Collection of language universals

Retarded implementation but bonus points for the self-aware "Beta"

looks promising

amusing rant about the difficulty of learning chinese from a long-time sufferer. Improves as you scroll down

Why is there this craving to see Chinese as some sort of weird Forbidden City? It's just a language, much like any other; it happens to be written with a more complicated set of graphs than most

continuing story of a language that arose spontaneously among deaf nicaraguan kids

seems like a neat and relatively cheap ($500) immersion program out in the mountains

notes on argentine spanish from a non-native, non-linguist speaker

notes on a walk through the dictionary, lots of obscure words