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Free Language Courses Learn French Language

Free French Language Courses

Free French Language Courses
Free French Language Courses
  • French in Action (Yale) – Free Web Site
    • Produced by Yale University, these video lessons use the storyline of an American student and a young Frenchwoman’s adventures in Paris to teach the language.
  • BBC Ma France – Web Site
    • The BBC offers 24 video lessons that will teach you French.
  • Duolingo French – Web Site
    • A popular free language-learning and crowdsourced text translation platform. As users progress through lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents. Check out Duolingo’s iPhone apps.
  • France Bienvenue – Web Site
    • A site that focuses on teaching French conversation. The site is written in French, so you will need a little French already under your belt. The site has audios with full transcripts and notes.
  • Foreign Service Institute Basic Course – Spotify
    • The course is designed to enable you to reach conversational proficiency. You learn how to control the French sound system by listening to the tapes and repeating each phrase. The dialogues present natural spoken French in a variety of contexts, such as, greeting people, registering at a hotel, getting a train ticket, and shopping.
  • Foreign Service Institute Basic Course: Phonology – Web Site
    • The Introduction to French Phonology course provides additional drills for those who wish to sound like a native speaker of the language. The course may be used beneficially at any stage of learning the language.
  • Foreign Service Institute French Fast – Web site
    • Designed to familiarize you with situations encountered abroad, and to provide you with the language skills you need to cope effectively with those situations.
  • Foreign Service Institute French: Headstart for Belgium – Web site
    • Textbook and culture notes (PDF) and sixteen audio lessons (PDF).
  • Francolab – Web Site
    • French Canadian site provides resources for language learners and teachers. Includes videos, quizzes, interactive modules, audio-visual presentations, and a wide selection of Canadian programs covering a variety of social and cultural topics.
  • Learn French in Your Car – Spotify
    • Grammar and vocabulary to beginners, offering guidance in pronunciation and language fundamentals.
  • News in Slow French – iTunes Free – Web Site
    • Program discusses the Weekly News, French grammar, and French expressions in simplified French at a slow pace.
  • Speak and Read French – Spotify
    • Three albums of a French language course, Speak and Read French, created by Armand Bégué, a professor at Brooklyn College and his wife, Louise Bégué, in 1959. For basic and intermediate levels.
  • Talk French – Web Site
    • A lively introduction to French presented by the BBC.
  • University of Texas: Francais interactive – Web Site
    • UT provides a series of interactive vocabulary lessons. Media can be downloaded from the site.
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Free Language Courses

Free Farsi/Persian Language Courses

Free Farsi Persian-language courses
  • Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation – Web
    • Offers 50 lessons via podcast, each running about 15-20 minutes, which will help students learn conversational Persian for free. Each lesson builds on previous lessons, so to get the most out of the course, start from the beginning. The site also offers affordable premium learning materials.
  • Easy Persian – Web
    • Easy Persian offers online lessons in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Persian or Farsi as spoken in Iran. In addition to Persian language lessons, the site introduces contemporary Iranian poets with English translations of their poems. You’ll also find free Farsi/Persian software, Persian names with English translations, Farsi writing drills and much more.
  • Learn Persian Farsi Easily, Effectively and Fluently – Spotify
    • A 3-hour series of lessons that’s freely available on Spotify.
  • Persian of Iran Today – Web Site
    • This two volume textbook interweaves grammar- and vocabulary-building exercises with narrative elements in order to engage and develop students’ abilities in Persian. The web site includes the textbook itself and related audio/visual files. Persian of Iran Today is published by The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies Publications program.
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Free Language Courses Learn English Language

Free English Language Courses

free english lanaguage courses
  • BBC The English We Speak – iTunes Free – Web Site
    • Each week, the BBC looks at phrases used in the English language.
  • American English Speech from Carnegie Mellon – Web
    •  The OLI American English Dialect course from Carnegie Mellon supplies the necessary reinforcement of dialectical structure, audio, production technique and phonetic representation for each sound.
  • BBC 6 Minute English – iTunes Free Audio – Downloads – Web Site
    • Learn and practice useful English with the BBC.
  • Better @ English – iTunes Free Audio
    • Focuses on conversational English, with an emphasis on idioms and slang.
  • Effortless English – iTunes Free
    • It gets solid reviews with this English Learning Podcast
  • English as a Second Language – iTunes Free
    • Free Lessons from HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College.
  • Grammar Girl English Podcast – Web Site
    • Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Whether English is your first language or your second language, these grammar, punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer.
  • Tu Ingles! English for Spanish Speakers – Web Site
    • “Tu Ingles” is designed to help Spanish-speakers improve their ear for English. The weekly program features drills of verb conjugation, interviews, advice about idioms, and excerpts of speeches and other recorded spoken material from famous English speakers.
  • USA Learns – Web Site
    • A free website that helps adults learn English online by providing engaging videos and educational activities. Built by the Sacramento County Office of Education, with funding by the U.S. Department of Education and the California Department of Education.
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Free Language Courses

