Lingua Clara

[wolven7]

I need linguistic and pronunciation resources and I need them for as many languages as possible. Indo-European, Asian, Latinate, Germanic, Celtic...

Suggestions?

bakeneko, cailement, and kitsuchan, I'm looking very closely at you.

Anyone else with a linguistics background and interest, please comment here, or e-mail me. Thank you.

Comments

[davidsfoley.livejournal.com]

Mind if I piggy-back on this?

A future project involves the text of Ave Maria in varied and sundry languages.

What's your project?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Not a problem, really.

Mine's something i'm working on, for someone else. Can't really talk about it, right now, though.

[davidsfoley.livejournal.com]

Understood.

I'm sure that all will be clear in time.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

I'm a fair hand at Spanish, French, Italian and Latin. If I don't know it offhand, I can understand the resources available online.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

oh and adric, ladylabyrinth and blackironcrown are all topnotch for German,

[halafax.livejournal.com]

German and arabic here...

along with red neckese....

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Do you know of any Arabic pronunciation guides, online?

[mendori.livejournal.com]

Sure, don't look at me, the one who can read two types of Gaelic, Latin, some old german and old english, and knows enough klingon to get me killed in a bar fight.

[mendori.livejournal.com]

rot yittmey ghom Hoch
-shrugs-

[cailement.livejournal.com]

I'm not so good at the linguistics . . . for japanese language resources I use jimbreen and google language tools for most of my traslatory needs. I don't know of a site that actually breaks down japanese for linguistic purposes. For pronunciation, I've occasionally found online something or anothers that have the clicky for the listening, but nothing fantastic. Nothing that will tell you how to pronounce the language with 100% accuracy. I don't quite know what you specifically need, so I can't really help more than that.

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

Books or internet?

Chinese:
Books: For books, I would suggest going to the GSU library and looking up a basic Chinese textbook. Most of them will start with pronunciation information. There's lots of linguistics books about Chinese, but they're going to be pretty technical, and if all you you want is pronunciation and crash course in how the language works, linguistics books are probably more than you need. But I can suggest some if you want.

Internet: Sushu's Chinese 101 page. She did it as a guide to help fans of the comic Strings of Fate, so it's geared at anime fans who speak a little fan Japanese, but it's a pretty good basic introduction to Mandarin, including both characters and tones. This website helped me understand what I would be getting into studying Chinese.

I'm feeling lazy this morning, so I'll leave the Japanese to Jyn and Kim and just add anything I think they've missed.

Also, wikipedia's pages on languages often have decent pronunciation guides.

This may also be useful.

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

Oh, www.nciku.com has clicky pronunciation links for Chinese, too. And pinyin.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Thank you, very much.

[razelore.livejournal.com]

I've got Latin, some Greek, and some Middle English, I'll help where I can.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I need pronunciation guides, for as many languages as I can find, so I can do phonetics comparisons of a certain term, across languages.

i can't really describe the project, past that, as I'm under a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

(headtilt)

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Are you Argentine, or learned from such?

Another note about Argentine Spanish, they borrowed enough Italians that they usually give their "c"s an English "ch" sound.

wolven, I don't know prexactly where it is, but at such point as I find it, I'd be happy to loan you my Rosetta Stone. Language CD set with pronunciation guides.

Re: (headtilt)

[wolven.livejournal.com]

but at such point as I find it, I'd be happy to loan you my Rosetta Stone. Language CD set with pronunciation guides.

That would be completely perfect, on a number of levels. Thank you.

[anarchette.livejournal.com]

Did you know Blake majored in Classics and Linguistics?

We should hang out. D:

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I've been saying that, for weeks.

Get over here, damn it.

[anarchette.livejournal.com]

as soon as i can ;_;

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Soon soon.