I teach English (among other things, of course) in Japan, so I have links here for my students. The two things it's hardest to get away from in English are Shakespeare and the Bible, so I have a lot of links for them.

I also feel strongly that it is impossible to understand other human beings without understanding their language(s). I am very interested in finding more language sites, especially for African languages and Arabic.

For personal recreational reading, I like Jack Kerouac and other "Beat Generation" writers, as well as Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and traditional folk ballads. What they have in common is their oral nature, and their use of the natural rhythms of English speech.

Shakespeare: / Shakespeare / Shakespeare II / Shakespeare III / Shakespeare IV / Shakespeare search / Shakespeare links / Shakespeare and the Internet / online / triangulating /

the Bible: / Bible / Bible Gateway / multilingual Bibles / virtual Bibles / Bible software / Bible Browser / Bibleware / Yahoo! Bible / Google Bible / Bible indecency / Biblical errancy / Brick Testament /

linguistics: / Logos / Ethnologue / Language in Japan / multilingual computing / grammar / Yahoo! linguistics / LCTL / LCTL2 / SIL International / daily / linguist list /

ESL: / Yahoo! ESL / ESL cafe / ESL fun & games / U of I, U-C / TOEFL / TOEIC / Yahoo! TOEIC / TESOL / JALT /  Internet TESL Journal / Logos English / English grammar / Oxford Language Center / eigoMedia / ELT news / writing / BBC / VoA Special English / online lessons / Eigotown / STEP / UNATE / wordgames / jokes / dictionary.com / your dictionary / Webster's /

Hausa: / Hausa / Hausa courses / Hausa puzzle / Hausa in Egypt / Hausa course / Hausa modals / Hausa dissertation / BBC Hausa / VoA Hausa / Radio Deutsche Welle Hausa / Hausa from Iran / Hausa Books (in New Zealand!) / Hausa in Norway / Hausa mailing list / Yahoo! Hausa / Hausa site / Hausanet / alternative / myths / Al-Mizan / Kofar / from my book / computing / goodbye? / Hausa links /

other African languages: / ILCAA / SOAS languages / Swahili dictionary / MSU Swahili / Arabic / AFLANG / Sakhr / Berber / Meroitic / writing / Resource Center / Unicode Ge'ez / southern / Arablinks / Hala ya Arab /

Latin: / Oxford Latin / more Latin / Yahoo! Latin /

Japanese: / dictionary / kanji / bilingual forum / bilingualism & / Yahoo! Japanese /

other language stuff: / Unicode / Longfellow Institute / World Languages / MLA / lists / policy / ebonics / non-Roman fonts / history of English / Berlitz / verbivore / SWET / S. Clemens / on the Web / fonts /

other literature: / Beats / Kerouac zine / Kerouac on writing / CNN Kerouac / Kerouac chronology / Kerouac's alley / Kerouac bio / Kerouac magic / Whitman / Marlowe / Yahoo! Marlowe / Yahoo! Kerouac / Orwell / Cinderella / Burns /