Articles about 'Language Sites'
June 19th, 2012
It can be difficult to roll your R’s when speaking in Spanish. This video gives some great tips to get those R’s a-rolling!
Enjoy!
Mama Lisa
February 17th, 2012
Open Culture has a page of free language learning links covering 40 languages.
Here are some of the languages you can find links for…
Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Maori, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swahili,...
November 2nd, 2010
French Self-Taught, by Franz J. L. Thimm (1905) was just posted on Librivox with mp3 recordings. (You can listen to it streaming on Internet Archive if you prefer a player.) You can also read the book online while playing the recordings in the background.
The recordings are broken down by chapter on subjects ranging...
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July 14th, 2009
I stumbled upon this page today: a list of some musicians who have recorded children’s music in Spanish.
Enjoy!
Mama Lisa
June 8th, 2009
Hello songs are a wonderful way to help children who are learning a foreign language. It’s also nice for children to always sing the same song at the beginning of a class. Hello songs are great for this.
The song below is called “Bonjour”. It’s a French hello song written and...
March 14th, 2009
Radio France has French news podcasts that are spoken a little slower than normal for people who don’t speak French as a first language. I found them reasonable to understand. Check it out if you know some French and would like to practice!
If you’re fluent in French, up to a challenge, or just want...
February 19th, 2009
Richard wrote to me recommending a Danish kids song site…
Hi
On this web page Rimogremser.dk there are several Danish kids songs with midi files.
Thanks for a good a good web-site ;)
Best regards
Richard
Thanks for the recommendation Richard. The site is nice! It has cool line drawings to go with most of the songs and tunes...
January 24th, 2009
Guest blogger, Monique Palomares works with me on Mamá Lisa’s World en español. Monique grew up in a multilingual family in southern France. Spanish is one of the languages she spoke growing up.
If your parents or grandparents had a different mother tongue from yours and if you lived your childhood in such a multicultural...
December 23rd, 2008
I just found a treasure trove of online recordings of Spanish kids songs and the Spanish lyrics in PDF form in an online book called CANTAR, TOCAR Y JUGAR – Juegos musicales para niños (Sing and Play – Musical Games for Children) by Pilar Posada Saldarriaga.
Enjoy!
Mama Lisa
December 17th, 2008
Here are some new and old language tools worth mentioning…
Speech Accent Archive – If you’d like to hear or study accents in English check out this site. People from all over the world recite a paragraph in English.
Internet Slang Dictionary & Translator – also translates internet acronyms like lol
Nice Translator – Uses the Google...
November 26th, 2007
Here is one last poem about Autumn before I focus on the topic of the upcoming December holiday season.
I came upon this poem while looking for French podcasts to brush up on my French in anticipation of a trip to France in the Spring. There’s a whole podcast in French devoted to...
October 1st, 2007
We’re very excited to make an important announcement – Mama Lisa’s World, our collection of children’s songs from around the globe, is now available in Spanish!
Mama Lisa’s World features almost a thousand kids’ songs from more than a hundred countries and cultures. Many are available in the original languages, with translations into...
September 9th, 2007
I found an interesting feature in Webster’s Online Dictionary at http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org . If you set it to “Non-English” and type in a word – it will give you that word in all of the languages it has for the word, with the definition. That’s pretty interesting to see.
For instance, the...
July 30th, 2007
Do ducks quack in the same way all over the world? Of course the answer is, No! English ducks say, “Quack! Quack!“, French ducks say, “Coin-coin!“, and so on…
Discover the different sounds that ducks, horses, pigs, cows, frogs and roosters make in different languages at The Quack Project. They let you...
June 14th, 2007
WineMama has an interesting discussion on her blog about her determination to raise a bilingual child and the difficulties she faces.
April 14th, 2007
The International Children’s Digital Library is a wonderful site to visit with children where you can read online books in many different languages. You can choose to browse books by country, by age group, and by language. They have picture books for young kids, and chapter books for more advanced readers.
You...
March 16th, 2007
Tracey wrote:
Lisa
Are you able to assist me with how to pronounce the Spanish words? I’d like to teach my grade the nursery rhymes.
Thank you,
Tracey Morand
Hi Tracey,
There are some recordings of Spanish songs on my site. You can find 3 on the Mama Lisa’s World Mexican Children’s Song Pages and more on the Mama Lisa’s...
December 4th, 2006
If you’re trying to learn a new language, I’d recommend checking out LanguageGuide.org.
Users visit different theme related pages (i.e. about insects, the family, the farm). Each page has images related to the theme. You place your cursor over the images and hear their names pronounced and see them spelled out in...
September 12th, 2006
Check out the video of The Bath Song over at Super Simple Songs. Your kids and/or students will get a kick out of it!
-Lisa
July 25th, 2006
The other day I was reading a post on a blog called French Word-a-Day. Kristin Espinasse, who writes it, was talking about an incident where her child was sick. Her French friend was present and there was a certain uncertainty about the “correct” way to take her child’s temperature. Kristin was using...
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