(Part 3) Top products from r/languagelearning

Can confirm, the Assimil Czech course is great. So is Mluvtecesky.net, as recommended by someone else already. Especially if you are a new learner. Other resources that I have enjoyed during my journey (I'm about 9 months in) -

• Colloquial Czech by James Naughton - I found the dialogs as well as the grammar explanations helpful without being overwhelming.
  
• Czech - An Essential Grammar, also by James Naughton - this book is my gold standard for grammar reference. Explanation are clear and without fluff. Don't buy the E-book version! The diacritic marks are missing!
  
• Assimil Czech (from French) - they also have Czech from German
  
• The Case Book for Czech - Awesome deep dive into different case usage. I love it but it is of limited use until case usage gets a little more automatic for me.
  
• Pimsleur Czech - YMMV with Pimsleur but I credit their Czech course with helping my pronunciation tremendously. You won't get more than 'travel Czech' out of it though.
  
• Lonely Planet Czech Phrasebook
  
  There are a few other resources I like but thats my ideal short list. If you are already familiar with case usage in Slavic languages by any chance, it will help. This is the first Slavic language I have attempted and it's been quite a challenge. If you have zero experience with the language and are cautious about using the Assimil without French or German knowledge, my must-have textbook to start (and the one I wish I had started with) would be Colloquial Czech. The grammar explanations are clear, the dialogs are generally good, and all of the recordings are available for free, so you also have an audio component to work with.
  
  As a side note, I would also recommend signing up for HelloTalk - there seems to be a good amount of Czech speakers on there, especially if you are willing to help with their English. Plus, they have zero qualms about correcting the shit out of your sentences, so as long as the bluntness doesn't bug you it is a great resource.

When I did my TESOL program, I found that where I really was lacking was... how to teach it. Activities that actually work, ya know? Learning a language at home alone is very different than trying to learn in a classroom. For that, I enjoy following along at eslcafe.com and I also watch some stuff on pinterest.

As for understanding English, that's actually what your TEFL/TESOL is going to teach you. I don't know about TEFL, but the TESOL had one section for the actual teaching, another for grammar and a third section for... I forget. But I'm pretty sure there were three sections.

I think you should also consider TESOL instead of TEFL. Here's the basic difference with some super sterotypical examples to illustrate the difference:
TEFL = Teaching English as a Foreign Language (like teaching English in China)
TESL = Teaching English as a Second Language (like teaching English to Mexican immigrants in the US)
TESOL = Teaching English to Speaks of Other Languages (all inclusive -- includes both teaching it as a foreign language, or teaching it as a second language to people who need to speak the local tongue)

TESOL, at least last I checked, isn't accredited in the US, so, if you're in the US, you'll want to compare whether you want to get a US-Based but not accredited degree, or, get one abroad. It's accreddited in Canada, and I got mine from onTESOL.com which I highly recommended and they put me through my paces, it was not just pay and here's a certificate. Though it's Canadian, everyone locally has recognized it so far.

If you have a BA in Linguistics I really don't think you're going to need to learn more about understanding the structure of English, or how to pronounce it. But, if for some reason you do, I actually recommend The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: http://www.amazon.com/The-Deluxe-Transitive-Vampire-Ultimate/dp/0679418601 This was actually my textbook in a middle school class I had where the teacher was obsessed with diagramming sentences. The sentences were (possibly not all age-appropriate) interesting and turned dry grammatical study into something that could produce a few chuckles and keep you interested.

With you coming from a very helpful area of study, I really don't think you need it. HOW to teach is going to be what helps the most. The classroom... is very different than just sitting down and studying. Particularly when, like me, you're obsessed with making sure everyone is getting knowledge out of the activity, not just the student actively doing whatever it is (like a presentation or reading or whatever).

If you're interested, PM me and I'll let you know about an online job I worked briefly at teaching english in an online classroom. It was nice because I wasn't freelance, actually an employee. I ended up leaving because nearly immediately I got a better job offer elsewhere, but I get the impression that they're nearly always hiring. :) If you're interested, I'd be glad to dig in my old job search notes and find it.

