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In this video, I will be showing you the best places to learn languages online, the first place I want to cover is SSI language courses. You can get there by searching on Google FSI Language and then it will take you to this page or just click link in the description.
FSI stands for a Foreign Service Institute, the courses were developed by the United States governments and are in public domain but the cool part is there are tons of courses you can take. Here is one on French and there are all pretty comprehensive, they are very, very long tutorials, and they are like hours in length, so you can brush up on any language where many, many language using FSI language courses and it is absolutely free online. And it is a direct download, no torrents, or anything like that.
The next one I want to cover is, I made a list of online education and I will put the link in the description or you can search free education/eliteskills or go to direct address but I made a list of podcast that you can get on iTunes about learning languages, you just go to the page and it is in the right corner, it is after the first list on the right. Learn languages on iTunes and I have a list of podcasts that are on iTunes from several languages, Spanish, Korean, Italian, and etc. You can go to your favorite podcast site too like podcast.com or Yahoopodcast and say learn Spanish, learn French, or any language. Click search and you will get ton of results, so if you like to learn by audio and that is cool you can load the tutorial onto your iPod or something and listen to it on your way to work or school.
And, there is another site that is recent, that is very recent that is called Livemocha.com, okay I love general quick and I selected that I wanted to learn French and I selected one of the French courses, it had like four and I can select from a multiple amount of weird things here. I am going to select the one with eye glasses because I guess that means visual and it gives me a picture and it reads the item name with like a French native speaker and I can select through items in the list. It has like 1 or 40 there.
So, it has a lot of stuff that I can do, I only selected learn option right now, I can also practice and share. I do not really study the site too much but it looks really, really promising.
Another, basically web 2.0 learning sites is mango languages, it is trymango.com. All the links will be under the description by the way. So, you can just click them from there or you can go directly to the URL but just click “try it” and see a login, it gives you like list of courses you can select from. I am going to say French again that also has German, Greek, Italian whole bunch of other stuff. And, I will select French, and as you can see, it has a ton of French lessons. It has a hundred French lessons, so wow tons of slides that you can look through a 101 slides just for French. So, it has a quite a bit of options and it is completely free.
Okay, the last thing I recommend to learning languages online is Wikibooks, it is pretty much a branch of Wikipedia. But just search Wikibooks and the language you want to learn. In my case, I will use French as an example and I will give you the first result. It is basically an online e-book developed by French enthusiast and teachers that set up the content them selves. And, I can go to allons-y whenever which means “go” I guess and it has a several options that I can select from; level one, level two, level three, or I can select by lessons grammar text and it has the appendices here so I go back I can see they also have a pedia version. High quality pedia, so I can save it to my computer and while I am not online, I can view it.
They also have a printable version, so if I want to print it out, if I do not like reading on my monitor, it is a lot easier to print it out and you will have a free textbook that is pretty high quality. But again, you can search it for any language. If you have any recommendation, go ahead and post the comment and all add your link to the description, with that being said even if you do not have any recommendations. Check the description for probably stuff I added after I made the video. Anyways thanks for listening.
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