(Part 2) Top products from r/languagelearning

Like I said, filling the gaps is really going to come down to what other resources you have, but from what I've heard and what I've found in my experience you're going to need these resources regardless of which book/course you choose.

Mastering Arabic will take you through the Intermediate level of MSA, roughly. The difference in vocabulary between it and a book like Al Kitaab is significant, but that would be the case with most books compared with Al Kitaab. So you'll probably want to supplement your vocabulary from real world readings, from a dictionary, or from other types of work books. Not that Mastering Arabic leaves out a lot of vocabulary, but each book is roughly 200 pages so there just isn't going to be as much vocab covered as in a college textbook.

The rest of it is really grammar and verbs, for which you'll want to use things most any other Arabic student will use. A good grammar book like the ones I pointed out before, either 501 Arabic Verbs or ACON for verbs, and then anything else you can get your hands on. If you're self-learning, you have to understand that no one resource is going to take you all the way there. I think Mastering Arabic is the clearest book out there, especially for a self-learner, but you're going to need more than the page and 8-10 examples they provide on grammar points.

I think the activity books help solidify vocabulary and some grammar points for me, plus it's just extra practice because you can't learn a language without a decent amount of practice. It's not a bad idea to go without them, but I've found them helpful for the most part.

Here's one of the grammar books I mentioned, and it's one that's highly recommended. The other one I rely on is here. You'll also get a lot of use likely out of the websites arabic.desert-sky.net, GLOSS, and Youtube channels like this one and this one. And that's just scratching the surface. /r/learn_arabic has a lot of great threads and resources available (I saw you posted this there as well), and google is your friend. And after a number of years and a couple of attempts at becoming fluent, the best advice I can give you is to be patient and to practice as much as possible and use what you have available to you.

Once you crack the Intermediate stage, take a look at books like Media Arabic and websites like Foreigncy. But at that point your learning will be mostly done with your dictionary, a grammar book, and things to read/listen to from the real world.

Good luck! Arabic is a beautiful and amazing language that continues to surprise me.

It's always good to see someone else interested in Nordic languages! Here are a couple resources I use for Swedish, but I'm sure you can adapt them or find equivalents for Norwegian or Danish.

Vocab:

• This is a good memrise course, with audio and everything
  
  
• Quizlet is also a great resource, you can just search "swedish vocab" and get a ton of sets.
  
  
• There's also Anki, but I haven't been able to find a good deck with audio.
  
  
  Grammar:
  
  
• If you're willing to spend $11.72, I couldn't recommend this book more. It's probably the single most useful resource I own for learning Swedish.
  
  Other:
  
  
• You can get a virtual library card from the Malmö public library, and check out up to 2 e-books a week with it. They have a ton of Swedish children's books that are really useful for practice. If you're interested, I can post the link and instructions.
  
  
• This is a free text-based course from the Stockholm School of Economics that's pretty good. You can download the file on that website.
  
  
• Rosetta Stone Swedish is a really good way to get a strong foundation in Swedish. I personally wouldn't spend that much money, but you don't necessarily have to wink wink
  
  
• And of course, /r/Svenska is a great subreddit for Swedish learners.
  
  
  This is everything I have for now, I'll update this list if I think of anymore.
  
  
  

How much study time do you have available per day? Have you ever learned a foreign language successfully before? Do you speak any other Romance languages fluently?

Assuming you can study at least two hours per day, I would recommend:

1. Get Assimil's New French with Ease with the CD, and do two lessons per day. Spend 30 minutes on each lesson, following whatever variation of the Assimil Dutch instructions pleases you. In 25 days, this will give you a good, basic intuition for how French works, and teach you some useful vocabulary. The nice thing about Assimil is that if you follow the instructions, it works well for almost everybody, and it produces solid results. If you want a grammar overview to go with Assimil, get Essential French Grammar, which is dirt cheap, focused only on the essentials, and an excellent complement to Assimil.
   
2. Since you need to speak very soon, get Benny Lewis's book, which has some good advice on efficiently mastering survival stuff and polite conversation starting very early on.
   
3. A week or two before you leave, skim How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately, which is the bible of dirty tricks for faking a better level than you have. Definitely do his "islands" exercise, and prepare 10 or so islands, getting them corrected on lang-8.
   
