Useful Lists for Foreign Language and Foreign Studies

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Using "Useful Lists for Foreign Language and Foreign Studies"
by Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao
Please read this before you use this web resource.

Links to Lists of Mailing Lists

Computer Bulletin Boards for Individual Languages, or, The List of Language Lists

Directory of Language Related Mailing Lists

REVIEW OF BITNET/INTERNET LISTS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING updated 05/19/95 David Bedell, University of Bridgeport ELI

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1. Canada

subscribe h-canada firstname lastname
unsubscribe h-canada

Canadian studies
H-Canada is a new list which is part of the family of humanities and social science lists published by H-NET, an international organization of scholars. All together our 55 lists have 20,000 subscribers in 58 countries. H-Canada is a daily Internet discussion forum focusing on the history of Canada and other related subjects (sociology, political studies, literature, women's studies, Canadian studies, etc). There are no chronological or topical limits. H-Canada is a bilingual (French and English) discussion list. We publish news and announcements, and encourage debates on recent scholarly issues

To screen out trivia and flames--and keep the list focused on useful themes--all messages to H-Canada are vetted by the co-editors who have the support of an editorial board who set policy and oversee the editors.

H-Canada welcomes any scholar interested in Canadian history and related disciplines (including professors, archivists, librarians, graduate students, and journalists. No undergraduates, please.) At present, there are no dues or charges, but we do expect the subscribers to help us out by sending in relevant announcements and news items, and by particpating in the dialogue.

All messages and announcements are routed through the moderators, and then sent directly to your email mailbox. You can read, download, discard, save, print, forward or reply. To send a new message to the group, address it to:

H-Canada@msu.edu.

(The address Listserv@msu.edu is only for subscriptions.) If H-Canada is in the range of your scholarly interests, please REPLY and include the following information:

First Name, Last Name:
Office Telephone number:

**questionnaire required

2. Chinese

For questions
ccnet-l@ uga.uga.edu

For questions
v118raqa@ubvms.bitnet (XiaoFei Wang)

3. Dutch

Dutch language and literature

**confirmation required

4. Esperanto

Purpose: The conlang mailing list is devoted to a discussion of any and all constructed languages (also known as artificial languages, planned languages, etc). If you want to publicize your own language, or if you need help finding information about some other language project, or if you want to discuss the relative merits of various tongues, conlang is the place to be!

To subscribe, send email to

listserv@diku.dk
and in the body of the message put
subscribe conlang

Purpose: This list is a forum for people interested in the neutral international language Esperanto. Discussions about the language itself, the Esperanto movement, publications, and news are encouraged; of course, discussion *in* the language itself are especially encouraged, although English translations may be advisable when the material is of interest to beginners or non-Esperantists.

Esperanto language and news

listserv@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Automated Listserver)
lojbab@access.digex.net (Bob LeChevalier/John Cowan)

Purpose: To use, discuss, and contribute to the development of the constructed human language called Lojban (known in earlier versions as Loglan). Lojban has a grammar based on predicate logic, and vocabulary built from the six most widely spoken human languages. It is intended as a tool for experimental linguistics, as a medium for communication with computers, and as a possible international auxiliary language.

List participants range from novice to skilled. Up to 50% of list traffic is in the Lojban language. Novice questions are welcomed.

URL: ftp://ftp.cs.yale.edu/pub/lojban

To subscribe, send email to
listserv@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu
and in the body of the message, put
subscribe lojban firstname lastname

5. French

French (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PC2001-PC3761)

(not restricted to linguistics; also for learners; contributions in French preferred)

For questions
frenchtalk-owner@yukon.cren.org (Mike Krus)

Contact: andre_obadia@sfu.ca

Purpose: For educators interested in immersion language particularly French (learning/teaching and research).

To subscribe, send email to
Majordomo@sfu.ca
and in the body of the message, put
subscribe immersion-fr

To unsubscribe, send email to
Majordomo@sfu.ca
and in the body of the message, put
unsubscribe immersion-fr

6. German

Germanic languages, older - to about 1500 (Library of Congress cat. number(s):
PD1-PD71 approx.)

For questions
marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Marchand)
marchand@uiucvmd.bitnet
obenaus@uiucvmd.bitnet (Gerhard Obenaus)
obenaus@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
antonsen@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Elmer Antonsen)

7. Greek

Classical Greek and Classical Latin (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PA201-PA1179, PA2001-PA2995)

For information
lwright@u.washington.edu (Linda Wright)

listserv@uga.bitnet
listserv@uga.cc.uga.edu
listserv@psuvm.bitnet
listserv@psuvm.psu.edu
change address to
listserv@american.edu

Greek (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PA1001-PA1179)

Modern Greek language and literature.

