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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

ASL University

Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change

Arabic

Arabic Without Walls

Madinah Arabic

Moroccan Arabic

Armenian

Depi Hayk

Bengali

Learn Bangla (Register to see course)

Catalan

Parla.Cat

Speak Cat

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

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Mandarin for Intermediate Learners I

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

English

Online Courses here

Resources Here

Faroese

Faroese Course

Finnish

A Taste of Finnish

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Elementary French I & II

Français Interactif

Vivre en France - A1

Vivre en France- A2

Intermediate & Advanced

French Intermediate course B1-B2

Passe-Partout

Travailler en France A2-B1                    

Vivre en France - B1  

German

Beginner

Deutsch im Blick

German Project

German at Work

Goethe Institute

Gwich’in

Introduction to Gwich’in Language

Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew

UT Austin

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Virtual Hindi

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Irish

Irish 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107

Italian

Beginner

Beginner’s Italian I

Introduction to Italian

Intermediate & Advanced

AP Italian Language and Culture

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced Italian I

Japanese

Genki

Japanese JOSHU

Japanese Pronunciation

Marugoto Courses

Tufs JpLang

Korean

Beginner

First Step Korean

How to Study Korean

Introduction to Korean

Learn to Speak Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Norwegian

Introduction to Norwegian I, Norwegian II

Norwegian on the Web

Persian

Easy Persian

PersianDee

Polish

Online Course

Portuguese

Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro

Russian

Beginner

A1 Course

I speak Russian

Intermediate

B1 Course

B1+ Course

B2.1 Course

B2.2 Course

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

Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones 

Leer a Macondo

Swahili

Online Course

Turkish

Online Course

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Speak Ukrainian

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Discovering Wales

Yoruba

Yorùbá Yé Mi

Multiple Languages

Ancient Languages

More Language Learning Resources & Websites!

Last updated: May 2019

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ig: herdrafts Learning grammar is the most annoying part for me, but also necessary to avoid common grammar mistakes in the writing. I found Chinese grammar easier? than Japanese, but the pronunciation it is not, actually both have strong and weak points but it all depends on your study method.

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my november in photos / always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. – e.e. cummings

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ig: herdrafts Since I’ve got a pen pal and I need to save paper, I transfer my Chinese and Japanese notes on these two notebooks. The pattern is still the same: dialogues, vocabulary and grammar. This morning I had a very sweet breakfast, I watched a subbed anime and I reviewed some past lessons I had forgotten I had forgotten.

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ig: herdrafts Learning grammar is the most annoying part for me, but also necessary to avoid common grammar mistakes in the writing. I found Chinese grammar easier? than Japanese, but the pronunciation it is not, actually both have strong and weak points but it all depends on your study method.

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How to learn a language when you don’t know where to start:

General Plan:

Weeks 1 and 2: Purpose:

Learn the fundamentals sentence construction

Learn how to spell and count

Start building a phrase stockpile with basic greetings

The Alphabet

Numbers 1 - 100

Subject Pronouns

Common Greetings

Conjugate the Two Most Important Verbs: to be and to have

Basic Definite and Indefinite Articles

Weeks 3 and 4: Purpose:

Learn essential vocabulary for the day-to-day

Start conjugating regular verbs

Days of the Week and Months of the Year

How to tell the time

How to talk about the weather

Family Vocabulary

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 5 and 6: Purpose:

Warm up with the last of the day-to-day vocabulary

Add more complex types of sentences to your grammar

Colours

House vocabulary

How to ask questions

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Forming negatives

Weeks 7 and 8: Purpose:

Learn how to navigate basic situations in a region of your target language country

Finish memorising regular conjugation rules

Food Vocabulary and Ordering at Restaurants

Money and Shopping Phrases

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 9 and 10: Purpose:

Start constructing descriptive and more complex sentences

Adjectives

Reflective verbs

Places vocabulary

Weeks 11 and 12: Purpose:

Add more complex descriptions to your sentences with adverbs

Wrap up vocabulary essentials

Adverbs

Parts of the body and medical vocabulary

Tips for Learning a Foreign Language:

Learning Vocabulary:

What vocabulary should I be learning?

There are hundreds of thousands of words in every language, and the large majority of them won’t be immediately relevant to you when you’re starting out.Typically, the most frequent 3000 words make up 90% of the language that a native speaker uses on any given day. Instead try to learn the most useful words in a language, and then expand outwards from there according to your needs and interests.

Choose the words you want/need to learn.

Relate them to what you already know.

Review them until they’ve reached your long-term memory.

Record them so learning is never lost.

Use them in meaningful human conversation and communication.

How should I record the vocabulary?

Learners need to see and/or hear a new word of phrase 6 to 17 times before they really know a piece of vocabulary.

