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Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of free resources for different sign languages:

American Sign Language (ASL)

Australian Sign Language (Auslan)

Australian Indigenous Sign Languages

Black American Sign Language (BASL)

Brazilian Sign Language (LSB)

British Sign Language (BSL)

Chinese Sign Language (CSL)

Emirati Sign Language (ESL)

French Sign Language (LSF)

Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Indian Sign Language (ISL)

International Sign Language (IS)

Irish Sign Language (ISL)

Japanese Sign Language (JSL)

New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL)

Mexican Sign Language (LSM)

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL)

Polish Sign Language (PJM)

Ukrainian Sign Language (USL)

Yolŋu Sign Language (YSL)

Please feel free to add on if you know of others, be it more resource for one of the sign languages above, or resources for learning any of the other 300 plus sign languages.

Edit: I updated the ASL reference to Bill Vicars, but reminder that these are just things I found around, please find Deaf teachers wherever possible! And for ASL, lifeprint.com is another wonderful resource.

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herregud oh my god

flink good, smart, sharp

søren meg freaking

genialt brilliant

å kombinere to combine

jaggu meg fricking

ristet brød (et) toast

å steke bacon to fry bacon

å bli sprø to become crispy

faen meg fucking

å rekke to have the time, to reach

selveste the very same

å gå an to be feasible

å legge en plan to make a plan

å sette i en kontakt to place in a socket

å trykke på en kontakt to flip a switch

masse a lot of

utstyr (et) equipment

fy faen damn

tross alt og likevel after all still

å ligne på noen to look alike

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My friend needs your feedback!!! He runs a website [Lingopie] where you can learn a language by watching TV shows and movies.

As a polyglot, he is super passionate about learning and teaching languages and wants to help students and language learners succeed. He has been working on this project 24/7, so your feedback would make his day! Here is the problem:

His website is still young, so they have limited funds to obtain licenses for movies and television shows. To help as many people as possible, he is wondering what languages you would like to learn or have exams for, so he can focus on expanding the media collection for these languages. I really like him and want his project to succeed, so I created a form where you can vote.

The following languages are available at the moment: Japanese 🇯🇵, Korean 🇰🇷, Spanish 🇪🇸, French 🇫🇷, German 🇩🇪, Italian 🇮🇹, Portuguese 🇵🇹 and English 🇺🇸

Which language are you most interested in? Please vote here!

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Unique and out of the box language learning resources you probably haven’t heard of!

• Lyrics Training - Lyric fill in game

• Radio Garden - Listen to the radio anywhere in the world

• Language Reactor - Browser extension to learn with Netflix, YouTube, etc

• BaBaDum - Fun vocab games

• Linguno - Listening, vocab, and conjugation exercises, plus 10 daily crosswords in each language

• Bilinguis - Read a small selection of classic, older books in a bilingual side-by-side style. Some have audio reading as well!

• Lyrik Line - Read and listen to poetry in your target language!! Huge selection

• Top 40 Charts - Top 40 music hits in countries around the world.

• Kiosko - Daily newspaper covers all over the world. Clicking on one takes you to the news website to read more

• Lexicity - For all of you ancient language obsessed people!! Amazing and thorough resource for many ancient languages

-> Click on the link below to get links to all those sites + more information about them!

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Here is the link! What an amazing idea ❤️

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The Norwegian 1 hand alphabet for Norwegian Sign Language

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Folks

If you haven’t heard of Store norske leksikon yet you are gonna love it. It’s a big ol online encyclopedia, all in Norwegian, with fantastic articles and tons of topics to learn about. If you’re at a B2 level and looking for more to read & learn vocab from it’s super helpful.

I’m interested in linguistics in general so I started on an article about dialekter i Norge and ended up going down a pleasant rabbit hole of other articles about various linguistic terms, theories about dialect change, and specific dialects of certain places (ie Bergen).

I haven’t explored all the topics but it looks like there is so so much there, whether you want to learn about people, history, scientific concepts, art, farming, geography — you name it!

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Just a bunch of useful websites

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

My Fridge Food – No idea what to make? Tell this site what ingredients you have on hand and it will give you recipes to cook.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

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Hallo! Hvordan har du det? Do you know of any good beginner resources for learning norsk? I've been using Duolingo, but I want to get more practice in. Like trying to translate basic sentences and stuff. Takk og ha en god dag!!!

Hei! Jeg har det fint, takk! Hvordan har du det? :)

Here are some resources you might find helpful!

Memrise is another good app/website for learning Norwegian (I've linked you to level 1 of the main course, but there are loads of other courses and vocab lists too).

Lingohut has a ton of lessons.

Sissel Ofstad has texts for levels A1-B2 (I've linked you to the A1 texts. If translating simple sentences is what you're after, this is probably the link you're looking for!)

You can try following some of the instagram accounts I've linked here.

Norskkurset on Youtube is great. The teacher speaks slowly and you can add autogenerated subtitles (which as far as I'm aware are pretty accurate). There are both grammar videos and vlog posts.

