This is an alphabetical list of nearly 200 websites dedicated to learning a language online for FREE. Some sites provide content; others community; and a number have both. Some sites focus on learning one specific language, others cover a number of languages. [Email additions to the list]
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1-language.com – One-stop resource site for learning English and other languages
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123Chinese – Your Chinese learning experience starts here! Free online Mandarin learning material! Real life examples!
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200words-a-day – If you find learning new vocabulary a time-consuming grind, try boosting it with the 200 Words a Day! language learning programme: Spanish, French, German and Welsh
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ABA English – Learn English
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Abair Leatl – the materials are intended as a learning aid for people of any age group who wish to improve their speaking skill in Gaelige
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Arabic2000.com – Online Arabic School
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Arabic Studio - Start to learn arabic for free immediately
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Arab Academy – the fastest way to learn Arabic
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Arabeya Arabic Language Center – intensive online Arabic courses
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ArabicAlphabet – Learn the Arabic letters easily using our interactive animated lessons and a 500 years old method of teaching the Arabic letters in Europe.
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ArabiCollege – teach the Arabic Language Online 24/7
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Arabic Pod – Learn Arabic with Arabic Pod
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ArEg – The online Arabic & Egyptian school - a virtual school for Arabic and Egyptian.
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Autodidacy – Beginners Latin, Beginners Mandarin
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Babelyou – a language learning portal which is free of charge and enables language students from over 75 countries in more than 45 languages to find language partners all over the world and to learn or practice a foreign language together in virtual class rooms via video conference.
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Babbel - Learn languages online
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bab.la - you can look up millions of translations in our dictionaries, test your language skills with thousands of quizzes, learn vocabulary with thousands of flashcard sets or find the right phrases for your birthday card in 14 languages
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BBC Languages - Audio and video courses for beginners and intermediates in 36 languages
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BBC Wales: Learn Welsh – Lots of resources to learn or improve your Welsh
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BeeOasis - Big things in basic English
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Blogs Exchange (BE) – is the first community of blogs dedicated to the learning and interchange of languages (Spanish and English so far).
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book2 - Learn languages online for free with 100 audio (mp3) files!
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Business Spanish – teaches you how to speak and write business and conversational Spanish by listening and repeating examples and simplified grammar (FREE)rules
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Busuu - the language learning community
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byki - a powerful and personalized language-learning system. It locks foreign language words and phrases into your memory so that you can recall them perfectly and remember them forever.
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CALES (Centre for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies) - teaches the Arabic language online through skype
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CALL4ALL – exists to help anyone improve their language learning or teaching in English and most other major languages by the use of modern technology.
- Capturator - offers online products and services for language learning.
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Chinese Course – Learn Chinese online with the Flashcard system
- ChinesePod - Learn Mandarin with free daily MP3 podcast
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ChineseTeachers.com - improve spoken Chinese with trained, native Chinese teachers 24/7, no booking
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Chinese-Tools.com – Learn Mandarin Chinese quickly and easily!
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ChineseVoice.com – Learn Chinese online with Beijing’s best teachers
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Clip Class’ – learn French with videos: Free online activities: pronunciation (video tutorials), discovering grammar items, interviews…
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Clip Class’ Moodle Courses – French courses with teachers and audio-chat sessions
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Collocation of the Week – for advanced learners of English
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Conversation Exchange - three types of language exchange: face-to-face conversation; correspondence; text and voice chat
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DailyFrenchPod – Learn French now
- Danish Here and Now- a free online course for Danish for Beginners.
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Dave’s ESL Cafe – a community site with job boards for teachers as well as forums for students and printable lessons/ worksheets
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DeutschLern – Deutsch als Fremdsprache
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Digital Dialects – free to use interactive games for learning languages and links to study resources
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Dom Manuel – Free Spanish lessons
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Easy Language Exchange – to connect individuals with natives who speak the language they want to learn
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Easiest Languages to Learn – Use this guide to compare languages and find one that is fun to learn
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Easy Portuguese – Learn Portuguese
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eduFire – live video language learning
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eLanguageSchool.net – the largest website for learning multiple languages on the Internet
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ELLA – online language learning software with interactive courses in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch
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elovivo – learn a new language, find language exchange partners, contribute to your language
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English Addicts – daily English lessons for learners and teachers
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English Baby – social network site dedicated to teaching english providing lessons, videos, and collaboration.
