LANGUAGE and LITERATURE

Contents

• Language
• Education
• Dictionaries and translation
• English
• Asian languages
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Semitic languages
• Arabic
• Hebrew
• Other
• Literature

• Huis van het Nederlands - Antwerpen
• BE Volwassenen Onderwijs Encora (SCVO) - 14 talen van Arabisch tot Zweeds
• BE Volwassenen Onderwijs

Dictionaries and translation

• Oxford English Dictionary - subscription (eg via RHUL)
• Oxford Dictionaries
• foreignword.com
• EC translation service - requires EU login
• deepl.com
• translate.google.com
• www.interglot.com
• Transifex - used by e.g. I2P - paying service
• Systran
• ES - Wikilengua
• BabelFish - automatic translation

English

• EF.com - Learning languages including English and French - tip from Chris M.
• EF.com on English
• EF.com on forming possessive
• Differences English-UK/US

Asian languages

Chinese language

Chinese - CVO

• Mijn-CVO - admin
• CVO Moodle - uid=cursistnummer@cvoantwerpen.org
• ChinesePod - login CVO / login gmail
• Chinese Pod Daily Life Newbie course

Chinese pronunciation

• Pronunciation - Colby (US, Maine)
• Pinyin practice - tip CVP
• Maorma - tip BD
• Audio uitspraak - San Francisco State University (legacy url)

Chinese characters and flashcards

• ZhongWen root pictographs and ideographs (wen)
• ArchChinese - stroke order
• Ocrat stroke order diagrams and other tools
• AnkiApp - flashcards - importable from Chinese Pod (not on Linux)
• In Chinese Pod you can click on “vocabulary” on the left-hand bar and then click on “export”. An excel sheet of a vocabulary list with pinyin and translation will be downloaded to your device. Then you can import it to Anki or Quizlet, where you can make them into printable flashcards.
• Quizlet - flashcards

Chinese dictionaries and translation

• MDBG.net - dictionary/translation - look up Chinese, Pinyin, English - provides stroke order
• translate.google.com
• Pleco (Android/iOS) - Chinese–English dictionary - includes CC-CEDICT
• CC-CEDICT - downloadable Chinese–English dictionary, used by Pleco and MDBG
• Xiandai Hanyu Cidian dictionary (paper) - Wikipedia - 'Modern Han Language Word Dictionary'

Chinese grammar

• MandarinHQ
• MandarinHQ - making sentences

Chinese/other

• BBC Real Chinese
• Chinees-leren.nl
• ChineseTest.cn
• TED Shaolan - learn to read chinese pictograms

Chinese on computer

• Pinyin editor - hao3

Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK)

• HSK - Wikipedia
• Pinhok HSK exam preparation

Japanese

• JP Kanji on YouTube - JapanesePod101
• JP Kanji - WaniKani

Semitic languages

Arabic

• Html rendering 'Right-to-Left'
• lexilogos.com - keyboard layouts
• Arabischetaal.be - Farhan Althawabi
• Arabic keyboard
• Qutrub (vervoeging)
• Musaref appspot (vervoeging)
• Arabicpod.net - Misr
• LiveMocha.com
• Verbace.com - woordenboek
• AR-NL Alfabet
• AR - Quran - wordbyword
• Egyptian vocabulary
• Egyption popsongs translated
• Arabic music translation
• Babylon
• Bablylon - Arabic dictionary
• Acon.Baykal - vervoegingen - tip van JokeJ
• mediamatic.nl - El Hema project
• Khtt.net - Khatt foundation - Centre for Arabic typography
• Al-Baab.com - Amine Bouchentouf
• Arabic in Cairo - including private lessons from 1 week onwards
• Yemen - Yemen Language Centre
• NL/AR - Jan Hoogland
• UAE - Lootah
• arabischetaal.startpagina.nl
• Arab Academy - Egypt
• I-cias - arabic lessons on-line
• I-cias - overview of arabic countries
• From Patrick G: al bab local language courses

Hebrew

• Bablylon - Hebrew dictionary
• Hebrew dictionary
• Learning Hebrew

Other

Eesti

• EE - Estonian dictionary - aare.pri.ee
• EE - Estonian dictionary - Teema/Teadus/Filoloogia/Sonastikud
• EE - Estonian language institute

Literature

• Alain de Botton (How Proust Can Change Your Life, Art as Therapy, ...)
• Habiba.org - Arab writers such as Nizar Qabbani
• Pakistan - Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Urdu)
• Ghazal - Wikipedia
• Ahdaf Soueif - London/Cairo - Mezzaterra
• Nawal Saadawi - candidate for the 2004 presidential elections in Egypt