Keep a careful record of new vocabulary.

Record the vocabulary in a way that is helpful to you and will ensure that you will practice the vocabulary, e.g. flashcards.

Vocabulary should be organised so that words are easier to find, e.g. alphabetically or according to topic.

Ideally when noting vocabulary you should write down not only the meaning, but the grammatical class, and example in a sentence, and where needed information about structure.

How should I practice using the vocabulary?

Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check - Use this method for learning and remembering vocabulary. This method is really good for learning spellings.

Make flashcards. Write the vocabulary on the front with the definition and examples on the back.

Draw mind maps or make visual representations of the new vocabulary groups.

Stick labels or post it notes on corresponding objects, e.g when learning kitchen vocabulary you could label items in your house.

How often should I be practising vocabulary?

A valuable technique is ‘the principle of expanding rehearsal’. This means reviewing vocabulary shortly after first learning them then at increasingly longer intervals.

Ideally, words should be reviewed:

5-10 minutes later

24 hours later

One week later

1-2 months later

6 months later

Knowing a vocabulary item well enough to use it productively means knowing:

Its written and spoken forms (spelling and pronunciation).

Its grammatical category and other grammatical information

Related words and word families, e.g. adjective, adverb, verb, noun.

Common collocations (Words that often come before or after it).

Receptive Skills: Listening and Reading

Reading is probably one of the most effective ways of building vocabulary knowledge.

Listening is also important because it occupies a big chunk of the time we spend communicating.

Tips for reading in a foreign language:

Start basic and small.  Children’s books are great practice for beginners. Don’t try to dive into a novel or newspaper too early, since it can be discouraging and time consuming if you have to look up every other word.

Read things you’ve already read in your native language. The fact that you at least know the gist of the story will help you to pick up context clues, learn new vocabulary and grammatical constructions.

Read books with their accompanying audio books. Reading a book while listening to the accompanying audio will improve your “ear training”. It will also help you to learn the pronunciation of words.

Tips for listening in a foreign language:

Watch films in your target language.

Read a book while also listening along to the audio book version.

Listen to the radio in your target language.

Watch videos online in your target language.

Activities to do to show that you’ve understood what you’ve been listening to:

Try drawing a picture of what was said.

Ask yourself some questions about it and try to answer them.

Provide a summary of what was said.

Suggest what might come next in the “story.”

Translate what was said into another language.

“Talk back” to the speaker to engage in imaginary conversation.

Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing

Tips for speaking in a foreign language:

If you can, try to speak the language every day either out loud to yourself or chat to another native speaker whether it is a colleague, a friend, a tutor or a language exchange partner. 

Write a list of topics and think about what you could say about each one. First you could write out your thoughts and then read them out loud. Look up the words you don’t know. You could also come up with questions at the end to ask someone else.

A really good way to improve your own speaking is to listen to how native speakers talk and imitate their accent, their rhythm of speech and tone of voice. Watch how their lips move and pay attention to the stressed sounds. You could watch interviews on YouTube or online news websites and pause every so often to copy what you have just heard. You could even sing along to songs sung in the target language.

Walk around the house and describe what you say. Say what you like or dislike about the room or the furniture or the decor. Talk about what you want to change.This gets you to practise every day vocabulary.

Tips for writing in a foreign language:

Practice writing in your target language. Keep it simple to start with. Beginner vocabulary and grammar concepts are generally very descriptive and concrete.

Practice writing by hand. Here are some things you can write out by hand:

Diary entries

Shopping lists

Reminders

What could I write about?

Write about your day, an interesting event, how you’re feeling, or what you’re thinking.

Make up a conversation between two people. 

Write a letter to a friend, yourself, or a celebrity. You don’t need to send it; just writing it will be helpful.

Translate a text you’ve written in your native language into your foreign language.

Write a review or a book you’ve recently read or a film you’ve recently watched.

Write Facebook statuses, Tweets or Tumblr posts (whether you post them or not will be up to you).

Write a short story or poem.

Writing is one of the hardest things to do well as a non-native speaker of a language, because there’s no room to hide. 

There are lots of ways to improve your writing ability, but they can be essentially boiled down to three key components:

Read a lot

Write a lot

Get your writing corrected

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[19/06/20]

On Monday I received my HP pen and I've been really productive with it! Since I've been really sick this week it's been a lot easier to study while in bed (which normally would be a big studyblr no-no lol)

I hope you all have been having a lovely week 💕

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1/100 days of productivity

こんにちは！マーリーと申します。

hello! im marley. im a college freshman majoring in computer science. i love history (it might be my second major), literature not so much, and i love to learn. also にほんごおべんきょうしています (im studying japanese). i’ll be using this acc to track my studies through college; feel free to follow me!

