4 LL Blogs related to my target languages (English as a foreign language + French)

The Language Learning Blog-http://thelanguagelearningblog.com/

I found this blog interesting because it is not only useful for language learning but also for language teaching.

There are tips and trics that help learn any language, with good links, and references, but also articles, quotes and personnal experience, which is also very useful: learners' personnal "success stories" and experiences.

What I particularly liked was the way some article discussed the pros and cons of some learning and teaching methods.

I didn't really like the layout, which was a bit too bright for me, but overall I think the blog content can be really useful.



The English Blog - http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/english

This blog is full of resources: recent articles from newspapers, tests, boradcast, news, cartoons/drawings, that learners (and teachers) can use to discuss, have an overview of the English speaking world today, etc..
Real resources that allow them to "stay in touch" with reality.

There are also links to other useful blogs, websites for resources, language podcast, music, films, reports, language teaching blogs, further reading, games, and more.



English Learning Blog - http://www.en-learning-blog.com/

This is a useful blog to improve learners' listening skills: most of the posts can be listened to (broadcast: recent news), there are also dictation tests, links, learning methods, pronunciation tips, BBC English, real English,...

There is a wide range of topics including toilet manners, Harry Potter, climate matters,...

However, the blog's layout is boring, and the colours are not appealing for the reader (pale blue and green), and some sections are written in chinese (the blog is firstly aimed at Chinese learners).




Blogs BD.fr - http://www.blogsbd.fr/?s=bestof

Clear and user-friendly design. No overload of colours.
Brilliant idea to learn French: the website displays a wide range of interesting comic blogs. With colours and pictures.

It is very easy to keep up with the language, as the pictures help understand the meaning, and the storylines are quite interesting (humour, suspense, thriller, fantasy,...). The learner is faced with a variety of registers (colloquial French, standard French, formal French, slang...).

I found myself looking for more... This website is definitely catchy.

One drawback though... there isn't any lessons or exercises.