I started German about 6 weeks ago, and I've made some great headway... don't know what level I'm at or whatever obviously, but it's exciting to be able to pick up real novels and actually be able to start to tell what's going on.

I mainly learned by starting with Duolingo, and reading through this. The Graded reader was actually the most helpful thing I did... it makes it really, really painless and easy to pick up new vocab, and you can literally start on page one with zero knowledge of German, read a few (or 10 or whatever) pages every day, and hit the end with a really comfortable full overview of basic German Grammar and maybe 1,000 vocab words. It went along really well with Duolingo, but for me personally, learning by reading in that format was more fun and easier over-all. The only catch is the book is like $35 used (I managed to find a copy for $20) but you might be able to find a pdf of it somewhere if you hunt.

For what it's worth... Duolingo was really helpful up until about halfway through the tree. I'll probably finish it just for shits and giggles, but there's an increasingly huge amount of words I don't expect will be useful, given what I actually like talking and reading about. (I hear over the next year Duolingo is going to start making custom trees given what you're actually interested in, but for now you're stuck with a lot of business vocab and verbs whose use isn't immediately apparent just from Duolingo's sample sentences). Also... Duolingo has an interesting philosophy on introducing more complicated grammar... basically they expose you to it a number of times, and then decide it's time to explain it. That's not how I work, so I had to use a number of outside resources. Adjectives for example (first encountered with the colors section) it makes no fucking sense, so just go read the wikipedia article and save yourself some trouble.

Beyond that, make a lang-8 account after the first week or two and start writing using what you know. You'll feel really limited at first of course, but half the trick starting out I think is figuring out how to express what you're looking to say using the tools you have available. Plus it gives you a chance to practice new grammar and vocab in a setting that's a little more natural than duolingo's canned sentences.

viel glück!

The biggest issue with learning Hindi is the lack of resources. Most resources that are common aren't actually made by linguists or people who learned Hindi as a second language. Rather they're made by bilingual natives who rely on either their intuition or traditional Indian teaching methods (which work better if you already speak another Indian language fluently). Both of which, for an English native speaker, are not that great (read: very bad).

First learn how to read/write. There's a lot of good resources for that online, but I've heard great things about this book. That said, you could always just get a native's help, (tbf that's exactly what I did, and you don't miss much). Basically, however you do it, learn to read/write.

Teach Yourself Hindi is basically the holy bible of learning Hindi. It's by and large the greatest resource created for a language with few quality resource. Read it, learn it, memorize it. If anyone actually learned Hindi as a second-language learner (without speaking another Indian language) and didn't use this book, I'd be amazed (please pass me your resources too).

As supplemental resources, this website, by a Hindi learner who's also a linguist, so it goes even more in depth. A Primer on Modern Standard Hindi is basically a textbook written by linguists for linguists learning Hindi, so it goes even more in depth than the other two.

After Teach Yourself Hindi, just immerse yourself in native content (Hindi books, Bollywood, Hindi TV, etc.). Any questions can be looked up in the 2 supplemental resources or can be asked on this forum, which is pretty active (I've gotten responses within 24 hours consistently).

There's also no great Hindi-English dictionary. In a pinch (or for checking spelling in case you heard a word from a movie/TV show) Google Translate helps with 1-word translations. Anything beyond that though is inaccurate.

Good luck! Hindi's a great language to learn.

/r/learnswahili


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJRI1aNvhSo

This lady wrote some published grammar books and her videos are concise .

https://www.amazon.com/Swahili-Foundation-Speaking-Reading-Writing/dp/0761809724/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=513Jwn%2B4OtL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR124%2C160_&psc=1&refRID=N9KKCT556X8PMPXJ4BQC


If your mom wants to learn more than just a basic phrase or two, this textbook is good .all of the vocab is already typed up on memrise under "swahili: a foundation vocab" .You can link it to her on memrise and just have her play the game.

http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/swahili/index.html


The audio that goes with the "swahili a foundation" textbook is available legally for free.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0819172154/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=41t1v5AmauL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL100_SR100%2C100_&psc=1&refRID=NPR4Q4M2DHMS0DNEPE8E


This workbook goes with the book I linked and buying both together as long as you buy them used should be under 20 bucks.


