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Babbel Integrated English Language Learning Website, iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Application, Social Network, Photo Flashcards, More

polyglot — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:25:37 +0000

Summary

Babbel combines multi-media visual and auditory learning, social networking interactivity, sound educational methodology, mobile apps (for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad - Babbel Mobile) and desktop goodies (Babbel Refresh) in a one-stop integrated platform for learning English.

They've very recently expanded their platform by adding loads of new features to the Web interface as well as mobile and desktop apps to enhance your English learning efforts online - and take them mobile.

Learn English Online: Easy, Quick, Fun (Plus Apps!)

travelinguist — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:35:24 +0000

Have Fun Learning English Fast

Busuu English offers English learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in English.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your English studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Find Friends and Practice or Exchange

Finding friends is easy in the Busuu community! Quickly search and contact other English learners to practice with as well as exchange partners to share and trade with. Plus, there's a free video chat function for easy access to language exchanges right in the same interface you're using to learn.

Stay Motivated in Style

In order to keep you motivated, Busuu has created a beautiful interface which allows you to grow and visualize your own language garden as you make progress learning English. If you are interested in learning more than one language, you will have a tree for each language that sprouts and shoots to the sky as you progress through the lessons and levels. It's quite a thrill to see this grow and know it's a visual representation of your language skills!

Free English Mobile App for iOS and Android

Busuu offers free mobile apps for learning English on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. The free app takes you through the basics for getting around, and is especially useful while traveling.

TED Talks and Language Learners/ Teachers Rejoice: Be Inspired while Learning a Language using Transcripts and Subtitles

travelinguist — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:38:15 +0000

A Hidden Gem for Language Lovers and Learners

This article presents a unique approach for intermediate to advanced (and beyond) learners of many languages to gain exposure to interesting material in their target language(s). It has to do with a very popular website that features short (usually less than ten minutes) presentations by some of the world's greatest and most famous minds (not always both ;) on their specific areas of expertise. It's called, simply, TED, and the presentations are called "TED Talks".

The TED website itself is not geared towards language learners or educators yet is useful for both. It is especially useful for English learners, as all the talks are in English. But it's also useful for anyone learning most of the world's most-spoken languages (as well as numerous lesser-spoken ones) who want to simultaneously watch inspiring, funny, courageous, fascinating, informative, persuasive, ingenious and often jaw-dropping presentations about technology, science, entertainment, design, business and global issues - all while gaining exposure to their target language. Here's how and why...

Learn Useful and Practical English Phrases for Free with Phrasemix

travelinguist — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 06:08:12 +0000

Learn Natural English Phrases that People Really Use

Phrasemix is an excellent website for learning useful English phrases. We're not talking phrasebookish phrases like "Where is the toilet?", but real phrases that people actually use everyday. Things like "They set a pretty high bar for me" and "Can you fit me in this afternoon?".

Phrasemix has put together expressions and phrases that are used all the time by English speakers, ones that are incredibly helpful both for understanding what's going on around and being able to express oneself in new, varied ways ("To mix it up a bit!").

The website interface is clean and easy to navigate. All of the more recent phrases have a unique, specifically-designed cartoony image to illustrate them, which is great for committing them to memory. Currently the database has over a thousand English phrases and is growing steadily.

Phrasemix is highly recommended for more advanced English learners and also very useful for English teachers seeking practical materials for their lessons. Commenting is easy and encouraged, and questions are answered promptly about the phrases as well as in the Ask a Question section.

Altogether a great resource! Keep up the good work, Aaron :)

Reverso Free Online Translation Service, Dictionary, Verb Conjugator, Spell Checker and Grammar Helper

travelinguist — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:42:59 +0000

Free Online Translation Service in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew and Japanese

Reverso is a free translation website for many languages. It is also a also a dictionary, verb conjugator, grammar helper and spell-checker with a handy toolbar for instant access to these features directly in your browser.

Reverso services are available for French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew and Japanese. This means you can translate between any combination of these languages, such as Arabic to Japanese, Russian to Chinese, Hebrew to Portuguese and so on.

Plus, the reverso.net website has been localized in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Czech and Romanian, meaning the entire user interface is available in those languages.

The ability for users to give feedback on the translations adds a community feel. Also offered is a free newsletter. For quick and easy translation between all the languages above, Reverso is a great tool!

Teachers can recommend this resource to students, especially their toolbar for quick access to translations on the fly while browsing online material in the target language.