   If you think of yourself as a hardcore geek, and you're generally good with languages, there are also a couple of ways to boost your listening comprehension substantially in 30–100 hours.
   
   Total cost: Less than $100, plus some money for iTalki tutors if you follow Benny's advice. But expect to work really, really hard—faking intermediate French after 30 days is a bit like sprinting straight up a steep mountain with a heavy pack. You're trying to compress 350 classroom hours into a month, which means working very hard and efficiently.
   
   Anyway, if you can spend an hour a day on Assimil, and an hour a day on Benny's speaking advice, then you'll get some pretty useful survival French under your belt by the end of the month. Going further than that will probably require studying obsessively.

Note that trying to speak in a new language for the first time can feel like you are trying to juggle, ride a unicycle and sing an opera all at the same time. Very little of skills you need are yet automatic, so you have to consciously think about each of them.
As everyone has said directly or indirectly, to get good at speaking, you must practice speaking. But there are sub-skills to it that you can try to practice on their own:

1. Pronunciation
   
2. Grammar (e.g. conjugations in many languages)
   
3. Word choice / collocations / idioms / stock phrases
   
   Initially just the physical act of moving your mouth differently to pronounce the language takes concentration. Depending on the distance of your TL from your L1, this can be VERY significant on its own.
   
   When someone says they can't speak well, my response: how many full sentences have you spoken in your TL? Even just reading out loud?
   
   One way to easy your way into speaking:
   Find a list of non-trivial, but not too long sentences (say 4-7 words each) and say them out loud. Make sure a) you know what they mean and b) you know how to pronounce them... even better if you can get a native to help you early on with pronunciation.
   
   Say each one over and over until you are satisfied with your "fluency" with each sentence. Practice the flow of speaking the language for a bit without worrying about "remembering" the content. (Actually, just speaking canned sentences a bunch of times will likely cause you to remember words and phrases from them.)
   
   Once you have some comfort speaking material provided for you, you can work on altering it or just generating your own sentences. You will find a lot of sentences can be usefully reused with simple noun/adjective swaps, e.g. "Where is the ?", "Can I have more ?" This is the beginning of simple conversations.
   
   A very effective way to start this is to create your own language islands (with the help of a native or lang-8), see:
   https://www.amazon.com/Improve-Your-Foreign-Language-Immediately/dp/0989387003
   (No affiliation, I'm just a fan of this book.)

Che khub! A book I can recommend is Wheeler M Thackston's An Introduction to Persian. That's what I used in class and it's pretty great as far as grammar goes.

As for a dictionary, I've yet to see one with the short vowels written out for students like us. I tend to look up words on farsidic.com and then plug them into Google translate or something for a pronunciation.

I've used various audio programs on and off but the only one I liked I can't find online, unfortunately.

If you're studying tehrani, one more of importance is that the pronunciation is not like Urdu/Hindi for most sounds. Instead it's like English, with the k, t, p aspirated at the beginning of words, and a lot more frontal vowels. There a lot of words in Hindi/Urdu that come from Farsi, but many do not have quite the same meaning, so that is something to watch for. I hope that helps, and best of luck!

It's indo-european, so nothing at all like Chinese or Japanese. It has twice as many letters as English in its alphabet, because it also has 'aspirates' (think 'b', and then 'bh'), but as the alphabet is phonetic, it can be learnt quite quickly.

Grammar-wise, it can be a bit daunting. It's subject object verb, rather than the subject verb object we have in romance languages, and uses postpositions (table on, rather than on the table). It also doesn't have articles like the or a.

On the plus side, it's almost exactly the same as Urdu (hindi is written in devenagari, urdu is written in a persian script), which means that while Hindi will certainly help you in North India, Urdu can be understood (at least spoken Urdu) in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and another country which escapes memory right now. Basically, if you learn Hindi, you're not just restricted to northern India, because of the extended reach of Urdu.

As an extra bonus, middle class indians, even in conversation with other middle class indians, will jump in and out of english and hindi mid sentence, so if you don't know a word, you can just say it with an indian accent. Aap bharati log se bol sakhte hai aur not sound like a stupid gora hain!

Get this:
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Hindi-Teach-Yourself-Language/dp/007176609X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367898110&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+yourself+hindi

Get a dictionary (shabdkosh in hindi, great word), and maybe an additional grammar guide. And take a trip to India. It's amazing.

