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  • Bak Ansa: The first newsletter written in Jamaican Creole, using the Cassidy/LePage orthographic system. Bak Ansa is a monthly newsletter dealing with all types of subjects, with the aim of making a contribution to the standardisation process. It is distributed by email and through our e-group.
  • Fun With Words: Fun-With-Words offers both an educational and entertaining voyage through the lighter side of the English language. With 600 pages of articles on wordplay, language trivia, and word games it covers topics such as: redundant phrases, ambiguity, etymology, tongue twisters, anagrams, palindromes, pangrams, rebus puzzles, the longest word, word riddles and more. Related books are reviewed and recommended.
  • Language Lizard: Language Lizard LLC is your best resource for award-winning bilingual (dual-language) and multicultural children's books, CDs, posters and world maps. Books are in English with Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Farsi, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Gujarati, Gujarathi, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Mandarin, Nepali, Panjabi, Patois, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Slovakian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, or Yoruba. Our newsletter, CULTURE CONNECTION, offers helpful information on early language learning for parents and teachers raising bilingual and multicultural children.
  • Language Museum: Language Museum is a linguistic website which provides samples of 1200 languages in the world.
  • Lowlands-L Anniversary: A celebration of Lowlands languages and cultures with party guests from near and far! In celebration of our anniversaries we bring to you a Low Saxon folktale translated into a good number of Lowlands language varieties, both in written and in spoken form. Hopefully, this will illustrate the sorts of similarities and differences we regularly discuss in our forum. Also—in celebration of human language globally—we are bringing you translations into other languages, as party guests, so to speak. If you are a language lover, this is an event you don’t want to miss.
  • My Spanish Picture Dictionary: My Spanish Picture Dictionary is a new online resource to learn Spanish (or English) words in a fun way. Each word in the dictionary has an English - Spanish translation and a photograph of the item. The interface is simple and both kids and adults will find this new resource entertaining and educational.
  • Picto-Coding: Syntactical codings - in colours and shapes like traffic signs...Could they play a role in learning, comparing, accessing, and enjoying the beauty and commonality in modern languages and modern language traffic? "Cook your own German" featured site.
  • Some of Giladiator's Logological Pieces: Logology, constrained literature, palindromic story, bilingual homophonous poem, palindrome, language play, Ivrit, Hebrew, Italian, Lear's in Israel, Word Ways, recreational linguistics.
  • Speculative Grammarian: The premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics.
  • Word Masher: Paste any text you wish into the Word Masher, and send the output to a friend or colleague.
  • WordsAhead (Judy Ramirez): The central component of my work is the teaching of correspondences between individual SPEECH SOUNDS and their spellings.
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