For questions
sliolis@utcvm.bitnet (Spyros Liolis)
sda106@psuvm.bitnet (Spyros Antoniou)
george@pop.psu.edu (Nikos George)
nxg6@psuvm.bitnet (Nikos George)

9. Japanese

Katsuhiko Momoi (Momoi@msus1.msus.edu/Momoi@msus1.bitnet)
Hideo Tomita (Tomita@vax001.Kenyon.edu)

**active list; set digest

NIHONGO is a Bitnet distribution list devoted to discussions about the Japanese language, computers and Japanese, and Japanese culture as it relates to language.

For questions
lacure@utkvx1.bitnet (Jon W LaCure) (List owner)
ihkj100@indycms.bitnet (Melody Johnson) (List editor)

**This list, Nihongo, is a great place to ask questions about grammar, vocabulary, and learning materials about Japanese.

H-Japan is a moderated professional mail list for people interested in Japanese history, society, and culture intended for professors, graduate students, teachers, and others with a serious professional interest in Japanese history, politics, economy, business, society and culture.

dwittner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

**filling in a survey necessary

Purpose: For the translation of the Kimagure Orange Road manga.

To subscribe, send email to
kor-trans-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu
and in the body of the message, put
subscribe your@email.address

http://web.utk.edu/~lacure/

Listserv@utkvm1.utk.edu

To subscribe to Nihongo send mail to: 
Listserv@utkvm1.utk.edu.
with only the line:
SUB NIHONGO [your real name]. 
To unsubscribe from the list use the line: UNSUB NIHONGO. 
To contribute to Nihongo, send mail to: 
Nihongo@utkvm1.utk.edu. 
Please note: 
Because the list now has over 2,400 subscribers, problems with undeliverable mail are
being handled by the listserv software. If your host or even a node in your path are down
for several days you may be deleted from the list. You can always see if you are subscribed
by sending a "rev NIHONGO" command to: Listserv@utkvm1.utk.edu. This will get you a
complete list of subscribers. If your name is missing please re-subscribe.

10. Korean

Korean (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PL901-PL949)

Korean word processing issues; TeX, encoding, fonts, software, file transfer.

For questions
ujsung@cair.kaist.ac.kr (UnJae Sung)
ujsung@cs.kaist.ac.kr

11. Latin

Latin and Neo-Latin (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PA2801-PA2915)

subscribe Latin-L your name
unsubscribe Latin-l your name

Classical, medieval, and neo-Latin

For questions
bcj@psuvm.bitnet
bcj@psuvm.psu.edu

12. Literature

Comparative literature and computing

(from the welcome message)

You have joined H-CLC, an international electronic seminar for researchers, teachers and editors of literature in all languages--modern and ancient--who are interested in the application of computer related approaches to literary studies.

H-CLC is run under the auspices of H-Net, Humanities On-Line. Subscription is currently free, and subscribers will automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes.

1. H-CLC FEATURES DIALOGUES IN THE DISCIPLINE:

The purpose of H-CLC is to encourage collaboration of scholars by giving them the opportunity to discuss projects and to share experience. H-CLC offers a platform for the discussion of projects in progress and methodological issues as well as technical and administrative problems arising from the application of computing to literary criticism. H-CLC posts calls for papers and information about pertinent new products and services, and it acts as a meeting place for software designers and users in the areas of analysis, editing, encoding and representation of literary texts.

3. A MODERATED LIST:

H-CLC is a moderated list where members normally receive all contributions within 24 hours of their submission to the editor. Extraneous messages (like requests for subscription) will be filtered out as well as items that do not belong on H-CLC or do not aid the scholarly dialogue. The moderator will not alter the meaning of a message, but will, if necessary, add name and e-address of the sender and modify the subject line of a post.

H-CLC is co-moderated by:

Professor Randolph Pope of Washington University, St. Louis (rpope@artsci.wustl.edu),
Craig Branham of St. Louis University (BRANHACC@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU) and
Barbara Diederichs of Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen (bdiederi@artsci.wustl.edu).

