Languages

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Courses that prepare you for realistic conversations and everyday communication in over 70 languages.
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Language courses used by professional diplomats. The most thorough language courses in the world.

"Produced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. "

Provides online reference tools including dictionaries, thesauruses, translation, grammar check, conjugation of verbs, etc. in multiple languages.

A series of YouTube video lessons from Dalarna University in Sweden.

ASL for the People, is a tool which focuses on teaching conversational ASL. It includes over 1,000 signs and phrases for adults as well as ASL with Care Bears for kids to learn ASL.

Provides a variety of resources on topics of interest to adult ESL practitioners, including bibliographies, books, briefs, online resource collections, digests and Q & As, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

CAL's resource center offers a comprehensive range of research-based language and cultural education resources and assessment products.

These resources will help you understand how the CCSS affect preK–12 ESL teachers and their students.

French Canadian site provides resources for language learners and teachers. Includes videos, quizzes, interactive modules, audio-visual presentations, and a wide selection of TV5 Québec Canada programs covering a variety of social and cultural topics.

Cult classic French lessons (52 television episodes) developed by Yale University professor Pierre Capretz in the 1980s, available online from Annenberg Learner.

This site from Deutsche Welle includes placement tests so users can start at appropriate levels.

Use the Deutschtrainer to effectively learn basic vocabulary needed for everyday life and to improve your pronunciation. The 100 lessons are bilingual (English-German) and address various situations – from greeting people and going to the doctor, to shopping and finding accommodations.

A course from the Japanese national broadcaster, NHK. This audio and text-based course of 48 lessons is designed for beginners.

This is a course for learning Japanese language skills comprehensively. It’s operated by the Japan Foundation.

This channel has over 1,500 videos (entirely in Spanish) to teach you Spanish from beginner through advanced. Videos include teachers from various regions that will help you learn different accents.

Offers an open free Spanish course provided by MIT and Harvard. If you’re looking to study abroad in a Spanish-speaking country, they have a unique travel course.