Free English-German Dictionary and Translation Help

polyglot — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:11:46 +0000

Online English-German Translation

dict.cc is an amazing English-German dictionary available for free. This dictionary stands out by being user-driven with a lively active community.

It is more than simply a dictionary, too. The website offers tools for learning and reviewing vocabulary, a forum for getting translation help from real people and a database that can be downloaded and used free.

The site also offers a free toolbar as well as a Firefox plugin for translating on the fly while browsing the Web.

It is also not limited to English and German, as it has thousands of translations for over a dozen languages. View their multilingual database here.

Six Ways to Learn Languages Free

polyglot — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:49:46 +0000

Language Learning Tips on Using Free Wikimedia Resources

This article points out six useful ways to use Wikimedia content from Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikinews, Wiktionary and Wikiquotes for learning languages free.

What's highlighted here is also great for teachers because it is licensed via Creative Commons and available to use for free.

Spanish is used as an example here, but the same ideas are applicable to all languages for which content is available.

1) Know General Info about Your Target Language

Find out general information about a language by viewing that language's Wikipedia entry. For example, here's the Spanish language entry on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language

It contains loads of general information, as well as specifics about grammar, alphabet, pronunciation, etc.

2) Use Wikibooks and Wikiversity Courses to Get Started

The Free Dictionary (thefreedictionary.com)

polyglot — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:03:30 +0000

Free Multilingual Dictionary and Word-Related Apps

TheFreeDictionary.com is a great free dictionary available in over a dozen languages.

The English dictionaries are exceptionally broad-reaching and include Financial and Legal dictionaries.

Also of use to the language learner are their website features, including drag-and-drop rearranging of the interface and double-clicking of any word on the site to see its definition. Word of the day, news, quotations, horoscopes, daily articles and history tidbits provide a flow of updated content to work with.

Also available are word games and the ability to track a personal vocabulary list.

If you are language mobile, they maintain numerous dictionary and word-related apps.

Front Page News in Over 20 Languages from Newspapers Around the World

polyglot — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:24:40 +0000

Daily Front Pages from 89 Countries

Thanks to Newseum.org, you can catch a glimpse of today's front page from hundreds of the world's newspapers - in nearly two dozen languages - for free. A great way to gain exposure to news in a language you are learning, the website and iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app created by Newseum.org are truly outstanding.

Browse the website or use the app to immediately gain access to the front page of hundreds of newspapers around the world, complete with a downloadable, readable PDF version. This is quite useful for language instruction based on lessons from today's world news.

book2: Learn 40 Languages for Free Online

polyglot — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:44:34 +0000

Free Audio Books for 40 Languages

book2 is an outstanding resource for learning the basics of many languages.

This project sticks out by offering around 1600 combinations of languages, such as Japanese to English, Chinese to Arabic, etc, to use for exposure.

The method involves learning a series of short audio sequences to become comfortable in specific situations (introductions, meeting people, getting around, etc) common in daily life.

Babbel Urban Explorations: Learn French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, English and Swedish Quickly for Travel

polyglot — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:58:07 +0000

Summary

A recent addition to it's online and mobile language learning suite, Babbel, winner of the 2011 European Award for Technology Supported Learning, has just released a new and very useful set of online foreign language courses called "Urban Explorations", available in:

Babbel's "Urban Explorations" are specifically designed courses to help the casual traveler quickly and effectively prepare for a visit abroad.

Free Google Translate, Mobile Translation Website and Translator App for Android Phones

polyglot — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:18:50 +0000

Google's Free Translation Engine

Google has an amazing machine translation engine which is also available via their mobile translation website and now available as an android app.

Available in over fifty languages, Google Translate is able to handle words, sentences, paragraphs, websites and documents. Their mobile website is fast and easy to use, and the Android App makes it all available natively on your Android Phone.

From Website

Forvo.com: Thousands of Words in Dozens of Languages Pronounced by Native Speakers

polyglot — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:45:32 +0000

Listen to Words in Dozens of Languages

Forvo is an interesting project which accumulates recordings of existing words in all languages. A lofty and, indeed, ongoing goal!

Language learners interested in finding out just how a word is actually pronounced by a native speaker of a given language will love this website!

Have a look at the languages page and you can quickly see which languages have the most words. There is a handy tag cloud on the side of the page which will show you in a visual way which languages have more words already pronounced.

And if you're interested, feel free to contribute to this collective pronunciation effort!

