You Can Learn a New Foreign Language Free Online
Free Online Lessons in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and More

Did you know there are free foreign language lessons online? You can learn a new language and feel at home wherever you live or travel. When you learn the local language, you can share more experiences in a foreign country. Even a little bit of a new language helps you to explain yourself, order food, read maps, join in the singing, and really get to know people better.

You can learn any of the hundreds of new foreign languages with free online lessons: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. Free language lessons in Arabic, Finnish, Dutch, Japanese, Hindi, Korean, Russian and Swedish are just a small sample of the what is available.

These free foreign language lessons open the door to another culture. You'll have more confidence on your travels when you can have real conversations with the people you meet. When you learn a foreign language, the world can become a very interesting place. Here are places online that offer free foreign language lessons, where you can learn a new foreign language.

1. Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State
2. Free video foreign language lessons on YouTube.com
3. Free language lessons on audio and pdf at Wikibooks.org
4. Learn a foreign language with free lessons on podcasts at iTunes.com from Apple
5. The website podcast.com has a million episodes of free audio and video foreign language lessons
6. Learn a new language at Livemocha.com, offering both free and paid foreign language courses in 35 languages
7. Take a free foreign language lesson at Trymango.com, a commercial site that offers your first lesson free.

Learn Free Foreign Language Lessons From the Foreign Service Institute

For a comprehensive set of free foreign language lessons to learn, visit http://fsi-language-courses.org. The courses were created by the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. The lessons are in the public domain, and are provided free by this independent website. This site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity. It is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. The courses are created for English-speaking people who want to learn other languages. These foreign language courses are comprehensive, quality lesson materials. The lessons are audio files in MP3 format, which you can listen to with Windows Media Player or any MP3 player. There is a PDF text that follows the spoken lesson, so you can see the words in the foreign language and in English.

You can learn numerous foreign languages free here, including some I've never heard: Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chinese, Chinyanja, Czech, Finnish, French, Fula, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kirundi, Kituba, Korean, Lao, Lingala, Luganda, Moré, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Sinhala, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Vietnamese and Yoruba.

Learn a Foreign Language, Free Lessons at YouTube

Many free foreign language lessons are available on YouTube.com. As an example, search the site for free French lessons. About 10,100 results show up, on introductory and intermediate levels. A search for German lessons returned about 5,320 results. A search for Vietnamese lessons returned about 427 results. And a search for free Turkish lessons returned about 1,060 results.

Naturally there are many teachers, and the approaches vary, but the presentations are very good. The running time of each language video is less than 10 minutes. Video lessons show the English and foreign language vocabulary words on screen for you. And all videos on YouTube are free. I think you'll enjoy learning a foreign language for free with YouTube.

Learn a Foreign Language, Free Lessons at Wikibooks

Wikibooks.org offers free foreign language lessons online. Wikibooks is a branch of wikipedia.org, created entirely by volunteers. The site has a comprehensive group of free language lessons either completed or partially completed. You can learn from the lessons online or print out the PDF book. With each group of new vocabulary words, there is an audio player on the screen to pronounce the words for you. These are comprehensive courses with multiple levels. They include a high-quality PDF version you can print out as a free textbook. To get started, from the wikibooks home page, click on English, and on the next page, click on Languages in the top menu. No registration or email address is required.

Learn a Foreign Language With iTunes Free Podcasts

iTunes.com from Apple has a section for free podcasts, including free foreign language lessons. What’s a podcast? Much like a radio or TV show, it’s a video or audio series on any topic. You’ll find podcasts from independent creators, as well as big names such as HBO, NPR and ESPN. To use the resources, you will need iTunes software on your computer. You can download this software for free. Apple asks for your email address, but you don't actually have to provide it to get the download. With iTunes open, click the top menu for podcasts. There are hundreds of thousands of them.

In the right-hand column called Podcast Quicklinks you'll find Language Learning. For example, in French alone, there are 23 series of free foreign language lessons to choose from. Most of the language lessons are in audio format, rather than video. Click the title of a lesson to see how many episodes are available. When you choose episodes, they download automatically and are stored in the iTunes library on your computer. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Learn a Foreign Language With Free Podcasts

You can learn a new foreign language at the website podcast.com. It has a million episodes of free audio and video content provided by third parties. A podcast is simply an audio or video set of language lessons available on the Internet for you to listen to or watch. The podcasts are free, but registration and email address are required. YouTube has many more foreign language lessons than podcast.com. But I really enjoyed watching Italian for Kids, a set of foreign language video lessons by and for kids, while I learned the Italian vocabulary words for body parts, grocery shopping, Christmas, school, cars and astronomy. These videos run just a few minutes each, and are a marvelous introduction to the elements of a new foreign language.

Learn a Foreign Language Lessons at Livemocha

Livemocha.com is an online language learning community. The site offers free and paid online foreign language courses in 35 languages to more than 9 million members from 195 countries around the world. The site was included in Time Magazine’s list of 50 Best Websites. Members can take a few introductory courses on the site for free. A subscription with your email address is required for the free lessons.

Foreign Language Lessons at Trymango

Trymango.com is a commercial site with foreign language lessons for people who speak English. Trymango offers your first lesson free. A subscription is necessary.

I hope you enjoy your free language lessons.
I wish you a very happy day.

Travel Guide Jeff, Travel Welcome

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