Top 100 Language Blogs 2009 – Nominated Blogs: Language Learning
Jul 8th, 2009 | By Marc | Category: Language Blog Toplist

This is a list of all the blogs that have been nominated for the category Language Learning. After pre-screening, 100 of the nominated blogs were admitted to the voting phase (you will find more details on the process here). Each admitted blog has a 'vote' button atttached to its name. Click on vote to cast your vote for your favourite blog!
Browser other categories: Language Teaching | Language Professionals | Language Technology
PLEASE NOTE: Each category features ALL nominated blogs. Only 100 of these blogs are admitted to the voting phase.
Nominated blogs for category Language Learning
A Swedish American in Sweden - return to Sweden (Vote)
Abroad Languages Blog - Learning languages abroad (Vote)
All Japanese All the Time - How you can learn Japanese (and many more languages) without taking classes, by having fun and doing things you enjoy—watching movies, playing video games, reading comic books—you know: fun stuff! (Vote)
Angielski dla Zaawansowanych (English for Advanced Learners* - Blog about learning and teaching English, translations and Anglo-Saxon culture.
Arabic Blog - Our Arabic blog addresses learners of Arabic as a foreign language. It introduces some aspects of the Arabic language: grammar, vocabulary and dialects, as well as certain aspects of Arabic culture and history. Our blogger, Aziza Zaher, teaches Arabic at a university level and is also a freelance translator. (Vote)
Babelhut - A small space devoted to language and language learning. (Vote)
Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective (Vote)
Mission to Learn - Know Better. Live Better. (Vote)
Ben's Blog - A Midwesterner in the Middle Kingdom (Vote)
BLOGBOGSTAVER - Ordkløverens blog om det danske sprog. A blog on the danish language. (Vote)
bradshaw of the future - a blog about linguistics, especially Indo-European historical linguistics (Vote)
Bringing up Baby Bilingual - All about raising kids with more than one language, including profiles of bilingual families, reviews of books and other materials, suggestions for language-learning activities, and stories about teaching French to young children. (Vote)
bulbulovo - This blog is updated whenever its author, a Semitic philologist in making dabbling into all things linguistic, comes up with a new idea or across an interesting fact. (Vote)
Cactus Worldwide Blog - Learn a language your way! (Vote)
Cantophilia - Don't just learn Cantonese. Learn to love the language (Vote)
China Segment - Feds’ blog about life in China, living in Shanghai
Chinese Blog - Our Chinese blogger, Andrew Carr, official US Rowing interpreter during last year's Beijing Olympic Games, keeps readers updated with useful words and phrases for everyday situations against the backdrop of his life in Beijing. (Vote)
Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk - Learn Mandarin Chinese with theme-based, progressive and easy to follow lessons (Vote)
Chinese Quest - Learning Chinese Blog
Colloquial spanish - Spanish idioms, sayings, phrases, slang and proverbs
Confessions of a Language Addict - Thoughts on language, language learning and the process of becoming a polyglot - from the editor of multilingua.info. (Vote)
Conosci l´Italia - to learn about ItALY
Cuaderno Intercultural - blog which collects and organizes information, resources, advices, new, and everything that can be useful to intercultural teaching and foreign students (Vote)
David on Formosa - Blog focusing the commentary to all things Taiwanese — Taipei, Taiwan (Vote)
Deppenleerzeichen - Deppenleerzeichen | Alleinstellungsmerkmal (Vote)
Der Englisch Blog - Der Englisch-Blog liefert jeden Tag neue Erklärungen und Übungen rund um die englische Sprache. (Vote)
Deutsch für Dich - Tipps, Links und mehr zum Deutschlernen (Vote)
Deutsch ist Klasse - Learning German for Romanians (Vote)
Deutsch lernen - Learning German Blog
Deutsch lernen und studieren in Deutschland - Learning German in Germany (Vote)
Dick & Garlick - Notes on Indian English, Hinglish, slang & pop culture (Vote)
die.hor - Nachts stehe ich nicht auf, um heimlich zu trinken. (Vote)
Doubting to shou - Chinese, Linguistics, Cultural observations (Vote)
Dutch Blog - Our Dutch Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Dutch language and culture. Our original blogger, Alie Koffeman, lives in the Netherlands and has studied short story and novel-writing. Our new blogger is Yohann Kuhn experienced writer and teacher who is currently studying for my M.A. in Dutch linguistics. (Vote)
