Today is National Grammar Day, and maybe it’s a stretch to lump spelling under grammar, but it’s casual Friday here on OC. So we leave you with this. Have a great weekend..

A little something for the language buffs among us. The Structure of English Words (iTunes) is another Stanford course. To be exact, it comes out of the Stanford Continuing Studies program (my day job), and we’re opening enrollments for our Fall term next Monday. (If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, give our offering a look.

Lifehacker is running a good piece today that highlights a series of web-based language tools for anyone looking to figure out a word’s definition, translation, pronunciation, synonym, or antonym.

For National Grammar Day (March 4), The Grammar Girl (MP3 – iTunes – Feed – Web Site) issued another popular podcast that outlines and debunks 10 common grammar myths. If you’re already up to speed on these (preview them here), congrats. If not, give a listen.

What’s an easy way to learn a new language at no cost, whenever and wherever you want? One is to take advantage of our extensive collection of Free Foreign Language Lessons.

American Rhetoric has compiled its list of the top 100 American speeches, all of which can be conveniently accessed as mp3 files. Most of the speeches listed here are known for their eloquence, and many for the pivotal role they played in effecting major political and social change. The compilation lets you listen to F.D.R.

It didn’t seem like an obvious blockbuster at first — at least not to me — but The Grammar Girl (iTunes – Feed – Web Site) has remained one of the most downloaded educational podcasts on iTunes.

Recently Merriam-Webster announced that they’re adding “ginormous,” “speed dating” and a few other gems to the latest edition of their dictionary. In their honor, we present ten podcasts to help you expand your vocabulary.

These days, Open Culture has been attracting an international audience. To give you a littlesample, 43% of our readers come from outside the US, and they come chiefly from Taiwan (lots from Taiwan lately), Germany, China, Japan, France, Spain, India, Mexico and Brazil.