rymh answered:
Learning the IPA is a good first step! Here are two websites for interactive learning! tinyurl.com/75gl3 and tinyurl.com/32w8s4
iamawug answered:
wikipedia “linguistics” and then just wiki-surf, its fun and interesting. I would suggest starting with “IPA” since every linguist uses it
amaranthine-ephemerality answered:
A very good introductory textbook: Finegan, Edward. 2008. Language: Its Structure and Use, Fifth Edition. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.
taylorhasa answered:
linguistics.stackexchan… is an awesome FAQ site to see what kind of questions folks at all levels of linguistics are discussing.
thambos answered:
omniglot.com! ditto on David Crystal. I also suggest uni websites; at CU-Boulder for ex. we have a virtual Arapaho textbook thats pretty neat
negativecos answered:
We work to keep our wikipedia pages extremely well-maintained and well-written, and most of them include current research. Check that out?
lyricalpragmatism answered:
check out some of the posts on language log!
drunksuperhuman answered:
languagelog? dialectblog? I have no idea what you’re looking for.
notdoingmywork answered:
Google “ladefoged ipa” and click on the first link. You’ll get some great IPA practice.
buthere-thereisnolight answered:
College Boards’s site. Google collegs with linguistics majors. It helps you figure out what track to take in high school, classes etc