Dutch’s English Language Oddity Clearing House - This blog investigates the phrases, idioms, slogans and sayings that may have influenced your life
En francais s'il vous plait - A blog from a French teacher on which his corean students can post articles in French (Vote)
English Experts - Blog on studying english as a second language online for Portuguese speakers. (Vote)
Esperanto Blog - Our Esperanto Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Esperanto language. Our blogger, Alex Joy, speaks and studies Esperanto and is very passionate about sharing his knowledge with our readers. (Vote)
Fluent in 3 months - Language learning tips from Benny the Irish polyglot, who speaks 7 languages, and his story as he travels the world to learn new ones! (Vote)
Fool’s Flashcard Review - Flashcard Software Reviews for Language Learners (Vote)
Foreign Language Studies - Articles of this language learner in several languages including French
ForeignLanguageBlog.com - How to learn foreign languages: advice from the Foreign Language Doctor (Vote)
Freestyle Language - learning languages both on the web and off, as well as cool language-related things (Vote)
French Blog - Our French Blog is a series of frequently published articles about French language and culture. Our blogger Chanda Danley is a freelance translator and a certified EFL/ESOL teacher. (Vote)
German Blog - Our German Blog is a series of frequently published articles about German language and culture. Our original blogger, Nathalie La Vache, is a multilingual teacher who lived in Germany for several years. Our new blogger is Yohann Kuhn, experienced writer and teacher, as well as German native. (Vote)
Hanashidake - Italian girl studying Japanese (Vote)
Hanzi Smatter - This blog is dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture. (Vote)
Hindi Blog - Our Hindi Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Hindi language and culture. Our blogger, Kunthra Kim, translates for Samachar.com, an online Indian news outlet for Indian-American readers, and also writes for ISpeakHindi.com. (Vote)
I kinda like languages blog - I Kinda Like Languages
IES la orden bilingue francais-espagnol - Bilingual blog created by spanish pupils studying French
Il due blog - Italian for foreigners (Vote)
ILGUR: Italian Language, Grammar and Usage Resource - Welcome to ILGUR: A "blog" dedicated to studying, learning and improving Italian. Look for regular posts on grammar tips, expanding your vocabulary and usage. (Vote)
Irish Blog - Our Irish Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Irish language and culture. Our blogger, Roslyn Bhloinn is an experienced writer, teacher and a published author. (Vote)
Italian Blog - Our Italian Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Italian language and culture. Our blogger Maria Serena Cricorian, lives in Italy and is a published author and teacher. (Vote)
Italiano in rete - test and training to learn Italian
Italiano per tutti - Exercises and trainings to learn Italian (Vote)
Italy From The Inside - A Scoop of Real Italian Life for Travelers & Friends (Vote)
Jabal al-Lughat - Climbing the Mountain of Languages (Vote)
Japanese Blog - Our Japanese Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Japanese language and culture. Our blogger, Ginny Kim, has worked as an online language tutor for 5 years, and is TESOL certified. (Vote)
JAPANITE Learn Real Japanese - Take your Japanese to a higher level.
Joanne Jacobs - Joanne Jacobs presents her views on current educational topics and themes. (Vote)
Join Martin - Journalist, Martin Drury, has just 1 year to learn as many languages as possible. This blog covers what he does and how he does it. (Vote)
Keith's Voice on Extreme Language Learning - Learning Japanese Blog (Vote)
Kopula - A language nerd's confessions (Vote)
Korean Blog - Our Korean Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Korean language and culture. Our blogger, Ginny Kim, has taught basic, intermediate, and advanced Korean, and currently works as an online language tutor. (Vote)
Langauge Log - General language blog covering a range of topics and aspects of language studies. (Vote)
Language Geek - Tips and tricks on learning languages and language education. Reviews and views on helpful websites as well as articles on tudy techniques.
