What are the leading language learning blogs in languages other than English?

I would like to follow some blogs on language learning in other languages. Any suggestions on the best ones to follow? I would also like to ask these bloggers to review LingQ.

Comments

[Jonathan Mahoney]

I would say I read http://www.ajatt.com the most.

[Chris]

Of course AJATT is to be recommended, but 99% of it is (a tad ironically) in English.

The only one I can think of is a series of websites made by a Korean guy called Hyunwoo Sun, who is quite popular on YouTube and Twitter. He speaks impeccable English despite, to the best of my knowledge, never having actually lived outside Korea. He also speaks French, Spanish and I think some Mandarin. Very cool guy.

www.hyunwoosun.com

[Balint]

May I recommend my own blog? :) It is in Hungarian, and covers a language learning project (speaking five languages in five years, started on 25th of January, 2009). Sharing ideas and experiences along the way. By the way I'm about to change the language to English, just as a good practice to my written English, and of course to reach wider range of users. :D ( otevotnyelv.blog.hu)

[sander]

Hi Steven,

Here are two that I like, one German, one English

http://www.weltweit-urlaub.de/sprachen/

http://lingformant.vertebratesilence.com/

regards, Sander

[Luiz]

Hello Steve!

Me and Mario are working on a blog about language learning, in portuguese: http://www.languagefreaks.com.br

It's new but I think we can write a review about lingq

[Steve Kaufmann]

Thank you for this information. I will contact AJATT, hyunwoosun, and the two German sites.

Balint, I would love to have you write a review of LingQ for your blog, in Hungarian and English. By the way, if you join LingQ and put a LingQ banner on your blog you can earn points from people who click on the banner and join LingQ.

We would also like to stay in contact with you for when we start to offer Hungarian at LingQ. Don's ask me when that will be.

Luiz, it would be great to see a review of LingQ at your blog in Portuguese. I have listed your site on my blogroll. Maybe you and Mairo could also do some podcasting in Portuguese. We could put these in our Portuguese library with links back to your blog.

[Chris]

Steve,

I've seen it mentioned a few times, but a Japanese interview with Khatzumoto would be awesome! His site's so popular among Japanese learners, that I imagine it would draw a fair bit of traffic this way if a recorded interview between him and yourself were to be put up in LingQ. Just a thought.

[Balint]

Steve,

I've already joined LinqQ and have used a bit. I will definitely have a deeper look, the idea of LingQ is really close to my style of learning.

And I'm happy to write about the site (of course I have to use it for a while beforehand). And I'll put the LingQ banner on the site.

I'm more than happy to help anyone who is interested in learning Hungarian. :)

And last but not least: thanks for the Spanish LingQ podcast, they will help me a lot! :)

[Steve Kaufmann]

Balint,

I am glad you like the SpanishLingQ podcasts. I think they are great. They do not have much of a following so any publicity you can give them would be appreciated.

[Dale]

I like this one its in English but its full of useful language learning tips for Japanese and some Korean

http://www.victorymanual.com/

[Frigyes]

Hey guys, what about Turkish? I'm looking for ages for a good Turkish, relevant blog (not just grammar explaining) but I can't find. Any ideas?

[Balint]

Steve,

Certainly will. Unfortunately, even the "popular" languages lack of good learning materials, which contain audio AND transcript. I find LingQ to be a good source of useful, (native) materials, based on real life situations, so I'm happy to promote them.

I'm rather busy at the moment, but in a few weeks everything should calm down and I'll try to focus on learning on LingQ.

Best regards,
Balint

[Steve Kaufmann]

Thanks Balint, and take your time on the review, but it will be appreciated.

And Frigyes, give us some time and we will have Turkish at LingQ.

[justin]

What a sad bunch of responses, mostly a bunch of links for specifically the thing not asked for: sites in English.

If only I could find some sort of GOOD, CONTENT-FILLED resource for language addicts in Chinese or Japanese. But, alas, I have nothing... so I continue wasting time online that could be spent reading in those languages reading about my topic of interest (language learning) in English. *sigh*

[Steve Kaufmann]

Justin,

I am sure these resources exist for Japanese and Chinese too. You could also ask at our LingQ forum. What is your level in these languages?

[justin]

Steve,

You would think so — but I've had no luck finding a blog like yours or a cool forum like how-to-learn-any-language even with a good bit of Google-hunting. My listening isn't stellar, but I'd be good to read a blog like yours without a dictionary (or minimally anyway) in either language. Especially Mandarin.

[Debbie]

Babel 2.0 is a great site that I found that has lots of language learning tips and information about great resources on the web. It's completely in Spanish and I've found it very useful. By the way I am really enjoying the Spanish Podcasts on Lingq