Top 100 Language Blogs 2009 – Nomination started
Jun 22nd, 2009 | By Marc | Category: English, Language Blog Toplist
After the great success of last year’s competition it's time again for the Top 100 Language Blogs competition – now bigger and better than ever. We've added four new categories to the competition and improved ranking methods based on last year’s feedback.
We here at the bab.la language portal made by and for language lovers are trying to get everyone involved in the Top 100 Language Blog competition. The nominated blogs could be about learning a language, tips on how to learn a language, language teaching, commenting on translations or a blog by a professional translator – there are no boundaries set as long as languages are involved!
This is where we need your help: we want you to nominate your favourite blog relating to languages! In a couple of weeks, we will publish our new list of the most interesting blogs and you will then get to vote for your favourite, who knows – you may even find a NEW favourite!
The nomination phase starts today. We have included all of last year's blogs and new suggestions we have received in the meantime. If you haven't received a nomination email yet, post a comment below or send me an email (marc[at]bab.la). You are also welcome to nominate a friend’s blog or other blogs you find interesting.
The last day to submit your favourite blog is Monday July 6, so hurry! If you have any questions about how the competition works, check the "How and why?" article.
You will find the voting page here.
Good luck to all of you,
Marc
I’d like to nominate ALTA’s Beyond Words Language Blog for the Language Professionals category.
Thank you!
I would like to nominate the following blogs:
Alice’s Posterous: http://aliceayel.posterous.com/
Voces en español: http://spanish-podcast.com/
Pensamientos: http://www.marcywebb.com – my own language blog
The Top 100 Language Blogs is a great concept. Thank you for providing the opportunity.
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I look forward to this list of 100 blogs. I hope that you can sort them a little into groups based on discipline after they have made the cut for the grand list.
Here are a few more you can add for consideration:
http://kalinago.blogspot.com/search/label/about-me
hhttp://missshonah.edublogs.org/
ttp://www.englishspark.com/en/blogs
http://theenglishteacheronline.com/
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/
http://dreaminenglish.blogspot.com/
I would like to nominate Jill Sommer’s blog http://translationmusings.com
She is entertaining to read, very knowledgeable and her entries are full of valuable advice for translators, whether experienced or not, and no matter what languages you specialize in. I read her blog regularly. She shares wonderful insight.
I would like to nominate another blog for its podcast on NPR called The World in Words. Its host is Patrick Cox, and the blog is http://patrickcox.wordpress.com/feed/
A lot of interesting facts about numerous languages every week.
I LOVE JAPANESE!!! And I’ve checked SO MANY BLOGS and this one is THE BEST!!!! It has EVERYTHING!!!! I just love it!!!!! http://nihongo-dekimasu.blogspot.com/
I want to nominate the Beyond Words blog, which can be found here: http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/
Thanks for the contest! I’m looking forward to checking out the winners.
I want to nominate Thoughts on Translation by Corinne McKay.
http://thoughtsontranslation.com/
Her posts are always relevant, entertaining and full of useful information that translators can apply to their business to improve their bottom line.
Thank you Corinne for such a wonderful blog.
I tried sending in my nominations yesterday morning but I don’t see my post above. Apologies if this is posted twice…
I would like to nominate the following for the “Language Learning” category :
http://www.gbarto.com/multilingua/confessions/
http://mylangblog.blogspot.com/
http://aspiringpolyglotblog.wordpress.com/
http://www.omniglot.com/blog/
http://languagegeek.net/
http://www.foreignlanguageblog.com/
http://extrememandarin.blogspot.com/
I would also like to nominate the following for the category of “Language Professional” :
http://mox.ingenierotraductor.com/
http://ecotranslator.blogspot.com/
http://pbtranslations.wordpress.com/
http://translationmusings.com/
http://www.polyglot-blog.com/
http://www.dillonslattery.com/
http://www.blog.wahlster.net/
http://thoughtsontranslation.com/
I would like to nominate the following blogs:
http://cornelia.siteware.ch/blog/wordpress/
http://arnaba.wordpress.com/
Thank you!