Language is the People's - English language blog (Vote)
Languagehat - General language blog covering academic language realted issues. Among other things discussing recent developments in the field of language studies. (Vote)
Laowai Chinese - Tips and Strategies for Learning to Speak Chinese (Vote)
larryferlazzo - …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL (Vote)
Learn a language - generally about learning languages (Vote)
learn Italian language - Learning Italian Blog (Vote)
Learn Thai from a White Guy - Learn Thai From a White Guy
Learn Thai Language Blog - Hints and Tips to Improve your Thai Language Learning! (Vote)
Learn that Language Now - Articles concerning language learning (Vote)
Learning Diary - following a student in learning
Learning the Language - Blog on difficult policy questions, explore learning innovations, and share stories about different cultural groups. (Vote)
LearnItalianPod - Learn italian with free podcasts (Vote)
Lingua Italiana - For Spanish speaking students to learn about Italian language and culture
Lost in Japanese - learning the Japanese language
Mandarin Student - English person attempting to learn Mandarin from the Internet. Resources and advice to help other budding Mandarin students in a similar position. (Vote)
matjjin-nehen - language and linguist blog (Vote)
my korean learning journey - Documenting my korean learning journey, sharing the passion to learn.
My Language Learning Blog - A Hungarian student´s diary about her experience of learning languages such as English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, French, Slovak, Czech, Portuguese, German and more to follow in the future! Writing in English and posting in other studied languages, too, with audio clips. Also a bookworm and lover of nice music, besides language- and exam-related musings you can find here book reviews and translated lyrics as well.
My Languages - Resources, Research, News and Views about Language-teaching in the UK (Vote)
My Linguistics - Blogging my experiences in learning Korean.
Name - Description
Nihongo Notes - Lessons and Advice to Help You Learn Japanese ...and a little bit about life in Japan (Vote)
Norwegian Blog - Our Norwegian Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Norwegian language and culture. The Norwegian blog is written by Kari Bergeson, a St. Olaf college alum who has taught Norwegian to both children and adults. Kari wants to share the history of Norway, and its culture - both traditional and modern - with our blog readers. (Vote)
On Learning Brazilian Portuguese - Tips & Web Resources from an American student.
On Words and Upwards! - Your Hapax legomenon is showing…
Owshawng - Chinese language and food
Polish Blog - Our Polish Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Polish language and culture. Our multilingual blogger Anna Etmanska, a Polish native, makes this blog very educational but also very exciting. (Vote)
Polyglot Vegetarian - Grazing through the world of words (Vote)
Portuguese Blog - Portuguese Learning Blog (Vote)
Pukka German - Learn German Podcasts (Vote)
Quixotic Quisling - It's about language, music, art, business and other stuff I care about. Minus what I had for lunch. (Vote)
Russian Blog - Our Russian Blog is a series of frequently published articles about the Russian language and Russian Culture. Our blogger is Josefina Lundblad, a talented and prolific Swedish-born writer who has been living in Russia for several years. (Vote)
SCC English - The English Department of St Columba's College, Whitechurch, Dublin 16, Ireland. News, poems, drama, reviews by pupils of school events, essays, podcasts, book recommendations ... and more (Vote)
Schrift&Rede - Herausgegeben von der Forschungsgruppe Deutsche Sprache (Vote)
Spanish blog - Our Spanish blog brings the latest information about Spanish spoken in Spain and Latin America. It covers grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and culture. Our blogger Adir Ferreira has extensive teaching practice and that contributes immensely to the blog's success. (Vote)
Spanish Only - The blog about learning Spanish, to fluency, on your own and without ever visiting a classroom. (Vote)
Sprachbloggeur - Der Sprachbloggeur
suite101 - The genuine article. Literally.