There are 28 lessons in the grammar book/reader, and the people on the recordings online are natives.



The swahili book I linked has cute illustrations and paragraphs and it is less intimidating .

https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/swahili.html

This course is free and legal, but more "boring" and has no photos .


I would go with the "swahili:a foundation" coursebook used, and maybe the workbook. The workbook doesn't have answers, but the exercises are still pretty useful and it is like 6 dollars.

You could bookmark the page where the audio for the "swahili a foundation" book, put it on cds or on her mp3, or even a smartphone .


Even just listening/reading to the FSI course works pretty well, I like ot a lot. I have a hardcopy and it works well just listening and reading to it. Also, I found it really helpful to work in conjunction with memrise. It helped me a lot to learn the words prior to tackling them in the book (swahili a foundation) .That memrise list I mentioned matches all the words per chapter, so when you got to the chapter, you could read the texts and conversations .


IMHO you can get pretty decent grasp of the grammar and reading knowledge with the book I suggested. The audio helps too.

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 :)

kiswahili kwa kitendo is great
https://www2.ku.edu/~kiswahili/

https://www.amazon.com/Swahili-Foundation-Speaking-Reading-Writing/dp/0761809724/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=swahili+textbook&qid=1563664912&s=gateway&sr=8-1 buy this book used it is great

you can teach yourself pretty decent swahili for a beginner with this book. I think a grammar helps, which would be this book:https://www.amazon.com/Swahili-Grammar-Introductory-Intermediate-Levels/dp/0761863818/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=swahili+grammar&qid=1563664961&s=gateway&sr=8-1


you can get both of these used.

Also: the audio for the first book is here legally: https://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/node/190291

I would just buy the book for thirty bucks and work through it. there are good flashcard and audio resources on memrise, even flashcard sets that are designed around the units in the first book. Whatever you do don't try to learn both at the same time. I'd pick whichever you are interested in and have family who would talk to you or work with you. They're different enough to where "learning both" or learning both at the same time wouldn't help other than a few cognates like as-samak and samaki.

Enjoy.


Also, connect with swahili media like pop music (taurus music on youtube), voa swahili, and bbc swahili website.

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!

Free links: http://private.maroniteacademy.org/5.-lebanese-language.html

I found this set of books and cds to be wonderful (got mine on ebay for 15.00 which was amazing, so you will have to shop around to get a good price): https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Arabic-Conversational-Eastern-Palestinian/dp/9657397308

This dictionary is also great because it gives the transliterated pronunciation: https://www.amazon.com/Olive-Tree-Dictionary-Transliterated-Conversational/dp/9657397065

I also have this book:

Hakini Arabi: Palestinian and Jordanian Colloquial for Beginners

https://www.amazon.com/Hakini-Arabi-Palestinian-Jordanian-Colloquial/dp/1514274795

There is this new series that I know nothing about

marHaba: A Course in Levantine Arabic - Lebanese Dialect

https://www.amazon.com/marHaba-Course-Levantine-Lebanese-Dialect/dp/1508595313

marHaba II: A Course in Levantine Arabic - Lebanese Dialect - Intermediate Level

https://www.amazon.com/marHaba-II-Levantine-Lebanese-Intermediate/dp/1540895300'

Matthew Aldrich has a couple of good books about Levantine Arbaic:

Levantine Arabic Verbs: Conjugation Tables and Grammar
https://www.amazon.com/Levantine-Arabic-Verbs-Conjugation-Grammar/dp/0998641138

Levantine Colloquial Arabic Vocabulary
https://www.amazon.com/Levantine-Colloquial-Vocabulary-Matthew-Aldrich/dp/0692622586

Mido: In Levantine Arabic
https://www.amazon.com/Mido-Levantine-Arabic-Matthew-Aldrich/dp/0998641146

You can also get the audio/video in Levantine Arabic for the famous al-kitaab series: https://www.amazon.com/Haki-bil-Libnani-Access-Code-Companion/dp/1626161542

Levantine Arabic for Non-Natives: A Proficiency-Oriented Approach:
https://www.amazon.com/Levantine-Arabic-Non-Natives-Proficiency-Oriented-Approach/dp/0300056346

Arabic You Need (Lebanese)
https://www.amazon.com/Arabic-Need-Lebanese-text-Edition/dp/1579703720

I borrowed this book at the main city library in Copenhagen 20 years ago. It even had the same cover photo!

