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Historical Thesaurus of English
The University of Glasgow's thesaurus of almost every recorded English word, from Old English to today, sorted by meaning and dated.
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Norway of the dayntnu.edumixNorway
Norwegian on the Web (NoW)
A free Norwegian course from NTNU: ten chapters where every text has audio, plus grammar, exercises, pronunciation drills and flashcards. No sign-up needed.
Italy of the day@EasyItalianmixItaly
Easy Italian: Italians on the street
A YouTube channel teaching Italian through street interviews: Katie and Matteo quiz passers-by in Milan and other cities, with Italian and English subtitles on every video.
Site of the daytatoeba.orgmixWorldwide
Tatoeba: sentences in every language
An open, volunteer-built collection of sentences and their translations: millions of examples in hundreds of languages, many recorded by native speakers. Free and weirdly addictive.
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@linguisticdiscoveryenWorldwide
Linguistic Discovery: linguistics with Danny Hieber
A PhD linguist explains how languages work, where words come from and how writing began, with plenty of lesser-known languages.
Ethiopia of the day@LearnAmharicFastenEthiopia
Learn Amharic Fast: Amharic from scratch
A YouTube channel teaching Amharic, Ethiopia's main working language, in English: the fidel script, everyday phrases, and real-life dialogues at a market or bus stop in Addis Ababa.
Site of the dayseeingspeech.ac.ukenWorldwide
Seeing Speech: watch speech from the inside
An interactive International Phonetic Alphabet chart: click a symbol to hear the sound and watch MRI and ultrasound footage of the tongue and lips as it's made.
Site of the daylibraryofbabel.infoenWorldwide
The Library of Babel
Borges's short story turned into code: a library holding every possible 3,200-character page. Search any sentence and you'll find it's already on a shelf.
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Telegram of the day@JohnnysWorldOfPoetryenWorldwide
Johnny's World Of Poetry: a poem every weekday
One poem a day, Monday to Friday, posted in full — from Catullus and Han-shan to Emily Dickinson, G. K. Chesterton and Charles Bukowski.
TikTok of the day@langfocusenWorldwide
Langfocus: languages of the world, briefly
Paul Jorgensen of the Langfocus YouTube channel explains how languages work and why English grammar is stranger than it looks.
Ireland of the dayduchas.iemixIreland
Dúchas: Ireland's Folklore Archive
Ireland's National Folklore Collection online: tales, cures and customs written down by schoolchildren in the 1930s, plus old photos and audio.