Lingua.ly Releases a Mobile App for Learning a New Language

Lingua.ly is a free language learning service that initially launched as a Chrome app. This week Lingua.ly released an Android app (iOS com...

The European Word Translator Puts Language Into Geographic Context

The European Word Translator is a map and translation tool created by UK Data Explorer. Type a word or phrase into the map's search too...

Lingualy Helps You Learn a Language While Browsing the Web

Lingualy is a free Google Chrome extension designed to help you learn a new language while browsing the web. With Lingualy installed anytim...

40 Free and Open Course for Learning a New Language

When I was in high school we had the choice of studying Spanish or French to meet our foreign language requirement. I distinctly remember te...

Learn a Language On the Go With Duolingo Mobile Apps

On the first day of the year I reviewed the free language learning service Duolingo . To learn a new language on Duolingo you read, listen ...

10 Good Sites & Apps for Learning a New Language

Last summer I took a short trip to Iceland. Before I went I tried to learn a couple of phrases (I wasn't terribly successful, my mouth j...

Vocabla - Learn English and Spanish

Vocabla is a service for learning English, Spanish, and Polish vocabulary. The service can be used online or with the free iPhone and Andro...

Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction Offers Hundreds of Drawings

Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction is a free gallery of images hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library....

Two Virtual Keyboards for World Languages Students

This post was prompted by an email I received from a reader this evening. Type It is a free online program for typing accent marks and othe...

Duolingo's Updated App Allows You To Learn a New Language Anywhere

On the first day of 2013 I encouraged you to try Duolingo to learn a new language. Duolingo is a free service designed to help students le...

Surface Languages - Learn 38 Languages

Surface Languages is a free service offering flashcards and practice activities to help students learn the basics of a new language. Surfac...

Use Duolingo to Learn a New Language in the New Year

Duolingo is a free language learning service and app that I wrote about a couple of times in 2012. Just before the end of 2012 Duolingo add...

Verbling - Learn a New Language in a Google+ Hangout

Verbling is a language learning service that launched back in July. When it launched its purpose was to match native speakers of Spanish a...

Use Duolingo to Learn a New Language on the Go

Duolingo is a free service that aims to help you learn Spanish, French, German, or Portuguese. Recently, Duolingo launched an iPhone app (i...

Activities for Learning 60 Languages

Digital Dialects has a large selection of educational games and activities for learning sixty different languages. Most of the games are de...

Image-based Language Lessons

A few years ago I wrote about using CAPL (Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon) as a resource for locating images to use in language less...

SoundCloud Adds Track Editing to Mobile Apps

SoundCloud , one of my top five alternatives to Aviary , has just released a nice update to their iPad and Android apps. The apps already al...

Spanish Is Your Amigo - Video Lessons for Beginners

Spanish Is Your Amigo is a new series of video lessons taught by Kristen Williams. The lessons are designed for beginners. The short, upbea...

Using SoundCloud in a Language Course

SoundCloud is a free tool for creating and sharing sound tracks. On Monday I included it in my list of alternatives to Aviary . Today, I sh...

Try Duolingo to Learn Spanish, German, and French

Duolingo is a free site on which you can learn Spanish, German, and French. To learn on Duolingo you read, listen to, and translate words a...