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Update on February 10, 2015: This resource is no longer available. Please head over to our Learn Polish page for loads of current resources.

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KBS WORLD Radio, the voice of Korea, is the nation's sole foreign language promotional broadcast of Korea for the entire world. Its maiden transmission was aired in a 15-minute English broadcast back in August 15th, 1953 under the station name "The Voice of Free Korea". KBS WORLD Radio now broadcasts in Korean, Japanese, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian, Arabic and German as well, for a total of 11 languages. The station was renamed "Radio Korea" in March 1973, and again renamed 'Radio Korea International', in August 1994, in a bid to better reflect the station's increasingly globalized mission.

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It has been my goal to create a site that would help you learn new Hebrew words easily. There are 46 learning topics to choose from with over 1,700 Hebrew words and phrases. Additional topics may be added in the future.

Visit Learn Hebrew.

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Hello ("Sannu"). This website is dedicated to anyone interested in learning and promoting the Hausa language, the people's culture and tribe. My name is Sam Odiaka.There aren't many resources on learning the Hausa language on the Internet (that I could find), so I decided to put some up myself.Before you start, may I remind you one of the famious Hausa Proverb: Karatu,farkonka madaci, karshenka zuma ("it may be bitter to begin study but the endis sweet")Hausa is one of the major languages of Nigeria. It is the main lingua franca ("A medium of communication between peoples of different languages") throughout Niger and the northern two-thirds of Nigeria.

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Allow us to welcome you to Virtual
Bangladesh, a site which first saw its net inception in 1994 during the early days of the web. Virtual Bangladesh also has the distinction of being the first comprehensive site on Bangladesh on the web. It was born as a patriotic tribute to Zunaid Kazi's homeland and has since grown from its early days to what you see today. Along the years, the site has undergone a number of name changes and sites. First as Bangladesh: The Land of the Royal Bengal, to The Bangladesh Home Pages, and finally to its permanent home as Virtual Bangladesh.

I ran across a post by deXta and wanted to put in an article about World Nomads iPod Language Guides for many languages, including:

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The purpose of this site is to give elementary students of Indonesian the opportunity to practise and review basic vocabulary, grammar and sentence structures as they work through their course and prepare for the examination. Each unit contains a range of exercises of various types, including:

* Multiple-choice quizzes
* Gap-fill exercises
* Matching exercises
* Short-answer questions
* Word-ordering exercises
* Sentence-ordering exercises
* Crosswords

All the exercises are interactive, so you can check your answers and get hints and feedback as you work.

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World Nomads present a series of podcast language guides. They are yours to download for free and contain all the essential phrases to keep you travelling safely.

We hope that in 2007 there'll be time to produce a few more guides, so feel free to leave us a comment or send an email with suggestions for the languages you'd like to learn.

South African news straight from the source, in Afrikaans.

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Die eerste uitgawe van Beeld het op 16 September 1974 verskyn. Beeld is die enigste Afrikaanse dagblad in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Noordelike Provinsie, Noordwes en KwaZulu-Natal.Beeld se sirkulasie is volgens die ABC se geouditeerde syfers van Januarie tot Junie 1998 'n gemiddeld van 111 139 op weekdae en 100,091 op Saterdae.Volgens die AMPS-syfers lees 395 000 mense Beeld op weekdae. Beeld word uitgegee deur Nasionale Media (Bpk.), filiaal van Naspers.
WAARDE VIR GELD
Beeld verskyn ses dae van die week en bied aan sy lesers:

I just finished adding Afrikaans to the site!

There is currently only one resource listed for that language, but that will change very soon.

Check out the new Learn Afrikaans section!

More are coming over the next month...

:)

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A prime resource to learn Afrikaans online for free. Dr. Jacques du Plessis, has over 20 years of experience teaching Afrikaans as a foreign language. His expertise in language teaching and technology offers you innovation with technology to facilitate your quest to learn Afrikaans. This is your ticket to the hearts of millions of speakers in southern Africa, particulary South Africa and Namibia.

Achei um bom site para aprender português. I found a nice site for learning Portuguese.

Visit Centro Virtual Camões Learn Portuguese Resources.

Here are the next twelve languages to be added to the site:

Afrikaans
Bahasa Indonesian
Bengali
Farsi
Hausa
Hebrew
Korean
Polish
Tagalog Filipino
Thai
Swahili
Vietnamese

Update on February 10, 2015: This resource is no longer available.

Original entry minus links is below.

"RSS News Feeds From All Over The World!

Update on February 27, 2018: This resource is no longer available. The original entry minus links is below for posterity.

Just came across this excellent list of RSS Feeds for News in the French Language.

"RSS News Feeds From All Over The World!

Just came across this excellent list of RSS Feeds for News in the German Language.

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"RSS News Feeds From All Over The World!

Here it is, folks!

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Free Hindi Lessons and Courses

I came across still more German learning resources from Deutsche Welle. This page gives an overview of the information and features available on the Deutsche Welle mobile phone website for tourists.

A snippet:

German for Tourists and Football Fans

Deusche Welle has a nice series for German learners called Warum Nicht.

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"Andreas is studying journalism. He has to finance his studies with a job as porter at "Hotel Europa" in Aachen. Join Andreas in this luxury hotel and meet Dr. Thürmann, the chambermaid Hanna Claasen and the mysterious being with the unusual name "Ex".

Open Culture has a nice, neat list of some language-learning podcasts for iTunes.

For some solid links regarding Mandarin Chinese, have a look at Sinosplice's Delicious bookmarks. There are only four links, but they are good ones.

I just came across a nice set of language-related podcasts at Cool Podcasts.

There are lots of other topics there as well.

Here are some of the latest resources added to the site:

RFI News in Slowly-Spoken French
Learn to Speak German with this Free Podcast
Rolling Rs Learn Spanish Podcast
Notes in Spanish Advanced Podcast
Notes in Spanish Intermediate Podcast
ESL Business News Podcast
Free Learn Gulf Arabic Resources

I just came across the Deutsche Welle YouTube Channel, which I found useful for practicing listening while catching up on cultural and new topics.

I came across a great list of links for Japanese language learners. Thought I would let folks know.

Through the Omniglot blog, I ran across a very cool language podcast survey from 2006.

A blog post on Omniglot about Free Language was posted a few days ago. I thought I would link to it for fun.

Just letting the blog subscribers know that there is a new resource for Arabic learners:

Madinah Arabic Beginner Language and Reading Courses