Learn a language online for free deals discussion

jadeh31

i use busuu.com - great for chatting to other people and gives u a lot of words for free

Sjones77

A great free language exchange community easylanguageexchange.com

where you can meet natives and practice your speaking using chat, audio and video calling.
Very highly recommended.

vivatifosi

detailista wrote: »

Our local libraries service (Newcastle upon Tyne) has paid for library users to be able to access the full version of BYKI. Maybe other Local Authorities have done the same?

Hertfordshire libraries have recently introduced Transparent Language Online (BYKI). Thought it might be useful to post that for any locals. It has access to courses in a lot of different languages.

Sjones77

These are great suggestions - Thank you!
I would like to recommend one that is working for me and is an effective way to learn a language:

easylanguageexchange.com

I have found that this language community is very active and the online learning tools makes it easier to communicate

terrimolo

i've been using memrise.com to learn some arabic words. it's designed by other users, is free, and is good if you learn well through images/photographic type memory. download a few courses in the language you want and see which words are the most useful for what you use.

i can vouch for earworms as well, i see them on groupon quite often. worth a go i think.

budgetflyer

I found youtube quite handy especially when we were trying to communicate with our Mexican nanny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fda4_wo6JI

delpino

http://www.antosch-and-lin.com/ is very good. 12 languages on offer.

Mistral001

I have found that I need to use several sources and courses before I make much progress in learning a foreign language.

If you are able to practice speaking the language every day to a fluent speaker, the Michelle Thomas courses are probably the best - it uses a very unique technique completely different to anything you used at school. Also Pimsleur is fairly good. I borrowed those from my local library. I think they are expensive to buy.

The online sites I have tried:
Busuu
Duolingo
German Flashcards
Memrise


Most of above have free introductory courses/services and then you pay for upgrading to the full course/service. If you do take out a subscription to a service make sure that you cancel immediately you do not want to continue as most sites set up automatic direct debits.

Any more good sources?

Dizzy_Heights

Free online computer skills learning - does anyone have experience of homeandlearn?