Conscious Reggae video featuring: Lutan Fyah - Intoxication (Zion Riddim)

The other new Metallica song from the yet to be released new studio album. Live 2006. People are dissing it and these guys are getting old but at least it has a fucking guitar solo.

Yes! Finally a new song by the greatest metal band. This is an incomplete new track off the unreleased album Death Magnetic. The new album has a sceduled release date of September 12, 2008. This was recorded live way back in 06.

This is for those who use others musical work as their own, without paying them , to further their musical career. How can you claim Rastafari, and in the same breathe seek to rip them off, as well as set yourself up to reap the rewards? Here we seek to remind others who claim the conscious lifestyle to keep it real before the lawsuit comes.... Are your drum tracks being used without compensation, if so get legal advise here

ArabicPod.net is a quality podcast for learning the Arabic language. The audio podcast lessons are free! and two levels of membership are also available for a nominal price. These include transcriptions of the lessons and additional study materials.

Lessons are well-structured and tackle many difficult aspects of learning the Arabic language, such as difficult letters to pronounce and cultural idiomatic expressions. Meet the teachers here.

ArabicPod.net also has a number of videos available. Most of these are for paid subscribers but there are also some for free. You will also find a forum on the website. If you are a premium member, you have access to a place to share documents, images, links and more with other users.

The dialect taught on this podcast is "common colloquial" Arabic, common across all Arabic dialects, as well as Standard Arabic. Read more about this.

What is ArabicPod?

ArabicPod is a website dedicated to providing the most innovative and effective methods for learning Arabic. We use the latest technologies in web 2.0 to provide a rich learning experience delivering podcasts, videos, games and much more.

Where is it based?

ArabicPod is based in London. If you’re around town, then why don’t you contact us and arrange to meet the ArabicPod team or even join us as a guest in some of our lessons.

Is it free?

All of our audio podcasts can be freely listened to and downloaded. For most of the other content, there is a subscription fee which is setup to cover the costs of running the website.

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The Rocket Spanish product from Rocket Languages has proved to be a highly successful, fun! and fast method for beginners to learn the Spanish language. The Rocket Languages team has designed a multi-faceted course including extensive audio lessons, software and learning games, grammar lessons with audio clips and a member's forum for help on demand.

I have personally been using Rocket Languages Japanese now as a total beginner with next to no knowledge of the Japanese language and the results have been excellent. I have used a lot of different language-learning methods (as you can tell from this website!) and the Rocket method is both quick and interesting, and I always find myself looking forward to the next lesson.

Don't just take my word for it. Try it out and if you don't like the results, you can get all your cash back for 60 days after you place an order. No risk there!

Rocket Spanish is designed to be the easiest to follow system for learning how to speak Spanish available. It is an interactive course that makes you want to study. Also, it's practical. You'll discover exactly what to say in virtually all situations.

With Rocket Spanish, you are going to learn Spanish rapidly, effectively, and easily. You are going to be able to speak at a restaurant, at an airport, with new friends...

With the Rocket Languages Spanish Program you get:

A Rocket Languages Interactive Audio Course that prompts you to speak Spanish in a conversational and friendly way so that the words just stick in your mind! Learn a language the easy way!

Mega Software Learning Games that are specifically designed to increase your vocabulary and understanding of Spanish and allow you to have fun in the process!

Fully illustrated and easy-to-follow Grammar Lessons, for those of you who love to know how Spanish works. Most of these come with embedded audio clips in the lessons so that you can hear exactly how the words are pronounced!

If you have any questions, you can either email us or post a message on our Members Only Learners Forums, where our team of language experts and fellow enthusiasts will respond to your needs. With every Premium order you get unlimited and full access to our Forum - imagine having a teacher, virtually "on call" 24 hours a day!

And of course all Rocket Languages products are backed by a 60 Day 100% Money Back Guarantee. We're that confident, and it's that simple.

Rocket Languages will teach you how to speak Spanish naturally, so you can read, write, speak, and understand the language as though you have lived there all your life - these are truly cutting-edge multimedia courses!

Find out more about Rocket Spanish.

Conscious reggae video of the week: Chuck Fender Gash Dem

Busuu is a shiny new language exchange community and free multimedia (image + audio) foreign language lesson archive. The site currently supports English, French, German and Spanish and the founders of Busuu plan to add more languages as quickly as they are able.

