Last updated: 15 February 2012
I. Language-related blogs and/or personal websites
Omniglot blog (Simon Ager)
Language-related musings
Orlando R. Kelm
Love learning languages, without worrying about perfection
Foreign Language Expertise
The website of Alexander Arguelles
Eyes on Brazil
The Brazil you didn’t know
Eyes on Portuguese
Your source for learning Brazilian Portuguese
The Linguist on Language (Steve Kaufmann)
For people who love languages or would, but were discouraged…
Foreign Language Road Running Techniques (Moses McCormick)
Tae Kim’s blog
Japanese, Chinese, and a dash of Korean
II. Other Language-Learning Resources
A. Language and Literature collections/database
Project Gutenberg
Over 30,000 e-books free for download.
The Rosetta Project
A global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accesible digital library of human languages. This is a project of the Long Now Foundation with documentation of over 2,500 languages.
B. Learning Material, References, Forums, Interactive sites, etc
Omniglot.com
Writing systems and languags of the world
How to Learn any Language
The website about teaching yourself languages, with forum
Foreign Language Music
Learning through the sounds of the world, one song at a time
Kanji Converter
Copy and paste Japanese characters (Kanji) for readings in Hiragana (Japanese syllabary), Romaji (roman letters), translations, and etymological information
Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
One of the most comprehensive, accessible guides to Japanese grammar.
RNN News
Japanese/English vocabulary relevent to recent world news
C. Dictionaries and Etymological Resources
Word Reference
Online language dictionaries and forums for English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Hebrew, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic
ALC
Probably the most comprehensive and widely-used English<->Japanese language usage search engine, with definitions and continuously updated real examples
Online Etymology Dictionary
A “map of the wheel-ruts of modern English”
MyEtymology.com
Universal etymology dictionary
III. Science
A. News websites and/or organizations
TED.com
Ideas Worth Spreading: Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.
Skeptic
Promoting science and critical thinking
Science Daily
News and Articles in Science, Health, Environment, and Technology
Nature.com
Science and medicine
World Science Festival
June 2-6, 2010 (NYC): “Our mission is to cultivate and sustain a general public informed by the content of science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.”
B. Science-related blogs and/or personal websites
The Qualia Journal
English-version blog of Dr. Ken Mogi, whose mission is “to solve the so-called mind-brain problem”
C. Nature, Plants, Botany, Ethnobotany, Environment, etc
Herbal Constituents: Founds of Phytochemistry
Previewable textbook by Lisa Ganora
Medicine Hunter (Chris Kilham)
The Amazon Conservation Team
Protecting the Amazon through its indigenous peoples
New:
On-Line Biology Book
Hosted by Dr. Michael J. Farabee of Estrella Mountain Community College, in sunny Avondale, Arizona. Chapter topics include chemistry, cells, plants, animal organ systems, evolutionary theory, paleobiology, biodiversity, and biosphere.
IV. World News and Information
A. Media (Newspapers, Radio, etc)
OnlineNewspapers.com
Search function for online newspapers by country/region.
EuroNews
International news in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Turkish
B. Other
The Economist – Country Briefings
News, country profiles, forecasts, statistics, etc
Thanks for the mention(s)! As for etymology, I’ve always used etymonline.com but let me check out this one you listed too. Regards