Free Foreign Language at Many Libraries

My kids and I have sampled every single Spanish  language lessons we could find.  Some we paid for dearly.  Some were free.  Hands down, we found that Mango Languages was a great program for my homeschoolers to learn foreign languages, and they have everything under the sun from Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin to Slovak, Urdu and Pirate.

*If you are wondering how to get this for free, I am glad to tell you that most public libraries offer Mango Language online through their websites.  All you need is a library card and pin number to sign in.


~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom

Foreign Language Video Lessons at Learners TV

 If you are looking for a good program to help you learn a foreign language check out Learners TV. 

There are 173 lectures on Japanese that are 1-6 minutes long.
There are  78 Korean Lectures that are 6-58 minutes long
 There are 102 Spanish Lectures that are 3-8 minutes long
There are 22 English Language lessons that are 4 - 173 mintes long that can strengthen your English Grammar
There are even American Slang lessons that probably won't qualify and a homeschool course.... unless you are really creative, but it's still fun.  The are 28 videos that are 2-4 minutes long.






~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom

Learn Real Spanish, and other languages too

Some time back, I fell in love with a Learn Spanish Movie type curriculum, but my kids were like... KILL ME. They thought it was sooooo BORING. It was about a decade or so outdated... a tela novella of sorts, so we moved on.

I just came across a similar program that is alot more fresh and exciting and I can't wait to show it to them. It is Mi Vida Loca Spanish. Available through the BBC, Mi Vida Loca allows the user to learn by "living" the drama to learn Spanish in 22 interactive episodes. Very cool.

By the way, BBC Spanish has similar programs for other languages as well.


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Spanish Video Lessons on YouTube

In a search to find an free alternative to Rosetta Stone, here is what I found.

http://www.youtube.com/user/tontitofrito
Free Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 videos by tonito frito. These videos do a great job of explaining Spanish grammar. Spanish 2 is still in progress.


http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=thespanishblog
The Spanish blog has comprehensive list of videos to help with Spanish Pronunciations. There are 145 video in all with more being added regularly. This person also teaches online classes and has a blog to accompany the videos, but I had a hard time finding lessons to correspond to each video.

http://www.youtube.com/user/languagenow
Professor Jason has Spanish Videos that teach grammar, and pronunciation. This is college level. Probably good for CLEP study.

http://www.youtube.com/user/masterspanish#play/uploads/35/LmxChW6Zgyg
Learn Phrases and sentences with Masterspanish's youtube videos. There was to be 40 beginners Spanish Lessons in all (according to the maker of these videos). Right now there are 36 out of 40.



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Free World Language Tutorials

MERLOT World Languages Portal is an educational resource for teaching and learning languages. This website seems a little rough, as in the parent will have to fish around a bit to find the right tutorials, but in it includes mp3 and video streams that will help them hear and learn to speak the languages.

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Free Spanish Flashcards

You can join the website for 9.99 a year, or download free flashcards
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Learn to speak Spanish confidentally and naturally in less than 3 months.