Posts filed under ‘Podcasts’
Learn French on the go with this iPhone app!
If you are learning French, and own an iPhone, you might be interested in this app.
According to French Culture,
The recently-released TV5MONDE iPhone app is specially designed to supplement the 26 minute-long TV news magazine, “7 jours sur la planète” (7 Days on Earth), a popular program airing every Saturday morning on TV5MONDE from September through June. Each week’s show highlights major world current events in French and also includes French subtitles, helping the program reach larger audiences with varying levels of French.“7 jours sur la planète” is available to watch online, and viewers can also access a number of fun activities on the website to help dive deeper into the French language. The iPhone app aims to help users learn 30 new words each week relating to the most relevant and pressing issues of the week, and also features games like word searches, anagrams, and quizzes to encourage the assimilation of new words and a better understanding of each week’s broadcast.
More info can be obtained from the TV5Monde website or from the iTunes store.
Language resources (German, Italian, Mandarin)
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Chinese Grammar Aids and Lessons, Chinese Culture, Test your level of Chinese!
Grammar / Listening / Reading resources
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Electronic Books Online: Public Domain Texts
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“Welcome to our online newspaper pages, featuring online news, magazines, journals and other electronic print formats from countries all over the world!”
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Internet Radio and TV News – Listen to online radio news and information and practice your language!“Welcome to our online radio pages, featuring a listing of online news radio, talk, information programs, and music programs featuring music in the native language to practice your understanding of foreign languages.”
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“Welcome to our online radio pages, featuring a listing of online news radio, talk, information programs, and music programs featuring music in the native language to practice your understanding of foreign languages.”
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“We have gathered together here a number of free French language lessons and language courses for those learning French, along with some other French language resources, such as French online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets, dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.”
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“We have gathered together here a number of free German language lessons and language courses for those learning German, along with some other German language resources, such as German online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets.”dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.
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Easy learning French resources. Includes a very good verb table!
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Easy Learning Dictionary Resources – German
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Online resources for learning German. Includes German crosswords to print out or complete online, & other interactive language exercises
Language resources (French)
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Learn French by Podcast is an exciting series of French lessons for everybody. Work with high-quality audio podcasts in your own time and at your own pace.
Language resources (French, German, Japanese, Spanish)
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Learn French Online for Free with ielanguages.com: Phrases, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation, & Listening Resources
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Ma France will help you improve or brush up your basic French with the help of Stéphane Cornicard and 24 interactive video units. The language you’ll learn is spoken and up-to-date. It will help you to deal with a range of practical situations and conversational topics: Directions, dating, house-buying, food and wine etc
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This glossary is designed as a guide for people learning the grammar of either german, and it may be useful for people studying other languages as well, especially languages of Indo-European origin. To explain each grammatical term, examples are given in both german and English, where applicable.
Language resources (Latin, various foreign language podcasts)
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Useful videos for learning Latin.
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This tutorial is a beginners’ guide to the Latin used in documents between 1086 and 1733. It is the first online tutorial to help you learn the Latin from this period.
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A list of podcasts to help in learning foreign languages.
Pimsleur podcasts
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Learn to speak and understand various foreign languages with these audiobooks (some are for free)
Language resources (German, Japanese)
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Basic Japanese lessons, Including grammar & pronunciation.
French (Basic)
Learn French for free online from https://www.jefrench.com
Here are 2 videos of basic French.
