Free Foreign Language Lessons/외국어 무료학습

A great way to learn 37 languages for free. Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Russian and much more. You can listen to all audio lessons on your computer and mp3 player. Download and you’re good to go.

Learn a New Language in the New Year

Arabic

Arabic Language Lessons
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The US Peace Corps serves up 10 lessons that will teach you the Arabic spoken in Jordan. The web site includes a useful transcript.

ArabicPod
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Includes mp3 podcasts and PDF transcripts.

Survival Phrases Arabic
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Provides the essentials you’ll need to get around.

The Arabic Circle at the University of Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies
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While not offering language lessons per se, the University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern studies offers weekly lectures in Arabic that include social, cultural and academic investigations of the Arabic speaking world. Students will find it handy for practicing their comprehension.The Arabic PodClass Feed Web Site

The Arabic PodClass
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A fledgling podcast that’s worth a look.

Bulgarian

Bulgarian Survival Phrases
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Catalan

One Minute Catalan
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A good way to get going with a language still spoken by some 12 million people, many living in Northeast Spain.


Chinese

Cantonese Lessons
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This is a very fledgling Cantonese language series. It has one lesson so far. So we’ll have to see if this is for real. In the meantime, please let us know if you find a richer collection of Cantonese lessons.

Chinese Learn Online
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A dialogue-based introduction to Mandarin Chinese. Load them on your iPod and get up the Chinese curve.

Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk
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Weekly lessons in Mandarin that get very strong reviews from iTunes users..

Chinesepod.com
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A series of well-reviewed lessons that will let you learn Mandarin on your own terms.

CSLPod
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Here, native Mandarin speakers teach you Chinese as a second language. Audio and transcripts are available on the website. The podcast also places an emphasis on understanding Chinese culture.

iMandarinPod.com
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A more advanced podcast, this series of lessons teaches Chinese by talking about Chinese culture or what is happening today in China.

LearnChinesePod.com
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A Mandarin language podcast taught by Yao in New York City.

Mandarin Chinese
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10 Lessons by the US Peace Corps. Make sure you visit the site and download the pdf that accompanies the lessons.

Popup Chinese
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Offers lessons for beginners and also students at intermediate and advanced levels. In addition to language lessons, Popup Chinese provides annotated short stories, HSK test prep materials and a variety of speaking and listening exercises. They broadcast out of Beijing, and all voice actors speak the standard northern dialect.

Survival Chinese
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Learn the phrases you need to get by while traveling in China.

Danish

Dare to Danish
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This is not your usual series of language lessons. Here, a “dirty Dane” teaches you “stupid phrases and more.”

One Minute Danish
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We get a lot of requests (believe it or not) for Danish. So here’s another useful podcast created by the One Minute series.

Dutch

Laura Speaks Dutch
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A series of podcasts that will help you travel to Holland. It’s worth checking out the accompanying web site.


English


Business English
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Learn the English you will need to function effectively in an American business environment.

English as a Second Language Podcast
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A very well liked collection of ESL lessons. Over 100 episodes in the collection.

ESL Business News
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A weekly podcast of international business news read in slow, clear English. Listen to the podcast and follow along in the accompanying script.

French

Easy French Poetry Podcast
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A French as a second language Podcast, using poetry as a topic for discussion using everyday conversational French.

Learn French With Alexa/French for Beginners
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Fun, effective lessons for beginners. Provided by the French Ecole.

FrenchPod.com
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A series of well-reviewed lessons that will let you learn French on your own terms. FrenchPod currently offers free podcasts on a schedule of 5 per week with extra shows on the weekend. The podcasts are accompanied by text expansion exercises and other tutoring aids.

Le Journal en français facile
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Nightly news from RFI presented in slowly spoken French to assist you with your comprehension.

Learn French by Podcast
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A well-reviewed series of lessons for beginners and those who want to brush up on their French.

Learn French with Coffee Break French
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The producers of the very popular Coffee Break Spanish now offer a podcast that will teach you French.

Learn French with Daily Podcasts
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These lessons are brought to you by French teachers from Paris. They are best suited for those who already have some beginning French under their belts.

Ma France
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The BBC offers 24 video podcasts that will teach you French.

Mali French
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The Peace Corps teaches you some of the French spoken in Mali.

The French Pod Class
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A very popular collection that teaches students the French language and different facets of French culture.



German


Deutsch – warum nicht?
An extensive collection of introductory German podcasts put together by Deutsche Welle.
Part 1 iTunes
Part 2 iTunes
Part 3 iTunes
Part 4 iTunes

GermanPod 101
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Offers materials for beginners, intermediate and advanced.