There are admittedly not many good resources out there for learning Finnish. I started with self teaching myself, but never really got very far until taking Finnish classes in college. Self study from things available on the internet isn't that bad once you already have a foundation, but getting that foundation is annoyingly difficult.

It doesn't help that almost every book out there for learning Finnish makes things needlessly complex. At some point or another, I think I've looked at almost every major resource (book-wise anyways) for English speakers learning Finnish. Here's some notes on some that come to mind, feel free to ask about others if you want.

• Kuulostaa hyvältä / Sounds good by Lili Ahonen. This is a 2 part series, one of which has the Finnish first in the title, and the other with the English first. Kuulostaa hyvältä features short texts in Finnish along with exercises, but is completely in Finnish. Sounds Good is to be used along with it's Finnish counterpart, and contains grammar and vocabulary explanations in English. This is probably the best book I've found for learning Finnish, though it might be a bit difficult to get started with.
  
• From Start to Finnish by Leila White. This is probably one of the better books for those who have absolutely no current foundation or understanding of Finnish. It's not too heavy on the technical details, and contains many useful examples. It is however grossly overpriced for being such a short book (only 180 pages or so), this being due to it being imported from a Finnish publisher.
  
• Teach Yourself Finnish by Terttu Leney. This book is one most people recommend, and for a complete beginner it's not a bad choice. You will not get very far in Finnish with this book, it just doesn't go very in depth. You will get the ability to interact with people in your stereotypical tourist situations, and it will help you get comfortable with Finnish's grammar system, but it has a very limited amount of vocabulary words and texts to learn with.
  
• *Colloquial Finnish by Daniel Abondolo is a decent reference book if you're attempting to write a linguistics paper about Finnish, but not so good to learn from.
  
  Non-book resources:
  
  
• Selkouutiset, a Finnish 'easy' newspaper. Bookmark this for when you get a decent Finnish foundation under you, it's very useful for helping expose you to Finnish once you hit the intermediate stages.
  
• Local Finnish programs. Check out the Finnish consulate webpage for a list of universities and other places which offer Finnish classes in the US.

British Council: English Grammar gives explanations on everything grammatical; pronouns, possessives, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, nouns, phrases, clauses & sentence structures.

There is a book called English Grammar for Students of Russian but in the long run knowing English grammar inside-out is your best bet if you want to learn another language after Russian.

To stop getting distracted, reward yourself when you reach a goal in Russian to motivate yourself to carry on, also use Reddit to your advantage if you're ever back on Reddit why not pay /r/russian a visit?

I can't seem to find any reviews for Hugo Fluent in 3 months, Colloquial Russian is a very complete & comprehensive book on knowing no Russian to being conversationally fluent, so it's a good book to use as your main reference. Check out /r/Russian's wiki on getting started. for more help on getting started.

All the resources you've mentioned above, put emphasis on different aspects of Russian e.g. Grammar, Vocabulary, Orthography. I'd work through it one chapter at a time, try to practice/implement what you've learnt whenever you can & if it helps write down any notes. This is what I do with Icelandic & it seems to work.

Here's a step by step guide on using Assimil it uses Assimil: Dutch as the example but you can easily use the same process for Russian. Hopefully this helped :)

You're right. You'll be in tough considering how few resources there are for foreigners who live outside Macedonia. You have a small shot, however, if you're willing to make do with some online reference material and bite the bullet by spending a little money.

Free stuff:

• Reference grammar of Macedonian
  
• A Grammar of the Macedonian Literary Language
  
  Both of these references are fairly detailed (especially true for the second one) and they could be useful if you want some explanation for something that you see in Macedonian grammar.
  
  
• Macedonian-English Dictionary
  
• English-Macedonian Dictionary
  
  Typical online dictionaries but they're better than Google Translate.
  
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  Unfortunately, I don't know of any free online course but it'd be worthwhile to buy a used copy of Prof. Kramer's textbook Macedonian: A Course for Beginners. This link is for the second edition and the accompanying audio is available for free downloading through the University of Toronto. The book has an answer key so you can check your progress as you complete the exercises. There's also a third edition but it's more expensive, and as far as I know its audio is obtainable only as a separate CD-ROM (if I remember correctly, the first edition of the book is still available in some online second-hand bookshops but I wouldn't get it since I gather that it didn't come with audio or an answer key). If you go on to use the textbook, it may even be worthwhile to contact Prof. Kramer herself as she might have some tips for you.
  
