Language-related links

Language games/puzzles

• Chants of Sennaar - a game about deciphering multiple languages
• Epigraph - a game about deciphering one language, much harder than Chants of Sennaar
• International Linguistics Olympiad problems - logic puzzles revolving around language and linguistics
• For a book on a select range of these logic problems, as well as explanations of how to solve them, check out The Language Lover's Puzzle Book by Alex Bellos

Conlang & conscript resources

Learning
• Lernu - the website for learning Esperanto
• sona pi toki pona - playlist of videos to learn Toki Pona

Creating
• The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
• For a more comprehensive, textbook-style breakdown of language creation, How to Create a Language: The Conlang Guide by Jessie Peterson is an invaluable tool
• A Conlanger's Thesaurus and the Swadesh lists - two good resources for choosing your language's base words
• Vulgar: a Fantasy Language Generator - has a free version but the paid version is only like 20 quid and has loads of useful features
• Conlang syntax tests
• A method of generating "flavoured" words

Other resources
• Learn NOT to speak Esperanto by Justin B Rye
• Omniglot - the online encylopaedia of writing systems & languages

Cool & interesting conlangs & conscripts

• Ardalambion - a comprehensive site on Tolkien's languages (if you're interested in Tolkien, I also recommend A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, edited by Dimitra Fimi & Andrew Higgins!)
• Toki Pona - a conlang with extremely limited words
• Oou: the insane language - "even Oou experts cannot communicate clearly using it, as miscommunication and confusion are integral to the language"
• Ithkuil - a language that uses "a matrix of grammatical concepts intended to express deeper levels of human cognition more overtly, logically, and precisely than natural languages"
• Hanziyu - a language based on Chinese characters
• Seraphim - a multi-channel angelic conlang
• Tapissary - a hieroglyphic language

Cool & interesting real languages

• Silbo Gomero - whistle register of Spanish
• Tut - a coded language spoken by Black slaves in America
• West African talking drums

Language-learning

Japanese

• Grammar:
• Japanese Ammo with Misa - Youtube channel with thorough and informative videos on a huge range of grammar points
• Kaname Naito - Youtube channel with short but informative and effective videos on a huge range of grammar points
• Michel Thomas (foundation course and advanced course) or Pimsleur (volumes I - IV) audio courses - a method of language-learning that doesn't require any note-taking or traditional studying, just listening and repeating. Both courses have different pros and cons, so if you need help picking which one to go for check out my blogpost comparing them.
• Listening comprehension:
• あかね的日本語教室
• Comprehensible Japanese
• Jiro, just Japanese
• Speak Japanese Naturally
• Reading comprehension:
• Wanikani - great system for learning Japanese kanji
• Hukumusume - site with lots of children's stories and fairytales

Other languages

• Learn Cherokee on RSU TV - a really extensive free video course on Cherokee
• Commanding Hands - Youtube channel teaching British Sign Language vocabulary
• SpeakGaelic - an extensive free course on Scottish Gaelic. While friendly and accessible, I do find this course to be less informative than the Scottish Gaelic Duolingo course, with several errors and a lot of grammar points going unexplained.

While I previously heavily recommended Duolingo for Scottish Gaelic, I can no longer recommend the platform to learn any language. They have destroyed their platform with "AI". I firmly believe that languages, as living, breathing systems of communication, are not best learned from computers which are unable to detect, express, or explain nuance.

Language videos I like

Youtube channels
• Babelingua - linguistics videos and lots of fun and unique conlangs
• Dr Geoff Lindsay - a wide range of English linguistics topics, very accessible for people unfamiliar with linguistics
• NativLang - short, accessible linguistics videos on very unique topics
• Simon Roper - indepth and somewhat dense videos on English and historical linguistics

Videos
• Atypography - Art Movement Introduction - not necessarily a language-related video, but it's typography, it counts
• How English CHANGED Chinese Forever
• Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters
• w
• Why Koko (Probably) Couldn't Talk (Sorry)