General Resources

Audio Forum - they advertise that they have more than 285 courses for more than 142 languages and claim the largest selection of self instruction courses. The prices that I see are not terribly unreasonable for the various courses I’ve looked at. Many under $40 (US), a few more expensive. They also have courses for kids. (Cat in the Hat in Latin????)

Languages on the Web - good site with bilingual stories (parallel texts) for a number of languages. Volunteer driven, good variety of languages and other good resource links.

Newspaper World - Online links for newspapers from around the world. The multilingual page may be of most interest (Chinese, German, Russian, French, Spanish are highlighted here.)

mondotimes.com - media links from around the world, tv, radio, newspaper

The Language Bear - Amazon.com astore for language learning books and foreign language books/media.

The Quick and Dirty Guide to Learning Languages Fast gives you a template so that you can hone in on the most important and efficient way to pick up necessary vocabulary in a new language quickly. Very good for the self-taught.

Powells books foreign language section.

Amazon.com’s Foreign Language Book Section.

How-to-learn-any-language.com Forums Forums can be a good place for language practice too!

zinio.com Buy magazines online - digital copies of the magazines can be viewed online - several languages available.

Multilingua.info - Great resource for multiple languages.

Freelanguage.org - Free Language resources, podcasts, etc.

Free Online Language Courses - detailed list of free online language courses.

Verbix.com verb conjugator verb conjugation tool for 20+ languages.

italki.com - Language Exchange and Learning Community.

Teach yourself a Foreign Language - Podcast on general language learning.

Free Foreign Language Lessons - Directory of Podcasts for various languages.

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