  I completed the first several chapters of the second edition some time ago as I was teaching myself some of the basics before going to Macedonia but stopped my studies when my travel plans fell through. It's a solid source for starting to learn the language but I admit that I probably had an easier time with it than otherwise since I already had a background in several Slavonic languages including Serbo-Croatian which is quite similar in some aspects. This last point leads to my last suggestion which may not be at all what you want but acknowledges a certain reality...
  
  If you were desperate to learn something before meeting some of your extended family, then you could teach yourself some Bulgarian. They'll probably understand your Bulgarian with only a little trouble as Bulgarian and Macedonian are very similar (depending on the Bulgarians you talk to, you may even hear that Macedonian is just a Bulgarian dialect (or even worse, Macedonians are just Bulgarians who don't want to admit it)). Bulgarian also has more learning resources than Macedonian (e.g. "Teach Yourself Bulgarian", "Colloquial Bulgarian") and you'll have a slightly better chance finding a tutor/class for it.
  
  In any case, со среќа!

I understand your situation. As a fellow Indian who speaks Hindi (not a native, learnt it just through friends and films), I would say immersion by speaking would help you. Although there are books for grammar/vocabulary, if you really need to improve your verbal skills, it's time to start speaking it ASAP (Don't worry about making mistakes). I'm sure you would have relatives like your cousins/aunts/uncles and any time you meet them, make sure you avoid English.

That being said, also what would be important to you is to get a Hindi book that teaches you grammar, so that you can understand the syntax of the language and realises how to piece words together to form sentences. These 3 books would give you a good start:

1. [Teach yourself Hindi - Rupert Snell](http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Hindi-Teach-Yourself-Language/dp/007176609X
   )
   
   
2. Elementary Hindi - Richard Delacy and Sudha Joshi
   
   
3. Introduction to Hindi Grammar - Usha Jain
   
   If you don't have people to talk to, we could Skype :) Good luck.

Hi. I took some Arabic in college. This is what I would suggest:

1. Learn the alphabet. Practice 1-2 letters a day. Say them out loud. There are numerous apps and various books for this. Pick the one that makes the most sense to you.
   
   
2. Once you recognize the alphabet, start reading. I would suggest using WordBrewery because you only have to worry about one sentence at a time.
   
   
3. Use Anki or Memrise to practice written vocabulary.
   
   
4. Try writing what you hear when you talk to your parents. Then check the spelling. You can also do this with any audio you have a transcript for - including movies and music. Dictation helps with spelling, which will help you write more confidently.
   
   
5. Try to learn 1 grammar rule at a time. This will help you with understanding what you read. Karin Ryding's MSA Arabic Grammar is comprehensive, full of examples, and clear.
   
   I wish you luck!

I have read over 350 books on language learning.

That having been said, this very short book is definitely the best (even after 40 years of reading and learning about languages, I still learned a lot from this short book):
How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately
https://www.amazon.com/Improve-Your-Foreign-Language-Immediately/dp/0989387003

The second "must-read" is The Third Ear: https://www.amazon.com/Third-Ear-Chris-Lonsdale/dp/988988870X

These books are also terrific:
Art and Science of Learning Languages
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Learning-Languages-Amorey-Gethin/dp/187151648X

Language Logic: Practical and Effective Techniques to Learn Any Foreign Language
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978064100

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to start learning Persian. It'll teach you the alphabet, a fair amount of vocab and all of the grammar that you'll need. Excellent section on prepositions too.

In terms of actual books for reading Persian, however, I'm not sure. Harry potter is great if you can find it (search for هری پاتر ) but that's for when you're more at an intermediate stage. Until then I guess just try to find children's books. Good luck.

Hello, i do own this book, its very good for beginners. Easy understand and everything, even has few exercises in it. However, this book alone wont cut it for German grammar because the author only explains rules very slightly and do not cover the whole grammatical area. I suggest you getting

• http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9650060359/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=toweofbabe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=9650060359
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812091086/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=toweofbabe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0812091086
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Frequency-Dictionary-German-Vocabulary-Dictionaries/dp/0415316332/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417730858&sr=1-2&keywords=Routledge+Frequency
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/German-Grammar-Drills-Ed-Swick/dp/0071789456/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417730918&sr=1-9&keywords=ed+swick
  
  in addition, if you want to really remember stuff you are studying, please dont hesitate to use Anki. This program really helps you remembering words.