4. FILESERVER:

H-CLC maintains a fileserver that is regularly updated and contains the following items:

* Bibliography
* Preprint exchange
* Reviews
* Syllabi
* H-CLC Info (Welcome, Editorial board, Review guide, Subscribers' biographies, H-Net)
* Net Tools
* Logs
* Conference announcements and calls for papers
* Position announcements and scholarships

INDEX H-CLC

To obtain a specific document, send Listserv the command

GET filename filetype

Thus, to obtain this document (entitled "H-CLC Welcome") from the fileserver, send a note to Listserv with the command

GET H-CLC Welcome .

Contributions to the archive are welcome, and should be sent as files to H-CLC@MSU.EDU.

6. H-CLC EDITORIAL BOARD

Maurizio Lana [lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it]
Willard McCarty [mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca]
David Chisholm [CHISHOLM@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU]
Elaine Brennan [EDITORS@BROWNVM.brown.edu]
Rosanne Potter [rgpotter@iastate.edu]
Hoyt Duggan [hnd@JEFFERSON.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU]
David Megginson [dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca]

7. H-NET: HUMANITIES ON-LINE

A. H-Net is an international initiative to assist humanists to go on-line, using their personal computers. It operates daily newsletters for humanists, moderated by some 120 scholars in North America, Europe, and the Pacific. H-Net has financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is hosted by the University of Illinois-Chicago and Michigan State University.

B. H-Net sponsors over 50 electronic discussion groups or "lists" by and for professional scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Currently our lists have 18,000 subscribers in 54 countries. Each list is moderated by one or more scholars and has a board of editors. The goals of H-NET lists are to enable scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comments on current historiography. Each list is especially interested in methods of teaching in diverse settings. The lists feature dialogues in the discipline. They publish book reviews, job announcements, syllabi, course outlines, class handouts, bibliographies, listings of new sources, guides to online library catalogs and archives, and reports on new software, datasets and cd-roms. Subscribers write in with questions, comments, and reports, and sometimes with mini-essays of a page or two. Regarding Book Reviews, please contact Professor Mark Kornbluh, dept of History, dept of History Michigan State U, East Lansing MI 48224. (517) 355-9300, fax =(517) 353-5599 Internet = hbooks@hs1.hst.msu.edu. H-Net operates 2-day training workshops for humanities faculty on their campuses, and one-day workshops for NEH Summer Institutes for College Faculty. Interested college departments should contact H-NET's Executive Director, Richard Jensen (professor of history, U of Illinois-chicago), at (615) 552-9923, fax = (615) 572-1024 email = Richard.Jensen@uicvm.uic.edu.

C. H-Net Lists in Operation:
For these lists, send subscribe message to LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu

1. H-Albion : British and Irish history
2. H-AmStdy : American Studies
3. H-AntiS : Antisemitism
4. H-Asia : Asian History
5. H-CivWar : US Civil War
6. H-Demog : demographic history
7. H-Diplo : diplomatic history, international affairs
8. H-Ethnic : ethnic & immigration history
9. H-Film : scholarly studies & uses of media
10. H-Grad : for graduate students only
11. H-Ideas : intellectual history
12. H-Italy : Italian history and culture
13. H-Judaic : Judaica, Jewish History
14. H-Labor : labor history
15. H-LatAm : Latin American history
16. H-Law : legal and constitutional history
17. H-Pol : US political history
18. H-PCAACA : Popular Culture Assoc. & American Culture Assoc
19. H-Rhetor : history of rhetoric & communications
20. H-Rural : rural and agricultural history
21. H-Russia : Russian history
22. H-SHGAPE : US Gilded Age & Progressive Era
23. H-South : US South
24. H-State : welfare state; "putting state back in"
25. H-Teach : teaching college history
26. H-Urban : urban history
27. H-West : US West, frontiers
28. H-Women : women's history
29. HOLOCAUS : Holocaust studies
30. IEAHCnet : colonial; 17-18 century Americas

31. H-Business : business history
32. DATABASES : design & management of historial databases
33. EconHist : economic history
34. ECONHIST.TEACH : teaching economic history
35. EconHist.Macro : macroeconomic history, business cycles

36. H-Amrel : American Religious History
37. H-CLC : Literary computing
38. H-German : German History
39. H-High-S : Teaching high school history/social studies
40. H-Local : State and local history
41. H-Mac : Macintosh users
42. H-Survey : Teaching US Survey
43. H-W-Civ : Teaching Western Civ
44. H-World : World History

