Web pages to learn Belarusian

This post shows a list of web page to learn and practice Belarusian online.

Belarusian is an East-Slavic language spoken by over nine million people as a first language in Belarus and in other countries.

The languages most similar to Belarusian are Russian, Ukrainian and Polish.

• Belarusguide.com - http://www.belarusguide.com/dictionaries/
• Belarusian audio lessons - http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/eng/lessons.asp?pr=audio
• Belarusian from Wikibooks - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Belarusian
• Pravapis.org - http://www.pravapis.org/
• Vitba.org - http://vitba.org/

If you want to know more about Belarusian, read more information from Wikipedia: Belarusian language.

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Paradise Uruguay Blog: Montevideo Language Exchange - Uruguayans, expats,...

Interesting language group in Montevideo, Uruguay. If you're around, want practice languages and have fun,   it's a good choice.

• Paradise Uruguay Blog: Montevideo Language Exchange - Uruguayans, expats,...: It’s Friday evening in the Montevideo neighborhood of Pocitos. I am approaching Costa Azul Café where the Montevideo Language Exchange is meeting. I see a long row of tables outside with more than 20 people sitting on each side. As I approach, the subtle humid scent of the city gives way to the smell of pizza.(...)

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How do you become fluent in 11 languages?

Sometimes, people believes that they cannot learn a language, although they can. Read the following news from the BBC about a student who speak several languages. Amazing!

How do you become fluent in 11 languages?

BBC. 21 February 2012
Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings has won a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student.

The Oxford University undergraduate can currently speak 11 languages - English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan and Italian.

Entrants in the competition run by the publishers Collins had to be aged between 16 and 22 and conversant in multiple languages.

Alex drew on all his skills to tell BBC News about his passion for learning languages and how he came to speak so many.

Watch the video of Alex Rawlings talking about languages in 11 different languages: How do you become fluent in 11 languages?

In addition, you can meet people who is interested in practicing and exchanging languages in Babelan.

Resources for foreign language tutors - BBC Language Tutors

BBC Languages is a great resource for students of languages. It's got audio and video courses for students of French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portugues, Chinese and so on.

As well, BBC Languages has got a web page for foreign language tutors. It's focus on tutors of French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Here, teachers can find different resources. You can find news and programmes online in the Foreign-language TV. Transcripts are available to download.

It's worth visiting the areas where you can read tips, guidelines and internet resources.

There's a forum where you can post your tips and read what other teachers say about teaching strategies.

Also, in order to get the latest, you can sign up the monthly BBC Languages newsletter that features current highlights from the Languages site.

• BBC Language Tutors: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/tutors/

Practice & learn languages

In Babelan, you can contact native speakers and practice foreign languages.

Learn Russian the Fun Way

Victoria is a Russian native speaker who also speaks English. She built Learn Russian the Fun Way, a blog that teaches you Russian.

She states in her blog: I do believe that learning a foreign language doesn’t need to be boring. It can be fun! This is why I am starting this blog – to make learning Russian fun and easy for you.

The blog is fun. It's got video lessons, posts about cultural topics, useful vocabulary, helpful hints about learning Russian, interesting links, phrases to get by in Russian and so on.

In additon, the blog has got a page with tasty recipies from Russia and Ukraine: Борщ, пельмени, блинчики... (do not miss it out).

• Learn Russian the Fun Way: http://www.funrussian.com

Bellow you can watch a lesson from the blog: Colours in Russian. Enjoy!



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Language exchange

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Web pages to learn German online

Some sites where you can learn German for free online. Enjoy:

Aprender alemán

BBC Languages - Learn German

Deutsch happen

German from Wikibooks

Hauptstraße 117

Languages Online - German topics

Manual de alemán para hispanohablantes


If you know more online resources, please, leave a message and a link.


Links

• Babelan. Meet people who learn and practice languages (German, Spanish, English, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic...).

How To Learn A Foreign Language

Georg Grey, a freelance language teacher and translator - English, Spanish, German, reflects on language learning in his blog Thoughts On Life And Livin'.

(...) I don’t approve of most language teaching methods as applied by modern language schools, and it will become more transparent why in the course of this article.

His tips are quite interesting. He suggests to learn a foreign language as a toddler learns their mother language. And he recommends to avoid direct translation.

(...) If you have already learned a foreign language, or you are in the process of it, you will inevitable feel that you are translating one language into the other. And that’s the fundamental mistake most people make.

Hence, read the whole post and take into acount his tips: How To Learn A Foreign Language.

Finally, if you know tips about learning languages, you can post a comment or leave a related link.

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• Babelan. People learning, practicing or teaching languages