I took 2 years of Arabic in college and I thought it would be good to learn the alphabet before classes started. It was a fantastic idea! I used Alif-Baa which is by the same people as Al-Kitaab, the text my class and many others use. Not the most amazing text, but Alif-Baa was pretty effective for the alphabet.

It also helped me to think of it like cursive. People seem to get confused with connecting/non-connecting letters, but it's really quite intuitive.

Perfect, thanks.

I have ordered this one to compliment all the other books I have: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Hindi-Teach-Yourself-Language/dp/007176609X

The main reason is that I am doing a series of courses over the year that use this as text. I have a lot of hindi books, that's not really the issue. More how I transition from Hindi knowledge into Urdu knowledge.

Appreciate it!

Amazon or their website. I believe it'd be cheaper on Amazon. Unfortunately, their website is quite user unfriendly for a website designed for language learning (it's only in French.)

Here's the link to their website one. It costs you 70 dollars on their website while it costs you 63 dollars on Amazon. Unless you buy it from another source where it drops down to 54 dollars. I believe somebody once told me you can find the audio online for Assimil French, so if you can find that, then you can just buy the book only, which would lower costs down a lot.

Interestingly enough, Assimil actually has a course on Ancient Greek, Latin, and Egyptian hieroglyphics so once you learn French, you can always have fun exploring that :P

As for Rosetta Stone, I don't think it's bad, I think it's ridiculously expensive for what you're getting. I know that for Chinese, it's absolutely terrible (I had some friends try to learn mandarin using it and they had barely improved when I found them after finishing RS Levels 1-3.) For the price of 200 dollars, it seems like RS only promises to get you somewhere around B1-B2 as well, and given what I've heard, Rosetta Stone in actuality after finishing all the way through level 5 gets you only to A2, maybe to B1 which would put you around the same level as other programs such as Assimil, except it's much more expensive. Once you get to B1 though, it's quite easy in my opinion to advance, as you can finally consume some native content.

سلام! I've just started learning Farsi (literally the last week).

I'm using this workbook daily and doing the exercises (it has a CD), using this grammar book as a reference (flicking through it, it seems to be one of the better resources I've found), and doing the Pimsleur Farsi lessons (though only on lesson 3). Pimsleur is good for getting the accent and hearing pronunciations, but it's not a comprehensive catch-all resource.

I also grabbed a Lonely Planet phrasebook that shows how sentences fit together and includes a small dictionary at the back.

This online dictionary is very helpful too!

I'm learning Hungarian with Colloquial Hungarian and I love it. This book does a very good job of introducing the most important grammar concepts and providing plenty of dialogue and short stories for examples.

Aside from that I use Hungarian Reference. I must forewarn though that this website should not bet used as your primary resource, but rather as a supplement. It even says on the home-page:

>The objective of this site is to serve as a reference to the beautiful Hungarian language. If is not intended to be a ground-up course, it is not intended to teach you Hungarian. It is meant to be a companion to your own study.

It should go nice with Duolingo though. Find a sentence you don't understand, and refer to Hungarian Reference for a more in-depth explanation.

I haven't been able to find any resources for actually practicing/using the language besides jumping into native-level content. I'm actually pushing through the Wikipedia page about Hungary at a snail's pace. I do write on the Babylonian Chaos thread every Thursday, so even though that's not getting corrections, at least it's making me use the language.

Lastly, I set Word of the Day as my homepage. Whenever I want to use the internet, I have to read each sentence provided before I'm allowed to visit any page.

Jó szerncsét!

Penguin books does side-by-side short stories (New Penguin Parallel Text, in French...I have the Japanese one), and personally I'd say French first.

The parallel text makes it easier to go sentence by sentence, so I'll read the Japanese side first, and go back and read the English side so I can practice picking up the Japanese first, instead of going in knowing what it says. It's also a good test to see if you remember this or that word from when you looked it up last time, and maybe by the 5th time you'll have it down pat. This is totally unfounded personal opinion so take it with a grain of salt, but I feel like reading the language you're trying to learn first helps you learn more.

