<p>I’ve been interested in linguistics for a while now. I’ve been introducing myself to the field mostly by cherrypicking articles from Wikipedia and reading some of the linked external pages, but I prefer some structure when I’m learning something new, at least in the beginning. Any recommendations for books or websites that provide good foundations in linguistics?</p>
<p>I liked this book The Atoms of Language.</p>
<p>Oh, I read a lot of blogs relating to languages (and interpretation/translation)…
[Language</a> Log](<a href=“http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/]Language”>Language Log)
[url=<a href=“http://dialectblog.com/]Dialect”>http://dialectblog.com/]Dialect</a> Blog | Accents and Dialects of English<a href=“I%20just%20find%20this%20one%20interesting”>/url</a>
[url=<a href=“http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/]John”>http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/]John</a> Wells’s phonetic blog<a href=“no%20more%20new%20posts%20until%20Sept%201%20though”>/url</a>
[url=<a href=“http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/]separated”>http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/]separated</a> by a common language<a href=“this%20lady%20tweets%20a%20lot%20too”>/url</a></p>
<p>I have a lot more bookmarked, but I mainly read these ones every day, because I’m pretty interested in phonology. The best thing to do (for any blog on any subject) is to just go to a blog, and look at their blogroll. Also read the comments, click on the commentator’s profile, and see if that person has a blog. Or look up the blogger on twitter (they’ll most likely advertise if they’re on) and look at who they’re following.</p>
<p>Ooh, I love separated by a common language! Thanks for your suggestions, that’ll give me quite a bit to read through.</p>
<p>Take your interests further: [url=<a href=“http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/]NACLO[/url”>http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/]NACLO[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Some of the problems can be difficult, but it’s really fun!</p>