küçük Prens
- Yiddish — Der kleyner prints
June 2nd, 2007 — Additions, Spanish
Spanish is difficult.
The amount of language learning resources available for Spanish is amazing. Spanish is thought to be one of the easier languages of the world to learn and maybe that’s due to the abundance of language learning material for Spanish. It’s just confusing for me and I’m sure for others too, making this resource all the more worth it. I believe I’ll be spending more time sifting through and reviewing Spanish resources than I will actually learning the language.
The first draft of the Spanish language learning resource page is complete. It’s without descriptions of each resource and is missing content in a few sections, but it will all come together soon.