Saturday, 6 September 2008

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

Sunday, 13 July 2008

Learning Bibilical Hebrew

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

Wednesday, 9 July 2008

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

Sunday, 6 July 2008

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.

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

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

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Ablative/Ablaut grammer in Indo-european languages

Examples are

sang
sing
song
sung

The vowel varies according to meaning.