It was pretty good -- and it was specifically targeted at English speakers, so they could understand the phonetics as well as possible.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Phonetics-pelican-original-J-D-OConnor/0140215603/ref=la_B001H9PH92_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482498278&sr=1-3

It covered lots of stuff found in other languages (pretty sure French was one of them) but it didn't target French specifically. It concentrated on teaching basic phonetics to English speakers using English examples. You will learn that you didn't understand English nearly as well as you thought and you will realize that you pronounce many words different from what you think. You will also learn the International Phonetic Alphabet (+ the well-thought out system behind it). Please give up completely trying to use American based "phonetic" writing. There are many different American systems and they only really work for (American) English and they are not particularly well thought out.

Oh -- you will also learn the difference between long vowels and diphthongs. Many native English speakers think all diphthongs are long vowels and that's a big impediment for learning new languages. Don't trust your primary school teacher: English does not have short and long vowels. It has short and long vowels PLUS DIPHTHONGS.

(It also has triphthongs and semi-vowels but you'll learn all that from the book.)

I used to own this book but it disappeared on me more than a decade ago. It was a wonderful tour of common and not so common sounds in languages from around the world. The various ways r's can be pronounced ("rhotics") gets a complete chapter on it's own -- both because it is a really big topic and because there are so many different kinds of r's.

There are actual x-rays and line drawings based on x-rays for all the sounds. I think there are also sonograms (fourier analyses of sounds). Plenty of very good explanations.

https://www.amazon.com/Sounds-Worlds-Languages-Peter-Ladefoged/dp/0631198156

I have read many other books/papers on phonetics but those are the two that I can remember off the top of my head that are also relevant to you. I mean, I could also mention Gunnar Fant's work on machine analysis of speech or Eli Fischer-Jørgensen's book in Danish but that wouldn't really be useful...

Btw, while you are at it, you should probably take a look at the l sounds as well. You are probably making them wrong, too, if you are American. Plus, see if you can learn to relax the soft parts at the back of your mouth. Tensing the muscles there is what gives Americans a lot of their American accent.

In my opinion, apps and software don't tend to be of much use; they don't let you advance quickly enough and don't expose you to enough material. If you're serious about learning Russian, grab a good book and study each text or dialogue until you understand it both in reading and aurally. There's Teach Yourself Russian, Routledge's Colloquial Russian, the FSI FAST (Familiarization and Short-Term Training) Russian, Assimil Russian (if you speak French), and I've heard good things about the New Penguin Russian Course. In all cases, be sure you get audio along with the book, or have a native speaker who is willing to help you learn. Good luck!

I mean, the alphabet gets a little confusing at the beginning because you're not used to seeing dots everywhere so everything looks kind of the same at the beginning, but I don't think it's any easier or harder than the kanas, really!

If you want to get to a level where you can converse with refugees, go with Levantine Arabic, not MSA. Most people will understand MSA if they've been schooled, but they can't always reply back in it, and you don't want to be in a situation where you can't understand them if they reply in dialectal Arabic.

At the moment the crisis mostly affects the Levant, and especially Syria (obviously), and there's good resources for that dialect. My favourite textbook was Syrian Colloquial Arabic, which my teacher used when I lived there and had to study the dialect. It's an investment but it's very well-made and relevant. You can also find Colloquial Levantine Arabic, and there's also a grammar book available, and a dictionary and you'll also find vocabulary books such as this one. From Syrian, you'll get Lebanese Arabic very easily (it's like American VS British English), Jordanian and Palestinian (a little less easily). Iraqi is a different one altogether, but would be worth considering if you want to get involved in helping refugees.

