A popular free language-learning and crowdsourced text translation platform. As users progress through lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents.
Foreign Service Institute Italian Head Start – Web site
Textbook, glossary, culture notes (PDF) and 21 audio lessons (MP3).
Foreign Service Institute Italian FastCourse – Vol 1. – Vol 2.
Includes a textbook (PDF) and 30 audio lessons (MP3).
Foreign Service Institute Italian Programmed Course – Web site
Textbook and instructor’s manual (PDF) and 24 audio lessons (MP3).
Helps you learn basic vocabulary that is useful for everyday life and improve your pronunciation. The 100 lessons are the result of a collaborative effort between Deutsche Welle and the Goethe-Verlag.
A free online textbook for learning German from the University of Texas. It’s the web-based first-year German program developed and in use at the university.
Dialogue for German Learners: Beginner’s Level – iTunes Free
Created by the University of South Wales, these dialogues will help you to practice and consolidate some of the language skills you are learning, either as part of a language course or as something you need for your work.
German for beginners: Paula and Philipp are Radio D reporters who have several mysterious cases to investigate. Join them as their research takes them across Germany — and learn German along the way! Created by Deutsche Welle.
30-part self-study course in German. Features authentic videos, slideshows and audio texts that convey a vibrant picture of life in Germany, Austria Switzerland. Created by Deutsche Welle.
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
Foreign Service Institute German Programmed Introduction – Web site
The text (PDF) and tapes (MP3) present, in a programmed learning style, the structural features, vocabulary contained in the first six units of the FSI German Basic Course. Serves to accelerate the progress of students who subsequently move to the Basic Course.
Foreign Service Institute German Headstart – 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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
