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Proven Course Teaches Swedish Quickly with Audio and Video

Beginner and advanced levels alike will enjoy SwedishPod101, an excellent online and mobile way to learn Swedish quickly.

SwedishPod101's fun method and modern platform immerse you in the Swedish language, giving you just what you need to achieve your goals for travel, business, family and other needs.

SwedishPod101 is web and mobile based, giving you a custom Swedish Learning Center anywhere. Download podcasts on your iPhone, Android, iPod Touch, iPod or any mp3 player and take them with you for practice and learning on the go.

High-Quality Content for Learning Swedish

A key aspect to learning a language is quality content. SwedishPod101 creates a steady flow of fresh content covering everything from cultural aspects of Swedish to tidbits about navigating in Sweden, plus practical information to help you get by.

Beyond Audio and Video

Engage in a combination of audio and video lessons, lesson notes and checklists, transcripts, PDFs, vocabulary training with flashcards and quizzes plus a Swedish dictionary, grammar bank, a verb reference, social network and plenty more.

It's simple to get a free lifetime account.

Summary

A recent addition to it's online and mobile language learning suite, Babbel, winner of the 2011 European Award for Technology Supported Learning, has just released a new and very useful set of online foreign language courses called "Urban Explorations", available in:

• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• German
• Brazilian Portuguese
• English
• Swedish

Babbel's "Urban Explorations" are specifically designed courses to help the casual traveler quickly and effectively prepare for a visit abroad.

Summary

Babbel is reportedly the most popular online language-learning platform in Europe for Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Indonesian and Dutch.

This is no surprise to us here at Free Language – we see that the website has a user-friendliness and effectiveness that could appeal to anyone who wants to start or dig deeper into a language. Though the language courses at Babbel are based on tried-and-true print materials and are written and designed by language education experts, they in fact take full advantage of advanced technology and use the internet and mobile devices to teach in a way that accelerates your progress.

For example, Babbel has developed a state-of-the-art pronunciation trainer with speech recognition that encourages you to talk out loud (taking away any need to feel shy around other speakers!). It incorporates an algorithm that analyzes how close your pronunciation is to that of a native speaker, and you can keep repeating it until you’ve made yourself understandable. This feature, unique in the online language-learning world, is available online on the Babbel website and on Babbel’s new and improved free app for iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, also available via the website.

Another feature that distinguishes Babbel from other online language software is the Review Manager. It keeps track of your individual progress and detects where your difficulties lie. So, according to what kind of errors you’ve made (or successes you’ve had) in the past, it will prompt you to review certain items at optimized intervals so you’ll commit vocabulary to long-term memory. The Review Manager keeps track of your personal vocabulary – that is, everything you’ve studied so far – and makes it accessible online at Babbel.com and also on-the-go synchronized with the app.

There is no best language learning software. Linguistic needs and motivations vary widely. A wide variety of high-quality resources, tools and exposure empowers language learners to be successful in their goals.

Exposure alone to these tools is not the whole picture. There's a motivation, some kind of reason, behind the effort required to truly achieve. This is where you'll find the reason to keep it up, stay learning and move toward personal language goals.

Much also depends on what language you are learning and how you learn best.

These are part of the factors that make up your personal language profile. If you learn about yourself a little, you can know exactly which resources will be most helpful in your individual case.