Resources & Supplements for language learning

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Table of Contents Learning Resources Overview of commercial courses Flashcard / SRS / Other software Courses Media (radio, TV, books, etc.) Dictionaries Communities Other Ancient languages Arabic Chinese (Mandarin) Dutch Esperanto French German Greek Hindi Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Russian Spanish Thai Welsh

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Learning Resources
The info will be updated continuously. Make a thread in r/languagelearning or r/duolingo bla bla

Overview of commercial courses

Assimil - A graded series of bilingual dialogues with target language audio. Eschews translation and grammar explanation. Many languages are available, but many are only available for French speakers. FSI - Drill-based courses with text and audio issued by the US government. Many are avaiable for free download. Michel Thomas - Audio-based course which attempts to teach grammar through explanation. Pimsleur - Audio-based course which teaches phrases and repeats at specific intervals to aid memorization. Rosetta Stone - Uses pictures, audio and text to try to teach vocabulary and grammar without explanation. Its effectiveness is controversial and mention of it often leads to argument. Rather expensive. Teach Yourself - Presents dialogues with audio and translation. Includes vocabulary lists, grammar explanation and translation exercises. Quality varies from course to course and edition to edition.

Flashcard / SRS / Other software

Anki, a flashcard program/SRS, with a vast array of decks available for download Mnemosyne, a flashcard program/SRS Memrise, online flashcards and mnemonics for various languages using an SRS, including Chinese characters and stroke order

Courses
Duolingo learn a language for free, and simultaneously translate the Web. FSI Language selection of free government language courses from FSI for many languages

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BBC Languages, beginners' courses for a variety of languages Radio Lingua, full beginner audio courses for French & Spanish, basic phrases for a variety of other languages LiveMocha, has 38 languages and Rosetta Stone style exercises busuu, lessons and courses in several languages, featuring a community/social network elements I kinda like languages, mini-courses in many languages, some longer courses GLOSS materials, from DLI, esp. useful for critical languages

Media (radio, TV, books, etc.)

Deutsche Welle news and radio in many languages NHK World radio in many languages Project Gutenberg, free ebooks in many languages Librivox, volunteer-read audiobooks in different languages (quality varies) Radiotime, radio stations by region

Dictionaries
WordReference, bilingual dictionaries for various languages Sesli Szlk, a multilingual dictionary including Turkish, English, and some other languages dict.cc, multi-language dictionary with wiki-like contributions by users, English-German is most complete but features other combinations

Communities
italki, a language learning social community and language exchange marketplace. You can hire teachers or tutors from over 200 countries and also use the free community services that help you learn languages while making friends. Both a place to learn and teach.

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Lang-8, community where native speakers correct writings from learners mylanguageexchange, site facilitating practice between native speakers and learners verbling Instantly connect via webcam/microphone in your web browser to a person who speaks the language you want to learn

Other
How to Learn Any Language, forum for discussion of language learning Omniglot overview of various languages (mostly focused on writing systems), has some good links Google Books, many books, especially useful for finding old grammars/courses on dead languages last.fm, play only music tagged in whatever language you want So you want to learn a language, links for language learners RhinoSpike, site where one can solicit native speakers to read texts aloud for you About.com lessons and information for a few languages multilingualbooks, links to many resources for a variety of languages WikiBooks books for learning different languages

Ancient languages
Textkit, textbooks, grammars, readers and more for studying Ancient Greek and Latin

Arabic
ArabicOnline.eu

Chinese (Mandarin)
sugoideas, Taiwanese dramas

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Baidu radio, PRC radio stations Mac TV, Taiwan TV Next TV, low-brow entertainment Metamuse, a tech blog Matrix67, programming blog Skritter, online flash-based SRS Tianya, a Chinese forum , site for making mnemonics, printed version is good too Chinesepod, Chinese podcasts Reviewing the Hanzi, site for reviewing Hanzi using the Heisig method Koohii thread with more resources Social Mandarin, site for sharing Mandarin resources and blog posts

Dutch
dutchgrammar.com, a Dutch grammar leren.nl has a list of resources for learning Dutch

Esperanto
Lernu, a variety of tools for learning and using Esperanto

French
French in Action, a highly regarded video series, entirely in French, for learning the language Ebooks gratuits, free ebooks in French

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French Tutorial, French lessons

German
Deutsche Welle's German course Das Erste Mediathek German TV programs ARD Mediathek German TV and radio ZDF Mediathek German TV LEO, bilingual German dictionaries Canoo, German dictionary /r/LANL_German, subreddit for learning German, also see their resources thread

Greek
Learn Greek, a course for learning Greek Learning Greek podcasts with transcripts

Hindi
HindiLearner, includes lessons and self study materials Hindi Language Resources, list of links The Hindi-Urdu Flagship great free materials for study

Icelandic
Icelandic Online

Italian

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RAI, Italian radio and TV

Japanese
Reviewing the Kanji, site for reviewing kanji according to Heisig's *Remembering the Kanji* RtK forums, forum discussing Japanese study RtKWiki, includes links and information for Japanese study Erin's Challenge, a video series for learning Japanese Tae Kim's grammar guide , school courses for Japanese high schoolers Nukemarine's suggested guide for beginners, a curriculum based largely on freely available materials Yamasa online dictionary, dictionaries for kanji, words, etc. Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese dictionary Blingual texts (Japanese/English) All Japanese All the Time AJATT, a philosophy of Japanese/language learning KeyholeTV, program for streaming Japanese TV Android Apps: Obenkyo SRS style tests on Katakana, Hiragana & Kanji (based on JLPT)
*Learn japanese hiragana, katakana and kanji, and test yourself by drawing, or multiple choice.

JED Dictionary - view and search kanji based on radicals

*an offline Japanese Dictionary. Might not work on newer models

NihongoUp Tap one of the 4 balloons for the right answer.

Japanese game that will help you learn kana, JLPT kanji, vocabulary & grammar.

Conjugation Japanese Practice conjugation.

* 10 important adjective & verb conjugations * Built-in dictionary with over 3000 words (verbs & adjectives) * 3 difficulty levels with different goals & hints

OS Apps:

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Korean
Naver, Korean/English bilingual dictionary Radio Korea, Korean radio Let's Speak Korean, video series to teach Korean (there are more playlists for further episodes) Sogang Korean Program, Korean lessons from Sogang University

Navajo
Navajo Now Huge list of resource links

Norwegian
NRK Nett-TV Norwegian TV NRK torrents Norwegian TV in torrent form (an official NRK site)

Russian
Princeton Russian course, offering several semesters of material

Spanish
Destinos, video series for learning the language SpanishDict, dictionary website with audio clips for Spanish, also flashcards and videos

Thai
Learning Thai the Easy Way! compilation of resources with graphics and audio Thai-Language.com has a dictionary with images and recordings to help learn words and read

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Welsh
Say Something in Welsh

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