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EnglishCafe – the “perfect environment in which to encourage, practice and perfect your English language and world culture skills”
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EnglishCentral – learn English for public speaking, reading, remedial speech practice
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English Flashcards – flashcards to learn a number of different languages
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English Gateway -Online vocabulary lessons (with audio) for intermediate and advanced ESL learners. Exercises on idioms, phrasal verbs and collocations. Student/teacher blog and worksheets.
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English Leap - an innovative language teaching methodology where you can easily improve your English by spending about 30 minutes to an hour on our site every day.
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English Page – free online English lessons and ESL//EFL resources
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English Portal Community – Talk and Learn -Chatting with people from around the world will quickly develop your conversational skills
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English Speak- a free and award winning system for learning to speak English
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EnglishTalk.info – This site is aimed at adult students learning English as their second language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL).
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English Town Online – Learn to speak English
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English Tube - with vids from the major video services like YouTube, Flickr, Blip, Vimeo, Veoh, Metacafe…
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engoi – Free online language instruction
- ESL Groups – online English pronunciation site that uses professionally filmed (in HD) English lectures that help people with their English pronunciation
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ESLPod – English as a Second Language Podcast
- ESOL courses - a comprehensive range of free online lessons and games for adult English students and young learners at all levels of English, and free worksheets and lesson resources for teachers.
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Eurocosm – Active Language Lab has language modules
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Exam English – Free practice tests for learners of English
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Fluent in Arabic – Learn the Tunisian variant of Arabic
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Forvo – all the words in the world pronounced
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Free language - Social foreign language learning web 2.0 style
- Free language tutorials - free tutorials for Spanish, Italian, and French
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French Flash Cards – Learn German online with the Flashcard System.
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FrenchOhLala - releases a new French lesson everyday. 10 minutes of French, brought to you by French teachers. Listen to free daily MP3 podcast lessons and download Lesson PDFs (Transcript, English translation,
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Funky English – Social Network for ESL Students
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funkyRussian – get the gist of Russian
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Gapfillers – Language on the go – ‘bite size’ practice everyday and access to archives of grammar, listening and reading – plus much much more
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Games for Language Learning – start learning a language today
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German Flash Cards – Learn German online with the Flashcard System
- Glovico - a Fairtrade online school where native speakers can teach their mother tongues via Skype
- GoFluent – English as a business tool
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Grasp Chinese – learn Chinese online
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Gulf Arabic – the dialect of Arabic native to the Arab nationals of the Gulf countries
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GymGlish – Personalised English lessons via the Internet
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HeinsUniverse - Learn some Afrikaans words and phrases.
- How do you pronounce? - Search for a word and not only get an audio pronunciation but also tagged and time-stamped videos of real people in real situations speaking and using the word in context
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How to learn any language - This website is made for people who love languages.
- How to learn Spanish (using free online resources) - especially by using the Telenovela Method where I show people how I use fun and interesting things like Spanish-language TV shows, movies, books, comics, etc. to learn Spanish.
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Huitalk – is a community of people learning languages and looking for a language exchange
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Icelandic Online – a freecourse provided by Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland)
- Il mio inglese : publish a free article every day for Italians who want to learn the english language.
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ilovelanguages – catalogue of language-related Internet resource
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Indo European Languages Tutorials – for anyone looking for free language resources in many of the Indo-European languages. Currently, there are 15 language tutorials available
- Innovative Learning – currently offer content in over 20 languages, and give a large amount of it away at no cost
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InstantSpeak Chinese – an award winning new system designed by language experts to learn Chinese
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Internet Polyglot – free language lessons online
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Italian Encounter – A new way of learning Italian
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Italian Flash Cards – Learning Italian online with the Flashcard System
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italki – Everything you need to learn a language
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- Japanese Audio Flashcard Lessons - Use these FREE Japanese Audio Flashcard Lessons while you exercise or commute.