Hi Marc,
I would really like to nominate several blogs instead of just one – do hope that’s okay!
Language Teaching
http:///larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
http://www.tefl.net/alexcase
http://www.jamiekeddie.com/
http://myeslcorner.blogspot.com
http://cd-2006.blogspot.com/
http://burcuakyol.edublogs.org
http://thespellingblog.blogspot.com
http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com
http://sixthings.net
http://lunas994.blogspot.com
Language through technology
http://www.24minutesenglishaday.blogspot.com/
http://ihopeitworks.blogspot.com
http://bloggingandsocialmedia.blogspot.com/
http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/
http://educationaltechnologyinelt.blogspot.com/
http://efl20.com
Language Learning (for students)
http://www.englishspark.com
http://www.strictlyenglishusa.com/blog/
http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org
http://englishcefblog.blogspot.com
http://www.bite-sized-english.com
http://yourcaeblog.blogspot.com
http://www.theenglishweb.com
http://englishonthe.net
http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com (*disclaimer: one of mine)
Learning with students, class blogs
http://endelvallesi.blogspot.com
http://room201.edublogs.org/
http://teacherdevelopment.tumblr.com
http://finally5b.blogspot.com
http://tedistandbul5thgraders2009.edublogs.org
Whoops! That was a few more than anticipated, they are so many great blogs!
Looking forward to the voting.
Take care,
Karenne
If I’m allowed to, I’d like to submit my own blog, The Engine Room. I’m a sub editor (copy editor) here in the UK so I write about language use from a journalist’s perspective, as well as touching on other issues. I try to keep it fairly light-hearted and we have a regular ‘word of the day’ spot too.
http://engineroomblog.blogspot.com
Last year we managed to come 118th so it would be great to break into the top 100. I’d like to think the blog has improved over the past 12 months, with more varied posts, a greater emphasis on visual content, and an embedded (language-related) Twitter feed. Oh, and a Flickr group too.
Thanks for the nomination, guys!
One good one I haven’t seen nominated yet is:
http://www.boxoftricks.net/
For the learning through technology section
Best
Nik Peachey
I’d like to nominate some blogs for the category “language learning”:
http://www.babelhut.com
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog
http://www.nihongonotes.com/
http://www.spanish-only.com (my own blog, if that’s allowed)
For Polish learners of English:
http://www.isel.edu.pl/blog/index.php
For your consideration:
esletc.com – in the language teaching category
Thanks!
Dave
http://blog.web-translations.com/ is one I regularly visit so would like to nominate please.
Thanks a lot for nominating “Translator Power”
I would like to nominate two italian blogs: one about teaching Italian
http://ipsinrete.blogspot.com/
and anther one about learning Italian
http://italiaeoisagunt.blogspot.com/
Hi:
I would like to nominate the blog of my good friend and colleague, Natalia Zudaire (super-geek, English-Spanish translator and localizer). Hope you like it. Tecnotradublog: http://tecnotradublog.com.ar/
All the best!
Mariana
Seems that my nomination didn’t get through.
I’m nominating these three blogs in the category “language learning”:
http://www.babelhut.com
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog
http://www.spanish-only.com (my own blog, if that’s ok).
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Thanks for the nomination!
Danke fuer die Nomination!
Arna
OK, I’m going to be vain and nominate my own ICT for Language Teachers blog:
http://ictforlanguageteachers.blogspot.com
It serves mainly as a link to new topics that appear at the ICT4LT website, which is a large collection of modules dedicated to the promotion of ICT as a tool for teaching and learning foreign languages:
http://www.ict4lt.org
Section 12 of Module 1.5 lists several teachers’ blogs.
