[Photo credit] When one language borrows words from another, the borrowed item undergoes certain changes. For example, a word's semantic range may expand or contract. In English, cool can mean a whole range of positive things when describing a person,...

[Photo credit] The affirmative variety of this statement is one of those things I either see suggested, or outright claimed, in various venues of language learning (ooh, double consonance), whether it's live instruction, software, or books and audio....

[Photo credit] Click here for a very comprehensive Spanish grammar summary, provided by Living Language. It's got everything from pronunciation, spelling, and punctuation to gender, articles, adjective agreement, pronouns, and verb conjugation tables....

[Photo credit] This Devanagari script tutor is a great online tool for students of Hindi (or other languages using the Devanagari script, of course.) It breaks down the consonants, vowels, and conjunct characters, not only showing animation of how to...

Check out the bab.la language portal for dictionaries, translation tools, games, quizzes, vocabulary lessons, and a bunch of other stuff I haven't gotten to yet. The lessons seem limited to vocabulary, which is fine, but you'd need something more...