Foreign languages: learning resoursces.

Site of the CDP
(Conservative Development Party)

CDP Community
Languages

Sitebuilding

Books
under construction

Miscellaneous

Theme-based links:
learning tips:
http://www.frugalfun.com/
learnalanguage.html
- how to learn another language quickly - tips and tricks
online-games:
http://www.freispiel.de/ - look here for games and (what is more important) for homepages of German gamemakers
poems:
LiTerra - Audio Books of a number of Russian famous poets
http://librivox.org/new
catalog/search.php?cat=
Poetry
- you'll find some German poems (human-read audio books) here with links to gutenberg De e-texts
songs:
http://ingeb.org - German and Russian folk songs, texts and melodies
stories, fairy tales, fun stuff:
http://www.gutenberg.org - free e-texts and audio books, human-read and computer-generated.
http://lib.ru/ - Библиотека Максима Мошкова, daily updated online library. В основном, книги на русском.
http://www.maerchenkristall
.com/maerchen.htm
- Deutsche Märchen
http://www.mega-anekdot.com - really funny stuff from Russia.
online-courses:
http://www.russianlessons
.net/home.php
-Free online Russian language lessons
http://www.dw-world.de
/dw/0,2142,2469,00.html
- German Courses of Deutsche Welle
http://www.german-grammar.de - manual of German language for English speakers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
languages/german/
- Learn German with BBC.
Useful links:
http://www.filehippo.com - not a very big one, but a great place for useful freeware downloads, very convenient
http://www.mozilla.com - the home-page of Firefox, one of the best browsers, and of Thunderbird, a post client (both are freeware)
http://www.free-av.com - German anti-virus program, freeware
http://www.free-webhosts.com - a list and reviews of free web-hostings
http://en.wikipedia.org - a free multilingual encyclopedia, in which each can create, change or supplement any article
http://www.the-underdogs
.info
- freeware games, some of them are just brilliant
Contact information:
Chairman of the CDP:
Alex A. Soubbotin.
Telephone: 765-4845.
E-mail: Alex@Soubbotin.com

  • Texts.
    1. Make sure to visit gutenberg.org. This is a great collection of e-texts in different languages (freeware).
      1. Books in Russian http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/ru.
      2. Books in German http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/de.
    2. Библиотека Максима Мошкова: http://lib.ru/, daily updated online library. В основном, книги на русском.
    3. A lot of books you'll be able to get as torrents through Internet or Usenet (you ought to think about using PeerGuardian2).

  • Audio files.
    1. Works of a number of Russian famous writers LiTerra.
    2. http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1 - human-read Audio Books. There are computer generated ones, also, but they are difficult for perception. And, in addition, you can process any text file using MS Text-to-Speech or any semilar engine in exactly the same manner.
    3. At http://librivox.org/newcatalog/visitor_advanced.php you'll find a few Russian and some German audio files.
    4. * You will not find any works protected by copyright there.
    5. A lot of books you'll be able to get as torrents through Internet or Usenet (you ought to think about using PeerGuardian2).

  • Mini-games (flash, JavaScript, etc.):
  • * Often you can find mini-games (flash, JavaScript, etc.) on the pages of online courses (see above).
  • Free downloadable:
    1. German: http://www.freispiel.de/ - look here for games and (what is more important) for homepages of German gamemakers.
    2. Rusian: Nothing found (yet).
    3. A lot of games you'll be able to get as torrents through Internet or Usenet (you ought to think about using PeerGuardian2). Look for adventures or quests with good steady subtitles.
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