Center for Free Foreign Language Learning from Wikiversity.org

polyglot — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:45:56 +0000

Summary

Wikiversity is a great website for learning about all kinds of topics for free! Among the numerous topics you will find quite a lot of wonderful information about foreign language learning. Literally dozens of languages are represented (see list below) and it's truly a goldmine for those interested in getting started with some general information and often even more.

Also of note: The content on Wikiversity is free and made available under a license called the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. This is great news for teachers who are interested in finding free materials for their classes and students.

From Website

Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity Centre for Foreign Language Learning. Here you may learn foreign languages and explore their cultures, as well as teach others the languages you speak.

The study of the structure of a language and its development is called linguistics. Wikiversity's School of Linguistics is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Languages

At publish time of this article, the following languages are available:

Germanic languages: Afrikaans, English, German, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian

Romance languages: Latin, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish

Languages of South America: Quechua

Slavic languages: Czech, Polish, Russian

Celtic languages: Irish, Brythonic Celtic Languages Division (Breton, Cornish, Welsh)

Indo-Iranian languages: Hindi, Persian

Finno-Ugric languages: Finnish, Hungarian

Turkic languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

East Asian languages: Japanese, Korean

Sino-Tibetan languages: Tibetan, Chinese

Austro-Asiatic languages: Vietnamese

Tai-Kadai languages: Thai

South Asian languages: Bengali

Afro - Asiatic languages: Luganda

Niger Congo / Bantu languages: Sesotho

Semitic languages: Arabic, Hebrew

Other languages: Albanian, Basque, Greek (also Ancient Greek)

Constructed languages: Esperanto, Klingon, Novial, Turoke

Tolkienesque languages: Quenya, Sindarin

Babbel Lets You Learn German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian and English Online, Offline and Mobile

polyglot — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:57:01 +0000

Summary

Babbel is reportedly the most popular online language-learning platform in Europe for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. This is no surprise to us here at Free Language – we see that the website has a user-friendliness and effectiveness that could appeal to anyone who wants to start or dig deeper into a language. Though the language courses at Babbel are based on tried-and-true print materials and are written and designed by language education experts, they in fact take full advantage of advanced technology and use the internet and mobile devices to teach in a way that accelerates your progress.

For example, Babbel has developed a state-of-the-art pronunciation trainer with speech recognition that encourages you to talk out loud (taking away any need to feel shy around other speakers!). It incorporates an algorithm that analyzes how close your pronunciation is to that of a native speaker, and you can keep repeating it until you’ve made yourself understandable. This feature, unique in the online language-learning world, is available online on the Babbel website and on Babbel’s new and improved free app for iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, also available via the website.

Another feature that distinguishes Babbel from other online language software is the Review Manager. It keeps track of your individual progress and detects where your difficulties lie. So, according to what kind of errors you’ve made (or successes you’ve had) in the past, it will prompt you to review certain items at optimized intervals so you’ll commit vocabulary to long-term memory. The Review Manager keeps track of your personal vocabulary – that is, everything you’ve studied so far – and makes it accessible online at Babbel.com and also on-the-go synchronized with the app.

Lang-8.com Get Free Help with your Foreign Language Writing, including Spanish, French, Chinese and Many More

polyglot — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:38:36 +0000

Summary

Lang-8 is a free, unique and popular website for learners of many languages to come together and correct one another's writing. Native speakers review writing submitted by learners who wish to improve. You can help and be helped!

The free tools provided in the interface are straightforward and tuned in such a way that it's quite easy to correct another user's writing, as well as to see exactly how others have corrected yours.

Lang-8's interface also provides social tools for interacting amongst users, including a way to find language matches to suit your needs.

Lang-8 has a large user community, coming from over 180 countries around the world, and together they provide access to help in some of the more exotic languages for which it's often hard to find resources, much less free help. Yes, there really are plenty of people out there willing to help you improve your writing for free! In turn, you can choose to help others as well.

Also available is a mobile version of the website.

From Website

Real Interactions

Learn from real native speakers excited to help you with the language that you are learning.

International Community

Community members from all over the world make Lang-8 a fun, social experience.

Keep Track

Tag and keep track of the things you learn from native speakers. Refer back and remember!

See Results

By using Lang-8 you will get better, make friends, and see real results. There’s no better help than native speakers.

