Using Twitter in Your Language Learning – Useful Resources

As promised, here is the third and final part of my series on how to use Twitter in your language learning. I have listed a number of accounts below which may be beneficial to language learners who have Twitter accounts. These include “words of the day”, grammar tips and other language-related tidbits.

All of the following were active when I compiled this list. Please note that these accounts be deleted or altered by the account holders at any time.

English :

http://twitter.com/thewordoftheday
http://twitter.com/wordspy
http://twitter.com/wordoftheday0
http://twitter.com/MyWOTDcom
http://twitter.com/awordaday
http://twitter.com/dailyvocab
http://twitter.com/English_Words

Japanese :

http://twitter.com/learnkanji
http://twitter.com/japanesebot
http://twitter.com/societyJapanese
http://twitter.com/japanlanguage
http://twitter.com/ADV_JPN_GRMMR

Chinese :

http://twitter.com/easyMandarin
http://twitter.com/1on1mandarin
http://twitter.com/mandarindaily
http://twitter.com/chineselanguage
http://twitter.com/learningchinese
http://twitter.com/chineseclass101

Korean :

http://twitter.com/koreaNthusiast

Arabic :

http://twitter.com/arabiclanguage

French :

http://twitter.com/frenchlanguage
http://twitter.com/LL_French
http://twitter.com/ParleFrancais
http://twitter.com/FrancaisToday

Spanish :

http://twitter.com/spanishlanguage
http://twitter.com/spanishbot
http://twitter.com/LL_Spanish
http://twitter.com/ReVerbSpanish
http://twitter.com/monicats
http://twitter.com/escuelai
http://twitter.com/spanishonly

Italian :

http://twitter.com/italianlanguage
http://twitter.com/ItalianLearn

Portuguese :

http://twitter.com/brazillanguage

Dutch :

http://twitter.com/dutchlanguage

German :

http://twitter.com/germanlanguage

Polish :

http://twitter.com/polishlanguage

Russian :

http://twitter.com/russianlanguage

Latin :

http://twitter.com/latinlanguage

Esperanto :

http://twitter.com/speakesperanto

Other :

http://twitter.com/irishlanguage
http://twitter.com/swedishlanguage
http://twitter.com/hindilanguage
http://twitter.com/norwaylanguage
http://twitter.com/FinnishWords

This wraps up my series of articles on using Twitter as a language learning tool. I hope these articles have been of some use to you and have given you new ideas for spicing up your language learning. If you know of any other Twitter accounts which may be useful to language learners, feel free to let me know.

Edited on July 31, 2009.