Have Fun Learning Chinese Fast

Busuu Chinese offers Chinese learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in Chinese.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your Chinese studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Babbel Integrated Norwegian Language Learning Website, iOS and Android Apps, Social Network, Multimedia Flashcards and More

Babbel Norwegian combines multi-media visual and auditory learning, social networking interactivity, sound educational methodology and mobile apps (for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android) in a one-stop integrated platform for learning Norwegian.

They're constantly expanding their platform, adding loads of new features to the Web interface as well as mobile to enhance your Norwegian learning efforts online - and take them mobile.

Current Events & Culture Reading Material in many Languages

Global Voices is a worldwide community with independent news in many languages, all available for free. This community was started in order to open people's doors and expand horizons through access to multilingual news from international volunteers and part-time editors from countries all over the globe.

Each language represented has volunteer translators as part of Global Voice's Lingua project. This means that a given article in a given language may be translated into many other languages, providing both the original source language and the translations for language learners to work with in their studies.

Free German Course from Deutche Welle

It has been quite some time (back in 2006!) since we originally wrote about a couple of Deutsche Welle's German learning resources, and much has changed since. So much, in fact, that it's time for another write-up of their free online German course and multimedia learning materials.

Free Resources and Information for Czech Learners + Teachers

Czech in Prague is a website started by Jana Slavíková for learners and educators of the Czech language. It offers a wide variety of resources and information to help guide students from a beginning level through intermediate to advanced.

The considerable quantity of info available on this website includes recommendations of where to start learning and finding materials, grammar and vocabulary, idioms and phrases, audio and video (including songs and podcasts) as well as cultural insights (such as the Czech music scene, fairy tales, etc).

More Japanese Android Apps than you can Handle!

Anyone with an Android gadget most likely knows about Google Play, as it's become the go-to source for Android apps. That said, I wanted to point out a pre-defined search on the Google Play website that allows users to view available apps for learning Japanese.

Japanese is one language for which there is no shortage of apps to discover, test and use. This is a good thing, but it can also be daunting. Apps with good reviews (and lots of them) are generally a good place to start.

Have Fun Learning Japanese Fast

Busuu Japanese offers Japanese learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in Japanese.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your Japanese studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Discover the Albanian Language

If you're learning Albanian you may very well want to get an overview of the language, some of its unique features, geographical information about native speakers as well as loads of information on grammar, linguistics, history, diaspora and general language structure.

All of this and more is available in Wikipedia's Albanian entry. There are also some interesting links at the bottom which take you to further resources to explore and learn about the language of Albania.

Don't Miss the Albanian Category Page

More Italian Android Apps than you can Handle!

Anyone with an Android gadget most likely knows about Google Play, as it's become the go-to source for Android apps. That said, I wanted to point out a pre-defined search on the Google Play website that allows users to view available apps for learning Italian.

Italian is one language for which there is no shortage of apps to discover, test and use. This is a good thing, but it can also be daunting. Apps with good reviews (and lots of them) are generally a good place to start.