Lang-8 Intro Video

Visit Lang-8.com

Best Language Learning Software?

polyglot — Sat, 08 May 2010 23:52:44 +0000

There is no best language learning software. Linguistic needs and motivations vary widely. A wide variety of high-quality resources, tools and exposure empowers language learners to be successful in their goals.

Exposure alone to these tools is not the whole picture. There's a motivation, some kind of reason, behind the effort required to truly achieve. This is where you'll find the reason to keep it up, stay learning and move toward personal language goals.

Much also depends on what language you are learning and how you learn best.

These are part of the factors that make up your personal language profile. If you learn about yourself a little, you can know exactly which resources will be most helpful in your individual case.

EnglishClass101.com EnglishClass101 Learn ESL Podcast with Audio Downloads, Video Lessons, Flash Cards, Self-Tests, EFL

polyglot — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:13:23 +0000

Summary

From beginner to advanced levels, EnglishClass101.com is an excellent, all-around online environment for learning ESL. The Pod101 platform, method and technology provide the necessary tools to get you immersed in the English language and achieve the goals you desire and/or require.

Since EnglishClass101.com is web-based, you can access your personal ESL Learning Center from anywhere, and it's really easy to download the podcasts and put them on your mp3 player (iPod, Zune, etc) or mobile phone to take them with you for practice and learning on the go.

One of the most important things when learning a language is good content - and EnglishClass101.com has this, and a steady flow of it. This constant flow of fresh content regards cultural aspects of ESL you will want to know, interesting tidbits about navigating in English-speaking societies (whether on vacation or living abroad), practical information about getting by and much more.

Your ESL Learning Center brings together audio podcast lessons, lesson notes and checklists, transcripts, PDFs, video lessons, vocabulary training with flashcards and quizzes plus a English dictionary, grammar bank, a verb reference and plenty more.

And if you enjoy asking questions and learning from and helping other learners, a forum is available for all users.

It's simple to try it for free and upgrade if it works for you.

From Website

At EnglishClass101.com, our goal is to make learning the English language easy and fun, while also incorporating culture and current issues into our lessons. We believe that the more you speak, the quicker you learn, so we have designed our program to get you speaking right away. Situational English is heavily stressed, and our team role plays various situations to demonstrate the proper form of English to use when speaking with friends, customers, executives, and so-on. Knowing the proper form to use separates good speakers from great speakers.

EnglishClass101.com was developed with the hope of showing the world how fun and easy learning English can be. Here at EnglishClass101.com, we truly believe that learning can be fun, while at the same time convenient. We know how busy you are and that each day brings unexpected surprises. That is exactly why we bring the lessons to you and let you decide when they start.

Our innovative, fun, and easy to use language learning system is designed to get you speaking and interacting from the very first lesson. Learn English at your own convenience and pace with short, effective, fun daily lessons and a comprehensive, state-of-the-art Learning Center that provides you with the tools to take your English to the next level! Our interactive learning system consists of free daily audio podcast lessons, accompanying PDF materials, a Premium Learning Center, and a vibrant user community.

Our Method

EnglishClass101.com offers a unique learning experience that cannot be found in conventional classrooms. In addition to offering lessons that can be completed on your own time, we approve all of the content we release through a government certified English teacher. Here are just a few of the revolutionary advantages of our method:

Exposure to native speakers and many different kinds of voices and speaking styles…

EnglishClass101.com aims to have you speaking English after just one lesson! Our lessons focus on pronunciation and listening comprehension, so that you can start practicing what you learn from our professional teachers. Inside the PDF you will find the necessary tools for reading comprehension, and thorough explanations of phrases and key grammar points, in addition to segments on cultural insight. To address speaking practice, we have state-of-the-art software to allow you to record your own voice so you can compare your pronunciation to our teachers and continue to refine your speaking skills.

When all the aspects of EnglishClass101.com are put together, this program provides students of English with ultimate self-study learning course. In addition, we often provide conversations between three people to more closely simulate real-life situations.

Fresh, up-to-date content...

Many English teachers who live overseas have been out of the country for a long period of time and can be “out of the loop” on current words, culture, etc. This is another major gap that we fill. Lessons are carefully crafted to include current events, words, celebrities, and so-on. This is very dynamic content.

Borderless education on-demand...

We also fill a definite demand in remote locations. Our lessons provide you with a mobile classroom, as we bring you English on Demand. English lessons wherever you may be.