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JapanesePod101 – The fastest, easiest and most fun way to learn Japanese
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Japanese through Anime – free video and blog content on learning the Japanese language.
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Kan du tale dansk – Danish for foreigners
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Kan Talk – makes it easy and fun to practice spoken English
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Lang-8 – Language exchange SNS
- languagecoursecentre.com - the right place to learn a language online trough interactive and entertaining activities; courses focus on a progressive grammar learning and give the ability to learn at your own pace.
- Language for exchange – Find a conversation partner and travel abroad
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Language 101 – Spanish, French, Russian or German online using movie clips, songs, and lessons.
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Language Links – Travelling the world from your desktop
- Languages Online – French, German, Italian and Spanish
- Languages Online - Learn languages online for free with the tutorials here. Also a directory of the best free language links on the internet for 12 additional languages.
- Language Software Reviews – comparison of tthe most popular online courses and programs to learn languages
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LanguageTutorial.org - All of our lessons are completely free. We also have compiled a directory of the best free language links on the internet for 12 additional languages.
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langoLab – Language Immersion Through Online Video and Text
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Learn a Language - hundreds of free language-learning lessons, games, and activities
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Learn a Language on YouTube - Learn English online with a private English tutor from home.
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Learn Arabic Online – for Writing, Listening, Grammar, Counting, Small Phrases and Exercises
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LearnEnglish – is a portal that links to all of our websites for teachers and learners of English (from the British Council)
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Learn English – site is for elementary and intermediate learners of English. You can study grammar or vocabulary topics and try one of the 400 exercises and language games.
- Learn English by Skype - Learn English online with a private English tutor from home.
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Learn English Online – for over 10 years Learn English has been the free and independent web site for EFL/ESL learners and teachers.
- Learn French online - Completely free French grammar and vocabulary lessons, as well as a dictionary
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Learn French by Podcast – audio podcasts for learners of French as a foreign language
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Learn French by Skype – Learn French with a native speaker directly from home.
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Learn Greek – teaches the modern Greek language online.
- Learn how to speak German – Learn easily and with a lot of fun – German for beginners
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Learn Greek Online – the most complete site for learning Greek
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Learn Hebrew – free Hebrew vocabulary website offering 46 topics in over 1700 Hebrew words and phrases.
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Learn Hebrew Online – with Israel’s best teachers
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Learn Hebrew Pod – Free Hebrew Lessons
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Learn how to speak German – learn easily and with a lot of fun
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Learn Indian languages – Learn to speak Indian languages in English, Bengali, Gujarait, Hindi, etc
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Learn Italian – Learn Italian guide, all about how to learn Italian and how to speak italian.
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Learn Lebanese Arabic - Learn Lebanese Arabic Through English. Videos with practical Lebanese Arabic phrases for everyday
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Learning Chocolate – This website provides free vocabulary games for students to learn English, Japanese and Chinese vocabulary online
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Learning Portuguese – Russell Walker shares his discoveries and assist others in learning languages, and of course Portuguese in particular.
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Learn Spanish Online – free collections of vocabulary lists and grammar lessons.
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LearningThai.com – Learning Thai the easy way
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LearnItalianPod.com – Learn Italian with free podcasts
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learnitlists – Language learning by learning lists of vocab
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Learn Some Greek – Learn the Greek language and a bit of the language
- Learn to speak Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia : A comprehensive list of useful Amharic phrases and words that could help a tourist or any foreigner.
- Learn to speak Chinese – Online Mandarin Video Course
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lernu – a multilingual website which aims to inform internet users about Esperanto and help them to learn it, easily and free of charge.
