Saturday, 20 December 2008

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

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

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