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This page contains links to online courses and lessons for many different languages. Most are free. The quality and quantity of material varies considerably. I particularly recommend the language courses provided by the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk/languages/).
Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Ainu, Albanian, Alsatian, American Sign Language (ASL), Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Ayssyrian Aramaic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Blin, Breton, British Sign Language (BSL), Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cherokee, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Shanghainese), Chinese (Taiwanese), Cornish, Cree, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dehong Dai, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, Finnish, Friulian, Gaelic (Irish), Gaelic (Manx), Gaelic (Scottish), Galician, Ganda (Luganda), Georgian, German, Gothic, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Gwich'in, Hausa, Haiwaiian, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kannda, Kazakh, Khmer, Kiribati, Konkani, Korean, Kurdish, Lakhota, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Māori, Marathi, Mi'kmaq, Nahuatl, Nawat, Nepali, Norwegian, Old Church Slavonic, Old English, Old Norse, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Tigre, Tigrigna, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof
Online guides to language schools
http://www.stv.ne.jp/radio/ainugo/
http://www.learnalbanianlanguage.com
http://www.geocities.com/cezarkurti/
http://www.verdammi.org/cours.html
http://www.signingonline.com/
http://www.lessontutor.com/ASLgenhome.html
http://www.arabic2000.com/school/
http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/
http://afl.ajeeb.com
http://www.dalilusa.com/arabic_course/intro.asp
http://www.arabicsp.com
http://arabic.speak7.com
http://www.naturalarabic.com
ttp://areg.amaksoud.com
http://vegasociety.com/arabic/
http://www.madinaharabic.com
http://www.arabicpod.net
http://www.al-duroos.com
http://arabcafe.org/Arabic/
http://www.learnarmenian.com
http://www.cilicia.com/armo_lesson000.html
http://www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au/learn/intro.html
http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_Lessons
http://hayeren.hayastan.com
http://www.sentinelassam.com/sentinel_en/lesson_index.htm
http://www.assyrianlanguage.com
http://www.learnassyrian.com/aramaic/
http://www.travel-images.com/az-lear.html
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http://asignoret.free.fr/eskuara.html
http://www.santurtzieus.com/
http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/dictionary.html
http://www.bangladict.org
http://www.abhidhan.com
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~gasmerom/Eritrean_languages/blin/
http://www.kervarker.org/
http://www.skolober.com
http://www.british-sign.co.uk/
http://www.learnbsl.org/
http://learnbulgarian.hit.bg
http://www.easybulgarian.com/
http://www.mastylo.net
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/
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http://catalunya-lliure.com/curs/curs.html
http://www.intercat.gencat.es
http://cebuwebsite.tripod.com/adventure2.html
http://offisland.com/cham.html
http://ns.gov.gu/language.html
http://pikaguam.com/categories.php?op=newindex&catid=9
http://www.cherokee.org/home.aspx?section=culture&culture=language
http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/language
http://www.khuang.com/chinese/cantonese.asp
http://www.chinawestexchange.com/Cantonese/
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm
http://www.chineseon.net
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/
http://www.chinese-lessons.com
http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/
http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese
http://www.zapchinese.com
http://www.sinoling.com
http://learnchinese.elanguageschool.net
http://www.clearchinese.com/learn-chinese/
http://www.effectivelanguage.com/mandarin.html
http://www.chinesepod.com
http://www.clearchinese.com
http://www.china-8.com/cms/sites/china-8/section.cfm?id=12
http://www.loquella.com/learn-chinese/
http://www.chinese-course.com
http://www.zanhei.com
http://www.shanghai.or.jp/zw/shanghai/
http://www.earnshaw.com/shanghainese/shanghainese.cfm
http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/taiwanese/
http://www.tacpa.org/wdcts/mtl/intro.html
http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/taiwanese/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/connected/stories/new_cornwall_language.shtml
http://www.kdlcornish.freeserve.co.uk/
http://geocities.com/kernewek101/
http://www.teerhatavaz.org
http://www.hr/hrvatska/language/
http://www.czechprimer.org
http://www.locallingo.com/countries/czech_republic/language/lessons/
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http://www.speakdanish.dk
http://www.eulanguages.net
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong
http://www.learndutch.org/
http://www.speakdutch.nl/
http://www.taalthuis.com
http://www.dutchtrav.com
http://www.gnomjas.nl/html/dutch/
http://sayitindutch.web-log.nl
http://www.foreigndocuments.com/learndutch/
http://learndutch.elanguageschool.net
http://www.valley-trail.com/Dutch_Courses.htm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
http://virtulanguage.com
http://www.zozanga.com
http://www.learn-english.co.il
http://www.beglobalnow.org
