Learning a language websites

http://www.busuu.com/.
Social network where you can learn English, French, German or Spanish.

www.bbc.co.uk/language
chinese,french,gaelic,german,greek,irish,italian,japanese,polish,portuguese,slovak,spanish,urdu,
welsh.
12 week courses

http://www.coffeebreakspanish.com/
podcast course
lessons last 15-20 minutes

http://www.livemocha.com/
160 hours of 21 languages for free.

http://www.mangolanguages.com/

http://www.myngle.com/

http://www.parlo.com/

http://www.verbalplanet.com/
usual languages,plus russian,turkish danish,dutch swedish,czech and arabic

http://www.babbel.com/
english,french,german,spanish

Water and its cognatives

Originally from IE *water, it has cognatives in the following languages.
armenian,macedonian and phrgyian;Bedu
Gaelic;uisge; rivernames Ouse and Usk,axe,exeter whiskey and origin of the word whiskey

German;Wasser
greek;hydro
Hittite;vatar


Rivernames which are related possibly include the following;

Bedinja;croatia

Weser;germany

Mountain and its related words

Mountain is related to;
Basque;mendi
Latin;mons
possibly related to welsh pen and pindhos, a mountain range in Greece

Learning French

Alliance francaise is offering teaching in small groups from 22 September 2008.

http://www.alliancefranaise.org.uk/

telephone 020 7723 6439

Audiomagazines.com offers a french cassette or cd

Learning Bibilical Hebrew

A website classicalhebrew.com claims to be able to help you to learn biblical hebrew.

Journal of Indo-European Studies(JIES)

This journal has articles on Indo-European phonology,grammar ,words. various cultures possibly connected with Indo-european languages like the Kurgan Culture and linguistic features etc etc

Rosetta Stone software

This software,it is claimed can made you think and speak like a native speaker.

I believe languages like French and Spanish are avaible.

Learning Chinese

I understand that there is a website Chinesevoice.com which may help you to learn chinese if you want.

Insula

The latin word insula is related to

Gaelic/Irish;ennis/innis,sometimes angalised to Inch eg Enniskillin
Greek;nesi,nesos, believed to be pre-greek
Welsh;ynys

There is a village called Insula in the Ahr valley, rhineland

Ablative/Ablaut grammer in Indo-european languages

Examples are

sang
sing
song
sung

The vowel varies according to meaning.

Pre-greek placenames and words in greek

the following placenames are supposed to be pre-greek.
Achelos/Akheloos;related to thracian achel`water'
Ardettos
Athenai
Corinthos;possibly related to indo-european *ghor;horde
Ephesos;possibly related to an Indo-european word meaning bee cf. Apis
Hymettos
Ilissos;might be related to ilium;old name for Troy
Kifissos;possibly related to the word meaning head
Labraunda; related to labyrinth
Larissa;means citadel
Lekabettos;leks might mean light/white
Mycenae
Parnissos/parnon;may be related to Hittite word meaning house
Tiryns;could it be related to Indo-european *dhgerem `earth'



The following words are pre-greek
Labyrinth;believed to be related to luwian labrys`double headed axe from *dabyrinth

Last Eyak speaker dies

Marie Smih Jones who died aged 89 in Anchorage, Alaska was the last fluent Eyak speaker.
She compiled an Eyak dictionary and a grammer guide as well as a book of Eyak stories.

The Eyaks occupied 300 miles of Alaska from Prince William Sound to the Copper River Delta.