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Free Online Language Courses
Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos. You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.
American Sign Language
Arabic
Armenian
Bengali
- Learn Bangla (Register to see course)
Catalan
Chinese (Mandarin)
Beginner
- Chinese for Beginners
- Chinese Characters for Beginners
- Chinese for HSK 1
- Chinese for HSK 2
- Chinese for HSK 3 I & II
- Chinese for HSK 4
- Chinese for HSK 5
- Mandarin Chinese Level I
- Mandarin Chinese Essentials
- Mandarin Chinese for Business
- More Chinese for Beginners
- Start Talking Mandarin Chinese
- UT Gateway to Chinese
Intermediate
Dutch
English
Faroese
Finnish
French
Beginner
- AP French Language and Culture
- Elementary French I & II
- Français Interactif
- Vivre en France - A1
- Vivre en France- A2
Intermediate & Advanced
German
Beginner
Gwich’in
Hebrew
Hindi
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Beginner
Intermediate & Advanced
Japanese
Korean
Beginner
- First Step Korean
- How to Study Korean
- Introduction to Korean
- Learn to Speak Korean
- Pathway to Spoken Korean
Intermediate
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Beginner
Intermediate
Spanish
Beginner
- AP Spanish Language & Culture
- Basic Spanish I, Spanish II
- Spanish for beginners
- Spanish for Beginners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Spanish Vocabulary
Advanced
Swahili
Turkish
Ukrainian
Welsh
Yoruba
Multiple Languages
Last updated: May 2019
This is a post about masterposts about resources and books for studying many languages. I made this since many people do not know about all the resources that have been posted.
Resources for Many Languages: thelanguagecommunity
General
- Language Pile
- Free Online Language Courses
- Huge Language-Learning Collection
- Language and Linguistics Resources
Language Families/Groups
- Resources for West African Languages
- South Asian Languages Resources
- Classics Resource Masterpost
- Online Latin & Greek Resources
- Celtic Languages Resource List
- Celtic Family Language Resources
- Germanic Languages Resource List
- Dutch, Afrikaans, West Frisian, Limburgish
- Scandinavian Language Masterpost
- North Germanic Language Resources
- Resources for Finno-Ugric languages
- Finnish, Estonian, Saami, Voro
- Alien Languages of Star Trek
Afrikaans
Ainu
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
- Arabic Learning Resources
- Arabic Language Masterpost
- Arabic Language Apps
- Moroccan Masterpost
- Free Arabic Resources
Armenian
ASL
Azerbaijani
Belarusian
Basque
Bengali
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cantonese
Mandarin Chinese
- Mandarin Chinese Resource Masterpost
- Chinese Learning Resources I
- Chinese Language Resources II
- Chinese Pinyin Masterpost
- Intermediate Chinese Resources
- Ultimate Mandarin Resource List
Cornish
Crimean Tatar
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Faroese
Finnish
- Masterlist of Finnish Resources
- Finnish Language Resources
- Finnish Resources: Beginner
- Finnish Learning Resources
- Finnish Language Resources
French
Galician
Georgian
German
Gothic
Greek
Greenlandic
Guarani
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
- How to Learn Italian
- Italian Resources
- Italian Masterpost
- Italian Resource Masterlist
- Italian Culture Masterpost
Irish
Japanese
- Free Japanese Resources
- Japanese Resources
- Studying Japanese
- Japanese Resource Masterpost
- Japanese Language Learning Resources
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Kikongo
Korean
- Korean Textbook Masterpost
- Korean Resources
- Korean Resource Masterpost
- Korean Language Masterpost
- Ultimate Korean Masterpost
Kyrgyz
Latin
Lithuanian
Malay
Maltese
Mongolian
Nahuatl
Nepali
Norwegian
Occitan
Old Church Slavonic
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
- Romanian Resources
- Romanian Learning Resources
- Useful Romanian Resources
- Romanian Masterpost
- Romanian Resources
Russian
Northern Sami
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovene
Somali
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Tatar
Thai
Tibetan
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
**Last Updated: June 2019**
this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for French. It will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!
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Language Learning Ideas Printable
Here is a printable I made that I hope can help you out on your language learning journey. It has different activities based on how much time you have, as well as a checklist for frequent activities. By using it, you can see what works for you and what doesn’t.
I tried to include as many things that many people can use, but some activities can’t be used by all language learners, unfortunately. The links to the website are clickable in the PDF file. I tested this myself and have even included a blank version if you prefer to write your own activities. Again, these are just some ideas for you to incorporate and I hope that they are useful.
Download Links: Dropbox
Bread-related expressions
- Avoir du pain sur la planche: having lots to do
- Bon comme le bon pain: a generous, harmless person
- Ça ne mange pas de pain: it’s harmless
- Ça se vend comme des petits pains: it sells really well
- Une bouchée de pain: very little money (cost)
- Être au pain et à l’eau: living on bread and water/being punished
- Faire passer le goût du pain: killing someone
- Un gagne-pain: livelihood
- Gagner son pain: making a living
- Long comme un jour sans pain: very long and boring
- Manger le pain du roi: going to jail
- Ne pas manger de ce pain-là: refusing to doing stg shady
- Ôter le pain de la bouche: taking someone’s livelihood away
- Le pain quotidien, m: something daily, part of a routine
- Du pain bénit, m: a godsend
- Un pain dans la gueule: a punch in the mug
Five facts you didn’t know
- When taking pictures, we don’t say Cheeeese, we say Ouistitiiii (marmoset)
- The tooth fairy is a little mouse (la petite souris)
- When someone sneezes, we say À tes/vous souhaits (May your wishes become true)
- The names Louis, Luis, Lewis (…) come from Clovis, first king of the Franks
- A boo boo kiss is un bisou magique
French fairy tales
- Princess Rosette, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy : FR / EN
- The fair with golden hair, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy : FR / EN
- The friendly frog, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy : FR / EN
- Aurore and Aimée, Jeanne de Beaumont : FR / EN
- Beauty and the beast, Jeanne de Beaumont : FR / EN
- Bluebeard, Charles Perrault : FR / EN
- Cinderella, Charles Perrault : FR / EN
- Donkey skin, Charles Perrault : FR / EN
- Little red riding hood, Charles Perrault : FR / EN
- Little thumb, Charles Perrault : FR / EN
- Puss in boots, Charles Perrault : FR / EN
- Sleeping beauty, Charles Perrault : FR / EN
- The fairy, Charles Perrault : FR / EN
- Blondine, Sophie Ségur : FR / EN
- Ourson, Sophie Ségur : FR / EN
- Sophie’s misfortunes, Sophie Ségur : FR / EN
- The little grey mouse, Sophie Ségur : FR / EN
(You can download those stories legally as they are now part of the public domain.)
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