Learn Total Beginner Hausa Online for Free: Alphabet, Greetings, Basic Phrases, Food and More

Free Hausa Lessons for the Newbie

Teach Yourself Hausa, a website by Sam Odiaka, is a good resource for total beginner Hausa language learners. Hausa teachers can use it, too, for lesson planning.

Teach Yourself Hausa includes materials for learning the Hausa alphabet, greetings, common Hausa phrases, useful verbs, food and more.

Sam Odiaka has also included many useful links for those interested in both learning the Hausa language and discovering Hausa culture.

Many thanks, Sam, for this resource!

Free Dutch Audio Phrasebook, Games and Mobile Apps (Android, iOS) to Learn Basic Afrikaans for Travel and Living

Learn Dutch Free using Phrases

Surface Languages Dutch offers free tutoring tools online for learning basic Dutch phrases, ranging from your first words to small talk to general topics for getting by and more. Audio of native speakers is provided to ensure that your pronunciation is correct.

Many people enjoy learning language via phrases because of their inherent use (practicality) and as a means to establish a basic foundation on which to build conversations and personal interactions.

Of course, for the traveler only passing through, a general free Dutch phrasebook is always handy!

Play Games to Learn 1500 Words in 13 Languages

A colorful online language learning game

Ba Ba Dum offers free online games for learning (currently) 1500 words in a baker's dozen languages.

Cartoony with memorable images

Ba Ba Dum is cartoony and colorful and uses drawings to represent vocabulary. The games use audio spoken by native speakers of the included languages.

No account, free service

You can jump right in and start learning immediately and no account is required. If you want to track your progress, you can create a free account to do so.

Free Czech Audio Phrasebook

Learn Czech free using phrases

Surface Languages Czech offers free tutoring tools online for learning basic Czech phrases, ranging from your first words to small talk to general topics for getting by and more. Audio of native speakers is provided to ensure that your pronunciation is correct.

Many people enjoy learning language via phrases because of their inherent use (practicality) and as a means to establish a basic foundation on which to build conversations and personal interactions.

Of course, for the traveler only passing through, a general free Czech phrasebook is always handy!

Complete Lesson Plans to Learn and Teach English through Films (Movies)

Free ESL Film/Movie Lessons

Film English provides totally free and in-depth lesson plans for English language education through film/movies.

The Film English website is an excellent ESL/TESL/TESOL (etc) resource for both English learners and teachers.

The lesson plans are guided and completely self-contained so you can jump right in and start learning English or using the free material to teach your students through film.

Free Web App Service for 10 Languages

A Unique Free Web Service with Apps for Learning Languages

Lingua.ly is a free service for learning languages based on reading local news (and any other content online) in the target language to acquire new vocabulary.

This service is great if you are already somewhat proficient in the target language as it has a lot of great tools for practicing the vocabulary that you amass while reading on Lingua.ly as well as across the Web (via their Chrome browser extension). It is not suitable for total beginners as an introduction to a new language.

Language Translation Course Online (Extensive & Free!)

Want to be a translator but not sure what it really takes?

Well, lucky for you there is an amazing language translation course online for free from the good folks at LOGOS.

This course covers much more than the basics, getting into the nitty gritty of translation as a profession including standards, process, perception, theory, models, production, adaptation, translation loss, tools and more.

Some of the more fine details include compensation and explicitation, metatextual rendering, wordplay, imitation, phraseologisms, dubbing, subtitling, translating for theater and much more.

I simply cannot say enough about how detailed and in-depth this free language translation course truly is, you have to look for yourself!