Monday 26 September 2011

French

There are plenty of web resources around for spoken French.

BBC Language Series: French.

... and I have some Michel Thomas audio lessons on my ipod. If you want to improve, the resources are around you, and they aren't difficult to find.

Monday 19 September 2011

Old English

Watch Eddie Izzard go to buy a brown cow using Old English.

Remember Beowulf? (Now I want to go back to West Stow Anglo Saxon village.)

Monday 12 September 2011

Greek

Look at the Greek alphabet. Click on the audio files to listen how this alphabet is pronounced.

A few lessons are available from this page. Let me know what you think. Would you like to learn Greek?

BBC Languages Series: 10-part introduction to Greek.

You can do a general search on Ancient Greek mythology, customs, food, society. The web is filled with information.