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A Basic Course in Modern Telugu Audio recording of an introductory Telugu textbook that targets grammar and vocabulary. Includes word lists and exercises. |
Telugu Beginner |
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Almasry-Alyoum Privately owned Egyptian daily newspaper, published in Arabic and English. |
Arabic, Egyptian Advanced |
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Ancient Greek with Thrasymachus Introduction to ancient Greek that teaches grammar and vocabulary through the context of readings that introduce students to themes from Greek myths, tragedies, and epics. |
Greek, Ancient Greek Beginner |
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Anishinaabemdaa.com Contains online vocabulary and phrase lessons - common to everyday conversation - with text examples and accompanying audio. |
Ojibwe Beginner |
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Anishinaabemowin Includes a set of lessons with bits of conversation and grammatical components. Includes an online learner's grammar, and many pdf documents containing various notes on Ojibwe. |
Ojibwe Beginner |
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Aswaat Arabiyya Online resource designed for teachers and learners of Arabic. Provides listening materials selected from television stations throughout the Arab world that treat a wide variety of topics and listening genres, as well as accompanying activities. |
Arabic Intermediate, Advanced |
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Bab.la Dictionary Translation dictionary |
Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Basa Jawi Online lessons centered on basic conversation skills and Javanese culture. |
Javanese Beginner |
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BBC: Indonesia BBC news site in Indonesian, includes Indonesian news, world news, and sports. |
Indonesian Intermediate, Advanced |
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Bilingual Chat A social network in which users can create free accounts, join forums, log into chat rooms, and make one-on-one connections for language practice. Users can also set up instant messaging or video chats. |
Arabic, Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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BrazilPod A list of the supplementary Portuguese resources at the University of Texas, as well as links to other Portuguese language resources, Portuguese podcasts and blogs. |
Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Burmese Language Contains online lessons for students who want to learn basic and intermediate skills for reading, writing, and speaking the Burmese language. |
Burmese Beginner, Intermediate |
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Center For Languages of the Central Asian Region: Language Materials A collection of language materials for learning Uzbek, Azeri, Pashto, Tajiki, Dari, and a host of other Central Asian languages. Learning materials include podcasts, music, listening exercises, and script writing tutorials. |
Uzbek, Other or multiple languages Intermediate, Advanced |
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Chinese Take-In Provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback. |
Chinese Beginner |
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ChinesePod Combines audio lesson podcasts, web & mobile study tools with integrated, live speaking practice with teachers. Several pricing options available after a free 7-day trial. |
Chinese, Mandarin Beginner |
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Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals Brief video clips of Chinese-speaking professionals discussing cultural issues. Interviews provide practical cultural information about business topics, a diverse vocabulary within a professional setting, and multiple examples of natural speech. From University of Texas at Austin. |
Chinese Intermediate, Advanced |
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Cultural Interviews with Latin American and Spanish Executives Brief video clips in which Spanish-speaking professionals discuss cultural issues. The interviews provide practical cultural information about business topics, a diverse vocabulary within a professional setting, and multiple examples of natural speech. From the University of Texas at Austin. |
Spanish Intermediate, Advanced |
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Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center: Language Resources Gateway to the DFIFLC's online language lessons, Area Studies tool, Cultural Orientations that offer introductions to specific cultural groups, resources for regional speech and dialects, script lessons for targeted languages, assessment tools, country profiles, and more. |
Arabic, Egyptian, Levantine, Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian, Chinese, Mandarin, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Uzbek, Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish Video instructional series in Spanish for college and high school classrooms and adult learners |
Spanish Beginner |
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Deutsch im Blick Multimedia 1st-year German language program based on videos of native speakers. From the University of Texas at Austin. |
German Beginner |
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Di Velt fun Yidish Texts and audio archive of Yiddish stories |
Yiddish Beginner, Intermediate |
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Digital Dictionaries of South Asia Gateway to the University of Chicago's collection of South Asian dictionaries. Includes over 20 South Asian languages, some of which require the installation of a unicode font to view Roman characters with diacritics and South Asian characters. |
Bengali, Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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E-learning Turkish Grammar and Language Turkish grammar and language site with audio, video, text, and exercises |
Turkish Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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English as a Second Language Resources for ESL instructors and students, including worksheets and handouts helping ESL students with grammar, academic writing, and writing in the workplace. |
English Beginner |
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English Learning Links Offers useful learning links to online resources for independent study of the English language. You will be able to browse or search the database of learning links to self-directed, web-based English language learning sites and other resources. |
English Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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ESL Independent Study Lab Contains a list of over 250 Internet resources for English language learners. All websites are annotated and organized by skill area and language level. |
English Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Everyday Hebrew Dialogues Digital audio contents from the textbook, Everyday Hebrew Dialogues |
Hebrew, Modern Advanced |
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Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies Provides selected recordings and transcriptions from the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. The archive provides a basis for Yiddish and interlingual study and is a resource for anthropological cultural and historical research. |
Yiddish Intermediate, Advanced |
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Filoglossia: Learning Greek as a Foreign Language Series of four multimedia CD-ROMs that are based on the communicative approach for language learning. Features audio and video files with native speakers, translations into English, vocabulary and grammar exercises, and useful phrases |
Greek, Modern Greek Beginner |
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Français interactif French language program based on videos of native speakers. |
French Beginner |
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French Etc. Offers audio podcasts, online live lessons, worksheets, and assessment tools for learning French. |
French Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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French in Action Video instructional series for college and high school classrooms and adult learners. Aims to increase fluency through language immersion and introduce French culture. |
French Beginner |
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German Language Learning Guide Offers suggestions for utilizing the wide variety of German language learning resources that are available at the University of Michigan, as well as additional online resources that can further enhance learning. |
German Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Hebrew Language at the University of Texas at Austin An gateway to the Hebrew resources at UT-Austin |
Hebrew Beginner, Intermediate |
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Hello-Hello Online language courses and conversational partners |
Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Hindi and Urdu Conversation Lessons at Syracuse University Hindi and Urdu conversation lessons and word lists for basic and extended vocabulary |
Hindi, Urdu Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Icelandic Online Free online courses to work through at your own pace. Includes video and audio clips. Tutoring program for one-on-one help offered for a fee. |
Icelandic Beginner, Intermediate |
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Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings Free online Icelandic/English dictionary |
Icelandic Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Intensive Introductory Serbian/Croatian Course syllabus by Professor Danko Sipka, Arizona State University, Critical Languages Institute, provides materials and links as well as online exercises and drills. Note: You need to scroll down to reach these materials. You can also take this course online for credit. |
Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian Beginner |
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Intermediate Hindi Resources Presents a collection of webpages that feature intermediate level Hindi vocabulary and grammar. |
Hindi Intermediate |
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Introduction to Bengali Digital audio contents from the textbook, Introduction to Bengali. |
Bengali Beginner |
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Japanese Language Links and Resources A directory of online resources for learning Japanese, as well as dictionaries and language learning tools, compiled and reviewed by two students at Gettysburg College. The site is split into three sections by proficiency level, and grouped by targeted skills. |
Japanese Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Jiddish Sprachkurs im Internet German language site with transcripts & audio of interviews with Yiddish speakers from the 1960's featuring topics related to their language and culture. Includes supplementary lessons necessary to understanding the conversations - linguistically and in terms of cultural and historical context. |
Yiddish Beginner, Intermediate |
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KIKO (Kiswahili kwa Komputa) Pronunciation and grammar guides with audio; from the African Studies Institute at the University of Georgia |
Swahili Beginner |
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L'Internaute Magazine French news, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine |
French Intermediate, Advanced |
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LangMedia Resources for World Languages Provides information on cultures and languages throughout the world through authentic video and audio from the region. Includes audio and video transcripts in English and the target language. |
Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Wolof, Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Language Learning and Technology Scholarly refereed journal for foreign language scholars and educators. From the University of Hawai’i and the Center for Language Education and Research at Michigan State University. |
Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Language Learning Tips and Advice A how-to guide for learning languages |
Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Language Partners Provides a means for people at the University of Michigan, as well as people from the greater Ann Arbor area, to find others in the community who are interested in a foreign language conversation exchange. |
Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Language/30 Zulu Digital audio and video contents from Language/30 Zulu, an introductory Zulu manual. Contains vocabulary lessons and common phrases. |
Zulu Beginner |
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Languages Online: Akan/Twi Audio lessons covering basic greetings, past and perfect tense, and the imperative. From Indiana University at Bloomington. |
Akan (Twi) Beginner |
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Learn Dutch Covers vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation using pictures and audio |
Dutch Beginner, Intermediate |
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Learn Japanese Pod Podcast and website for learning Japanese. Podcasts are recorded with native Japanese speakers who teach useful everyday conversational Japanese. |
Japanese Beginner |
