Web 2.0

Learning French Online

French Speakers Map

Two Excellent French Resources

Free Language has put together two excellent resources to guide people in knowing how to learn French online.

One is a mega-page full of everything needed for learning about how to learn French online. It covers, podcasts, video podcasts, news, Web TV, software and more.

The other is a roughly ten-minute video entitled "How to Learn French Online for Free" which you can also watch below.

The days of one-stop language learning solutions are over. Your French does not exist in a vacuum. These days you bring together what you need to learn the French you want to speak. You can manage this by basing your studies on the kinds of things you want to read, hear, talk about and perhaps see.

Podcasts are a great way to learn languages because you can take the audio with you and learn anywhere, any time, as often as required or desired.

Free French Podcast

Learn French with FrenchPod FrenchPod podcasts are professionally produced and updated daily, and the full package includes practical transcriptions, vocabulary lists and online learning tools. All in all, FrenchPod has proven to be highy effective and practical way to use technology and Web 2.0 to learn French.

Read Free Language's review article on FrenchPod.

Learning French Video

French Links from Video

General Resources

http://freelanguage.org/french
http://www.uni.edu/becker/french31.html
http://www.mindzeit.com/learnspeakfrenchlanguageonline.php
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/index.html
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/index.html
http://frenchpod.com

Radio and News

http://sites.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/accueil
http://www.rfi.fr
http://www.listenlive.eu/france.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/tv
http://www.france24.com/fr

Kids, Activities and Games

http://lexiquefle.free.fr
http://www.hello-world.com/resource/free.php

Free French Software

Byki Free Language Software Downloads Logo

Byki is freeware for learning the basics of 74 languages, including French as well as many less-commonly taught languages.

There is an optional upgrade to the commercial product available if you want to continue. The free software works on Windows and Mac.

Read Free Language's article on Byki.

Learning German Online

German Language Map

Free Language has just put together a mega-page full of everything needed for learning about how to learn German online. It covers, podcasts, video podcasts, news, Web TV, software and more.

The days of one-stop language learning solutions are over. Your German does not exist in a vacuum. These days you bring together what you need to learn the German you want to speak. You can manage this by basing your studies on the kinds of things you want to read, hear, talk about and perhaps see.

Podcasts are a great way to learn languages because you can take the audio with you and learn anywhere, any time, as often as required or desired.

From beginner to advanced levels, GermanPod101.com is an excellent, all-around online environment for learning German. The Pod101 platform, method and technology provide the necessary tools to get you immersed in the German language and achieve the goals you desire and/or require.

GermanPod101.com Learn German Podcast

GermanPod101.com is web-based, allowing you to access your personal German Learning Center from anywhere, and it's really easy to download the podcasts and put them on your mp3 player (iPod, Zune, etc) or mobile phone to take them with you for practise and learning on-the-fly.

Read Free Language's review article on GermanPod101.

Conscious Streams Begin

Conscious Streams

Streams of Consciousness

Streams have just been added to this site, allowing you to quickly find cool and new information on a variety of site-related topics, all right here.

Site topics include consciousness, free music, free software, synthesizers and the unrev.org network.

The Streams

Check out our five current streams, with more coming:

unrev: all things in the unrev.org Web Entelechy
Free Music: Latest free music streams from across the web.
Free Software: Latest free software streams from across the web.
Consciousness: Latest consciousness streams from across the web.
Synthesizers: Latest synthesizer-related streams from across the web.

Another Conscious Manifestation: cmanifestations.net rev5

Once again, Conscious Manifestations has reinvented itself! Now it's all about simplicity - let's get straight to the point.

cmanifestations.net rev5 logo

If you want to see how this site has looked in the years since initial launch in 2004, check out the Wayback Machine from archive.org, the Internet Archive.

Nine Newsletters in, Free Language is Going Strong

With the ninth newsletter (below) out, Free Language is moving into language-learning directory status! -->

Free Language Newsletter

Welcome to the Ninth Edition of The Free Language Letter.

30 new free resources for 14 languages (4 new!) have been added to the site. There are now 343 resources available for 34 languages.

Free Language Letter Version Seven for Foreign Language Learners

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Free Language Newsletter Welcome to the Seventh Edition of The Free Language Letter. Lots has happened since the Sixth Edition. 45 new free resources for 19 languages have been added to the site. See below for language-learning videos, multilingual podcasting, free software downloads, tools, browser extensions, OpenCourseWare, online communities and more.

New! Social Language-Learning Resource Section

Social Language Learning Social language learning has become incredibly popular on the web as it has transcended language barriers in previously impossible ways. For example, right now someone in Russia could be waiting to teach you Russian in exchange for your English skills. Or maybe your native language is Spanish and you want to learn Mandarin Chinese - there's someone out there for that as well! In fact, chances are there are hundreds or even thousands of potential language partners with whom you can achieve your collective language learning goals in a symbiotic fashion... Visit the Social Foreign Language Learning Resource Section. Below you will find the most recent additions to the social learning section. LiveMocha.com Live Mocha Social Language Learning Course and Networking Website MyHappyPlanet.com My Happy Planet Private Social Language-Learning Community italki.com Free Skype VoIP and IM Language Partner Community Dickinson College's Language-Exchanges.org Mixxer Free Skype Language Exchange Community Lingopass.com Free Global Language Exchange Community VoxSwap.com VoxSwap Online Instant Message and Voice Social Foreign Language Exchange with Forums and Groups

Spanish Leads the Way

Spanish Speaking World As a new phase of information architecture unfolds at Free Language, Spanish is the first language to have an overview homepage. This is where you'll find a taste of the different Spanish language learning resources on the site in a nutshell. Visit the Spanish homepage on Free Language.
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