The site is based on the Drupal framework, the same platform as Free Language, though they have taken it to quite another level altogether! Clean, crisp, fast-loading and full of fun colorful graphics that change as your language skills improve (called the Busuu Language Garden), Busuu promises to be a contender in the growing social language learning milieu.

The lessons are divided into three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced. Each lesson has a photo/audio component along with writing practice, native speaker exchange and a review test. You can keep a track record of your studies as you complete them. All lessons are free and can be completed at anytime, letting you choose your study schedule and mark your own progress.

Finding friends is easy through the search function, so discovering practice/exchange partners is fast and simple. Busuu provides a video chat function through the site for easy access to language exchanges without needing to go outside the site or use other utilities.

Altogether a bright, cheery and user-friendly site, Busuu weilds a healthy lessons archive and growing user community. Have a look at the site tour today to find out how to begin improving your English, French, German and Spanish skills. Who knows, by the time you read this article, other languages may have been added...

busuu.com is a start-up, based in Madrid, which runs an innovative online community for learning languages.

We have personally suffered from the traditional way to learn a new language which we always found expensive, difficult and boring.

Therefore, we decided to create a new concept of language learning by offering you the following advantages:

• Learn from your fellow students: Learn directly from native speakers of the busuu.com community and forget about the horrible grammar sessions you had in school
• Learn what you really want: Be completely flexible in the content you want to learn, from preparing for a job interview to a discotheque pick-up line we can meet all your language needs
• Learn for free: During our beta phase, busuu.com can be used completely for free! Once we launch our next version, you will have the possibility to pay a small amount per month in order to become a premium member and get access to additional learning tools and premium content. But even as a basis-member, you will always enjoy loads of learning content completely for free!

About the founders

Adrian, Co-Founder

Adrian is from Liechtenstein, an impressively small country in the heart of the European Alps.

He is fluent in the lovely Schweitzerdeutsch, German, English, French and really fights hard to finally improve his Spanish.

Bernhard, Co-Founder

Bernhard was born in the beautiful city of Vienna in Austria, famous for Waltz and Sachertorte.

He speaks fluently the charming accent of Viennese German, English, Spanish and improves currently his (Brazilian) Portuguese.

About Busuu

Busuu is a language spoken in Cameroon - based on an ethnological study conducted in the 80ies, apparently only eight people are able to speak this language.

If you happen to know one of these people or know more about the Busuu culture, please let us know.

We have the dream to contribute to the diversity of languages all over the world – therefore we will continuously extend the languages offered at our website.

...and maybe one day, you might even find the possibility to learn Busuu throughout our website…;-)

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TheChineseReader is an very useful website for people learning to read Mandarin Chinese. You can paste in any text in Mandarin and the website will use a large variety of tools (see Resources & Credits below) to transform the text into clickable annotations.

This is wonderful for anyone having difficulty with a Chinese text and wanting that extra bit of help. It could also give some idea to people who know no Mandarin (or read no Mandarin) and are attempting to understand a website written in Chinese characters.

Excellent tool - many thanks Adam!

About the Reader

This project came about in response to the continually increasing number of english-speakers learning chinese. After many years studying chinese myself, and seeing friends do likewise, there were a number of tedious functions I came to feel a computer was better suited to do. Some hair-pulling web-development later, the TheChineseReader™ (TCR) was born.

The feautures of this site are constantly under development, though the speed of that development may not be all too impressive. If you have suggestions for fixes, new features, or other general feedback & inquiries, please contact feedback@thechinesereader.com

TCR is not a commercial site per se, though we are supported by sponsored advertisements, which help cover the costs of hosting, development, and maintenance. Thanks for understanding.

About the Creator

My name is Adam. I am a recent graduate of UPenn, now living in San Francisco. I work for a Management Consultancy, which leaves not that much time to work on this site. =) But I'll try to keep it up to date and add features when time permits.

Resources & Credits

The reader would not function very well without the unsung contributions of all those behind the technologies and data-resources used in this site—particularly those in the open-source community. I would like to take a moment to acknowledge them:

Unihan Database: this database provides the foundation for all of the single character entries and cantonese functionality. It is being used here under the GNU license, and is available at the Unicode website.

