There are numerous opportunities to document your knowledge of German. For a beginner’s to early intermediate level, there are a number of credit-by-exam programs listed here which offer college credit. For a higher intermediate or more advanced level, there’s the option of getting a language certificate from the Goethe Institut, which is a German non-profit […]

Clozemaster is a language-learning website which offers language instruction in the form of sentences in which you fill in the blanks. It doesn’t only offer a wide variety of languages to learn, but also a lot of languages of instruction. Some of the languages on offer are Afrikaans, Indonesian, Catalan, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Irish, […]

Fluencia is a fun and easy to use language-learning app which teaches Spanish. The lessons are presented with full audio and photos which help you remember the words, so that it’s more like a game than a language course. They offer 15 free lessons to get to know the program. After that, it costs $6.95 […]

Teaching English abroad offers an opportunity to live and work in many countries around the world. English is the one of the most popular languages to study, and most countries have a shortage of native speakers who are available to teach. There’s also the fact that many people who would be interested in teaching English […]

One problem that travelers often have to worry about is getting mail while they’re away. There’s always the risk of missing an important letter. Also, a large amount of uncollected mail sticking out of the mailbox can attract burglars. Some people who would like to become permanent travelers are discouraged by the thought of not […]

Spanish is a very popular language to learn for its musical sound and widespread use, having over 400 million speakers in Spain and Latin America. This is a list of online opportunities to learn Spanish for free, and it will be updated as I become aware of more options.             […]

  The internet offers a wide variety of options for learning just about anything for free or a low cost. This post is a collection of all of the different options of learning French online, and it will be periodically updated. LingQ – As I’ve discussed this option in my review, French is one of […]

In my review of Rocket Japanese, I suggested learning the Japanese writing system before starting Rocket Japanese. Japanese has four alphabets, three of which are used interchangabely. The three which are used interchangeably are Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. The fourth alphabet is Romanji, which is basically writing Japanese sounds using Roman letters. Hiragana is used […]

Although there are a wide variety of language-learning websites out there, few of them can take you all the way from being an absolute beginner to being fluent. LingQ is one of these few websites.   The teaching method of LingQ is based on texts being displayed on the screen while being read aloud by […]

As I’ve spoken about in a previous post, Memrise is an excellent resource for learning languages or just about anything else. I’ve been using Memrise almost every day for the past two-and-a-half years, and have taken courses in everything from history to biology and the Bible. I’m writing this as an introduction.   First of […]