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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4860 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 25 of 37 05 December 2013 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I guess I should include this site, although I'm currently paying for my access :-)
although I used it free for a couple of years before that. But for actual courses, right at the top, I'd put the Say Something in Welsh beginners course, vocabulary, and weekly practice sessions right at the top: Say Something in Welsh For the intermediate and advanced courses, and also the daily practice sessions, you do have to pay, but it's hardly at the level that would break the bank! Even Mr Scrooge would not find it expensive! About the cost of a good cup of coffee and maybe a cake in one of those fancy coffee places, or probably less than a pint of beer in London(!), per month. (and certainly less than a glass of wine in any British pub!). More generally, and very close behind, there's the BBC of course, and Deutsche Welle, and indeed all the German state broadcasters. Then in Denmark, dr.dk, the corresponding Swedish and Norwegian broadcasters, and in Wales, the S4C TV channel, and no doubt there are similar things around the world. Edited by montmorency on 05 December 2013 at 7:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| corjine Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4052 days ago 55 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 26 of 37 05 December 2013 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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How has duolingo not been mentioned yet? Seriously, people....
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6629 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 27 of 37 05 December 2013 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Most of the posts are from 2008, actually. The thread was revived just today. I assume duolingo didn't exist back then?
Not to mention that everyone's learning style is different and there's no need to judge other people. Especially for what they DON'T do :) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| corjine Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4052 days ago 55 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 28 of 37 05 December 2013 at 9:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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.......this is the moment where I go wear the "dunce" hat in the corner, haha. Duolingo
came out....1-2 years ago, I believe? Nah, if you don't like Duolingo, that's totally cool/chill. It's just that it's been such an invaluable free resource to me and millions of others I was kind of shocked that it wasn't on there (before you told me that most of the posts are from 2008...-cringe-). To each his own. :) Edited by corjine on 05 December 2013 at 9:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5198 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 29 of 37 05 December 2013 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cross-posting myself:
http://www.easypersian.com - one of the oldies http://www.serbianschool.com - this one is highly recommended, it records your progress. I'd take it alongside with my Assimil book if I restarted Serbian now. http://www.hanyu.cn - and several others for Chinese, that sometimes focus so much on multimedia interaction for tones and stroke order animations, and lack more extensive grammatical explanations. A friend has said to have learned Chinese up to B1 just from hanyu.cn , no books. http://www.oneness.vu.lt/en/ - Lithuanian site for learning Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Polish and Portuguese. A treasure. Highly recommended, the interface is interactive with lots of media resources. It does have the drawback of being the same interface for all language courses and 12 lessons won't bring you that further, but I couldn't think of a more ingenious language course website. http://www.panglosskool.eu/index.php?id=23 - official site for Estonian. Another treasure. Requires just a free registration. Very comprehensive. Grammar, video and audio lessons and interactive exercises. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4941 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 30 of 37 05 December 2013 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good suggestion, though, corjine. I'd second recommendations for FSI and Deutsche Welle. It is so wonderful that all of those FSI courses are public domain. They aren't everyone's cup of tea, but they are loaded with content. And I don't think I've seen a website with as many free and good resources for a single language as Deutsche Welle.
There is a great set of resources for Hindi developed by Rupert Snell, the author of the TY books on Hindi. The Hindi Urdu Flagship site has a lot of resources for Hindi (which also help with Urdu, but they are mainly focused on Hindi). They made a vocabulary podcast for each chapter of TY Hindi, which I think is far more than any other textbook author has done to provide free support materials for their book. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4860 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 31 of 37 06 December 2013 at 1:55am | IP Logged | ||
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While I'm embarrassed that I didn't spot the necropost, it has actually been useful to
compare people's views then and now. If it's any consolation / rationalisation, there are many even older threads on HTLAL, many of which still interesting and probably useful. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6093 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 32 of 37 06 December 2013 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | ||
I entered this thread to share the same link. I also happen to agree with the rest of your post. Nicely put, Chung. Finding these old threads that have been revived is a bit nostalgic. I always think: "Oh, this guy... I used to read his posts... he's back... great!". And then, you see the person left the forum years ago. Sad. One clue to see a good post is old: no votes. We didn't have them back then. Well, this wasn't just a walk down memory lane. As Chung wrote, this is a very good site. Edited by Luso on 06 December 2013 at 12:55pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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