German Podcast.de
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GerGermanGrammar
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German grammar lessons aimed at American students.

Lernen Wir Deutsch
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Presented in video, these “vodcasts” get high marks for being not only educational but also very entertaining.

MyDailyPhrase.com
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Learn German phrase by phrase over a course of 20 weeks. The podcasts will cover all the language you need to know to get by on a visit to a German-speaking country. This series is put together by the same people created the popular series “Coffee Break Spanish.”

One Minute German
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Presented by the Radio Lingua Network

Slow German
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Annik Rubens reads slowly and clearly from parts of her popular podcast, Sleepless in Munich (Schaflos in Munchen).

Slowly Spoken News
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Deutsche Welle provides a nightly news broadcast in German that’s spoken slowly so that you can work on your comprehension.

Greek

Learning Greek
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From the Hellenic American Union, these lessons will teach students Modern Greek. For those who already have some foundation in the language.

Hebrew

Elementary Hebrew
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The audio and video files come from a course taught in a seminary.

Hebrew Vocab Pronunciations
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Here you get straightforward pronunciations of words in Hebrew.
And, by the way, you can find a good resource to learn Biblical Hebrew vocabulary here. Web Site

Hindi

I Speak Hindi
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Covers essential words and phrases that you need for your trip to India. There are also Beginner Hindi lessons for those that want to seriously start to learn the language.

Learn Hindi from Bollywood Movies
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This looks like a fun approach to learning a language.

Namaste Dosti – The Learn Hindi Podcast
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There are few options when it comes to learning Hindi via podcast, so the podcast author decided to fill the void.

Hungarian

Let’s Learn Hungarian
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Learn with Steve or Gyorgyi, a native speaker.

Indonesian

Learning Indonesian
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A complete online Indonesian course geared towards developing conversational fluency in the Indonesian Language.

Irish

One Minute Irish
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Italian

ItalianPod.com
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A series of well-reviewed lessons that will let you learn Italian on your own terms.

LearnItalianPod.com
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A series of Italian language lessons that will get you up and running. I have personally used them and found them effective.

Let’s Speak Italian
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This collection will help you learn Italian in small, manageable 5-minute bites.

MyDailyPhrase.com
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Learn Italian step by step over a course of 20 weeks. The podcasts will cover all the language you need to know to get by on a visit to a Italian-speaking country. Created by the same people who put together the popular series “Coffee Break Spanish.”

World Languages Podcasting – Italian Podcast
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It’s admittedly a bit of an untraditional way to learn Italian. This podcast lets you listen to conversations about Australian culture in Italian.

Japanese

Japanese Class (Video)
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These videocasts from the Kyoto Japanese Language School get strong reviews. They use video effectively to demonstrate how to write in Japanese.

JapanesePod101.com
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Over 100 quality lessons aimed at the beginner. Users give it high marks.

Learn Japanese
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Japancast teaches Japanese using lessons from anime and everyday conversation.

Learn Japanese Symbols
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These lessons teach students how to work with Japanese symbols, such as Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana.

Survival Phrases
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Learn the must-know phrases for traveling in Japan.

Korean

Kimchigirls
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An option that looks to have more promise.

Survival Phrases
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Gets the phrases that will get you by.

Latin

Latinum
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The Latin Language Learning Podcast from London.

Nightly News in Latin
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“Nuntii Latini – News in Latin – is a weekly review of world news in Classical Latin, the only international broadcast of its kind in the world, produced by YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

Lithuanian

Lithuanian Out Loud
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Offers beginners, intermediate and advanced lessons.

Luxembourgish

One Minute Luxembourgish
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Another niche language covered by the Radio Lingua Network.

Maori

Toku Reo
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Learn Maori, the language of New Zealand’s indigenous people. Although these lessons accompany a television programme that is currently running, the essential bits of the episodes are available to be watched right here on this site. The course starts at square 1. Site includes video podcasts. Another useful site for learning the grammar can be found here.

Norwegian

One Minute Norwegian
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Learn Norwegian in minutes with the Radio Lingua Network.

Polish

One Minute Polish
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Another podcast provided by the Radio Lingua Network.

Portuguese

Brazilian PodClass
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Ta Falado: Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation for Spanish Speakers
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Created by the Texas Language Technology Center in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UT-Austin.

Romanian

Learn Romanian
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A quick way to learn Romanian survival phrases to help you on your journey.

One Minute Romanian
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Quick lessons by the creators of the One Minute language series.

Russian

A Spoonful of Russian
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A Taste of Russian
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This “isn’t a boring Grammar course, it is a real chat on different topics which can be heard in everyday life. It is a chance to listen to the native speakers talking at home, at work, at the shop, at the party, etc.”

Business Russian
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Presented by the UCLA Center for World Languages, this series teaches students the essentials of Russian business communication.

Russian (Kazahk)
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No Borat jokes. Learn some Kazahk style Russian from the Peace Corps. Be sure to download the accompanying PDF file.

Russian Literature
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Also presented by UCLA, this podcast helps users improve their comprehension and vocabulary by listening to excerpts from Tolstoy, Gogol, Chekhov and other Russian literary greats.

One Minute Russian
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RussianPod101
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Helps you learn Russian and Russian culture at your convenience.

Spanish

Cody’s Cuentos
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A Spanish-language podcast of classic fairy tales and legends. The fact that you probably already know the story in English will aid your comprehension of understanding the tale in Spanish.

Coffee Break Spanish
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Learn Spanish in a low-key, effective way. Currently the #2 overall favorite in iTunes’ podcast collection. They must be loaded on iPods everywhere.

Finally Learn Spanish – Beyond the Basics
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If you’ve had some Spanish classes and you need experience listening to and speaking the language, then Finally Learn Spanish has a collection of podcasts for you.

Insta Spanish Lessons
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Weekly comprehension and grammar exercises for students of all levels. One of the more popular podcasts on iTunes.

Learn Spanish at SpanishPod101
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A podcast created by teams from 5 Spanish speaking countries.

Learn Spanish Survival Guide
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If you’re planning a trip to a Spanish speaking country, and if you don’t know the language, this will help get you up to speed.

Learn to Speak Spanish
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Learn to speak Spanish in just 15 minutes per day.

LingusTV
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A unique entry into the instructional language podcasts arena. It’s an educational video podcast done in the form of a television sit-com (situation comedy), laugh track included. While the actors speak solely in Spanish, Spanish subtitles are provided and explanations of vocabulary and grammar points are provided on the web site.

Notes in Spanish
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Produced by Ben Curtis and Marina Diez, a husband-and-wife team out of Madrid, Spain. Ben is British and Marina is Spanish and they too have built quite a large following for their conversational Spanish podcasts, (for beginners, intermediates and advanced students), which promise to teach listeners “real Spanish” the way it is actually spoken every day in Spain.

Rojas Spanish Language
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“No English is spoken here. These podcasts are for the Intermediate and Advanced Spanish Speaker who would like to sharpen their Spanish skills. The fine points of the language will be presented and explored through a variety of topics to include; music, history, culture, food.”

SpanishPod
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A series of well-reviewed lessons that will let you learn Spanish on your own terms.

SpanishPod101
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Distinguishes itself from other currently available instructional podcasts by providing lessons that feature different accents from around the Spanish-speaking world. Dialogues are repeated multiple times and an English translation is provided, to further aid learning.

Spanish Podcasts for Beginners
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Podcasts recorded by native Spanish speakers with clear explanations in English.

Voices en Español
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Geared toward more advanced students, this podcast features an interview in Spanish with a native speaker from Spain, Latin America or the U.S. It’s also accompanied by a bilingual blog that includes weekly Spanish grammar tips.

Swedish

Klartext
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News in easy-to-understand Swedish.

Learn Swedish with SwedishLingQ
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Our readers have been waiting for Swedish lessons to come along. Here it finally is.

Swedish Survival Phrases
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From the makers of the Survival Phrases series.

Tagalog

Viloria.com Pinoy Podcast
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Learn to speak Tagalog to give you the advantage when you travel to the Philippines.

Thai

Learn Thai Podcast: Free English Thai Audiolearning Course
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Apparently the lessons are good, but they’ve been having some technical problems and not all podcasts are always available.Vietnamese

Vietnamese

Survival Phrases
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You get the gist from the title. Learn here some phrases that will help you survive in Vietnam.

Yiddish

Millie’s Yiddish Class
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Learn Yiddish via video
General How-To/어학모음창고

The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
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This website directory, which is part of the WWW Virtual Library System, features over 2000 carefully selected, annotated links in 37 international affairs categories. The site offers a great way to understand our changing world, but it also includes its own section of language learning resources여기
, and it includes sections dedicated to Spanish여기, French 여기and German여기.
Teach Yourself a Foreign Language
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This program discusses how to go about learning a foreign language on your own. Some people liked it, some didn’t. Check it out and judge for yourself.