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1/100 days of productivity

こんにちは！マーリーと申します。

hello! im marley. im a college freshman majoring in computer science. i love history (it might be my second major), literature not so much, and i love to learn. also にほんごおべんきょうしています (im studying japanese). i’ll be using this acc to track my studies through college; feel free to follow me!

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ig: herdrafts Learning grammar is the most annoying part for me, but also necessary to avoid common grammar mistakes in the writing. I found Chinese grammar easier? than Japanese, but the pronunciation it is not, actually both have strong and weak points but it all depends on your study method.

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ig: herdrafts I usually study languages in the mornings at the weekend, I have more time to focus on learning and I also have more alone-time which I often do crave. My routine is almost the same; after making coffee and had breakfast I open my textbook and I start writing down the new lesson. This time I decided that I had to study Japanese, also I wanted to watch some subtitled anime episodes for listening practice. Don’t you think that Japanese sounds really cute?

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Quarantine mood: quickly becoming a dalgona coffee enthusiast.

I miss my boyfriend and our dissertation afternoons in the cafeteria too much.

But the good side is that we now have dissertation appointments via webcam every afternoon. I'm making the dalgona to try to feel in my comfort zone.

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A messy Japanese study sesh. Working through Genki I Lesson 12.

Ps.. I forgot which lake that is but it’s in the South Island of New Zealand somewhere.

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2020.03.07 @ 神保町

“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.”

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Reblog if you’re an active studyblr/langblr

My dash has been very dead recently

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I just want to mind my business and speak 6 languages

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- I decided to say screw it all and slap down my current resources bc it’s getting out of hand (✿ᵒᵕᵒ) - bolded are my faves - my tagalog resources

頑張りましょう！

♡ DICTIONARIES ♡

語源由来辞典 etymology

故事ことわざ辞典 proverbs

日本語俗語辞書 colloquial language

Imiimiimi : slang

Jisho

JLect : search by dialect

Kanjikai

kotoba.ne.jp

日本語 eな

Tangorin

Weblio - シソーラス

♡ KANJI ♡

クルミの日本語

1,900 readings (on+kun)

All Kanji by grade

Kanji Koohii

Kanji level checker

Kun vs On

Learn Kanji fast

Moji.Tekkai: kanji in different styles

Radicals

Repeater (no readings!)

Radical cheat sheet

Riraikun

Suiren: words by kanji

Tobira: exercise sheets

Yojijukugo: 4-kanji compounds

♡ GRAMMAR ♡

日本語ください

Bc of Dreams: full list

Bite-sized grammar

By JLPT level (full list)

Find sentence examples

Maggie-sensei

Mistakes and differences

Particles

The ~small~ letters

300+ pages of grammar

♡ JLPT ♡

Grammar plan

Study plan

Level requirements

Level summaries

MLC: Short questions by grammar

Mock tests (ジェイグラム) (jtest)

N2 study (books)

♡ LEARNING ♡

みなと

ぷにぷに

Clozemaster (+ writing challenges)

Duo

General situations

Memrise

OnomatoProject

Quizlet

U-biq

Verb conjugator quiz

Vocabulary size quiz

YT: 国語－文法 (middle school grammar)

YT: N2 grammar

♡  READING/ LISTENING / WATCHING ♡

Apps for a language partner

Bookmeter (Japanese Goodreads)

Media by Level

朝学

Aozora Bunko (Jp. Project Gutenberg)

Bum Detective / おしりたんてい

天文学辞典

Alice in Wonderland

Buzzfeed

Calvin & Hobbes

Fairy tales + short stories

Japanese children’s stories

子供朝日 - children’s newspaper

KC読む読む - preschool books

Japanese.io

News Web Easy

日本語学習読本

Reading

小説を読もう - light novels

Stories - Tokyo Intl. University

Tadoku graded readers

Tatoeba Corpus

Unesco: About Japan in Japanese

ひろがる

福娘 - short fairy tales

Hearing numbers practice

Japanese documentaries

Listening - daily life

Lyrics training

Mykikitori

SuperNative

Top JPop tracks

Daiweeb

Isle of Dogs

モンポケ

YT: はじめしゃちょー

YT: fairy tales

YT: PDRさん

♡ REFERENCES ♡

世界の国・漢字略称

時雨の町 (grammar examples)

CEFR level test

TTBJ proficiency test

What’s your level? (self determine)

Adjective list

Cotoacademy

Date converter

General Japanese refs　

Humble and Honorific

How to write on essay paper

Improve speaking skills

Keigo cheatsheet

Language level challenges

Math terms

Naverまとめ - slang articles

Onomatopedia

Verb conjugator

World map

♡ VOCABULARY ♡

“All”

Counters

Fake your fluency

Harry Potter

Hobbies

Water cycle (英語で）

♡Don’t give up!♡