Swedish Blog - Our Swedish Blog is a series of frequently published articles about Swedish language and culture. Our multilingual blogger Anna Etmanska, who lived in Sweden for several years, makes this blog very educational but also very exciting. (Vote)
Swedish, basically - Learning Swedish Blog (Vote)
Tenser, said the Tensor - Tenser, said the Tensor is the blog of a graduate student in linguistics. It's about language, science fiction, computers and technology, comics, anime, and other geekery. (Vote)
Thai 101 - Thoughts on Thai language, media, and culture. (Vote)
the boundaries of language - English Language Blog (Vote)
The Cunning Linguist - Effective language study (Vote)
The English Blog - Blog covering both old and new Internet resources for learners and teachers of English. Not only reviews and presentations, but also advice on how to get the most out of it. (Vote)
The Language Chronicle - The Language Chronicle has one simple mission: To serve as the ultimate source for information on foreign languages and how to learn them. (Vote)
The Linguist on Language - Language blog for people who love languages or would, but were discouraged. (Vote)
The Smiling Eggplant - All about Italy (Vote)
The Word Nerds - Podcast about language (Vote)
Tjyvlyssnat - This blog is packed with eavesdropped conversations in Swedish. Unfortunatley it is only in Swedish. (Vote)
tłumaczenia i błędy - językowo - Blog about translations and language correctness. (Blog o tłumaczeniach i poprawności językowej.)
Tofugu - A wonky Japanese language and culture blog (Vote)
Tower of Confusion - Blog with general thoughts on interesting language topics with other language learners. Another theme of this blog is multiculturalism (Vote)
Una japonesa en Japón - Construyendo un puente hacia el futuro, entre los países de Habla Hispana y Japón (Vote)
Voices en Español - A bilingual blog (Vote)
Foreign Language Fun - A true language lover's blog (Vote)
Wishydig - English language blog (Vote)
Women Learning Thai - Expat making her way through Thai language and culture (Vote)
Бамбук до небес - About Chinese language, and ist insights.
Врачом в Испанию - Spanish language and possibilities of medical career in Spain
Всё обо всём - The source is dedicated to the learning process of English language
Моссаж мозга - About the better techniques connected to the learing process
Необходимость изучения английского языка - About the actual problems and situations connected to the study process of the english language.
ฝรั่งงง - This is a public space for me to organize, track, and encourage my independent study of Thai as a foreign language. Beyond that, it’s an outlet for my general interest in languages and linguistics.
イギリスで暮らそうっと! - Japanse who works in UK tells her everyday life. (Vote)
それでも、私は日本を愛している!! - Japanese now living in Thailand with her Thai hasband. This is about her life and travelling.
英文ライティング講座 - This is a blog provided by アイモ君 and i-osmosis for English learners. It brings you news and useful information for leaning English (Vote)
To vote for one of these blogs find the Language Learning voting page. If your blog is amongst the 100 selected blogs, you can get you voting button here.
Remember to check back on July 30 to find out who the winners are!
If you have further questions or would like to contact us for feedback email marc[at]bab.la.m
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The next weeks of blogging should be interesting
“Each admitted blog has a ‘vote’ button atttached to its name”. Actually several links above (including mine) don’t have this option. I can vote on through the voting page, but there’s no “vote” option on this page. Perhaps you are in the process of adding it?
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Hi. I have the same issue as Benny the Irish polyglot.
I also don’t have a (Vote) button after my site. And I also checked the voting page, it also doesn’t include my site. And some other sites as well.
I hope you can work on this. Thanks.
Hi,
How does one go about getting their blog listed in the competition? Is it too late?
My site’s still very new, but I’d be amped to get in it.
Hi Rob,
unfortunately nominations are closed since July 6. We will include you next year for sure.
Best,
Andreas
for the Lexiophiles team
@Benny and @owbEe
Please note that only 100 blogs per category have been included into the voting phase after a prescreening. We still wanted to include ALL nominated blogs in the list as all of you have put much work into your blogs. Visit the “how and why” article (http://www.lexiophiles.com/language-blog-toplist/top-100-language-blogs-2009-how-and-why) for more information about the entire process.
