MOOCs are one of the most popular online trends, and it’s not hard to understand why. MOOCs present the opportunity to get education from some of the best universities in the world, without having to go through a complicated and highly competitive application process and at a much lower cost. There’s also the advantage […]

Here are a number of statistics about language learning.

Not many language course companies offer a course in sign language. However, Rocket Languages offers a course in American Sign Language. It uses short video clips of around three to ten seconds to easily teach words and phrases. There’s a free 7-day trial for this course to see if this way of learning ASL is […]

One problem which a lot of language learning methods have is that they don’t provide a lot of opportunity to hear the language spoken. Podcast based courses help to overcome this problem. FrenchPod101.com offers a podcast-based course complete with lesson transcripts and grammar lessons. The course consists of nearly 1200 short podcasts. You can select […]

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.             […]