CeDict Database: this database proides the data behind all multi-character lookups. An incredible amount of work has gone into this project, and I applaud the people who make it possible. It is being used here under the GNU license, and is available at the Cedict website.

Ruby On Rails: the entire site is coded in the Ruby On Rails (RoR) framework. RoR is a web-application development paradigm that is 100% open-source, and in this developers opinion, the best in class. Again, profuse thanks to those who enable this and so many other sites to be realized through their efforts.

MySQL: alongside the RoR, this site is powered by a MySQL database. MySQL is arguably the most powerful open-source relational-DB package in the world. And it has contributed more than its fair share to web-apps everywhere.

Wenlin Software: Wenlin (文林) is a piece of commerical software whose aid to chinese-learners is almost unquantifiable. I include it in the credits here because thier mouse-over dictionary lookup is the rightful inspiration for the reader's core functionality.

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The Greg Ward Project live from Taylor Down Under JMU campus Harrisonburg Va . Many of the players have moved on. The sound has changed, but some things remain...... Conscious Reggae Music

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Avatar Languages offers a unique English language-learning experience in Second Life. Second Life is a virtual world with plenty of people from all over the world wandering around in digital forms, known as avatars. Avatar Languages has a language school for English learners right there in Second Life. You can log on and go there to learn!

This is a unique language-learning model, made possible only very recently thanks to our speedy technology. The possibilities are broad, as you can teleport to anywhere you want! Sushi in Tokyo with an English teacher? No problem. A tour of London with an English tutor? No worries!

Avatar Languages brings these and other possiblities to users of Second Life, combined with private tutors and an innovative language learning environment. You can chat via Skype, collaborate with Google Docs, learn with online whiteboards and more - all as part of their method.

Currently English is the only language offered. Spanish, Aymara and Quechua will be taught soon as well, and it could very well grow from there. Check them out for a free intro lesson to see if it will work for you.

Learn English in Second Life

Let your Avatar take you to new worlds and advance your English. Learn English speaking with real teachers in a virtual school. An innovative new language school in Second Life - virtually the best English school in the world.

Professionalism

Qualified Teachers: we are all qualified, experienced, native English speakers. Meet the teachers...

Cutting Edge Methods: we will get you talking and using your English in real situations.

Free Trial Lesson

We offer a 15 minute lesson, absolutely free with no commitment. The free trial lesson includes access to our virtual campus in Second Life.

During the lesson we will assess your level of English and help you to determine your learning goals.

How it Works

You can be learning English with us within minutes - you probably already have everything you need!

* Internet
* Microphone & Speakers
* Computer
* Second Life Avatar (basic account)
* Skype, MSN or Yahoo

Virtual Fun

Meet other students in our student cafe and practice your English. You will get to know other students both in Second Life and real life.

Allow yourself to escape into a world where your imagination can go wild. You will learn by playing and having fun.

See how exciting it will be...

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Second Life® is a 3-D virtual world created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe.

From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business.

You'll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow Residents. Because Residents retain intellectual property rights in their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other Residents.

The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the inworld unit of trade, the Linden™ dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online Linden dollar exchanges.

Welcome to the Second Life world. We look forward to seeing you inworld.

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Conscious reggae video of the week festuring: FANTAN MOJAH - STRONGER

The Linguist List, from Eastern Michigan University, has an amazing list of language links that just couldn't go unmentioned. Included are links regarding linguistics, endangered languages, natural languages, constructed languages (conlangs), writing systems, language meta-sites and language families.

This area of the LINGUIST list contains information on languages and language families, plus links to websites devoted to natural and constructed languages, to writing systems, and to language resources, e.g., dictionaries.

Visit LinguistList.org Language Links

Cannabis Sacrament

The Creator of all things seen and unseen has given humankind the herb Cannabis as our spiritual food and medicine. This birth-right, essential in our religious establishment and exercise is guaranteed by the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and by the RFRA of 1993 and the RLUIPA of 2000. Supreme Court rulings further protect and guarantee these rights. In this blog, you will find the evidence. Praise the Most High, JAH Rastafari.

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Pato Banton with the Conscious messsage, legalize it. A conscious reggae video featuring:
Pato Banton - "Legalize It!" Surfdog Records

It seems that the absolute best way to learn a language is to go to a country where it is spoken - live it and study it, simultaneously. This can be a challenging path to take, but the reward is instant progress, the fastest way from "I don't understand" to "As easy as falling off a log". Traveling, living and studying abroad is an exciting way to learn any language while broadening your cultural awareness.