Best,
Andreas
for the Lexiophiles team
Haha, two days!!! Okay, thanks anyways. But if there is any way, I will always be interested!
Thanks!
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@Andreas Your response comment isn’t at all related to the error that owbEe and I pointed out… I have no idea what you’re talking about to be honest
Now another issue! (Since you asked). I just tried to vote in a different category and when I tried to refresh the language learning category to see the results (not to vote again of course), in both cases the chart is no longer being shown. It just confirms that I’ve voted. Is this normal? I’m curious to see how the chart changes over time and I currently can’t see any chart. Is anyone else seeing this or is it just an issue for me?
@Marc Thanks for fixing it
Hi! So great that voting started. Unfortunately, I cannot find the “Vote” link at the description of my blog. Could you please add it? Thanks
Oh, OK, I see it did not get admitted.
@Benny
As you probably read in the How and Why article, we decided not to show the results of the voting this year. This is supposed to prevent cheating in combination with a vote logger. I know that the results were visible for a short while when we launched the voting – I am sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.
Feel free to email me if you need further assistance. Until then, good luck for the competition.
Marc
Thanks Marc!!
I had read the How and Why first (and just re-read it), but didn’t see where you said that you weren’t showing the results. I was confused since I had seen the chart at first as you mentioned, but anyway, I think it’s a really good idea- it will just be even more interesting not knowing who is leading until the end 

I’ve seen other competitions like this were there is already a clear winner half way through and most people would stop competing because of it. This new way is much more fun
Thanks – I’ll try to ease off on all these comments now and maybe focus on writing blog posts!!
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Hello,
There are about a dozen blogs that don’t have a vote button next to the name…
Italiano in rete; Japanite; China Quest; China segment; Colloquial spanish etc..etc.
Thought you should know.
It’s a pity that the updated results are not being shown as it is a part of the fun of being in a contest.
Btw – it does bring people back to your site to peek. Often.
See? I’m one of those peekers
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Wow, what a great list!
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@ramona
Last year’s blogs were automatically nominated. We received other nominations and screened the blogs after our Lexiophiles criteria. More information can be found in the how and why article.
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The best one, at least for english learning, is:
http://www.effortlessenglishclub.com
Unfortunately, I can’t vote for that. It’s not in the list !?!?!?
@Pedro
This blog has not been nominated for the competition. I would appreciate it, if you would nominate it for next year’s competition. Best regards, Marc
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Thanks for instigating this voting page. I am very glad that one of my Favorite blog in Languages which is abroadlanguages.com/blog “Abroad Languages Blog” is nominated in this page
I am sure that this page will encourage more languages bloggers to spread more news, events and other updates.
Thanks Marc for posting
keep up the good work
http://www.effortlessenglishclub.com – my bad as I should have submitted AJ’s site but it slipped my mind (site? blog?). If you check in his comments you’ll see hundreds of enthusiastic members showing support for his method.
I too would like to thank Marc and his team for putting this together. It is a hearty undertaking, taking goodness knows how much time to pull off (Marc responded to me via email twice, and looking at that list humongous list, there is the potential of a lot of emails)
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My recommendations for the next time – a good blog for learning English languages (for Germans)
http://www.sprachfetzen.de/blog
Thanks Marc for the reply and for the long list of excellent language learning sites…
Regards,
I can’t seem to vote for my choice of sites. The button will not take my vote.
Good job, go on.
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This is a great list for language learning blogs! I’ve been working on a blog for Russian language learners, as there is really a need for a new resource in the learn Russian arena. I made a video series for learning words and phrases, as well as reading Russian, and am updating constantly. Please consider my blog for next year’s list.. Sorry I missed it this time around! Maybe next time. Anyway, great post! It must have taken a lot of effort.
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Thanks for the great list. I came across the following site which serves the same purpose of teaching different languages spoken around the globe. They deal with reviews and recommendations of top language schools worldwide. They compare language courses and immersion programs to learn English, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, German, Japanese, Russian. Check them at
http://www.my-language-travel.com/
Thanks for sharing such an amazing list.
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