EnglishClass101.com offers our listeners a unique learning experience that delivers cutting-edge, dynamic content to be accessed at your convenience. With the inclusion of our lesson notes and Learning Center, we offer a full solution that provides the material, guidance, exercises, and testing to really make the knowledge your own. And it doesn’t even stop there - our vibrant and extremely helpful community provide each other not only quick answers to questions, but also give each other a sense of encouragement and motivation that is often lacking.

We focus on English, and English only...

Just English! All we do is English. EnglishClass101.com is not a generic package language learning course, such as some of the other big name language learning programs out there. Many other programs “scale” their solutions across several languages, simply recycling the same material over and over - the same pictures, the same conversations, just in a different language. But each language is unique, and at EnglishClass101.com we pride ourselves on developing a system that’s only about the English language and English culture!

One stop studying...

Have you ever found yourself lost on the information highway? Sometimes it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose! Hundreds of bookmarks, all with varying levels of quality and credibility. You finally find a great site, but it only updates once a year! EnglishClass101.com offers users one stop studying. The learning center has been carefully designed to provide you with the resources you will need to take your English to the next level.

Visit EnglishClass101.com.

EnglishPod101.com EnglishPod101 Learn English Podcast with Audio+Video Lessons, Flashcards, Quizzes, Cultural Info, Learn Center

polyglot — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:39:56 +0000

About EnglishPod101

From beginner to advanced levels, EnglishPod101.com is an excellent, all-around online environment for learning English. The Pod101 platform, method and technology provide the necessary tools to get you immersed in the English language and achieve the goals you desire and/or require.

Since EnglishPod101.com is web-based, you can access your personal English Learning Center from anywhere, and it's really easy to download the podcasts and put them on your mp3 player (iPod, Zune, etc) or mobile phone to take them with you for practice and learning on the go.

One of the most important things when learning a language is good content - and EnglishPod101.com has this, and a steady flow of it. This constant flow of fresh content regards cultural aspects of English you will want to know, interesting tidbits about navigating in English society (whether on vacation or living abroad), practical information about getting by and much more.

Your English Learning Center brings together audio podcast lessons, lesson notes and checklists, transcripts, PDFs, video lessons, vocabulary training with flashcards and quizzes plus a English dictionary, grammar bank, a verb reference and plenty more.

And if you enjoy asking questions and learning from and helping other learners, a forum is available for all users.

It's simple to try it for free and upgrade if it works for you.

From EnglishPod101.com

At EnglishPod101.com, our goal is to make learning the English language easy and fun, while also incorporating culture and current issues into our lessons. We believe that the more you speak, the quicker you learn, so we have designed our program to get you speaking right away. Situational English is heavily stressed, and our team role plays various situations to demonstrate the proper form of English to use when speaking with friends, customers, executives, and so-on. Knowing the proper form to use separates good speakers from great speakers.

EnglishPod101.com was developed with the hope of showing the world how fun and easy learning English can be. Here at EnglishPod101.com, we truly believe that learning can be fun, while at the same time convenient. We know how busy you are and that each day brings unexpected surprises. That is exactly why we bring the lessons to you and let you decide when they start.

Our innovative, fun, and easy to use language learning system is designed to get you speaking and interacting from the very first lesson. Learn English at your own convenience and pace with short, effective, fun daily lessons and a comprehensive, state-of-the-art Learning Center that provides you with the tools to take your English to the next level! Our interactive learning system consists of free daily audio podcast lessons, accompanying PDF materials, a Premium Learning Center, and a vibrant user community.

Our Method

EnglishPod101.com offers a unique learning experience that cannot be found in conventional classrooms. In addition to offering lessons that can be completed on your own time, we approve all of the content we release through a government certified English teacher. Here are just a few of the revolutionary advantages of our method:

Exposure to native speakers and many different kinds of voices and speaking styles…

EnglishPod101.com aims to have you speaking English after just one lesson! Our lessons focus on pronunciation and listening comprehension, so that you can start practicing what you learn from our professional teachers. Inside the PDF you will find the necessary tools for reading comprehension, and thorough explanations of phrases and key grammar points, in addition to segments on cultural insight. To address speaking practice, we have state-of-the-art software to allow you to record your own voice so you can compare your pronunciation to our teachers and continue to refine your speaking skills.

When all the aspects of EnglishPod101.com are put together, this program provides students of English with ultimate self-study learning course. In addition, we often provide conversations between three people to more closely simulate real-life situations.

Fresh, up-to-date content...