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Lets go Spanish – We offer completely private Spanish lessons conducted online through Skype. The classes are can also be for small groups and are suitable for everyone including: children, adults, students and professionals
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Lingofriends – language exchange
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Lingorilla – the “first global video community for learning languages”
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LingoZ – Definitions and translations in 8 languages
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Linkua – Learn with a language tutor
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Listen2Russian – for people who want to achieve a basic understanding of the Russian language.
- Live Lingua – The world’s first total immersion language school online
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LiveMocha – The social way to learn a language
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London Speaks French - a language agency based in London and dedicated to French tuition and French lessons in London and anywhere PC to PC
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Loquella – Learn without borders
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Macmillan Business English Online – offers a wealth of free additional English Language Teaching resources to add to your Business English lesson
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Madinah Arabic – Free Arabic course
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Mango – Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start.
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Maria Oliveira’s Language Learning – Learn Portuguese for free
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Master Russian – gives you the help you need to master Russian grammar, learn new vocabulary, practice in speaking and reading Russian, and learn fascinating facts about Russian culture and people.
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Medlock Method – learn Chinese with the Medlock method
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Memrise – learn a language
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Milingua – Learn Hebrew wherever you are, whenever you want
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MinDynasty – private Mandarin lessons at your desktop
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Mi vida loca – a fun and interactive course, which is available for free. It draws you into a web of intrigue dealing with real natives and you can’t help but learn Spanish!
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Mixxer- a language exchange community for everyone
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MSKEnglish – Learning English online with live English classes
- My French Tutor - Learn or improve your french now with a native teacher online!
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My German Class – Mini-courses and video podcasts
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My Happy Planet – Learn a language, make friends, have fun
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My Language Exchange – Find a partner at the online community and practice your second language with a native speaker who is learning your language
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Myngle – The new way to learn languages
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MyRussian.org – Free Russian lessons
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Netdansk – a virtual school that offers Danish language tuition for persons with higher education.
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Nihongo o Narau – This site is dedicated to teaching Japanese to speakers of English
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- Omniglot – the online encyclopaedia of writing systems and languages
- Online English – the online English lessons are face-to-face using Webex (a program like Skype). You don’t need to download any programs, just click an email link when your lesson starts.
- Online English Courses – Learn English with Live Online Courses from Kaplan International Colleges.
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Online English Teacher - Commercial Online English Teacher site using Skype and other learning technologies to teach English online
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Online Japanese Language and Culture Resource Community – Since 1996, Japanese-Online.com has been providing free learning services to people who wish to study the Japanese language
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Online Language School- Language lessons from home or anywhere, online live in a virtual classroom with a first-class language teacher.
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Online Spanish Course – Learn Spanish online with the Flashcard system
- Online Spanish Learning Resources - These online resources from 121Spanish will help you with your learning. We provide notes, videos, and interactive exercises about Spanish grammar, vocabulary, idioms, and culture.
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OpenLearn - modern language resources from the Open University
- Open University Language Courses
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Our Universal Language – watch a film, learn a language
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Palabea – the international platform for language learning
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Papora – Become fluent in any language connecting with thousands of language partners on the fastest growing language learning community. Learn and practise naturally using text, audio and video chat; community discussions and more
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Paris by Pod - learn French, live from Paris!
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Parleremo – a virtual town that teaches languages
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PhraseBase – Conversational Foreign Language Learning Social Network
- Pimsleur – Online Italian resources
- PlaySay- The fun and social way to learn Spanish
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Popling – Learn French, German, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese Portuguese, Spanish without studying
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Populearn – Learn German online with free German language lessons
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Prime Language Services - specializes in Online Russian Teaching / Tutoring, where you communicate with a Certified Native Russian Teacher live via IM / webcam. First Trial Lesson is offered for free!
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- qmpeople - a multicultural resource specifically built for writing to people of different cultures
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Radio Lingua Network – language-learning which fits your lifestyle
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Rocket Languages - 11 different online languages courses [Free + Paid]
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Rosetta Stone – Learn naturally, engage interactively, speak confidently and best of all — have fun
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RusssianLessons.net – Learn Russian for Free
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Russian-Plus – Online video and audio Russian language lessons, podcasts and grammar
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Russian Video Blog – It includes a free video lesson series for learning to speak Russian, as well as free video lessons that teach how to read Russian.