Graham (aka Groovy Winkler in Second Life)
Hi! I also want to nominate my site:
http://mylinguistics.wordpress.com
It’s a blog for my Korean learning experiences. But I also tend to post other languages that I’m learning. ^^
Hi,
I would like to nominate our blog from http://blog.busuu.com – it´s a mixture between stories from our start-up experience with the language learning community http://www.busuu.com and language learning tips (we recently launched a nice language learning widget under http://www.busuu.com/widgets which you can get for free for your own blog).
We hope you find it interesting and good luck to all the participants!
Bernhard
Co-Founder of busuu.com
Hi..
I’d like to nominate a Thai language school who have recently launched a blog. They have adopted really cool teaching methods which they discuss and display on the blog (among other things relating to Thailand)..
http://blog.effective-thai-language-classes.com
Plus a super Thai language blog with a much more personal feel:
http://www.womenlearnthai.com
Thank yoouuu…
I would like to nominate http://www.mylangblog.blogspot.com
This is great, I´m so curious about the results!
I would like to nominate the following blogs.
Language learning:
http://aspiringpolyglotblog.wordpress.com/
http://hangukdrama.wordpress.com/
http://37languages.wordpress.com/
http://thearabicstudent.blogspot.com/
http://natural-language-acquisition.blogspot.com/
http://littlang.blogspot.com/
http://www.omniglot.com/blog/
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/gaikokugo_daisuki_ojisan
Translation:
http://kellytranslates.wordpress.com/
Language teaching&learning:
http://www.tofugu.com/
http://www.sinosplice.com/life/
http://parksguide.blogspot.com/
http://www.towerofconfusion.com/
Oh, thanks to Kelly for nominating MyLangBlog
My comment did not appear, so I´m posting it again. Here are my nominates!
Learning:
http://aspiringpolyglotblog.wordpress.com/
http://37languages.wordpress.com/
http://thearabicstudent.blogspot.com/
http://natural-language-acquisition.blogspot.com/
http://littlang.blogspot.com/
http://hangukdrama.wordpress.com/
http://www.omniglot.com/blog/
Teaching:
http://parksguide.blogspot.com/
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/
http://www.tofugu.com/
Translation:
http://kellytranslates.wordpress.com/
Somehow my comment with the links did not even appear with the text “Waiting for moderation”. Is there an email address where I could send the links to the sites I would like to nominate? Thank you very much.
I would like to recommend my Asian Travel Blog 2009 because I referred about all the languages I came across on my travel and gave survival phrases in each first episode of a country I visited. Also I explain some cultural facts along with language facts.
Just go over to http://www.georgfromgermany.tk and press the link to the “Asia Travel 2009″ blog page. Or read the blog here on lexiophiles.com in the “Georg on Tour” corner.
Hi. I would like to nominate My Linguistics. Here’s the link: http://mylinguistics.wordpress.com. Thanks!
I would like to nominate Mr. Verb: http://mr-verb.blogspot.com.
Language changes: deal with it.
Hi,
congrats to this very nice initiative – I would like to propose our blog http://blog.busuu.com as well for the list. It´s a mixture between stories from our start-up experience with the language learning community http://www.busuu.com but as well we give tips about how to improve your language skills and talk about topics generally related with language acquisition. .
All the best for the other participants!
Bernhard
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Hello,
I would like to submit my own Japanese language blog.
http://japanite.transvista.net/
Hi,
I’ve got two nominations. Our own ‘London Language’ (mainly posting examples and resources discussed in or relevant to our language and linguistics classes at Middlesex University in London) which I think might already be nominated:
http://billydug.typepad.com/londonlanguage/
Also, the Language Log, run by Mark Liberman, which is very busy with linguistically interesting discussion:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
Billy
I’d like to nominate our translation blog – http://blog.tomedes.com
Thanks for nominating my blog!
I would like to nominate Lingua Portuguesa, an interesting and useful blog with lessons of Portuguese grammar.
http://licoeslinguaportuguesa.blogspot.com/
I’d like to nominate http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/
Wonderfully enlightening and extremely interesting!
