Continuing Your Education with Free Online Language Courses
Tuesday August 26, 2008
I have a new friend in my forum, Rachel, who introduced me to Palabea, an international platform for language learning, after we started talking about the Japanese language debate in Borneo.
Today, Jamie Littlefield, About.com's guide to Distance Learning, sent me a link to her list of free online language courses. What a fabulous list! It includes the romance languages we all love to learn, but it also offers more unusual language lessons: Armenian, Portuguese, and others.
Learning foreign languages promotes understanding of similarities and differences, and widens our world views. With Palabea and Jamie's list, it can also be free. Let's see, I think I'll go learn a few words in Korean. What about you?
Oh, and come talk to Rachel, me, and the gang in the forum. We'd like to hear your views.
Comments
Hmmmmm, while the idea sounds great, and we all love a freebie, I think I’d want to GO to a course (in Italy), and IMMERSE myself in it… after a day behind the computer the last thing I’m going to feel like is MORE computer time…
Hi Rachel,
Your had a good hobby of learning different languages,that’s impressive.I too want to learn chineese, i am looking for a good site where i can learn that one,after seeing your site my problem was solved.That was excellent for learning languages.
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Jammywatson
One of my biggest regrets is giving up on French, just when I was on the cusp of really getting the hang of it. It’s never too late, and I vow one day to visit Paris, speaking the language I still love.
i agree that immersion courses are great. karin, you may be interested in eurolanguages, italian in italy etc.
Excelent list I was looking for. Could I add your list to our website http://www.ijav.sk ?
Hi Paul,
You’re welcome to include links on your site to both my page here at Continuing Education and to Jamie’s at Distance Learning.
I’m glad you found us. Tell us about your site. It looks interesting.
Deb