I also recommend Norsklærer Karense's YT channel. Here's a link to her beginner videos (she speaks 100% in Norwegian, but she does speak slowly and clearly). She also has a podcast (again, it's entirely in Norwegian so it might be difficult if you're still very new to the language)

This post has a ton of resources you can try out.

CALST is good for working on spoken Norwegian (especially if there's a dialect you want to try out).

If you're willing to pay for a textbook, I recommend The Mystery of Nils. If you're not, the company that makes the book has a number of free resources, and you can access the audio files of each chapter for free as well. They also run a language café every Sunday, which I've yet to actually go to, but it's free! I think you have to sign up to their mailing list if you want to join in. You can also get a free preview of the book if you're not sure it's for you.

Norwegian's also available on the apps Drops and uTalk. I'm not really big on either - they only teach vocab and functional phrases without really explaining anything, and while they're both theoretically free they limit how much you can use them without paying - but you might find them useful as a little extra something.

Jeg håper det hjelper deg! Lykke til! <3

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Anyway with the rise of the Swedes refusing food to guests jokes and memes I'd like to remind you all that Lapland is still comprised of a slur even if the term is still officially used in the Nordic countries and that Sweden recently approved to start an iron mine excavation in Indigenous Sámi land

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Was gonna ask what was fornorskningen but then a quick google translate already told me everything I had to know. Yikes 😶

yeah the word literally meaning “norwegianization” really says it all. but fornorskningen is the name of the official policies and laws created by the norwegian government to forcibly assimilate saami people and basically just get rid of the culture. it involved stuff like boarding schools for saami kids to isolate them from saami communities and culture, banning the use of the saami languages from many areas of society, restrictions on rights to own land (it was also legal to deny saami people the right to buy or lease land), and a bunch of other stuff. the period we call fornorskningen went on until the 80s. my mother was born in 1970. My grandma was involved in the saami resistance to this. Norwegian people love to pretend it was in the 1700s or something but it wasnt.

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Hallo! Hvordan har du det? Do you know of any good beginner resources for learning norsk? I've been using Duolingo, but I want to get more practice in. Like trying to translate basic sentences and stuff. Takk og ha en god dag!!!

Hei! Jeg har det fint, takk! Hvordan har du det? :)

Here are some resources you might find helpful!

Memrise is another good app/website for learning Norwegian (I've linked you to level 1 of the main course, but there are loads of other courses and vocab lists too).

Lingohut has a ton of lessons.

Sissel Ofstad has texts for levels A1-B2 (I've linked you to the A1 texts. If translating simple sentences is what you're after, this is probably the link you're looking for!)

You can try following some of the instagram accounts I've linked here.

Norskkurset on Youtube is great. The teacher speaks slowly and you can add autogenerated subtitles (which as far as I'm aware are pretty accurate). There are both grammar videos and vlog posts.

I also recommend Norsklærer Karense's YT channel. Here's a link to her beginner videos (she speaks 100% in Norwegian, but she does speak slowly and clearly). She also has a podcast (again, it's entirely in Norwegian so it might be difficult if you're still very new to the language)

This post has a ton of resources you can try out.

CALST is good for working on spoken Norwegian (especially if there's a dialect you want to try out).

If you're willing to pay for a textbook, I recommend The Mystery of Nils. If you're not, the company that makes the book has a number of free resources, and you can access the audio files of each chapter for free as well. They also run a language café every Sunday, which I've yet to actually go to, but it's free! I think you have to sign up to their mailing list if you want to join in. You can also get a free preview of the book if you're not sure it's for you.

Norwegian's also available on the apps Drops and uTalk. I'm not really big on either - they only teach vocab and functional phrases without really explaining anything, and while they're both theoretically free they limit how much you can use them without paying - but you might find them useful as a little extra something.

Jeg håper det hjelper deg! Lykke til! <3

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@lilmouse57

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The Say it in Saami project explores the endangered, indigenous Saami languages spoken in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. The project features three of the Saami languages: North, Inari and Skolt Saami which are all spoken in Finland.

Say it in Saami features the first online Saami phrasebook on the Internet containing informal language, and its goal is to help the endangered languages. You can listen to the phrases in North, Inari and Skolt Saami. The website also features five short documentary films, a quick guide to Saami culture and a soundboard in North Saami.

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Happy Sámi National Day! in different Sámi languages ❤️💚💛💙

North Sámi: Lihkku sámi álbmotbeivviin!

South Sámi: Læhkoe saemiej åålmegebiejjine!

Lule Sámi: Vuorbbe sámij álmmukbiejvijn!

Pite Sámi: Vuärrbe sáme älbmukbejvijn!

Ume Sámi: Lihkuos sämij ålmagenbiejvieb!

Inari Sámi: Pyeri säämi aalmugpeivi!

Skolt Sámi: Šiõǥǥ saa'mi meersažpeei´v!

Kildin Sámi: Тӣрвха тӣнэтҍ самь пеййвенҍ!

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God bilingual people are so cool. I'd love to be bilingual someday.