Raf
I’d like to give you this website http://www.tradonline.fr/blog with interesting views from a translation agency, about the market, the clients, the profession, etc.
I would like to nominate
http://www.chrisharte.typepad.com
I think the blog videos are fantastic for learning a language.
Sincerely, Keishin
I think the video blogs are fantastic!
Sincerely, Keishin
In the Language Professional category, I’d like to nominate Serena Dorey’s Marketing Translation blog, which is doing a great job in educating clients about translating marketing materials.
http://www.marketingtranslationblog.com/
I would like to vote for the Cactus Language Training blog. They are celebrating 10 years in the language learning business this year and they do great work for language learners.
http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/blog/
Here’s my nominations:
Language learning:
http://mylangblog.blogspot.com/
http://natural-language-acquisition.blogspot.com/
http://mylinguistics.wordpress.com/
http://aspiringpolyglotblog.wordpress.com/
http://hangukdrama.wordpress.com/
this is a really great idea (: I get to know more language related blogs! ^^
On Words and Upwards – Educational and humorous look at nonce and uncommonly used words.
http://www.onwordsandupwards.com/
Many thanks to Kelly for nominating my blog, http://www.polyglot-blog.com
I would also like to nominate the following:
http://translationmusings.com/
http://thoughtsontranslation.com/
http://aspiringpolyglotblog.wordpress.com/
http://mox.ingenierotraductor.com/
http://www.dillonslattery.com/
http://www.fluentin3months.com/
http://blog.philippahammond.net/
http://www.nakedtranslations.com/en/blog.php
http://maskedtranslator.blogspot.com/
http://translationtimes.blogspot.com/
http://simmer-lossner.blogspot.com/
http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/
My nomination:
All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to Learn Japanese. On your own, having fun, and to fluency.
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com
Hello,
I’d like to nominate Corrine’s blog, http://thoughtsontranslation.com/, which is very great, interesting and well written. I also like http://aboutranslation.blogspot.com/, a must-read. However, it would be cool if you could also list some translation companies blogs, like Trad’Online (http://www.tradonline.fr/blog/) and… my translation blog, named L’Observatoire de la traduction : http://blog.anyword.fr.
Best regards,
Guillaume
My nomination:
Medical Translation Blog
(http://blog.fxtrans.com)
Great idea — I am a huge fan of your list. Many of the blogs I would like to nominate are already here on this list, and I’d like to add:
http://www.speakingoftranslation.com — which is a fantastic podcast about the world of translation.
Just heard that our blog, http://translationtimes.blogspot.com got nominated as well — thank you!
Judy
Thank you for the good news that our blog — http://languagelabunleashed.org — has been nominated! We are excited (and grateful) to be included!
–B
hmm my comment didn’t show up ):
I’ll like to nominate:
http://mylangblog.blogspot.com/
http://mylinguistics.wordpress.com/
http://aspiringpolyglotblog.wordpress.com/
http://seoulareyou.blogspot.com/
this is a great idea (:
I’ll like to nominate:
http://mylinguistics.wordpress.com/
http://aspiringpolyglotblog.wordpress.com/
http://mylangblog.blogspot.com/
http://seoulareyou.blogspot.com/
this is a great idea (:
I’d like to nominate http://www.der-englisch-blog.de
In my opinion it is the perfect source for German native speakers to brush up their English with a daily piece of advice.
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I’d like to nominate our St Columba’s College Modern Language colleagues at their blog, http://www.sccmodlang.blogspot.com/.
Many thanks to whoever nominated our own blog, SCC English- http://www.sccenglish.ie/. We’re delighted to be in the mix!
Thanks for nominating my blog
Best of luck to everyone!!