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Learning Thai 101 An introduction to the Thai writing system enhanced with audio pronunciation. Produced by the Thai Language Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. |
Thai Beginner |
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Let's Speak Vietnamese A new text for beginners from Arizona State University, which includes a variety of online exercises. |
Vietnamese Beginner |
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LitAudio: Literature of French Expression Links to texts of French literary works either read aloud or sung. A product of the Globe-Gate Project at the University of Tennessee at Martin |
French Advanced |
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Mandarin Chinese I Mandarin Chinese textbook that teaches the basics of the Chinese spoken and written language. Includes audio, video, exercises, transcripts, and notes. |
Chinese, Mandarin Beginner |
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Mango Languages Interactive language learning tool that teaches conversation skills. Includes English courses for speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, and Spanish. |
Chinese, Mandarin, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Mwana Simba: Kiswahili Grammar Online lessons with an informative grammar guide, plus Swahili-English and English-Swahili dictionaries |
Swahili Beginner |
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National African Language Resource Center Publishes a variety of resources for learning African languages. Materials include brochures, textbooks, dictionaries, flash cards, and multimedia CD-ROMs. |
Akan (Twi), Arabic, Egyptian, Bambara (Bamana), Swahili, Wolof, Zulu, Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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New Directions, New People Provides optional transcription, audio by itself, audio read slowly, translation and exercises. |
Hindi Beginner, Intermediate |
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Noongwa Anishinaabemjig Online lessons based on the University of Michigan Ojibwe curriculum |
Ojibwe Beginner, Intermediate |
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Once upon a time... Video of a French child narrating an imaginative and adventurous story. With English subtitles. (4 mins.) |
French Intermediate, Advanced |
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Online Intermediate College Korean Online program that helps users improve their intermediate level Korean through language and culture. Can be used as a tutor, for review, for completing assignments at one's own pace, or simply to drill oneself in pronunciation, listening, or reading. |
Korean Intermediate |
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Online Vietnamese Reading Program Four reading activities models that use web-based authentic reading passages and online reading collections, which are appropriate for intermediate and advanced learners of the Vietnamese language. From Arizona State University. |
Vietnamese Intermediate, Advanced |
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Parla.cat Virtual learning space that offers all the educational materials for learning the Catalan language either autonomously or with a tutor. |
Catalan Beginner, Intermediate |
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Passe Partout Consists of a sequence of audio and video selections to help intermediate and advanced students improve their oral comprehension skills. |
French Intermediate, Advanced |
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Pathway to Korean: Beginning Spoken Korean from Zero First-level materials for students with no previous exposure to the Korean language. Materials developed thus far include five units and more than forty lessons/stages. |
Korean Beginner |
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Persian Online An online Persian grammar reference. From the University of Texas at Austin. |
Persian Beginner, Intermediate |
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Personalidades de la Cultura Hispánica Spanish podcasts of prominent voices from Hispanic cultures discussing exciting in different fields. From music and film to politics and travel, these podcasts provide entertaining and knowledgeable insight to the Latin American and Spanish worlds. |
Spanish Advanced |
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Phezulu, A Beginner's Course Digital audio and video contents from Phezulu, an introductory Zulu manual. Primarily contains vocabulary lessons. |
Zulu Beginner |
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Poems of Catullus and Horace Recordings of the poems of Catullus and Horace, made in the 1970's by University of Texas professor Gareth Morgan. |
Latin Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Portuguese Communication Exercises A compilation of nearly 350 brief video clips in which native speakers of Portuguese from various locations throughout Brazil and Portugal demonstrate various language tasks. From the University of Texas at Austin. |
Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Punjabi Instructional Recordings Introductory Punjabi text with accompanying audio, produced by the University of Minnesota. |
Punjabi Beginner |
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Quechua Lessons Online Free online Quechua lessons offered through the University of Illinois. |
Quechua Beginner, Intermediate |
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Quechua Live and In Color! Free Quechua textbook (written in 1994-5) from University of California at Los Angeles, with accompanying audio clips. |
Quechua Beginner, Intermediate |
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Radio Arlecchino Italian grammar podcasts, built around dialogs that explain the grammar behind communicative language functions. Includes pdf transcripts, as well as grammar and cultural notes. |
Italian Intermediate |
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Radio Lingua Network: Coffee Break Spanish Step By Step A podcasting series of one-minute lessons on useful Spanish phrases – lessons that one could learn during a coffee break. Also contains cultural information relevant to the phrase. |
Spanish Beginner, Intermediate |
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RadioTime: Tamil Radio List of Tamil speaking online radio stations |
Tamil Intermediate, Advanced |
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Russian Webcasts Webcasts with accompanying exercises that are posted twice monthly and deliver a survey of the previous two weeks' news in simplified standard Russian. Produced by the National Capital Language Resource Center in Washington, DC. |
Russian Intermediate, Advanced |
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SEAsite Indonesia Features vocabulary lessons as well as materials for reading and conversation. |
Indonesian Beginner, Intermediate |
