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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 1 of 5 27 May 2011 at 2:19am | IP Logged |
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Not sure if this is the right place to post this. If not, moderator(s) please feel free to move.
Through a tweet today, I was taken to a link of what teachers choose to do during their summer months off. that in turn took me to a link of many universities which offer free online classes, most under the "Open classes/university/courseware" moniker. Here is the link to the start page of these universities: Free online courses If you drill down through each university, you'll get to all their free subjects. May have free language courses. There are QUITE a few that offer Mandarin and Japanese, as well as the usual French, Spanish and German. And most of these courses look to be up to four semesters' worth. And if you don't feel like learning another language, there are plenty of other subjects to choose from. Berklee College of Music even has a few music/music-related courses. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 27 May 2011 at 2:21am 8 persons have voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5262 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 2 of 5 27 May 2011 at 2:56am | IP Logged |
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Open Course Ware, or OCW, is amazing. Take a look at MIT OCW Languages and LiteraturesThey offer several levels of French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin. A couple of years ago, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about the Ivy League (elite) universities. So, I "took" an OCW video course with readings from Yale about the US Civil War. I can attest to the fact that their classes do indeed deserve their reputation for excellence.
Carnegie Mellon University French Course is another free OCW offering. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 5 28 May 2011 at 12:07am | IP Logged |
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Opencourseware has spread beyond MIT, and beyond English - see OCW finder.
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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6526 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 4 of 5 29 May 2011 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
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Yes, the Yale ones are really good. I also like http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
(a great introduction to Computer Science, and some more advanced topics). Berkeley has a lot available in a lot of subjects, the quality varies. NPTEL will include about 30 video courses in humanities as part of their 'Phase II' project (in addition to another 500 video courses in technical subjects), but, it's probably not a great resource if your primary aim is to improve your English. They cost quite a lot to buy, but the 15 or so courses from 'The Teaching Company' which I have listened to have been excellent, without exception. I understand they are available from public libraries in the states. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 29 May 2011 at 3:06am | IP Logged |
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I've downloaded quite a few courses from Academic Earth. Nothing on languages but interesting nonetheless.
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