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Language Learning Blogs:
1. English language blog: English writing tips for reserachers and writers
http://blog.editage.com
2. Japanese language blog: English learning tips for learners in Japan
http://blog.i-osmosis.jp/
Dear Bloggers,
I really need your blog descriptions sent to marc[at]bab.la until the voting starts, otherwise you will not have a description along with your blog! So far we have around 500 nominated blogs. Don’t forget that for each category only one hundred blogs will go into the voting phase, so give your best and let your blog shine! Good luck for the competition!
Kind regards,
Marc [marc[at]bab.la]
On behalf of the bab.la and Lexiophiles team
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Thanks for the update Marc
I am looking forward to the next weeks’ interesting blogging from the language blog community!
Since my blog is in (probably for language learning category?) already I’d like to nominate a few more that are worth being in the list:
http://www.englishexperts.com.br/ – A blog in Portuguese about learning English
http://fidusinterpres.com/ – Translation blog, also in Portuguese
(The rest in English)
http://italian.about.com/b/ – Blog about learning Italian
http://french.about.com/b/ – Blog about learning French
http://spanish.about.com/b/ – Blog about learning Spanish
And all the rest I enjoy reading have already been included
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Hi ya Marc,
I just thought of one more blog which I’d like to nominate in the area of teaching with technology:
http://slexperiments.edublogs.org/
Nergiz Kern writes about teaching English in 2nd Life, provides lesson plans, teaching tips and puts up photos of the virtual classes /classrooms – it’s definitely one of the most innovative blog concepts out there!
Thanks,
Karenne
Nominations for the language teaching category:
http://kalinago.blogspot.com
http://sixthings.net/feed/
http://www.teflclips.com
http://www.tefl.net/alexcase
http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/english/
and the language learning category:
http://www.thelinguist.com/en/en/blog/
http://englishonthe.net
and the language technology category:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com
and the language professsionals category:
http://www.nakedtranslations.com
Thanks for this great initiative.
Hi there
I’d like to nominate the blog Six Things – A Miscellany of English Language Teaching in the Language Teaching category.
http://www.sixthings.net
Thanks
Team Verb appreciates the nomination — by a famous Wisconsinite, no less. Let the games begin!
Thanks,
Mr. V
I’d like to nominate my blog, Mandarin Segments, which blogs about learning Mandarin Chinese.
http://MandarinSegments.blogspot.com
Great idea for a competition!
Greg
For the languages teaching category, I’d like to nominate this blog on the new German spelling: ttp://www.neue-rechtschreibung.net/.
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I’d like to nominate Janet’s Abbruzzo Edublog for the English Language Learning category – see below:
http://civitaquana.blogspot.com
@Giulietta Bianchini
Unfortunately, you are a bit late! The voting phase has already started and we are not taking in anymore nominations. However, we are running the competition again next year!
Best regards,
Marc
(marc[at]bab.la)
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I’d like to nominate our blog, if it’s not too late. Singalingo.com. Our goal is to support multilingual families in their efforts to learn Spanish. We share tips, links, resources and have original songs we’ve recorded that give families songs to sing (essentially, practicing their language) while doing the normal things that family do.
@pina madera
I’m sorry to tell you but the nomination phase has ended a while ago. However, you are more than welcome to participate in next year’s competition. Best regards, Marc
è ancora possibile inserire http://www.ildueblog.it tra i blog nominati?
Hi Everyone,
Check out the Translation and Interpretation Blog. www. translationandinterpretationblog.com
It will be published in the American Translators Association magazine this August 2009.
Vote for THE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION BLOG
I’d like to nominate Polish blog:
Język angielski – Szybka nauka w internecie
http://angielski-slowka.blogspot.com
@Slownictwo
Unfortunately, the nomination phase has already ended. However, you are more than welcome to participate in next year’s competition. Kind regards, Marc
Thanks a lot for the nomination!
—-
Now check out “learn Italian language”: http://ciaoitaliablog.wordpress.com and please, if you like it,
vote for this blog
http://my-english-book.blogspot.com is my vote for sure.
Here is a blog for nomination
http://www.projecth2o.org/irohaproject
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