All the theory, methods, etc., are excellent fodder for your intellectual mind and can lead to a deeper understanding of a language, it's writing system, grammar, pronunciation and the rest. But actually using it everyday as a necessity in a variety of practical social contexts (shopping, transportation, directions, restaurants...) - without interruption and noise from other languages you know - will quickly whip you into shape with the essentials! Supplement that with a number of hours per week spent studying the language with qualified educators, and you will acquire fluency more quickly than any other way.

This is an attempt to provide a small number of links that lead to multitudes of links regarding studying foreign languages abroad. The directories and the links they lead you to cover loads of languages, so this article is included in all the language sections on Free Language.

Open Directory (DMOZ) Language Schools Directory
Open Directory (DMOZ) Study Abroad Directory
botw.org Language Schools Directory
botw.org Study Abroad Directory
Google Language Schools Directory
Google Study Abroad Directory
Yahoo Specific Languages Directory
Yahoo Language Schools Directory
Yahoo Study Abroad Directory
Directories and Lists of Language Schools on csun.edu
Selected Study Abroad Websites on umich.edu
Key Study Abroad Websites on Transitions Abroad

I must admit that I got the off island blues, and sometimes I wonder stuck in the concrete jungle; Virginia Reggae? What the Fuck. The vibe is different here, Charlottesville. More Honky Tonk wanna be country than anything else a music scene not so open to the Island Vibe. Despite this all, there are quite a few reggae musicians who not only work there fingers to the bone to spread the positive vibe, but also happen to be world class musicians in their right.
To any who are missed except my sincere apologies and feel free to contact me at rasclot@consciousreggae.org

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If you look at the sheer amount of Reggae shows in California alone, the results are staggering. It is enough to make a east coast reggae head a little jealous. If you are in the greater L.A area chck the link below for reggae information.....
L.A Reggae Clubs Online

Wikibooks is a great idea. Like Wikipedia, Wikibooks consists of content that is public domain, which means that anything you find there is reusable in any fashion you like. This means it is truly Free and Open for learning and teaching.

Currently the Polish Language Wikibook consists of a basic course for learning Polish covering pronunciation, nouns, genders, adjectives, question words and more.

As always with Wikimedia projects, you are free to improve on the information created by fellow humans!

The Polish language is a member of the Western Slavic group of the Indo-European family of languages. It is easiest to learn if one already knows some other related language.

The most closely related are other Western Slavic languages: Czech, Slovak, Kashubian and Sorbian. More distant are the Southern and Eastern Slavic languages like Russian, Ukrainian, and Serbo-Croatian. Even further, but still somewhat similar are the Baltic languages: Latvian and Lithuanian. Polish is spoken by a total of approximately 40 million people, making it the second most widely spoken Slavic language in the world, next to Russian, and whose influence is almost up to par with her bigger sister. Other Slavs, especially the Bulgars (who consider Polish the most popular third language there) understand Polish and can pick it up with not much effort.

Someone who doesn't speak any Slavic language, but speaks some other Indo-European language, may still find many similarities between Polish grammar and the grammar of that language as well as many similar words.

Learning Polish is very difficult for those who don't know any Indo-European language well, especially for those who speak only Chinese, Japanese, or Korean... but as long as you are committed to learning Polish it is possible. If you are familiar with any other Slavic language (i.e Russian), then you have an advantage as this group share very similiar grammatical structures as well as a common history among them from their rise as well-organised centralised kingdoms in the Middle Ages to the Communist era.
This Wikibook is designed for anyone who wants to learn the basics of the Polish language. It is suitable for beginners and those who've been learning the language for a few years. Polish is written with a particularly unique version of the Latin alphabet.

Visit the Polish Language Wikibook.

In reggae news Sizzla has a new album out that takes a historical look at his career to this date.
MIRAMAR - On Tuesday, June 24 Greensleeves releases the essential Sizzla anthology, The Journey- The Very Best Of Sizzla, featuring the legendary sing-jay’s most cherished tunes, new bonus tracks, an exclusive DVD and deluxe packaging.

This musical voyage features 21 solid tracks including hits from the early ‘90s to present.

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