http://www.english-language-school.info
http://www.learnenglish-a-z.com
http://www.eslcafe.com/search/Online_English_Courses/
http://www.lernu.net
http://www.esperanto.ca/kurso/
http://www.cursodeesperanto.com.br
http://www.tejo.org/uea/Kurso_De_Esperanto_En_La_Indonezia
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/
http://www.frenchassistant.com
http://www.jump-gate.com/languages/french/
http://www.france-pub.com/french/
http://french.speak7.com
http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp
http://www.henkimaa.nu/finndex/suomea/learning/online.html
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnlang.html
http://www.chiugate.be
http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/FinnishForForeigners/
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/union/1702/course.html
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http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/lessons/
http://www.inac.org/irishlanguage/
http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/brain/lang/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/irish/blas/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/colinandcumberland/
http://www.gaeltalk.net
http://homepage.eircom.net/~eofeasa/
http://www.irishpage.com/irishpeople/
http://www.daltai.com/
http://www.eirefirst.com/lessonintro.html
http://www.erinsweb.com/gae_index.html
http://www.rte.ie/tv/turasteanga/
http://celticwonder.avhp.com/gaelic/
http://www.learnmanx.com
http://www.gaelg.iofm.net
http://homepages.enterprise.net/kelly/FRONT/TCG/menu.html
http://lughtynsagh.blogspot.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/foghlam/beag_air_bheag/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/colinandcumberland/
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/ionnsachadh/bgfp/
http://www.buganda.com/luganda.htm
http://webzone.imer.mah.se/projects/georgianV04/INTRO/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/
http://www.deutsch-lernen.com
http://www.ex.ac.uk/german/abinitio/
http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang_inhalt.htm
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,2547-0-0-S,00.html
http://www.optimnem.co.uk/German.htm
http://virtulanguage.com
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de
http://german.about.com
http://learngerman.elanguageschool.net
http://www.deutschakademie.de/online-deutschkurs/english/
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/platt/kurs/
http://members.terracom.net/~dorothea/david/gothic/
http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/ (Modern/Ancient)
http://www.ilearngreek.com (Modern)
http://www.greece.org/gr-lessons/ (Modern)
http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog/ (Modern)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Greek
(Modern)
http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/ (New Testament)
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgreek/ (Ancient)
http://www.textkit.com (Ancient)
http://www.terere.com/terere/canales/paraguay4u/guaranilanguage/guarani.php
http://utopianvision.co.uk/gujarati/
http://www.ukindia.com/zguj1.htm
http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ynlc/langlessons/gwichin/main.html
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http://www.teachyourselfhausa.com
http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/hltableofcontents.html
http://www.ahapunanaleo.org/eng/learnhawaiian/learn_niuolahiki.html
http://ksdl.ksbe.edu/kulaiwi/
http://www.hebrewonline.com
http://home.t-online.de/home/Mordechai-Pasternak
http://www.hebrewresources.com/onlineclass.html
http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/online
http://www.zigzagworld.com/hebrewforme
http://www.hebraico.pro.br (em português)
http://www.shalom.50megs.com
http://foundationstone.com.au
http://www.learn-hebrew.co.il
http://www.hebrewpodcasts.com
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Island/1479/lesson1.htm
http://www.copewithcytokines.de/NAGATUON/
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/Students/avatans/project.html
http://www.ispeakhindi.com
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/hindi_lessons/lessons.html
http://www.myhinditeacher.com
http://home.unilang.org/courses/hindi/
http://utopianvision.co.uk/hindi/
http://www.magyarora.com
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/d/adr10/hungarian.html
http://www.hungarotips.com/hungarian/
http://impulzus.sch.bme.hu/info/magyar.shtml
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http://www.icelandic.hi.is/coursetest.php
http://www.mentalcode.com/icelandic/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Indonesian/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/
http://cyberitalian.com
http://www.italianforyou.it
http://www.iluss.it/
http://www.italyan.com
http://www.geocities.com/f_pollett/
http://italian.speak7.com
http://learnitalian.elanguageschool.net
http://www.tutorino.ca
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http://www.japanese-online.com
http://www.japanesepod101.com/
http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/
http://japanese.about.com/mmore.htm
http://www.yesjapan.com
http://www.ccet.ua.edu/nihongoweb/
http://learnjapanese.elanguageschool.net
http://www.learn-japanese-kanji-hiragana-katakana.com
http://www.talksushi.com
http://www.jp-lesson.jp
http://www.learn-japanese.net
http://www.japonin.com
http://www.guidetojapanese.org
http://www.sukottorandonosteven.blogspot.com/