Actually Teach Yourself - Hindi by Rupert Snell is a pretty good course for beginners. Good dialogues to introduce vocabulary and different aspects of grammar.

The other books suggested here are also good ones. :)

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.

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!

Sure!

Amebis translator, better than Google Translate for Slovene

Forvo has 8k pronunciations

Linguee has some contextual translations, but they are mostly discussions from the EU parliament and are not everyday language

Sublearning, this site gives you a line from a movie and asks you to translate it. It has lots of out-of-sync subs

Slovar Slovenskega Knjiznjega Jezika, a standard Slovene dictionary, entirely in Slovene

Pons is a classic English-Slovene dictionary, with some examples

Learnslovenian.net was made by some volunteers, I haven't used it

Termania is a beast of a dictionary and is my go-to dictionary whenever I need something

This site helps with noun case modifications

This site has a list of resources

And there's this site, created by the Faculty of Arts

This is an older book on Amazon, written in the 90's I believe

Colloquial Slovene is a good one that I've used

Aaaand that's about it. There are some Memrise courses as well, but I haven't been hearing good things about Memrise as of late.

Almost nobody who works with Egyptian makes any serious attempt to pronounce it correctly. They just use the closest easy-to-pronounce consonants, and stick in whatever filler vowels are natural in their native language. This is partly because we're talking about a language that was spoken a couple thousand years and which had many regional dialects, and so historical pronunciation varied considerably by time and place.

If, however, you want to learn more about the reconstructed pronunciation, then Lorpieno is an excellent choice from a linguistics perspective, and Allen is great if you want a course.

In addition, there's the much more recent Graded German Reader: Erste Stufe. Out of print but still in copyright, but there's a PDF floating around.

Studien und Plaudereien is very cute but obviously pretty outdated / old fashioned.

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.

Unfortunately, al-kitaab is not very vocab heavy until the second book. One textbook I like is Standard Arabic: an advanced course. There's also an elementary-intermediate course, which may be of benefit to you, but I'm not personally familiar with it. Something I've been mining for random, everyday vocab words (something that al-kitaab is horrible about) is the Arabic-English bilingual visual dictionary. It has lots of good words and seems pretty accurate. Unfortunately I don't have any suggestions for books or movies, but something you can do is read wikipedia. Pick a topic you know about, look it up in English wikipedia then click over to Arabic. If it's something you already know, it'll be much easier to pick up the vocabulary. Write down all the words you look up and put them onto flashcards.

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.

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. :-)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colloquial-Russian-Complete-Course-Beginners/dp/0415469953/ref=pd_cp_b_0

This book is the best I can suggest if you want to learn quickly.

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.

Colloquial Afrikaans

Colloquial Afrikaans Audio (Free)

It'd be easier, if you already knew Dutch.

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.

There's a few reasons. I am really interested in the history of the region and all of the scientific contributions that were made. And I also want to learn about Iraq from real Iraqis, not from the mainstream media here in the USA.

Currently,

I use a few books

• Modern Iraqi Arabic by Yasin M. Alkalesi
  
• Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya
  
• Iraqi Phrasebook : The Complete Language Guide for Contemporary Iraq
  
  I also have a few iraqi ebooks..
  
  I also use the Hellotalk App, and Memrise/Anki
  
  
• heres's an iraqi course on memrise that i've used in the past.
  
  Then just practicing with Iraqi people and having the correct me when I make mistakes.

Here is the mobile version of your link

Hier :)

Spanish

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1465459316/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3/139-3914457-3656352?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=S9HEV6304SXFCEN966R2&pf_rd_r=S9HEV6304SXFCEN966R2&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=7a8f5654-37f5-4688-a266-a74309cad748&pf_rd_p=7a8f5654-37f5-4688-a266-a74309cad748&pf_rd_i=0756649838

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Arabic

https://www.amazon.com/Arabic-English-Bilingual-Dictionary-DK-Publishing/dp/0756649838

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There are for many other languages

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Classical-Nahuatl-Michel-Launey/dp/0521732298

I got this from the local library.

