A Master List Of Free Online Language Lessons

I ❤ you guys! Don't know what I did before I found you. :o)

OprahBabb

[www.saysomethinginwelsh.com]

Free Welsh audio course. No podcast rss yet, so you'll have to sign up on the forum to download it. Very good though.

Check out the BBC Language site [www.bbc.co.uk] and Babbel [www.babbel.com] for more free language help.

Nicholas Ertz

Anyone have any resources for free online computer language lessons?

Don't forget LiveMocha.com! That's one of the best free online learning centers for other languages.

Now if only someone will make a GOOD American Sign Language learning site...

Busuu.com was looking pretty good as an online language site earlier in the year. I haven't been there recently though.

I use Pimsleur audio courses, but that is very expensive. Unless you follow lifehacker's guides to download stuff, that is.

This is a list of languages and some of them have free courses and dictionaries and other cool stuff: [www.multilingualbooks.com]

www.byki.com

Pretty good free site, they are trying a social learning thing. Their learning part is surprisingly advanced. More languages then most people would ever want to learn. The desktop version is free to if you wanna do that, and they support Mac.

AJalbert

On the language front, I believe the best audio learning you can get is via the Michel Thomas method. You don't learn repetitiv lists but start to build-up and flesh out the language from very small building blocks that you are used to natively. Ok so it's not free, but they're not very expensive either and are absolutely brilliant. Got me on my way with Spanish in about a week confidently. No more learning phrases either, I learnt Spanish that I could adapt and manipulate just as if i was fluent. This resource however looks promising, good addition to academic earth etc

VernonKlien

Now I can finally learn Mandarin without paying $400/credit hour. Thank you so much!

okthere

404 D:

Jordan10la

@fintach: I get it too. I think it's been Lifehackered.

Infotactix

So am I the only one getting a 404 error then?

fintach

404 error on oculture website - confirm

Nikolay Gorylenko

@Nikolay Gorylenko: Same here. Do you suppose the volume came from Lifehacker or NYT (This story doesn't have very many comments here - that's why I ask)

@OprahBabb: that looks like a good subject for open line friday. what DID you do before lifehacker?

the list is great but has anyone actually have had any successful case ? I always thought that language can't be transferred easily unlike any other subjects.

Frank Legonais

There a ton of free resources for those interested in learning Esperanto, the International Language (Yes, it still exists! Yes, a lot of people speak it!).

[en.lernu.net] has free Esperanto lessons for English speakers.

[esperanto-usa.org] has a free correspondence course (by email or snail mail).

On YouTube, you can watch the entire Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo Esperanto video course, which is 12 DVDs. The first one is here:

+ Watch video

curlyt

Don't forget to check with your local public library - a lot of fee-based electronic services are paid for by the library and access is extended to patrons for free. Usually you need to have a library card in good standing, but use the service from your home computer.

MPOW is running a trial right now on the Mango Languages package, which would be in the neighborhood of $60/month for a personal subscription.

lyndyn

LATIN, HERE I COME!

/Seriously. Always wanted to learn Latin.

@FrisbeeNaked:
Wander through life blissfully unaware of all the stuff I was missing. :)

Bert Bronaugh

@curlyt: Charmita? :)

@curlyt: But on a completely different note - I hate language learning courses that are completely in the language - you can't understand what they're trying to teach you!

And I always thought that Esperanto sounded so much like an amalgamation of Spanish + French that it would be so confusing to learn (as I already took Spanish and French in High School and College)

Goes perfect with the French lesson I'm taking at university :)

Firasco

How about learning a language the way that Foreign Service personnel did? For free?
Amazing resource that perhaps not a lot of folks don't know about.

[www.fsi-language-courses.com]

I am getting a 404 error as well.

HaukNero

I do hope the courses in other languages are not as terrible as the youtube "Yiddish classes."

ElsaChrysaor

@Oranges w/ Cheese: For Python: http://diveintopython.org/ http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/ http://lorenzod8n.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/pygame-tutorial-1-getting-started/ Wikibooks and Wikiversity have quite a few resources as well.

SansonePandora

@Oranges w/ Cheese: www.livemocha.com Not audio in terms of podcasts, but in my opinion, the best language learning site out there. You match yourself up with people that speak the language you are learning, and you can also take online courses in certain languages on the site. I have several friends in Russia now that I help with English in each for help with my Russian.

LelandRhea

BYKI offers over 70 free languages for free, and the free program is really great. There is a forum where users can upload flashcards, so there are a lot of free lessons out there on top of what BYKI includes with the download.

tchaves