http://learn-japanese.podomatic.com
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http://www.kannada-online.info
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kulki/kannada/kanindex.html
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/kannada/
http://home.unilang.org/wiki3/index.php/Kazakhh_Lessons
http://www.geocities.com/bolatkhan/KazLang/kazindex.html
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/
http://www.bongthom.com/AKOnline/selectchapterek.asp
http://www.trussel.com/kir/less01.htm
http://www.ourkarnataka.com/learn_konkani/learn_konkani_main.htm
http://www.mangalorean.com/konkani/archive.php?ltype=Lesson
http://korean.sogang.ac.kr
http://rki.kbs.co.kr/learn_korean/lessons/e_index.htm
http://www.langintro.com/kintro/
http://www.learnkorean.com/
http://www.interedu.go.kr
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Language/korean.cfm
http://www.declan-software.com/korean.htm
http://hangulforest.com/index_e.htm
http://learnkorean.elanguageschool.net
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/kurdish/htdocs/lang/
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http://www.inext.cz/siouan/DRILLS/drills.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Lakota_Iyapi/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/lao/LaoLanguage/Lao_language_fp.htm
http://www.laosoftware.com
http://www.sprachprofi.de.vu
http://www.textkit.com
http://www.mentalcode.com/latin/
http://www.codefusion.com/latvianasp/latonline.asp
http://perso.orange.fr/pascal.grouselle/
http://www.debeselis.net
http://www.slic.org.au/Language/
http://www.oneness.vu.lt/languageschool
http://www.languages.lu/resources/Luxembourgish_free_online_resources.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt7luAXrmmw
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http://www.gasikara.net/Langue.htm
http://pgoh13.free.fr/l2bahasa.php
http://www.maori.org.nz/Kotereo/
http://www.korero.maori.nz/forlearners/
http://www.nzei.org.nz/reo2/
http://www.firstnationhelp.com/ali/
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http://ohui.net/mexica/
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/nahuatl/nahuatllessons/INL-00.html
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mward/nawat/general/html/intro_eng.html
http://www.nepali.info/nepali/lessons/
http://www.sofn.com/norwegian_culture/languagelessons_index.jsp
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http://justin.zamora.com/slavonic/
http://www.orthodoxepubsoc.org/etutorindex.htm
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/ocsol-TC.html
http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/OEsteps/
http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/
http://hem.passagen.se/peter9/gram/
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-TC-X.html
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/portuguese/talk/
http://www.portugueseclasses.com/
http://alfarrabio.um.geira.pt/spl/index.html
http://www.sci.fi/~huuhilo/portuguese/
http://www.geocities.com/email_theguy/newportweb/porthome.htm
http://www.easyportuguese.com
http://www.learningportuguese.co.uk
http://www.learn-to-speak-portuguese.com/free-online-lessons.html
http://learnportuguese.elanguageschool.net/
hhttp://www.apronus.com/polishlessons/lekcje.htm
http://grzegorj.w.interia.pl/kurs/
http://slavic.lang.uiuc.edu/gladney/Elementary_Polish/Start.html
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http://learningrussian.com/
http://masterrussian.com
http://www.waytorussia.net/WhatIsRussia/Russian.html
http://www.russianlessons.net
http://speakrussian.blogspot.com/
http://listen2russian.com/
http://www.tasteofrussian.com
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http://www.serbianschool.com
http://www.funkyserbian.com
http://www.slovak.com/language/
http://www.heartofeurope.co.uk/dictionary.htm
http://www.learnslovak.com
http://simplyput.atspace.com/slovak/
http://www.slovenian.com/Enter/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
http://www.spanish.bz/learn-spanish.htm
http://www.spanishromance.com
http://www.auladiez.com
http://ave.cervantes.es
http://studyspanish.com
http://www.spanishprograms.com/learn.htm
http://www.spanicity.com
http://www.gospanish.net
http://www.rocketspanish.com
http://www.ispanyol.com
http://spanish.speak7.com
http://cela-ve.com/moodle/
http://www.spanish-classes-courses.com/free-online-lessons.html
http://learnspanish.elanguageschool.net
http://www.learn-spanish.co.il
http://www.dspanishclass.com
http://www.spanglishfun.com
http://www.glcom.com/hassan/swahili.html
http://www.jambokenya.com/swahili.html
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/d/adr10/swedish.html
http://www.hhs.se/isa/swedish/
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1290/
http://www.filter.ac.uk/database/insightrecord.php?id=41
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http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/
http://www.tagalog1.com/Index_Lessons.jsp
http://www.tamil-online.info
http://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool/
http://www.duke.edu/~skc9/tamilclass/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/
http://www.learningthai.com
http://www.kisa.ca/thai/
http://www.thai-lessons.com
http://langhub.com
http://www.its4thai.com
http://www.learnthaionline.com
http://learn-thai-podcast.com
http://www.learntibetan.net
http://www.geocities.com/tibetanlanguage/language.html
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~gasmerom/Eritrean_languages/tigre/
