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What is going on here?

Free Language documents and categorizes available resources for learning and teaching languages. Most of these are free resources, only a few are commercial. The directory is structured to provide quick access to these high-quality resources.

Included in the research are both traditional and bleeding-edge language-learning technologies, methods, ideas, communities, etc.

Extensive Categorization

Here is a screenshot for the categories under which a podcast for learning English is filed:

Here is a category selection for an article for Spanish learners:

If you click on a language name in the "Learn a Language" block on the top right, you will see a page full of resources available for learning that language. There might be one page, two pages, ten pages or more, depending on the language you choose. If you click on the title link of a given resource, you will view that resource's listing page. Here is an example of a typical resource listing page:

If you want to further narrow down the resources you are looking for, you might choose to view only resources in a given category. In the screenshot above, the categories are the links located in the gray box at the bottom. Any category you click on will then sort and display the available resources for that category. You can scroll through the pages of available resources and choose those that best fit your needs.

You can find a large list of all the available categories on the site on the site map page. You can also view tag clouds by clicking on the language you are interested in on the tags page.

Following is a quick breakdown of ways to navigate this site to quickly and effectively find resources for learning the specific language you want to learn.

I know what I'm looking for!

If you know that you want to find, let's say, podcasts for learning mandarin chinese, then you know what you are looking for. Here is what to do:

1) One of the quickest and easiest ways is to visit the learn a language page and choose your target language from the options there. All of the posts in that entire language category will be displayed, and you can browse through them until you find something that works for you. So if podcasts is what you seek, click on "Mandarin Chinese" the "Podcasts" list:

2) Perform a search - it's the quickest and easiest way to find what you need.

3) You can also browse the site map with all of the categories that content is filed under. You might find something there you didn't even think might be helpful.

4) You can also view the tag cloud for the language you are interested in learning. With tag clouds, the bigger the text, the more content there is in that section.

I don't know what I'm looking for.

Well, what are you doing here then? Hah! Just kidding.

1) One of the quickest and easiest ways is to visit the learn a language page and choose your target language from the options there. All of the posts in that entire language category will be displayed, and you can browse through them until you find something that works for you.

2) Browse the site map with all of the categories content is filed under.

3) Try viewing the tag cloud for the language you are interested in learning. The bigger the text, the more content there is in that section.

4) Perform a search for something that interests you.

Tag clouds help you visualize.

Tag clouds are groups of categories listed in a "cloud" formation where the categories with the most content are larger than those with less content. Here is what a tag cloud looks like:

This lets you see at a glance what sections of the site have a lot of content, and which have less. Click here and choose the link for the language you want to learn. Then look through the tags that are listed there and click on one that interests you.

The Category Map

All the content is categorized for you to make it easily accessible. In fact, we have created a heck of a lot of categories to make everything all the more exact and easy to narrow down. Here is a partial screenshot of the category map that shows categories for Italian. The numbers on the right show how many postings there are for a given category. The category map is located here.

Are you savvy about RSS?

We use RSS feeds in two different ways on this site:

1) We syndicate/aggregate RSS feeds from many sites around the web that publish information regarding learning languages.

2) We offer an extensive list of our very own RSS Feeds for those who want to be notified when we post something new. Nifty, eh. Well, we didn't invent it. But it is still cool.

Still lost?

If the above information doesn't put a smile on your face and send you blazing down the fast track to becoming fluent in your target language, there is still hope!

Just go ahead and click here and choose the language you want to learn from the list. Then start reading the information that you see on the pages that follow. These will provide you with a wealth of links for learning your target language in many different ways. Some are free. (Yay!) Some are not. (But they're worth the money, or we wouldn't put theme here.)

Also, check out our browsing tips to get a handle on techniques to use while surfing this site, as well as all websites in general.

Have fun!

P.S. If all else fails, contact us and we'll help you out as best we can.