Free Language Courses

Free public domain language courses developed by the United States Government ? To good to be true ? The Foreign Service Institute created a website offering eleven different language courses for free. Languages included are: Cantonese, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish.

All courses consist of audio and text lessons divided into chapters and those are divided further into courses like basic course volume 1 and  volume 2. Most units and audio files seem to be really big, the test mp3 files that I listened to had a size of about 10 megabytes each and lasted for about 20 minutes.

The language courses could serve as an introduction or supplement for learning the language but they seem to be rather old, the first basic volume of the German language course for instance was printed in 1961. If you want to learn a new language and lack the money to purchase one of the high priced language courses you might want to try this online course and rent additional books from a local library.

source: lifehackers

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Tuesday August 22, 2006 -
Tags:language, language-courses

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1. sam says:

   August 24, 2006 at 4:33 pm

   thank you .. its good

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2. Waters says:

   November 4, 2006 at 6:32 pm

   Just to be clear — this website is not set up by FSI. It’s a one-man show. It doesn’t get government funding or anything. The material is all public domain, though, so it’s free to download.

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3. East London School of English (English School London, English Course London) - Learn English in London, English Courses In London, also Business English, IELTS and more, in our Language School in London says:

   November 5, 2010 at 4:53 pm

   The best is, to learn the language in a country, where the language is originally spoken.

   We do experience that every day in our language school in London.
   While staying in the country to learn the language, our students also do experience the culture and history, as this is an important aspect to really understand a language properly.

   Come and enjoy – London is a great town and it is really a melting pot of different nationalities.

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