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~gasmerom/Eritrean_languages/tigrigna/
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk
http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/tur/
http://www.onlineturkish.com
http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/tur/
http://www.turkishclass.com
http://www.exploreturkish.com
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http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/pub/courses/UFL/
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/4747/ukrlang.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/guide/urdu/
http://www.ukindia.com/zurdu1.htm
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http://www.vietcourses.com/learn/
http://www.vinatown.org/vina-school.html
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/vietnamese/VNMainpage/vietsite/vietsite.htm
http://www.public.asu.edu/~ickpl/vnonline/
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/learnwelsh/
http://www.swan.ac.uk/dace/e-wlpan/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/colinandcumberland/
http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/welsh/Welsh.html
http://www.siaradcymraeg.com
http://www.wolofonline.com
http://www.toutlewolof.com
http://www.chez.com/afroweb/wolo_frm.htm
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Free FSI language courses for Amharic, Arabic, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chinese, Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Lao, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili,
Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese
http://www.fsi-language-courses.com
Language Guide - free online language courses in Spanish, French, German,
Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic and Hebrew
http://www.languageguide.org/
Foreign Languages for Travellers
http://www.travlang.com/languages/
Languages on the web
http://www.languages-on-the-web.com
Language Helpers - Latvian, Russian, Spanish, French and German
http://www.languagehelpers.com
Speak 7 - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish
http://www.speak7.com
Links to many online language courses
http://www.learnplus.com/links.html
Babel Site: learn Occitan, Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Hebrew, Japanese or Turkish: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/babel-site/
South African languages - includes pronunciation, phrases and info about all of the offical languages of South Africa: http://www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang/
Transparent Language - a variety of language learning resources and products,
including courses, games and quizes:
FREE Shipping on orders of $40 at TransparentLanguage.com!
Educational resources for language learning, including worksheets, literature, poems, etc: http://www.optimnem.co.uk/resources.htm
Indo-European Languages - tutorials in French, Italian, Spanish, German Dutch, and many other European languages: http://www.ielanguages.com
Languagelinks.org - includes basic online lessons in Cebuano, Ilocano, Yakan, Tausug and Chavacano: http://www.languagelinks.org
Listen and learn - language lessons for French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and Greek, and links to language schools for these and many other languages: http://www.listenandlearn.org
Study Online - online courses in many languages and other subjects
http://www.study-online.net
101 languages - online courses in Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish: http://www.101languages.net
101 Phrases / Sentences in 20 languages from American Sign Language to Urdu
http://www.linguanaut.com
Transcon - essential words and phrases in French, Kurdish and Iraqi Arabic (with audio)
http://www.transcon.info
Stella - online lessons in English, Danish and Hungarian
http://www.eulanguages.net
Learn Indian languages (includes Bengali, Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala and Urdu): http://www.languageshome.com
Online French, Greek and English lessons
http://www.teachfr.com
Loquela education - online lessons for English (EFL/ESL), Turkish, Spanish, French, German and Japanese
http://www.loquela-education.net
Uz-Translations - free online language learning materials for many languages
http://uztranslations.net.ru/
Teach or Tutor - find an online tutor, or teach online yourself
http://www.teachortutor.com
Basic lessons for children in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and English
http://www.balmitra.com
Digital Dialects - animated activities for language learners
http://www.digitaldialects.com
A1 Online Courses - a guide to online courses and degrees
http://www.a1onlinecourses.com
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International Language School Guide (in Polish and English)
http://www.studiazagraniczne.pl
Internet Course Finders - a database of 10,000 institutions teaching 88 languages in 115 countries: http://www.language-learning.net
LanguageTutors.org - connecting learners and tutors of languages around the world
http://www.languagetutors.org
Eurolingua Institute - study abroad language programmes. Learn to speak like a
native in 35 countries throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, South Africa,
Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Scandinavia and the Caribbean.
http://www.eurolingua.com
Language schools directory
http://www.aboutlanguageschools.com
Language courses, dictionaries, etc.
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