A Simple and Free Language Learning App with a very Powerful and Useful Concept
HiNative is a free iOS app and web service for language learners with a simple but very powerful concept: ask real native speakers questions about the language(s) you are learning and the cultures in which they are spoken. You can also help answer questions from other users and build community.
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.
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!