Sunday, 9 March 2014

Learn Indonesian

  • Learning Indonesian - iTunes Free Feed
    • A complete online Indonesian course geared towards developing conversational fluency in the Indonesian Language.



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Learn Hungarian

  • Foreign Service Institute Hungarian - Web site
    • Two textbooks (PDF) and 24 audio lessons (MP3). Also includes a graded reader.


  • Let’s Learn Hungarian iTunes Free Feed Web Site
    • Learn with Steve or Gyorgyi, a native speaker.



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Learn German

  • Deutsch – warum nicht?

  • Mission Berlin - iTunes - Web
    •  Learn German through a mystery adventure. Created by Deutsche Welle.


  • Basic German - Web
    •  A web-application developed by the University of Cambridge Language Centre for basic level students of German. It focuses on listening and reading skill but it also includes many activities that help learners prepare for speaking and writing.


  • Radio D - Series 1 iTunes – Series 2 iTunes – Series 1 RSS - Series 2 RSS
    • 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.


  • Slowly Spoken News - iTunes - Feed
    • Deutsche Welle provides a nightly news broadcast in German that’s spoken slowly so that you can work on your comprehension.


  • Talk German - Web Site
    • A lively introduction to German by the BBC. Presented in ten short parts.


  • Deutsch – Lernen - Text
    • 10 German lessons for total beginners and 24 German grammar lessons. No audio; text only.


  • Deutsch Interaktiv – Web
    • 30-part self-study course in German. Features authentic videos, slideshows and audio texts that convey a vibrant picture of life in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Created by Deutsche Welle.


  • Foreign Service Institute German Programmed Introduction –Web site
    • The text (PDF) and tapes (MP3) present, in a programmed learning style, the structural features and 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 Basic Course - Web site
    • Two textbooks (PDF) and 24 audio lessons (MP3).


  • Foreign Service Institute German Fast - Web site
    • Textbook (PDF) and ten audio lessons (MP3).


  • Foreign Service Institute German Headstart - Web site
    • Textbook (PDF) and fourteen audio lessons (MP3).


  • GermanPod 101 iTunes Free 
     
    • Offers materials for beginners, intermediate and advanced.


  • German Podcast.de iTunes Free – Web Site

  • GerGermanGrammar iTunes Free - Feed – Web Site
    • German grammar lessons aimed at American students.


  • Lernen Wir Deutsch iTunes Free - Feed – Web Site
    • Presented in video, these “vodcasts” get high marks for being not only educational but also very entertaining.


  • MyDailyPhrase.com iTunes Free – Feed
    • Learn German phrase by phrase over a course of 20 weeks. Lessons cover all the language you need to know to get by on a visit to a German-speaking country. This series is put together by the same people created the popular series “Coffee Break Spanish.”


  • One Minute German iTunes Free - Feed
    • Presented by the Radio Lingua Network


  • Slow German iTunes Free - Feed - Web Site
    • Annik Rubens reads slowly and clearly from parts of her popular program, Sleepless in Munich (Schlaflos in Munchen).



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Learn Gaelic

  • One Minute Gaelic – iTunes Free – Feed
    • Get a quick grounding in the basics…



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Learn French

  • French in Action - Free Web Site
    • Produced by Yale University, these video lessons uses the storyline of an American student and a young Frenchwoman’s adventures in Paris to teach the language.


  • French 1 & French 2 from Carnegie Mellon – Web Site
    • The French courses are introductory, interactive video-based courses intended for use by university students and independent learners on the Internet.


  • Ma France - Web Site
    • The BBC offers 24 video lessons that will teach you French.


  • Easy French Poetry - iTunes Free
    • A French as a second language program, using poetry as a topic for discussion using everyday conversational French.


  • Foreign Service Institute Basic Course: Volume 1 - Web Site
    • The cours 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. Includes lessons for metropolitan and sub-Saharan French.


  • Foreign Service Institute French: Headstart for Belgium – Web site
    • Textbook and culture notes (PDF) and sixteen audio lessons (PDF).


  • French for Beginners iTunes Free Feed
    • Fun, effective lessons for beginners. Provided by the French Ecole.


  • FrenchPod.com - iTunes Free - Feed
    • A series of well-reviewed lessons that will let you learn French on your own terms. Lessons are accompanied by text expansion exercises and other tutoring aids.


  • Le Journal en français facile - iTunes Free - Feed- Web Site
    • Nightly news from RFI presented in slowly spoken French to assist you with your comprehension.


  • Learn French - iTunes Free - Feed - Web Site
    • A well-reviewed series of lessons for beginners and those who want to brush up on their French.


  • Learn French with Coffee Break French - iTunes Free - Feed - Web Site
    • The producers of the very popular Coffee Break Spanish now offer a program that will teach you French.


  • Learn French with Daily Lessons - iTunes Free - Feed
    • These lessons are brought to you by French teachers from Paris. They are best suited for those who already have some beginning French under their belts.


  • Mali French - iTunes - Web Site
    • The Peace Corps teaches you some of the French spoken in Mali.


  • Native French Speech Podcast - iTunes - Web Site
    • Listen to interesting conversations between Native French speakers and learn about everyday life in France and cultural French topics


  • 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.


  • Talk French - Web Site
    • A lively introduction to French presented by the BBC.


  • The French Pod Class - iTunes Free
    • A very popular collection that teaches students the French language and different facets of French culture.


  • University of Texas: Francais interactif - iTunes Free – Web Site
    • UT provides a series of interactive vocabulary lessons. Media can be downloaded from the site.



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Learn Finnish

  • Foreign Service Institute Conversational Finnish – Web site
    • Transcripts of the Finnish dialogues with idiomatic English translations plus notes on structural pattern and explanations of essential points of grammar. A variety of exercises with instructions in English.


  • Special Finnish Web Site
    • For listeners with some command of Finnish YLE Radio Finland offers daily broadcasts in “Special Finnish”. The five minute broadcasts cover items of current interest. To ease understanding, we simplify the language and slow down the delivery. Some grammatical forms are not used at all. The level of Finnish used is planned to match the expected ability to understand Finnish shown by persons in Level Two Language Command (ofFinnish) as defined by the Council of Europe.”



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