woodriff.org what goes around surely must come around

Just wanted to point out some great stores for finding niche products:

Language Shop
Synth Shop
Opal and Myth Shop
Mushroom Shop
Conscious Shop

Free Language now has a section for learning the Persian language!

This makes a total of 16 languages on the site. Currently, these are:

Afrikaans
Arabic
Bahasa
Cantonese
Chinese
English
Farsi
French
German
Hindi
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Persian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Free Language has recently added two commercial language-learning software products to the site in order to generate funds.

Thus far, articles for Rosetta Stone in Rosetta Stone Learn Japanese Level 1 Language Software and Rosetta Stone Learn Arabic Level 1 Language Software have been added.

From the site:

Comments

Rosetta Stone has made a name for itself selling proprietary software that allows people to quickly and easily learn languages interactively.

You may have seen them selling their wares in the airport.

Software License

Rosetta Stone is proprietary software.

View specific license for your country.

Not to be confused with the Free Software GPL Rosetta Stone Library.

Why Commercial?

Commercial software has been integrated to generate revenue for site improvements that will help achieve the mission.

Consequently, the end goal of this site will effectively eliminate the need for commercial software. By then it won't matter because the resources will already be free and the knowledgebase and interface will be open and collective.

Real Deal

We're manifesting funds to better the site, improve user interface and create an online free and open interactive language exchange tool.

From Free Language:

I just finished adding resources for learning the Afrikaans language to Free Language.

Latest additions at Free Language:

BBC Languages French
BBC Better at Languages
Exam English Free Practice Tests

Latest updates in include resources for German, Arabic and Spanish language learners:

Learn German Wikibook
University of Chicago Arabic Circle Lectures Podcast
InstaSpanish.com's Insta Spanish Podcast

Two new podcasts from the folks at Radio Lingua International were added to Free Language:

MyDailyPhrase.com German Podcast
MyDailyPhrase.com Italian Podcast

These are the same folks that produce the very popular Coffee Break Spanish Podcast.

Over the last two days two new podcasts have been added for learning Spanish and French:

Learn French by Podcast
Chile Podcast and Video Podcast

The Second Edition of The Free Language Letter was recently published.

Lots of good info there, so I thought I would republish it here for the heck of it.

Here it is:

Second Edition

This is the second edition of The Free Language Letter. Since the first edition was published over a month ago, a lot has been happening here. Most of these changes regard the growing database of language-learning resources for the 12 languages currently listed on the site. These twelve languages are:

• Arabic
• Cantonese
• English
• French
• German
• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Mandarin Chinese
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

New Resources

Since the last newsletter, 21 new resources have been added to the site:

Arabic

Learn Arabic Language Wikibook

English

The Bob and Rob Show English Lessons Podcast
English Feed English Listening Practice Podcast
Business English Pod Podcast

French

DailyFrenchPod Beginner Lessons Podcast
DailyFrenchPod Intermediate Lessons Podcast
DailyFrenchPod Advanced Lessons Podcast
DailyFrenchPod Video Podcast

Hindi

A Door into Hindi
HindiLanguage.org Website

Italian

Centro Studi Italiani Online Classroom

Japanese

Machigai Podcast
Learn Japanese Podcast at LibSyn
Learn Japanese at Japancast.net Podcast
Underground Global Japanese Tutorial

Mandarin Chinese

ChineseTools.com Website

Portuguese

BBC Languages Portuguese

Russian

Listen 2 Russian Website

Spanish

Learn Spanish Survival Guide Podcast
BBC Languages Spanish
Business Spanish Website

General Tools

Online Flashcard Exchange Community

Coming Soon...

Blogs and Revenue Sharing

At some point in the not-too-distant future, Free Language will be implementing free blogs for language learners. A key feature in this implementation will allow bloggers on the Free Language website to earn revenue from their posts via revenue sharing through Google AdSense.

All content posted in blogs, as with all content posted on the Free Language website, will be empowered by the GNU Free Documentation License, and will thus be public domain. :)

If you are interested in getting in early on this opportunity, please request a BETA User Account and let us know that you are interested in blogging with revenue sharing.

General Language Learning Info Section

Also coming soon will be an extended section with general information about languages and language learning. The information presented in this section will be applicable to learners of any language.

The Free Language Podcast

We will start hosting our own podcast! It will be called, surprise, "The Free Language Podcast". This podcast will feature interviews with some of the leading online language learning podcasters and resource communities. It will, naturally, be totally free. As part of the first podcast, we will be interviewing Steve Kaufmann, founder of The Linguist.

The Blog

Side notes about updates and other such chatter are noted in the blog. Please check in there for frequent updates on the status of the site and other goodies that don't necessarily belong in the main content of the site.

Suggest a Resource

If you have a favorite language-learning resource (or manage a website of your own) that is not listed on Free Language, please let us know by suggesting a resource.

Ciao for now.

The Free Language Community
http://freelanguage.org

Two new resources added to Free Language:

languagecaster.com Learn English through Soccer/Football
Mobile Chinese Flashcards Cell Phone Software

And more coming very soon!