45. HABSBURG@purccvm Austro-Hungarian Empire : Planning stage: (fall 1994) [do not subscribe yet]
46. H-Africa : African History
47. H-Canada : Canadian studies
48. H-France : French History
49. H-Japan : Japanese history & culture
50. H-MMedia : high tech teaching; multimedia; cd-rom
51. H-NZ-OZ : New Zealand & Australian history
52. H-War : military history

E. ----------------------------------------------------
To subscribe: send this 1-line email message to the appropriate LISTSERV address SUBSCRIBE H-xxxx Firstname Surname, Yourschool where H-xxxx = list name; for example, subscribe H-TEACH Jean Brown, Western State U. Subscriptions are controlled and limited to a professional clientele. The editors will send you a short questionnaire (name, address, teaching and research interests). They will sign you up when you return it. The messages will automatically arrive in your mailbox. For help, write
H-NET@uicvm.uic.edu.

TSE is an electronic discussion list devoted to the works and life of the Anglo-American poet, playwright, and critic T. S. Eliot (1888-1965). The list is unmoderated, and is open to all readers of Eliot--poets, scholars, students, enthusiasts, and the merely curious. In addition to providing an open forum for conversation about any aspect of Eliot's poems and other writings, the list is a resource for working scholars, who are encouraged to post queries and confer about work in progress.

To subscribe to TSE send the one-line message

SUBSCRIBE TSE Yourfirstname Yourlastname

to listproc@lists.missouri.edu in the body of the email leaving the subject line blank.

Questions and inquiries should be addressed to the list owners.

13. Lithuanian

Lithuanian discussion

14. Russian

Russian (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PG2001-PG2847)

For questions
???@??? This list still exists, sort of. The RUSSIAN bulletin board at listserv@asuacad still has all the old files from the discussion group, but the group moderator, Andy Wollert (ispajw@asuacad) is no longer associated with Arizona State University that houses the list server. Thus no new discussion. The list is "held". If anyone is interested in reviving this list, contact
postmaster@asuacad.

Russian (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PG2001-PG2847)

Russian TeX and Cyrillic text processing list .

For questions
dmv@cunyvms1.bitnet (Dimitri Vulis)

15. Sign Language

Sign languages (Library of Congress cat. number(s): P117, E98.55, HV2474-HV2476)

Purpose: SLLING-L (formerly ASL-LING) is for discssions of Sign Language Linguistics.

The discussion of Deaf culture, education, medical advancements in the studies of deafness, etc., will be discouraged, except as they are pertinent to the discussion of sign linguistics.

For questions
Dave.Moskovitz@vuw.ac.nz (Dave Moskovitz)
cromano@uconnvm.bitnet (Christine Romano) A previous incarnation of this was SLING-L.

List owners: cromano@uconnvm.bitnet
mosko@matai.vuw.ac.nz

16. Spanish

To leave the list
SIGNOFF ESPAN-L
Spanish language and literature

**very active; many messages are in Spanish.

Spanish (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PC4001-PC4977)

Spanish language wide area networks; contributions in Spanish.

For questions
hlobos@utfsm.bitnet (Hernan Lobos Mitzio)

Medieval Iberian (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PC3801-PC3899, PC4001-PC4977, PC4813, PC5411-PC5414)

Not just linguistics.

For questions
j-dagenais@nwu.edu (John Dagenais)

Latin American Linguistics and Languages Discussion List (Library of Congress cat. number(s): PM5001-PM7356)

Discussion and a means of communication for anyone working on or interested in the study of inguistics and Languages in Latin America; languages of ommunication are English, Spanish and Portuguese.

For questions
csbanfi@mit.edu (Cristina S. Banfi)
pinango@binnah.cc.brandeis.edu (Maria Mercedes Pinango)

17. Turkish

automatic subscription

18. Others

A conference which discusses older Germanic languages (to 1500), their linguistics and philology. Any theoretic bent is permitted. The language of discussion is English.

Subscription Address:
listserv@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu
Contact Address:
Geoffrey B. Muckenhirn
MUCKENHI@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu - James Marchand
MARCHAND@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu - Elmer Antonsen
ANTONSEN@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Submission Address:
GERLINGL@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu

Topic: Less commonly taught language teacher discussion list (with the exception of English, Spanish, French and German)

Subscription Address: LISTSERV@TC.UMN.EDU
Contact Address: Louis Janus, janus005@maroon.tc.umn.edu