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| BlueZepher Newbie United States Joined 4762 days ago 9 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Swedish | Message 1 of 7 13 November 2011 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Can anyone recommend any good free websites/online resources for learning a language
independently (without any formal classes/immersion)? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4866 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 7 13 November 2011 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Which language?
The available resources vary depending on the language, and most of them are specific to only one language. In other words, the answer for learning Romanian will be completely different from the answer for learning Greek. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BlueZepher Newbie United States Joined 4762 days ago 9 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Swedish | Message 3 of 7 13 November 2011 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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German, specifically. :)
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| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5416 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 4 of 7 13 November 2011 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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This curriculum from Deutsche Welle has been highly praised from a very credible polyglot acquaintance of mine, and he says it's one of the only courses available online that can truly bring a beginner to near fluency in a language, although I personally have not tried it:
Deutsche Welle He just advises to stay away from the "Radio D" section. A nice, albeit short, collection of videos teaching German, with a very consistent structure: Deutsch Online Lernen Some other links, all starting at the beginner level, that progress to varying levels of difficulty: 101 Languages BYKI (downloadable program for offline use) FSI Goethe Verlag Linguanaut BBC course Wikibooks textbook Once you have a solid foundation of vocabulary and grammatical structure, here's some good practice for listening comprehension: Easy German Enjoy. :) Edited by nway on 13 November 2011 at 11:48pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| JiriT Triglot Groupie Czech Republic Joined 4798 days ago 60 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, German | Message 5 of 7 14 November 2011 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
Deutsche Welle is a very good source for learners of German. I use their news - they provide transcripts for news in audio. This server has a lot of other materials, e.g. Top Thema - short texts with audio, the vocabulary in it above some level is explained in German, also very good. When I read and look up the vocabulary on a day, I can usually very good understand the TV news on ARD (also on the internet, Tagesschau), beacuse the news are very similar. DW provides much more material, I can strongly recommend this site. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fomalhaut Groupie United States Joined 4904 days ago 80 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 6 of 7 14 November 2011 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Deutsche Welle taught me a GREAT deal, truly, it's such an invaluable tool. I was quite, quite stricken with sadness when I listened to the last DW-Radio show just a few weeks ago.
Start listening to it as early as possible, all the time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BlueZepher Newbie United States Joined 4762 days ago 9 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Swedish | Message 7 of 7 15 November 2011 at 4:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks so much! :)
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