A translator's project blog working through Sībawayhi's Arabic grammar treatise, the Kitāb, with editing, segmentation and translation notes. It also previews a new translation of al-Khwārizmī's algebra, reading the text through the Arabic language.
Website: https://www.sibawayhi.org/
A weekly newsletter by PhD linguist Colin Gorrie exploring the history of English words, grammar and writing conventions. Issues cover language change, the origins of paragraphs, and guides for learning linguistics.
A newsletter on English spelling, etymology and orthography, with occasional pieces on literacy teaching and writing instruction. Readers get close word-history analysis and the author's pointed responses to debates within the structured word inquiry community.
Spoken Arabic is a blog of essays and reviews on learning Arabic and the culture it carries, with a focus on the gap between Modern Standard Arabic and spoken dialects. Recent issues review dialect learning resources and explain the meaning and history of colloquial expressions such as ma'lesh.
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