Blogging tips for foreign language students

Do you brag about learning a foreign language? Blog about it instead! Open-source tools, zero budget, no imposed advertisement. The outcome: better organized learning records, plus a few useful skills acquired.

The Togutil of Halmahera

They still walk around barefoot in jungles of Halmahera island (North Maluku), hunt wild pigs with a spare and try to care little of ‘civilized’ world around. Some still wear just a loincloth, although T-shirts and other blessings of industrial production are becoming common. The Togutil live a semi-nomadic life: they have their small settlements, typically in a well-chosen place by a river, but if you decide to pay a surprise visit, be aware there could be nobody home for weeks in a row.

Git for foreign language students and teachers

Git is a powerful tool for maintaining versions of text files in a project. However, it is often overlooked by the very people who first come to mind when talking of processing texts: translators, editors, foreign language students and teachers.

Git has got a reputation of being a tool only a computer geek can understand and make use of. Not everyone agree, though. Yuni, an online teacher of Indonesian language, and Toomas, a programmer, explore the possibilities.

Hugo Cookbook for a Multilingual Site

Hugo is a tool for building a multilingual static site. Combined with hosting on GitHub, your site will run on zero-budget, and without the hurdles of maintaining any web- or database servers. You will also enjoy the full control over your code. Style consistency is easily manageable across hundreds of pages with only four HTML templates minimally required.