{"id":254,"date":"2007-01-03T21:09:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T20:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/useful-websites\/"},"modified":"2007-01-03T21:09:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T20:09:24","slug":"useful-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Useful websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of useful language-related websites I came across today:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bepolyglot.com\">BePolyglot<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nProvides a systematic way to learn four Romance languages: French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. It contains a detailed comparison of the grammars of these languages, highlights similarities and differences in vocabularly and shows how to convert words between languages.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s intended for those who want to improve their knowledge of one or more Romance languages, as well as for anyone interested in comparative linguistics and Romance languages. To access the full content of the site, you have to subscribe, which costs $4.95 per month or $19.90 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know of similar sites for other language families?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-talk.com\/nihongo\/\">Kanji Converter<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThis site converts Japanese kanji into hiragana, katakana and\/or romaji. It also gives information about the words in English.<\/p>\n<p>I usually know or can guess what Japanese kanji mean and know how to pronounce them in Mandarin, but don&#8217;t always know how to pronounce them in Japanese, so this site is very useful for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of useful language-related websites I came across today: BePolyglot Provides a systematic way to learn four Romance languages: French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. It contains a detailed comparison of the grammars of these languages, highlights similarities and differences in vocabularly and shows how to convert words between languages. It&#8217;s intended for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}