Free Online Foreign Language Courses

November 29, 2006 By Jonathan Ping 9 Comments
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Here’s a great find – learn a new language for free (well, your taxes may have paid for it) at FSI Language Courses:

These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. It is an independent effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages.

Included are Arabic, Cambodian, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. If you have problems downloading like I did, try using Internet Explorer and Right Click > “Save File As…”. The audio should show up in mp3 format. Thanks to DumbLittleMan for the tip.

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Comments

  1. John says
    November 29, 2006 at 1:15 pm

    Wie ist das wetter heute?

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  2. Jonathan says
    November 29, 2006 at 4:50 pm

    Es ist heute sehr kalt. Ich ben?tige neue Hosen.

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  3. Canadian Money Blogs Reviewer says
    November 30, 2006 at 5:10 am

    Seems like a good site. I find it slightly misleading though that they say the courses were developed by the government without saying who’s supporting the site (not the government unless I’ve missed it). Not a big deal, but if you know who’s behind it, I’d be curious to know.

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  4. Gregory says
    November 30, 2006 at 6:56 am

    Und einen warmen Pullover.

    Reply
  5. sfmoneymusings says
    November 30, 2006 at 9:46 am

    Great tip! I was looking to increase my fluency in Mandarin! If I combine this with possible courses at the local college, I might just reach my goal of becoming fluent in a year! Thanks!

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  6. Jimmy b says
    December 1, 2006 at 10:29 am

    The Beeb also offers nicely designed, free online courses in a variety of linguistic flavors…

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

    jb

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  7. Rich says
    February 23, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    Re: Canadian Money Blogs Reviewer

    A quick whois lookup shows the current register of any domain.

    http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=fsilanguagecourses&tld=com

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  8. Dog says
    May 9, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    IMO it’s so difficult to learn new languages as people are getting older.

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  9. Matty says
    November 8, 2007 at 7:44 am

    The FSI links are dead.

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