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Learning even a few words of
another language will make your travel experience more enjoyable. That is
why we include information on how to learn a language as part of our
comprehensive travel information. There are a variety of
resources available on the web to help people learn to speak another language. All
the way from free online lessons to sites that have extensive lists and links to free and
commercial products, services and organizations related to the language.
The links below are a mix of websites that have information for you to learn
both popular foreign languages, as well as, those that are lesser known.
The page you are on now lists either free-language resources or are language directory websites where they have links to other websites that have free or commercial language products. If you are looking for commercial language products, go to our Language Stores page. It lists online commercial language companies. Besides this page, here are the other pages on our website with language information. |
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About.com - Foreign Languages |
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of foreign language information. They have links to on-line lessons in French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese
and English as a Second Language (ESL). They also have comprehensive
links to chat rooms and other language resources. |
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| AlphaDictionary | |||||||
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This is more than a source of translation
dictionaries. It has a good list of all kinds of resources for many of the
world's languages. |
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| Arthur Lynn's World Languages | |||||||
| This website has
an extensive selection of commercial products to learn to speak over 200
languages presented in a simple, single page list of the languages in
alphabetical order. Clicking on the language name will take you to a page
that displays all the products available for that language which you can
order directly from them. |
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| Call4ALL - World Language Clearinghouse | |||||||
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| Classbrain.com - Foreign languages | |||||||
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wonderful website for kids and teens through high school with with links
to language resources to learn different languages in the world including
some of the lesser known languages. |
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| Digital Dialects | Top | ||||||
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beautiful website that covers about 50 languages. They have lists of words
in different categories (numbers, vocabulary builder, fruits and vegetables,
etc.) with the word shown in English and the other language. You can then
practice what you have learned by playing simple interactive games. Requires
the free Macromedia Flash Player. |
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| Free Language | |||||||
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offer free lessons,
podcasts, courses, audio, video, study guides, and other learning material
for around 20 of the major languages spoken in the world. |
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| FreeLang.net | |||||||
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They offer links to free online language
dictionaries, as well as, free software you can download and then download
as many languages as you like. They also have other language
resources. |
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| iLoveLanguages | |||||||
| This site contains over 1,800 links
to languages of the world. It has extensive categories you can chose from and is the most
comprehensive collection of links to language information there is on the web. |
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| Jennifer's Language Page | |||||||
| This is a wonderful site where
you can quickly find some basic phrases in hundreds of languages with a
transliteration of each one (e.g., Good morning in Swahili - Kiswahili -
is shown as "Habari za asubuhi". ) She also has excellent links to other language resources on the web.
Ms. Runner is a high school teacher. She keeps her site up to date
and is always adding new languages. Thank you Jennifer for helping out the
planet by making it more friendly. |
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| Language Links | Top | ||||||
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wonderful website with links to language resources to learn different
languages in the world including some of the lesser known languages. |
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| Languages On The Web | |||||||
| This is one of the best site
we have found for quality links to a large number of languages. |
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| Lexicool | |||||||
| They are
primarily a comprehensive directory of over 5,000 online bilingual and
multilingual dictionaries and glossaries that are available for free on the
Internet. |
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| Links 2 Go: Languages | |||||||
| Good links to language and
linguistic web sites including by categories. |
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| LingNet | |||||||
| LingNet is dedicated to
supporting the members of the Foreign Language Community in their language
learning efforts. LingNet is hosted at the
Defense
Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in Monterey,
California. |
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| Linguist List | |||||||
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This is a free resource. The site is
maintained by linguistics professors and graduate students, and supported
entirely by
donations. Although intended for linguists and language students,
they have links to various resources for languages. This is a good place to
come if you can't find anything on a lesser known language. You can even ask
for free help from a panel of linguists. |
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| Little Explorers (Languages for Children) | Top | ||||||
| This is language learning for
children with a picture dictionary in various languages. |
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| LCTL Project | |||||||
| The Less
Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project is one of a number of projects which operates
under the auspices of the University of Minnesota - Center for Advanced Research on
Language Acquisition (CARLA). Their project definition of less commonly taught languages
includes all of the world's languages except English, French, German, and Spanish. The
project's goals are to help advance the teaching and learning of LCTLs. LCTL - Using their CARLA data base to find where you can learn a language. |
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Fill in a short form indicating the language
you want to learn (you can click
Select from list
or type it in) and the state or province you live in (pull-down menu), in
the United States or Canada and (optionally) select a course type. Note:
Course Type. |
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| Multilingualbooks.com. | |||||||
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An excellent source of links to free and
commercial products for foreign languages. They also have language
resources that includes list of foreign radio, TV and Podcasts online
listings. |
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| MyLanguageExchange.com | |||||||
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This is one of the most popular language exchange websites.
You learn to speak another language with a native speaker of that language
who is also learning your language via email, text chat or voice chat. |
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| Native American Languages | |||||||
Here are some excellent resources for learning Native American languages. |
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| Open Language Archives Community | |||||||
| OLAC is an
international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a
worldwide virtual library of language resources by agreeing on the best way
to digitally archive language resources, and by developing a network of
interoperable repositories and services. |
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| Summer Institute of Linguistics | |||||||
| The Summer Institute of Linguistics
(SIL) is the place to go for people who have a passion for languages. Although
primarily designed for linguistic professionals, it has a section called Ethnologue - Languages of the World that not only lists
every language spoken in a country, but how many people speak it, where it is spoken and
other detailed information. Even Microsoft® Expedia links to them! |
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| Sussex Language Institute - Language Learning Websites. |
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| This is a section of the
University of Sussex Language Institute and has excellent links to websites
where you can learn languages of the world. |
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| The Rosetta Project | Top | ||||||
| The Rosetta Project has a
growing collection of descriptions, text, audio files and other materials
for 1,000 languages. They have good links to resources for these
languages. |
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| Tower of Babel-Language Center | |||||||
| They have a nice alphabetical
list of languages and links to resources. |
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| TravLang: Foreign Languages For Travelers |
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| This site contains text and sound
files for over 60 different languages including this language which you can learn on-line
for free. It also has links to other language sites. |
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| UCLA Language Materials Project |
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| This beautiful and comprehensive site has learning resources for less commonly taught languages of the world. They also have language profiles that include maps showing in which parts of a country a language is spoken. | |||||||
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| Word2Word | |||||||
| The Word2Word has taken over the extensive language
resource material that began life as a product of the Rivendell
site. |
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| Yamada WWW Language Guides |
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| A nice alphabetical list of
languages and WWW resources. They also cover Usenet
new groups in different languages. |
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| YourDictionary.com-Grammar and Language Courses | |||||||
| A nice alphabetical list of
online language lessons, grammar, newspaper, radio/TV and dictionary
resources. |
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