Learn a language via social networking
Well now here’s a pretty nifty idea. Palabea.net is a social networking site designed to foster the learning of a new language.
It’s a free service that hooks people up internationally so that everyone becomes both a student and a teacher to someone else. In other words, if someone wants to learn English, I can become their English teacher by creating my own video tutorials, podcasts and documents, or simply by communicating with them online via video or audio chat.
Language exchange, grammar lessons, video recording facilities, online dictionaries and more are all made available for free via the site. The only problem I can forsee is naughty trolls using the site to teach people things that will get them into trouble, like teaching someone who wants to say “Which direction is the beach?” that to say it in English, they must say “I would like to lovingly fornicate with your dog”.
Source: Palabea.net (with a somewhat confusing URL of palabea.com)
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August 1st, 2008 at 3:52 pm
that reminds me of monthy python´s hungarian lessons of english, but anyway, i´ve tried palabea and it´s pretty cool
and now i can say i am three months pregnant in finnish:
olen kolmannella kuulla raskaana
hope it doesn´t mean something naughty
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Have you thought of considering Esperanto?
It’s a serious question and I ask not because it has become a living language, but because it has great propaedeutic values. Esperanto helps language learning.
Detail can be seen at http://www.lernu.net
October 31st, 2008 at 9:12 am
@Brian Barker: I’ve just got around to looking into this now. Lernu.net has got to be one of the best sites I’ve ever come across. And Esperanto… Wow! In one day, I’m already learning the structure of the language and how to identify objects: Mi estas Tim! Vi estas Brian Barker. Woo! Gxi estas flavan kaj grandan bananoj. (I think)