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

When I took Arabic in college we used Al Kitaab I'm not sure how well it would work for self study, but you could try looking into it.

Let me gather up the links for the materials I've found, this will be for Darija and MSA.
I'll edit when I've gathered them all, it might take a little bit though.

EDIT:

A-okay! I probably missed a few links (and probably double linked stuff) and this post is probably going to look like a mess, but that's okay, because I can always go back and fix stuff. : )
I’ll be linking stuff either to websites, to books (as you requested) that you can buy through Amazon, or to other stuff that I've found.

Just to get it out of the way, if you’re into pirating, then there’s this massive learning pack you can download.

Master posts:

• https://sites.google.com/site/soyouwanttolearnalanguage/languagee-books
  
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/index#wiki_arabic_.28general.2Fmsa.29
  
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/index#wiki_arabic_.28maghrebi.29
  
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/index#wiki_arabic_.28levantine.29
  
  Anyway, for MSA, Alif Baa is typically the book most learners start off with in order to learn the alphabet. In this book it covers MSA, and the Levantine and Egyptian dialects and it comes with a DVD/audio.
  
  There’s also this book for the alphabet too The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It
  
  As another poster has already brought up, there’s the Al-Kitaab series with Part 2 here. Not self-teaching friendly at all.
  
  There’s also:
  
  
• Ahlan Wa Sahlan
  
  
• Mastering Arabic 1
  
  
• New Arabic Grammar
  
  
• Easy Arabic Grammar
  
  
• Pimsleur
  
  
• Al Mawrid Dictionary English-Arabic and Arabic-English
  
  
• Assimil
  
  
• Teach Yourself Arabic
  
  
• Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News
  
  And here’s some more link vomit:
  
  
• http://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/arabic.html
  
  
• http://hs2.lingnet.org/msa.html
  
  
• http://www.madinaharabic.com/
  
  
• http://learn.arabiconline.eu/
  
  
• https://www.livelingua.com/project/fsi/Arabic/#ModernStandardArabic
  
  
• https://www.livelingua.com/dli-arabic-course.php
  
  
• https://quizlet.com/LetsTalkArabic
  
  
• http://allthearabicyouneverlearnedthefirsttimearound.com/
  
  
• http://allthearabicyouneverlearnedthefirsttimearound.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/All-The-Arabic-Searchable-PDF.pdf
  
  
• http://arabicwithoutwalls.ucdavis.edu/aww/coursecontent.html - based off of Al-Kitaab
  
  
• http://www.lqtoronto.com/downloads.html
  
  
• http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/arabic/index.html
  
  Youtube:
  
  
• Learn Arabic with Maha
  
  
• Language Transfer Introduction to Arabic
  
  
  For Darija, it’s really difficult to find resources for compared to other dialects, but here are some that I’ve found over time.
  
  Books:
  
  
• Shnoo the Hell is Going On H'naa?
  
  
• An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic and Culture
  
  
• Verb Dictionary
  
  
• A Short Reference Grammar of Moroccan Arabic
  
  Links:
  
  
• http://www.speakmoroccan.com/
  
  
• http://friendsofmorocco.org/arabictoc.htm
  
  
• http://www.hellodarija.com/
  
  
• http://mylanguages.org/learn_moroccan.php
  
  
• http://www.dalilusa.com/arabic_course/moroccan_arabic_lessons.asp
  
  
• http://www.linguanaut.com/moroccan.htm
  
  
• http://hs2.lingnet.org/moroccan.html
  
  
• http://www.loecsen.com/travel/0-en-67-2-62-free-lessons-arabic-moroccan.html
  
  
• https://www.livelingua.com/peace-corps-moroccan-arabic-course.php
  
  
• http://www.talkinarabic.com/moroccan-dialect-main/
  
  
• http://www.armchairarabist.blogspot.com/p/learn-moroccan-arabic.html
  
  Youtube:
  
  
• ArabicPod has some darija lessons
  
  
• Learn darija
  
  
• hello darija
  
  Other:
  
  There’s also this in person course in Rabat that many people have spoken highly of.