Many English teachers who live overseas have been out of the country for a long period of time and can be “out of the loop” on current words, culture, etc. This is another major gap that we fill. Lessons are carefully crafted to include current events, words, celebrities, and so-on. This is very dynamic content.

Borderless education on-demand...

We also fill a definite demand in remote locations. Our lessons provide you with a mobile classroom, as we bring you English on Demand. English lessons wherever you may be.

EnglishPod101.com offers our listeners a unique learning experience that delivers cutting-edge, dynamic content to be accessed at your convenience. With the inclusion of our lesson notes and Learning Center, we offer a full solution that provides the material, guidance, exercises, and testing to really make the knowledge your own. And it doesn’t even stop there - our vibrant and extremely helpful community provide each other not only quick answers to questions, but also give each other a sense of encouragement and motivation that is often lacking.

We focus on English, and English only...

Just English! All we do is English. EnglishPod101.com is not a generic package language learning course, such as some of the other big name language learning programs out there. Many other programs “scale” their solutions across several languages, simply recycling the same material over and over - the same pictures, the same conversations, just in a different language. But each language is unique, and at EnglishPod101.com we pride ourselves on developing a system that’s only about the English language and English culture!

One stop studying...

Have you ever found yourself lost on the information highway? Sometimes it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose! Hundreds of bookmarks, all with varying levels of quality and credibility. You finally find a great site, but it only updates once a year! EnglishPod101.com offers users one stop studying. The learning center has been carefully designed to provide you with the resources you will need to take your English to the next level.

Visit EnglishPod101.com.

Video: How to Use the BBC Website to Learn English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, More - Free!

polyglot — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:37:32 +0000

Summary

The BBC is such an amazing resource for learning languages online for free that we've done a 6-minute video showing how you can effectively use this resource to learn at least the basics of 36+ languages.

BBC offers materials for the following languages: Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian (FYROM), Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Enjoy and please leave comments to help us focus our efforts!

Free Language - Learn English

Babbel Integrated English Language Learning Website, iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Application, Social Network, Photo Flashcards, More

Summary

Learn English Online: Easy, Quick, Fun (Plus Apps!)

Have Fun Learning English Fast

Find Friends and Practice or Exchange

Stay Motivated in Style

Free English Mobile App for iOS and Android

TED Talks and Language Learners/ Teachers Rejoice: Be Inspired while Learning a Language using Transcripts and Subtitles

A Hidden Gem for Language Lovers and Learners

Learn Useful and Practical English Phrases for Free with Phrasemix

Learn Natural English Phrases that People Really Use

Reverso Free Online Translation Service, Dictionary, Verb Conjugator, Spell Checker and Grammar Helper

Free Online Translation Service in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew and Japanese

Free English-German Dictionary and Translation Help

Online English-German Translation

Six Ways to Learn Languages Free

Language Learning Tips on Using Free Wikimedia Resources

1) Know General Info about Your Target Language

2) Use Wikibooks and Wikiversity Courses to Get Started

The Free Dictionary (thefreedictionary.com)

Free Multilingual Dictionary and Word-Related Apps

Front Page News in Over 20 Languages from Newspapers Around the World

Daily Front Pages from 89 Countries

book2: Learn 40 Languages for Free Online

Free Audio Books for 40 Languages

Babbel Urban Explorations: Learn French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, English and Swedish Quickly for Travel

Summary

Free Google Translate, Mobile Translation Website and Translator App for Android Phones

Google's Free Translation Engine

From Website

Forvo.com: Thousands of Words in Dozens of Languages Pronounced by Native Speakers

Listen to Words in Dozens of Languages

Center for Free Foreign Language Learning from Wikiversity.org

Summary

From Website

Languages

Babbel Lets You Learn German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian and English Online, Offline and Mobile

Summary

Lang-8.com Get Free Help with your Foreign Language Writing, including Spanish, French, Chinese and Many More

Summary

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Lang-8 Intro Video

Best Language Learning Software?

EnglishClass101.com EnglishClass101 Learn ESL Podcast with Audio Downloads, Video Lessons, Flash Cards, Self-Tests, EFL

Summary

From Website

EnglishPod101.com EnglishPod101 Learn English Podcast with Audio+Video Lessons, Flashcards, Quizzes, Cultural Info, Learn Center

About EnglishPod101

From EnglishPod101.com

Video: How to Use the BBC Website to Learn English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, More - Free!

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