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How to Get Pimsleur Language Products for Cheap including Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and more

Look no further for Pimsleur language product deals!

Yesterday we published an article about how to get Rosetta Stone products cheaply using our handy custom language deal finder.

So many people appreciated our article that we decided to do the same for Pimsleur language products!

The links below will take you to a cool little tool we've put together to get you the absolute best deals available on all Pimsleur language products.

Use these links any time you want to find Pimsleur products cheaply for any of their available languages (listed below). The deals are always fresh and hot!

Find more deals on other language products in our discount language store. Best of luck in your language-learning endeavors!

Submitted by polyglot on Sun, 2009-06-14 23:07.

How To Get Rosetta Stone Cheap for Any Language including Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian and more

Look no further for Rosetta Stone deals!

The links below will take you to a cool little tool we've put together to get you the absolute best deals available on all Rosetta Stone products.

Use these links any time you want to find Rosetta Stone products cheap for any of their available languages. The content is always fresh and the deals are always hot!

Click the following link if you wish to see all available Rosetta Stone product deals for all languages at once.

Also find other language deals at our language shop!

Submitted by polyglot on Sun, 2009-06-14 00:18.

Byki iPhone App

Byki has a new iPhone and iPod Touch application in the works for language learners. This new app offers many features for language learners, incuding:

Download thousands of free Byki lists through List Central, including your own custom content created through Byki Deluxe. Make lists out of text book material or articles, add them to List Central, and import them to your iPhone!

See a cumulative history of your progress in the new Statistics section

Adjust volume within an activity with improved volume controls

Customize font size for Chinese and Japanese transliterations

Byki for iPhone is great because users can take their learning with them to study wherever time allows, be it in line at the bank or on the commuter train. A quick 5 minutes here and there really adds up when you're learning a new language.

The app is currently available in Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Find out more...

Submitted by polyglot on Fri, 2009-05-08 10:08.

Added Language FAQ Section for the Most Popular Language-Related Questions and Answers

Overview

We have just added a language faq section to Free Language! Here you can find many of your burning questions about languages in general and specific languages in particular.

This page is updated daily with fresh frequently asked questions, so be sure to visit back if your question has not yet been answered.

Visit FAQ Sections

Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese (Mandarin), English, Farsi (Persian), French, German, Hindi, Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Body Language. Or view all language FAQs.

Submitted by polyglot on Thu, 2009-03-12 13:42.

LingQ Central Announces New Features for Steve Kaufmann's Unique Online Language Learning Platform Based on Texts

LingQ has just announced a major upgrade to their unique online language-learning platform. Following is the announcement from LingQ Central.

New Features for LingQ Platform

Major New Release Coming Thursday, November 20

It's been a little over a year since we launched LingQ and we have been constantly improving the site since then. One of the most frequent comments we have received is that users don't understand what to do. "Where do I start?", "What should I do now?", etc...

We know that if we can get people started on LingQ, they will like it and they will stay. The more people that stay, the better the community and the experience for all members.

Courses

With that in mind we created courses. You will now land on the Courses page when you login to LingQ. If you don't yet have a course, you will be asked to pick one from the list of Available Courses. If you already have a course or courses, your most recently opened course will be displayed.

In every language there will be one free Self-Directed Course as well as Directed courses which are offered by our tutors.

All existing members will already have the Self-Directed Course, containing all the lessons you currently have in your account. The Self-Directed Course is basically the old WorkDesk list. From here you can open your lessons and study them as before.

Directed Courses are identified by level and are made up of 12 lessons selected by the course tutor. Courses are 12 weeks long and include a writing assignment and a conversation each week as part of the lesson. Participants will be able to email their tutor anytime, will be answered on the Ask a Tutor forum and will receive monthly reports. Directed Courses can be bought with a credit card or with points. Directed Courses are a great way to commit to your learning for a specific period of time.

If you do sign up for a Directed Course, you can also have one or more other courses active at the same time including your Self-Directed Course.

Active Assignment Limits Removed, New Active LingQs Limit for Free Accounts

You will be happy to know that all assignment limits will be removed from LingQ. The only remaining limitation will be a 300 LingQ limit on Free accounts. This means that Free members will only be allowed to keep 300 LingQs in their accounts at any one time. If you hit your limit, you will have to either delete LingQs or upgrade. All Basic, Plus and Premium members may create unlimited LingQs in their accounts.

New 5 Steps for Each Lesson and Simplified Lesson Status

Following up on our theme of simplification, we have removed the old assignment page. In fact, we have removed all references to assignments and items. Now we only refer to lessons. Furthermore, we no longer have multiple statuses for each lesson; New, Open, Updated, Completed, Archived, etc.... Now your lessons are either in your active list or they are archived. You will see that you move them from active to archived or vice versa by simply ticking or unticking a tickbox.

In addition, for each lesson we now assign 5 Steps. These steps are visible on the right hand side of the Lesson page. These steps will help new members, and really, all members get more out of LingQ. Progress indicators show how many steps you have completed for each lesson.

Everyone can post questions on Ask a Tutor

We are also opening up the Ask a Tutor forum to all members. Now, Free and Basic members can also post questions here. Tutors will only be expected to answer questions from Plus and Premium members but I'm sure many of our members will be happy to answer each others questions as well.

New Navigation and a New User Interface

Finally, you will notice the new design and the new navigation. We think you're really going to like the new design which gives a more lively look to the site.

The navigation has been changed to make it simpler for the first time user. There are now two main tabs for Courses and Community. All other tabs are now in a sub menu that is visible once the main tab is opened. There will also be a Welcome tab that is visible when you first open your account. This page is there to help newbies but can be removed once you no longer find it useful.

We realize our existing members will have to get used to the new navigation. We did not do this to confuse you! Rather, we did it to make things more obvious for a newbie. Thanks for your patience and we think that once you are used to it, you will find it at least as convenient as the previous navigation.

We realize we haven't provided too many images of the new LingQ. We're just trying to build up suspense! :-) You'll see it all on November 20th!

As with all changes, we want your feedback. Let us know what you like and what you don't like. We will try to respond to frequent requests. And, of course, although we would hope that you won't find any bugs, please let us know if some squeak through!

Enjoy the new LingQ!

Submitted by polyglot on Tue, 2008-11-25 03:21.

ChinesePod.com Celebrates the 1,000 Free Mandarin Chinese Audio Lessons Milestone!

Update from ChinesePod.com

This just in from the folks at Praxis Language's ChinesePod:

1000 Lessons!

This month ChinesePod hit an exciting milestone: its 1,000th lesson! Many thanks go to our loyal Poddies for all their support over the last 1,000 podcasts, and especially for the countless creative and useful lesson ideas. We could never have made it without you! So, now that we've covered every topic from toilet talk to being abducted by aliens, we toast a glass of baijiu in your honor, and look forward to what's to come. Have a listen to our special celebratory podcast.

Congratulations!

ChinesePod really is an amazing and fun way to learn Mandarin. Take the tour and find out more!

French, Spanish, Italian and English too!

ChinesePod is the first podcast to be released by the Praxis Language team. Praxis Language bases its products on combined Web-based and mobile learning. Community, fresh media content, talented course design team, array of web-based tools for practice and review. A unique combination of media and method, it's no wonder thousands are using ChinesePod every day.

The success of ChinesePod has enabled the release and growth of FrenchPod, SpanishPod, Learn Italian with ItalianPod and Learn English with EnglishPod.

Praxis's podcast-driven, socially enhanced, user backed language-learning phenomenon is maturing elegantly!

Submitted by polyglot on Wed, 2008-10-08 15:45.