Highlighting Links by Subject for Schooling- Foreign Language

Each week there will be a post {or two or three} highlighting some links that have been collected and compiled on the Links by Subject for Schooling page on my blog. At this point, I plan to go alphabetically through the subjects because that’s how I am but the websites most likely won’t be alphabetized…sorry for any confusion!

Foreign Language

Byki- Learn a language from A to Z This program is available for free {the Express edition} or for purchase {the Deluxe edition}. On the site you can access lists that have been made by other learners/contributors to help learn a new language. The Express edition allows you to read, hear, write and track your progress. The Deluxe edition has more support and also more resources than the Express edition.

Livemocha- Free language learning lessons and resources for a limited number of languages {38 languages at my count}. We’ve used this in our homeschool and found it to be quite good. Read, listen, match and say words and sentences to learn. A “Gold Key” can be purchased by the month or for a year which allows for extra resources for any of the languages that Livemocha offers {much more than 38}.

World Champ- Free site with resources for learning over 100 foreign languages. It has flashcards, Absolute Recall™, web reader {so you can read other foreign sites without a dictionary}, classes and soon will have self-paced lessons. For the classes, I’m not sure if these are strictly through access from an outside source {such as taking a class at a school and the instructor giving the students a code to access the class online}. Also, the site does offer Premium membership which grants access to more resources.

Free Online Language Courses- From word2word.com, this site offers links to free courses for learning many different languages. Quite a few different links that take learners to other sites for learning. Also many languages have more than one link {Russian has 14 links!; Spanish- I lost count} if you are not happy with one site. I can’t vouch for all the links because I’ve only used a few.

WorldLanguage.com- This is a website where you can purchase resources and materials for learning a foreign language. By putting it in this post, I’m not suggesting it is better than other sites. You may find these items at different sites for a better value but you may find something here that you’d not known of previously. Good starting point when looking for products to purchase, perhaps.

Those are some of the links for Foreign Language that have been collected. Stay tuned for more link ‘highlights’ every so often.