Free Dutch Language Courses

free dutch language courses
  • Duolingo Dutch (for English Speakers) – Web Site 
    • A popular free language-learning and crowdsourced text translation platform. As users progress through lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents.
  • Introduction to Dutch (University of Groningen) – Web Site
    • Learn to speak, write and understand basic Dutch, with this free, 3 week, introductory foreign language course.
  • Laura Speaks Dutch – iTunes Free Audio
    • Lessons that will help you travel to Holland. It’s worth checking out the accompanying web site.
  • Learn Dutch from Dutch101 – iTunes Free
    • Culturally relevant lessons that are easy to listen to.
  • Learndutch.org  – Web
    • Online Dutch course – Vocabulary for beginners with Youtube Videos
  • Learn Dutch from Dutch101 – iTunes Free
    • Culturally relevant lessons that are easy to listen to.
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Free Language Courses Learn Chinese Language

Free Chinese Language Courses

  • Chinese Learn Online – Free iTunes Audio
    • A dialogue-based introduction to Mandarin Chinese. Load the lessons on your mp3 player and get up the Chinese curve.
  • Chinesepod.com –iTunes Free
    • A series of well-reviewed lessons that will let you learn Mandarin on your own terms.
  • Livelingua Basic Cantonese – Vol 1 – Vol 2
    • Two textbooks (PDF) and 30 audio lessons (MP3).
  • :Livelingua Foreign Service Institute Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach – Vol 1
    • Designed to give a practical command of spoken standard Chinese with nine situational modules. Each module consists of tapes (MP3), a student textbook (PDF), and a workbook. In addition to the core modules, there is a resource module and eight optional modules.
  • Learn Chinese in Your Car – Spotify Playlist
    • Grammar and vocabulary to beginners, offering guidance in pronunciation and language fundamentals.
  • Learn Chinese on Spotify – Spotify Playlist
    • A collection of audio courses on Spotify, that will take you from beginner lessons to advanced conversations–featuring essential travel phrases and vocabulary.
  • Mandarin Chinese Characters – iTunes Free
    • Created by Emory University, this series of video lessons will help you draw several characters and numbers.
  • US Peace Corps Mandarin in China – Web Site
    • Lessons courtesy of the US Peace Corps
  • Numbers and Radicals – iTunes Free
    • Emory University teaches you the proper form for writing numbers and radicals. In Video.
  • One Minute Mandarin – Free iTunes Audio
    • A quick way to cover the very basics…
  • Popup Chinese – Free iTunes Audio
    • Offers lessons for beginners and also students at intermediate and advanced levels. In addition to language lessons, Popup Chinese provides annotated short stories, HSK test prep materials and a variety of speaking and listening exercises. They broadcast out of Beijing, and all voice actors speak the standard northern dialect.
  • Slow Chinese – iTunes Free
    • A cultural podcast for Chinese learners. Features narratives by native Chinese people read in Mandarin at a slow speed (2~3 characters per second). Topics vary from language, knowledge, tradition and culture to opinions on social phenomena.
  • EDX Tsinghua Chinese Course – EDX.org
    • Introductory Chinese language course from Tsinghua University emphasizes basic language skills for everyday life in Mandarin speaking countries. The course utilizes pinyin, the standard system of Romanized spelling for transliterating Chinese, so learners will find it easy to understand and study the language.
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Free Language Courses Learn Arabic Language

Free Arabic Language Courses

Free arabic language courses
  1. LiveLingua.com – Free Arabic Language Lessons – Online
    The US Peace Corps serves lessons that will teach you the Arabic spoken in Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Chad and beyond.
  2. Arabic for Beginners 1 – YouTube Free
    • A series of video lessons from Dalarna University in Sweden.
  3. Arabic in Jordan – Web Site
    • These lessons from the Peace Corps will help you learn normal conversation in Jordan, rather than focusing on formalities.
  4. Foreign Service Institute Written Arabic – Vol 1 – Vol 2
    • Spoken exercises in Arabic and the printed transcriptions. Four textbooks (PDF) and 31 audio lessons (MP3).
  5. Foreign Service Institute Levantine Arabic – Web site
    • Introduction to pronunciation. Textbook (PDF) and 19 audio lessons (MP3). 
  6. Foreign Service Institute Saudi Arabic – Web site
    • Covers the urban Hijazi dialect. Textbook (PDF) and 51 audio lessons (MP3). Scroll down to the third/bottom set of lessons on this page.

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