"yǒuyìsi: adjective meaning "interesting" in Mandarin Chinese."This was the tweet I got today from 'Chineselanguage' on Twitter.
The creators of the daily tweets in Chinese send a new word each day as well as other useful language learning resources and info relevant to people interested in learning Mandarin.
The links from each new word go to their home page where an audio file of the new word can be heard, as well as a sample sentence and the Chinese writing of the word... This is a potentially great way for anyone to easily build up their vocabulary...
But the tweets aren't limited to Chinese... Whether you're interested in French, Spanish, German, Hindi, Korean, Arabic, Polish, Finnish.... Whatever. These guys, Transparent Language, seem to have a tweet and blog for loads of of them. Simply type in the language in the search section of twitter followed by the word 'language', for example for french type in "frenchlanguage", then follow the user that appears.
If you don't know what twitter is, simply click here to find out...
A list of blogs these guys have, and of which I also follow a few as they go more into detail and have loads of other free language learning resource links can be found here
And if you're interested in practicing the language by speaking it with others I suggest some kind of group of people with this same aim in mind...
In Paris there's a group called the POLYGLOT club that come together a few times each week in a bar to just speak different languages. There are people from all over, it's free and loads of fun. Check it out here.
You could look for a similar group wherever you live or even consider to create one yourself if you don't have any luck finding any...
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