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Sanbit – free effective language learning
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Saynihao.org – the community for Chinese language learners and people interested in China
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SaySomethingIn.com/welsh – Learn Welsh
- Sclipo – Social learning network
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Shared Talk – Your language exchange network
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Sherton English – English in 52 weeks (for Spanish speakers)
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Sigma English Online - English classes and conversation clubs in the Virtual Campus of a Canadian language school with native teachers in real time. Multimedia access 24/7, chats.
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Sonia-Portuguese.com – As a Brazilian native speaker and teacher, Sonia focuses on Brazilian Portuguese.
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SoZiety – Language exchange via Skype
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Spanish Learning Resources – If you are passionate about augmenting your Spanish language studies, you will find these resources very helpful.
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Spanish Pod – Learn Spanish on your terms with mobile podcasts and a global community of Spanish learners.
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Spanish Unlimited – The right place to Learn Spanish & meet new friends
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Spanish Word of the Day – A daily email with new vocabulary
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Speak – free interactive language lessons by econtrader
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Speak7 – Learn Arabic
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SpeakingCam – a social network for language learners and tutors, brings you one-on-one tutoring opportunities with native speakers in a social way
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Splendid Speaking – Podcasts for advanced learners of English who want to develop their top-level speaking skills and communication strategies
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STELLA – Online language learning
- Stomp Learning Systems – offers BYU’s CLIPS—Computerized Language Instruction & Practice Software, which allows students, teachers, and organizations to maximize the efficiency of the language learning process through tailored drill and practice.
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Study Spanish - free material for learning Spanish (over 1,000 pages!)
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talkConMigo – provides a central location where people of all ages can find others looking to learn, or improve a second language.
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Talk Irish – free Irish Podcast and Flashcard Service
- TermWiki – The global social learning network in 89 languages
- The Easiest Language to learn : Blog providing information and resources for everyone that is interested in language learning or linguistics
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TheHebrewLanguage.com - provides one on one instruction for students and offers its students a community
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The Japanese Friend Exchange – the place to find Japanese friends, penpals, language exchange, relationships
- The Native Tongue - Live online language lessons with qualified teachers and native speakers
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The Romance Language Resource Center - Romance languages, many of which are still commonly spoken around the world today, originally branched from the spoken version of Latin. They are known today as Romance languages, drawing from the original termRomanicus, in reference to the Ancient Romans who spoke Latin.
- Think Chinese – online test, a blog about Chinese cultural events and language learning tips and a new range of interactive Chinese/English books available through the site aimed at children learning Chinese.
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TOEFL iBT Online Practice – Realistic and best quality TOEFL iBT practice tests and learning resources delivered online
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To Learn Arabic - Arabic for non-native speakers
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The Rich Morning Show – Cartoon English lessons for kids and adults
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top language community – the definitive language community site for bilingual and multilingual people living in London, UK, and Ireland.
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TravLang – Foreign languages for Travellers
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UniLang Language Community – offers many language resources for a wide variety of languages.
- Urdu-English.com – helps with providing free Urdu to English online lessons, beginner to advanced level.V
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Verbaplanet – the award winning new way to learn how to speak a foreign language.
- Vores fælles sprog – Danish grammar explained in English and other languagesW
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What does that mean? – English idioms, catchphases, buzz words and slang
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Wijng – grammar, reading and listening lessons to
learn English
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Word Drill - Select a topic, a word will appear, type your translation
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World Champ – The language learning network
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World Languages Podcasting – Listen to conversations about language and culture in Australia in several different languages.
- World Word Exchange- An innovative, revolutionary approach to the art of language learning – onlineX
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xlingo- Language exchange community where you can find partners from around the world to practice and improve your language skills.
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Yappr – where millions of English learners throughout the world are improving their English by meeting and helping each other
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