Depending on what language you want to learn, there may be a book that explains the grammar you'll need for that language by connecting it to English. For example: German,
Spanish, Russian.

If there's a term that you're unfamiliar with, you can also poke around on Wikipedia to get a better idea behind some of the concepts. But when things get too technical, just keep looking up unfamiliar terminology and you'll be on your way.

For a little bit of fun, check out:
Split Ergativity,

where you can see this gem of a sentence:
>An example of split ergativity conditioned by tense and aspect is found in the Hindustani language (Hindi/Urdu), which has an ergative case on subjects in the perfective aspect for transitive verbs in the active voice, while in other aspects (habitual, progressive) subjects appear in the nominative case.

Is this the textbook? As far as I am aware, this is the ONLY good textbook for Macedonian.

Personally, I think it would be very hard, actually next to impossible to learn Macedonian to a fluent level without attending a language course (the University of Chicago, Arizona State, and Indiana University offer Macedonian language courses) or living in the country. That's because there are so few resources (both online and in book form) and only something like 40000 speakers in the US.

Here's a list of Macedonian radio stations http://tunein.com/radio/Macedonia-r101263/ . Watch out, though, some are in the Albanian language.

>I have started planning a trip and would also appreciate any ideas or tips.

Whatever you plan, definitely don't leave out Ohrid. For me, it's the only must see place in Macedonia.

I used this book a while ago and really liked it.

This one also looks like it would be good.

Not sure if this if only for Prime but I searched for Assimil on a lark (I'd like to get my sister the Yiddish course) and they have a really good deal on French for English speakers right now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/2700518136/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499731209&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3AAssimil&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&dpPl=1&dpID=51N5CwKAIiL&ref=plSrch

Definitely look into Assimil. It's one of the more renowned language learning systems. I really like the German version.

And it's actually a French company, so I'm guessing the French version is the best thing they have going.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/2700518136/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile

It's a little pricy, but you can generally buy the CD and the book cheaper seperately. Just make sure the editions match if you go this route.

Benny Lewis is a skilled marketer and a clever language learner, but he's not a linguist. There are thousands of people who study second language acquisition in a disciplined way as a scientific field, and I'd trust their insights more than the anecdotal evidence of a single (admittedly talented) individual.

For a beginner's guide to the field, try How Languages Are Learned.

Not a Farsi learner, so I can't speak to the quality of this, but a quick amazon search shows this book with audio which was published in 2015 which is pretty cheap and seems to have decent reviews.

Here are a few free resources I use:

Klartext: simplified Swedish news with audio! They also have a podcast.

FSI: The student text has exercises in grammar! Unfortunately, the phrases are rather formal and dated.

I also have this book, which has been very useful.

Edit: formatting. bah.

Sounds like this book is right up your alley. The language you choose won't matter if you don't understand its grammar, in fact that's what seems to be happening with your German. When you're comfortable with explanations of English and German grammar, only then should you move on to something more alien.

Here is what I've been recommended:

Loprieno: Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction (a bit heavy on linguistics, but nothing you can't handle with some basic knowledge)

How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A step-by-step guide to teach yourself by Collier and Manley

L'Égyptien hiéroglyphique by Assimil

Middle Egyptian by Allen

Unfortunately, there isn't all that much "real" literature in ME, but it must still be a load of fun. :-)

What about Colloquial Hungarian or Hungarian: An Essential Grammar. There's also Teach Yourself Hungarian, but I don't think the grammar focus is as strong.

Also check out Colloquial Finnish. The Colloquial series is really good.

Pimsleur and Michel Thomas are also quite good but they're useless for reading and writing (which are honestly less important, especially for something with writing as simple as Finnish)

I have made very little use of this book since I haven't had the time, but I know in my university's course on Farsi they use Wheeler M Thackston's Introduction to Persian. It's mainly geared toward grammar and reading, I think, so it may not be of much use for speaking, but it might be useful to you, depending on your goals.
Here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Persian-Revised-4th/dp/1588140555/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426235235&sr=1-1&keywords=introduction+to+persian

Get Assimil French (make sure you get the audio). You'll get further than what Michael Thomas would you give you. Then you can buy Using French for the advanced level.

It will take about 4 - 5 months to complete the first book, then about 3 - 4 months to complete the second book.

