Good and FREE language learnign software?

[Rusty Shackleford]

i know i could google it but ive got a virus that redirects me when i click a search result so i cant really use that function effectively.

anyways.


my main goal is to refresh my german and spanish and possibly try to start punjabi or start over on russian

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I asked around for sources to learn Chinese a little while ago and only got various torrents.I'm not sure there is much around that is legal.

(While this thread is going let me put it out there that if anyone has any sources that can teach beginnings how to write and identify Mandarin Chinese than I would be much appreciative)

[Leonid Brozhnev]

I used to use Busuu.com, it's obviously not software but it's free, though you have to pay for some languages. I think the usual French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian languages are free, I used it for a bit to learn Russian (since you needed pay for Bulgarian), my gf has learned a lot of Italian using the site for free.

[manic expression]

Use this site (http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php)...free and 100% legal downloads of entire textbooks used by the foreign service. Lots of resources for all kinds of languages there.

Here (http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons) is a useful list of podcasts and the like, mostly audio resources.

Best of luck with your studies. :)

[Rooster]

For German, you could try looking at the Goethe Institute's website. I think they have links to lots of language learning sites and stuff.

http://www.goethe.de/enindex.htm

[Nox]

You can easily torrent Rosetta Stone from TPB

[Welshy]

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[RedAnarchist]

Livemocha is a good site that I've used before.

[Rooster]

You can easily torrent Rosetta Stone from TPB

Rosetta Stone isn't really that good, if you ask me. Especially on it's own. It's a very passive way to learn the language which isn't that good. Much better would be to work with a grammar book, with exercises, and use Rosetta Stone as a way to increase vocabulary and pronunciation. The older grammar books are generally the best as they go into, and give you, way more detail than the newer, flashier ones like "learn german in 6 weeks!" etc.

Also, you should try the BBC languages page if you can access it from where you are:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

[Stork]

Livemocha (http://www.livemocha.com)is good too. I'm learning French with them.

[Nox]

Rosetta Stone isn't really that good, if you ask me.

That depends on your learning style.

I find it very easy to link words with pictures so I find Rosetta Stone very good, however it is also very very very repetitive and boring at times.