Summary

Yolango is a new (free!) site for learning English through online videos complete with transcripts and level divisions. It provides users with loads and loads of real video content from all over the Web. Those with an account can keep track of the videos they have watched recently and mark their favorite videos. It also maintains a scoreboard for user score rankings.

Learn a Language while Listening to Music

Earworms Learning has created a unique product for learners of numerous foreign languages including French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish (Arabic coming soon). earworms mbt® Rapid Languages combines language-learning instruction with a variety of music and subtle repitition to engage students and enhance memorization. And it works!

Developed by language teaching experts and leveraging technology for accelerated learning, earworms manages to penetrate the brain in some amazing ways and anchor words and phrases deep into memory. It's the next best thing to learning in your sleep!

Summary

Omniglot is an excellent resource for learners of just about any major world language. Simon Ager has put together an exceptional amount of information about the systems used to express language in the written form, complete with images, explanations and audio samples.

Heaps of Language Learning Add-ons for the Firefox Browser

Summary

The FreeLanguage.com.ua Online Translators page has 35+ resources listed for translating to and from many languages online - surprise - for free!

A list of these will be started here soon, but this is already a pretty comprehensive list of the freebie translators available online. Of course, some are better than others, but this site lists lots of them with brief descriptions that are helpful.

Summary

FSI is an acronym for the Foreign Service Institute, "the (US) Federal Government's primary training institution for officers and support personnel of the U.S. foreign affairs community".

Over the years, the FSI has researched, designed and taught language courses to Foreign Service staff and diplomats. These courses are now available and licensed to the Public Domain.

FSI-Language-Courses.org is a sweet and simple website that provides users with the ability to view and download the Foreign Service Institute's courses for 31+ languages. The content is provided by individuals donating time and resources in an overall effort to provide quality languages-learning materials for free worldwide.

Sounds good to me. :)

In the Hebrew section of the site, there is currently an entire level one audio course available. This course is for beginners and has 40 units.

From Website

Welcome to fsi-language-courses.org, the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.

This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. This site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity; it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. Courses here are made available through the private efforts of individuals who are donating their time and resources to provide quality materials for language learning.

Visit FSI-Language-Courses.org Hebrew Courses.

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When it comes to learning Hindi quickly and effectively, Rosetta Stone has placed itself at the top of the list of commercial methods. It's intuitive and "allows you the learn a foreign language like you learned your native language". Their products are used by the US Foreign Service, loads of companies and other organizations to prepare for working and living in a new country with a new language.

Summary

Verbbusters is a sweet and simple web application for testing and learning over 175 irregular English verbs, some of which are even tough for a native English speaker!

This is a really cool utility that is fast to use, is fully searchable, has audio recordings of the verb conjugations, gives nice results sheets that can be saved and referred to later using a screenshot or "save as" function on your browser and, perhaps most importantly for many, is quite serious about preserving the privacy of users. No account is required and the results of tests/quizzes are only cached temporarily. Bravo on the privacy!