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About 6 years ago I set out to improve my Spanish language knowledge and skills. I had taken Spanish in High School, but what little I learned there had faded and my understanding of spoken Spanish was minimal (at best.) I set out with several approaches to learning and now in retrospect I [...]

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This site has some good 1st hand comparative difficulty of the more common Romance languages: French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. It seems as though there’s an ongoing debate over whether French or Spanish is an easier language to learn. I’ve seen and heard arguments each way. One argument is along the lines [...]

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Not too long ago I noticed some visits to this site for the search term New Language and got to looking at Googles Insights for Search to find out that every December there is a big spike in searches for the term New Language. The only thing I could figure out is that people [...]

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I just found this fantastic listing of free language courses online. It covers the “big” languages as well as the less well known… from Abenaki to Xhosa. For many languages there are multiple entries.

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