Master Polite English is a free course from Udemy instructed by Dylan Gates.
This course offers over 12 lectures and 1 hour of video content geared to teach you how to speak politely in English. You will be introduced to strategies for speaking in formal situations with people you do not know well.
How to Learn Georgian is a free course from Udemy instructed by Heydar Samedov.
This course offers over 15 lectures and 35 mins of video content geared toward helping you recognize the Georgian alphabet and sounds.
This course aims to teach you beginner skills, the possessive structures and the most common question words.
Survive Italy Without Being Fluent in Italian is a free course from Udemy instructed by Manu Venditti.
This course offers over 26 lectures and 1.5 hours of video content to help you learn basic Italian expressions and understand how the Italian language works. It is designed to help you develop the skill to speak and understand more Italian than you know, as well as acquire proper pronunciation and become acquainted with learning strategies.
StudyBlue for HSK learners is a free service for creating, studying and sharing flashcards.
This service is geared towards educational institutions but can be used by anyone at all, you just have to sign up for an account.
One of the strengths of StudyBlue is the incredible apps they have developed for major mobile platforms including iOS and Android. These apps are elegant, feature-rich and free!
StudyBlue for Chinese learners is a free service for creating, studying and sharing flashcards.
This service is geared towards educational institutions but can be used by anyone at all, you just have to sign up for an account.
One of the strengths of StudyBlue is the incredible apps they have developed for major mobile platforms including iOS and Android. These apps are elegant, feature-rich and free!
StudyBlue for German learners is a free service for creating, studying and sharing flashcards.
This service is geared towards educational institutions but can be used by anyone at all, you just have to sign up for an account.
One of the strengths of StudyBlue is the incredible apps they have developed for major mobile platforms including iOS and Android. These apps are elegant, feature-rich and free!
The link above takes you to the current list of German flashcard sets that have been created already by users. You can either take advantage of the sets that are applicable to your study level or jump in and make custom sets for your needs.
There are few things that will make you appear to speak more Spanish than you really do and, right up there with cursing like a local but far more elegant (not to mention useful in any situation), one of the quickest ways is to learn and then use idioms and local expressions.
Idiomatic expressions are something that most foreigners learning any language do not regularly use and mixing them into your flow will make you instantly seem more linguistically adept.
Not only will your language appear stronger than it may (or may not) be, but you also get to learn some interesting vocabulary terms as you acquire these expressions themselves.
There are few things that will make you appear to speak more Portuguese than you really do and, right up there with cursing like a local but far more elegant (not to mention useful in any situation), one of the quickest ways is to learn and then use idioms and local expressions.
Idiomatic expressions are something that most foreigners learning any language do not regularly use and mixing them into your flow will make you instantly seem more linguistically adept.
Not only will your language appear stronger than it may (or may not) be, but you also get to learn some interesting vocabulary terms as you acquire these expressions themselves.
There isn't any clutter, just a straightforward bilingual dictionary so you can quickly look up nearly 30,000 terms without distraction.
Of special note is the ability to download the entire dictionary as a PDF file. Nice! This is great if you want offline access to the dictionary or, nature forbid, you actually intend to print all 324 pages and bind a hard copy.
Either way, many thanks to the folks at CatalanDictionary.org for providing this free resource.
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Easy Catalan is a great place for total beginners to start learning the basics.
This free resource provides beginner-level lessons with recorded audio by a native Catalan speaker. The range of the materials is wide enough that this could be considered an entry-level "course".
Topics covered include first words, adjectives, basic grammar and vocabulary, irregular verbs, food words and phrases, introductions, modal verbs, months, numbers, telling time, forming questions, parts of the body, negation, possessives, weather and travel.