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Slavic and Eastern European Language Resource Center: Webliographies A webliography of resources for Slavic and Eurasian languages with links and commentary |
Armenian, Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Greek, Modern Greek, Kazakh, Persian, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Spanish and Portuguese Podcasts Small directory of Spanish and Portuguese podcasts |
Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish Intermediate, Advanced |
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Spanish Proficiency Exercises Brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks. From the University of Texas at Austin. |
Spanish Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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SpeakDanish.dk An online course for beginners. Includes audio exercises. First lesson is free |
Danish Beginner |
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Swahili Basic Course Audio language courses developed by the U.S. Foreign Service Institute |
Swahili Beginner |
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Swedish - a brief presentation This course presents a brief outline of Swedish grammar, with the emphasis on the spoken everyday language, and includes 186 audio speech samples. Produced by a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. |
Swedish Beginner |
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Swedish Language Course Online course designed by a professor at Penn State University for beginners with no previous knowledge of Swedish. However, the lessons may also be helpful for those people who have had previous experience and would like to improve their grammar or just simply practice or brush up. |
Swedish Beginner |
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Tá Falado Podcast lessons on the pronunciation and grammar of Portuguese, specifically designed for those who already speak Spanish. From the University of Texas at Austin. |
Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Tagalog lessons Beginning and intermediate lessons in grammar and reading with audio. |
Tagalog Beginner, Intermediate |
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Tamil Language in Context 1st and 2nd year Tamil lessons, each broken down into six units. Created by the South Asia Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania |
Tamil Intermediate |
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Tex's French Grammar Online pedagogical grammar that combines authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises and online audio with dialogues and cartoon images. |
French Beginner, Intermediate |
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TextFugu Online Japanese textbook written by a teacher of the Japanese language. Features simple, down-to-earth, and occasionally humorous language and a community forum to help self-teaching beginners of Japanese. New lessons and content are added weekly. |
Japanese Beginner |
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The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Developed by an international team of scholars, this lexicon covers all dialects and periods of ancient Aramaic with a literature of central importance for history and civilization, and especially for the Jewish and Christian religions. From the Hebrew Union College. |
Aramaic Intermediate, Advanced |
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The Devanagari Script Tutor Introduces students to Devanagari and demonstrates how it is written and pronounced. |
Hindi, Sanskrit Beginner |
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The Mixxer A global community for language learning through Skype exchanges |
Other or multiple languages Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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The Open Learning Initiative: French Free introductory, interactive video-based French courses |
French Beginner |
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The Silver Muse Hypertext system of reading guides, commentaries, notes, and essays for and about Roman Imperial poetry. Created by a team of scholars. |
Latin Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive: Akan Word lists and recordings of native speakers reciting common words and phrases. From the Phonetics Lab at University of California, Los Angeles |
Akan (Twi) Beginner |
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Tibetan and Himalayan Library: Tibetan Historical Dictionary Hosted by the University of Virgina and maintained by scholars. Entries reflect a rich dialog on the meaning and history of terms. Allows for charting the historical usage of terms, as well as their contemporary spoken usage via recordings. |
Tibetan Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Tungumálaskólinn Offers various levels of internet study including writing and speaking practice. |
Icelandic Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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TV5 Monde French news television and magazine |
French Intermediate, Advanced |
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Universal Word - Hindi Lexicon Hindi-English dictionary. Provides the grammatical, morphological and semantic attributes of the Hindi words. |
Hindi Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
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Virtual Hindi: Grammar lessons A series of web-based lessons on Hindi grammar specifically designed for beginning learners of Hindi. |
Hindi Beginner |
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Virtual Hindi: Videos Popular stories from the Panchatantra, retold by members of the South Asian community in New York City. Also includes reference grammar, exercises, and links to other Hindi language resources. |
Hindi Beginner, Intermediate |
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Wolof Video Course A set of videos of conversations between native speakers of Wolof. |
Wolof Beginner |
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Write Back Soon This course is made up of eight lessons, each lasting 6-8 minutes. Write Back Soon aims to help English learners understand and practice their phrasal verbs through a serialised email correspondence between two students. |
English Intermediate, Advanced |
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Yiddish Alphabet Printed and written form of Yiddish letters with English transliterations. Produced by the Germanic Languages and Culture Department at the University of Pennsylvania. |
Yiddish Beginner |
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Yiddish-English Dictionary Online English-Yiddish dictionary containing Yiddish that is both transliterated and in the Hebrew script. |
Yiddish Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |