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Isnt rosetta stone a paid service ? LM was free if i remember. what alternative is there as free service for learning languages ?
by camus 14y ago
Isnt rosetta stone a paid service ? LM was free if i remember. what alternative is there as free service for learning languages ?
- nodata 14y agowww.duolingo.com is utterly excellent, particularly if you know bits of a language already.
- tsuan 14y agothanks nodata, people should try us! we know that duolingo works for both beginners and more advanced students alike.
- nodata 14y agotsuan: I'm recommending you left, right and center :) One request please: could you make your login form save the password?
- njr123 14y agoI found that duolingo is actually not that good for advanced students - everything I saw on there seemed to be focused on learning by translating phrases into English. Thats pretty distracting once you get past a certain level.
- camus 14y agonice ! i'll check it out. please dont hesitate, if you know other (cheap or free) language learning online services , share them ;)
- diminish 14y agoverbling is a good idea, moving forward..
- analog 14y agoI've used Transparent recently and would recommend it. Not free but a lot cheaper than Rosetta Stone at $29 per month. They have a free offering called Byki as well which I haven't tried.
- philfreo 14y agoCheck out Quizlet - http://quizlet.com http://quizlet.com
- sequoia 14y agohttp://noexcuselist.com/everything http://noexcuselist.com/everything See the "Languages" section. I've used duolingo for Spanish review; it's pretty good. Honestly the best thing about it is the UX: you get little bite-sized exercises you can go thru as fast or slow as you want, review, etc., so it's easy to squeeze into a 10-20min/day block. The main weaknesses are a) the examples are arithmetically generated so sometimes you get "My horse only eats milk" or something as an example sentence (it's usually pretty good tho), and b) you don't get a deep grammar review, it's just lots of little examples & practices. The latter point could be seen as a "pro" depending on your learning style.
- loevborg 14y agoTry http://www.babbel.com http://www.babbel.com
- kmfrk 14y agoAlso works offline and includes dictation exercises now. Great software.
- camus 14y agothere is also this app with some kind of african name i cant remember , i've seen that on techcrunch but i cant find it again , if anyone knows ;)
- kablamo 14y agoI built http://iijo.org http://iijo.org. Its free and does Chinese flashcards and uses spaced repetition. You can build vocab lists from a built in dictionary. You can also directly search the dictionary: http://iijo.org/dictionary http://iijo.org/dictionary. And the code is on github: https://github.com/kablamo/iijo.org https://github.com/kablamo/iijo.org
- jfoster 14y agoThere's tonnes, but almost all are over promising and under delivering.
- maurits 14y agoAlthough not specific for languages, memrise.com has flashcards for a handfull of languages. It also remembers what you got wrong and reiterates accordingly.
- cj 14y agoTake a look at http://verbling.com http://verbling.com