I took MSA Arabic twice, once in college, once on my own as an adult. The book most classes I've seen use is called Alif Baa. It's the first book in the Al-Kitaab series, and covers the alphabet and some intro vocab. Bonus if you can find a second edition. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1589011023/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_7R90xbNWDK2CT

Beginning with the third ed, they for some reason switched to glossy paper, which smears like crazy (it's a workbook), and moved most of their supplemental content online, which from what I recall was not very compatible with smartphones, which I found difficult to always have my laptop and wifi when I wanted to study. Note: If you do take a class, there is a very good chance they will have you use the third edition, which had a lot of revisions from the second. So I suppose its up to use which you get, but I thought the second was much more practical.

Studies have shown that, in a foreign language context, adolescents learn the fastest during the first year. Adults are second fastest, beating out young children for at least the first year up to the first 5 years of study. After 5 years, the students who started as adolescents had still made the most progress in learning. Also, after 5 years, learners who started as children had surpassed those who started as adults. The reason adults and adolescents learn faster in the beginning is because of their higher meta-linguistic awareness compared to children. Also, they're more aware of their own learning styles, and how to learn in the most efficient way for themselves.

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I found this and this very helpful.

I have a copy of Le Petit Prince that has French on one side and Tunisian Arabic on the other. I also have a book of Mahmoud Darwish's poetry that is Arabic/English. One thing I like is that Penguin puts out a collection of "Parallel Text" books that are collections of short stories. My SO has the French one.

I recommend English grammar for students of Spanish

I recommend English grammer for students of Spanish
FTFY

Make sure you look at this: Pois não: Brazilian Portuguese Course for Spanish Speakers, with Basic Reference Grammar

Sure. This, this and others.

Am I allowed to call myself a native L2 speaker. Raised English-speaking in Afrikaans-speaking family. This book is apparently highly recommended by foreign language learners of Afrikaans, if you looking somewhere to start.

Hello there, I know a book specially made for Spanish speakers who want to learn Portuguese, it's called "pois não", here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0292717814/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0292717814&linkCode=as2&tag=smallad-20&linkId=WRX6FACNONFEA5VS

Here is a book for beginners

Here is a book with grammar

Memrise has some good sets of Swedish vocab.

If you're serious about it, I think you'd be crazy not to supplement your study with a class/lessons, whether it be in your area or via Skype.

Here is the mobile version of your link

Here is the mobile version of your link

Here is the desktop version of your link

This kind of book is a rockin' idea: http://www.amazon.com/English-Grammar-Students-Spanish-Learning/dp/0934034303

Hier :)

Yup! I took Middle Egyptian for my degree and I have still have my books. How to read Egyptian hieroglyphs: A step-by-step guide to teach yourself , Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian, and Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs
These were the books I used in class. Keep in mind there's also Late Egyptian, Hieratic, and Coptic.

Peace Corpse Macedonian course: https://www.livelingua.com/peace-corps-macedonian-course.php

Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students: http://sites.utoronto.ca/slavic/kramer/3rdeditionsupplementarymaterials.html

Macedonian grammar: http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/mainframe.jsp?nLanguageID=3

Macedonian E-Learning Center: http://macedonianlanguage.org/Home/RegistrationInformation.aspx

Macedonian Folk Narratives: http://www.pelister.org/mp3/folk-narratives/index.html

Macedonian short movie with English subtitles: http://aeon.co/film/tobacco-girl-a-short-film-about-arranged-marriage/

Macedonian Radio and TV: http://mrt.com.mk/

Apparently decent textbook: http://www.amazon.com/Macedonian-Course-Beginning-Intermediate-Students/dp/0299188043

Ok, so
Grammars:
(The first three are all from Routledge)
Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook
Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook
Persian: A Comprehensive Grammar

Books:
Persian of Iran Today: Volume 1
Persian of Iran Today: Volume 2
Complete Persian (Modern Persian/Farsi)

Websites:
Easy Persian
Persian Language Online
Grammar and Resources, The University of Texas at Austin
Ali Jahanshiri’s Personal Website

YouTube channel(s):
Reza Nazari
There was another one, but I can’t seem to find it right now

Not sure where to categorize this, but Chai and Conversation has audio lessons.

In addition, Forvo has pronunciations of words.
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