David

Welcome

Welcome traveller,

this site is meant as a ressource for all information you may need before and while travelling. I did a worldtrip myself and combined the researches I did in advance and during the trip to this 3 pages packed with links. Every one leads to the best service I found within the topic to answer your questions.

Please don´t hesitate to get in touch if anything is missing or has changed. You may write me via my website: www.david-schubert.com

Best regards
  David

learn the language

- know what you learn -
great site about the specific problems of a dozen languages:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com

A few nice thoughts from Tim Ferriss about learning languages pretty fast: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/11/07/how-to-learn-but-not-master-any-language-in-1-hour-plus-a-favor/
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/01/20/learning-language/

- now start learning - (+ means favorite)

language courses:
+http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ (great video and flash media by BBC worldwide, free)
http://www.fsi-language-courses.com (pdf+mp3 courses, originally used in US-government trainings, free)
http://language101.com/ (nice and clean, free courses in half a dozen languages)
http://www.mangolanguages.com (costly: 160$ for 3 months, but good interface)
http://ocw.mit.edu/ (MIT OpenCourseware, only few on video, good link section for every course)
http://www.internetpolyglot.com/ (21 languages with lessons, complicated interface)

language learning podcasts:
http://rlnvault.com (cool professional podcasts, basic free, enhanced for fee)
+more at: http://www.openculture.com/2006/10/foreign_languag.html

language courses and social plattform in one (practice for yourself and get in touch with native speakers)
+http://babbel.com (only main languages, but great fun, courses + community-features, no longer free)
http://busuu.com (only main languages, complicated interface, free basic and fee for complete courses)
http://www.livemocha.com (lots of languages, exercises sometimes annoying,basic course free)

specialised social language plattforms:
write in your foreign language and get corrected by native speakers: http://lang-8.com/
find a language partner or teacher: http://www.italki.com (cheap one-to-one lessons, some ressources)
find a tandem: http://mylanguageexchange.com/ (large database)
find meetup groups worldwide (search 'french language' etc.): http://www.meetup.com
incredible archive of correct pronounciations: http://www.forvo.com/
learn with flashcards made by others: http://www.flashcardexchange.com/ (online free, printing 20$ fee once for a lifetime)

find ressources for rare languages:
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/ (learning material)
http://www.ethnologue.com/ (statistical data)

- find more ressources -
a lot of ressources from courses to podcasts to meetup-groups: http://www.word2word.com/

tips - read advice on travelling

great advice for planning, packing, everything
http://www.travelindependent.info/

reviews of websites and good traveltipps
http://www.budgetglobetrotting.com

a few gestures you should not use
http://www.cracked.com/article_16335_7-innocent-gestures-that-can-get-you-killed-overseas.html

Software & SIM Cards

Software to check out what´s near you (needs a device with 3g/WLAN): http://lifehacker.com/5448978/find-the-best-spots-in-new-cities-with-these-tools

SIM Cards with Dataoption per Country
http://paygsimwithdata.wikia.com/wiki/Pay_as_you_go_sim_with_data_Wiki

travel and tracking search

Search through a few good travel sites at once. (a homemade search engine) Loading google.load('search', '1', {language : 'de'}); google.setOnLoadCallback(function(){ var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl('015613924451872650345:fwwzuttmnci'); customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.FILTERED_CSE_RESULTSET); customSearchControl.draw('cse'); }, true);

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