Free Language Podcast

Connor Grooms, CEO of BaseLang, first learned Spanish fast by filming a documentary about his experience! In this episode we’ll get into not only language speed learning tips and trips, we’ll also dive into how BaseLang came to be and what has evolved since inception. A few of the richest nuggets are available in BaseLang's free 120+ page Ultimate Guide to Spanish. There’s some deep Spanish learning in there, folks. If you fancy long form content, this is form you. Free shortcut to conversational Spanish course Get the Shortcut to Conversational Spanish email course for free and find out exactly how all this works. BaseLang is ideal for the serious fast learner! If you want to get talking Spanish straight away, this is for you. It's also for everyone else learning Spanish as the technique can be applied to meet each individual's needs. BaseLang has a unique model and offers unlimited Spanish tutoring sessions for $129/month.

Kirsten Campbell-Howes is Head of Education at busuu, a language learning system available online and on iOS and Android. Currently, there are over 60 million language learners using busuu to learn a dozen languages. As of this podcast, the languages available at busuu are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish. busuu is redefining the way people like you are approaching the rewarding yet daunting task of learning a new language. The busuu course material is crafted by language education experts (like Kirsten), designed for beginner to advanced learners and covers all the basics including reading, writing, listening and speaking. busuu is a guided language course enhanced by support from other learners and native speakers who offer corrections and general help as well as the potential for direct social interaction.

Forvo is a massively-useful resource for language learners at all levels who want to improve pronunciation and truly sound like a native speaker. The website has literally millions of recordings of words by native speakers in over 300 languages! Hear how native speakers in specific locations pronounce words! You can use this awesome database to, for example, learn how a Spanish speaker in Colombia says a word versus a Spanish speaker in Spain. In other words, you can get really specific with the exact region and accent you want to learn and hear examples of words spoken by people from that area of the world! Forvo maintains an API for online dictionaries, language learning apps and websites. Projects interested in leveraging this amazing resource are able to link up with Forvo to work out a way to make things happen in a good way all around. Forvo is the largest online reference for pronunciations with a database of over 3 million words pronounced in 325 languages – all create

Steve has my utmost respect - he speaks 11 languages and is still learning more in his 70s! He is convinced that you can continue to learn better and better as you get older, and the more languages you learn, the easier it gets. Discover his story and learn how he uses his own language learning service, LingQ, to successfully learn new languages. LingQ helps you learn languages through listening to and reading content that interests you! I am excited to be able to bring you this interview with polyglot Steve Kaufmann of LingQ, a unique language learning system that uses authentic, interesting content to engage you in the learning process. LingQ was launched in late 2007 by Steve Kaufmann and his son Mark in en effort to develop better tools for language learners. The LingQ system is based on Steve's personal experiences learning eleven languages.

The HelloTalk app makes effective language exchange mobile! I caught up with Zackery Ngai while he was traveling in Shanghai on behalf of the free HelloTalk language exchange app. He’s the project's founder and continues developing an extraordinary yet simple app for effective multilingual exchange. HelloTalk takes it further than just a dialogue, allowing users to use enhanced tools to manage time, translate on-the-fly, exchange links and content, send recorded messages and more. HelloTalk is a project started by and for language learners who wanted a more effective method of social language exchange. With this app, you can keep a steady flow of custom language exchange partners using built-in friending tools and privacy choices. Zackery tells us about some upcoming features for HelloTalk including video chat and voice channels. Preferring to stay interested with ease while learning languages, Zackery learns watching films and interacting with native speakers.

Simon Ager created Omniglot, the go-to online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages. And it’s 100% free! You can use it to learn about languages, to learn alphabets and other writing systems, and to learn phrases in many languages. The site offers advice on how to learn languages as well as details of nearly 200 writing systems. You'll also find tips on learning languages as well as language-related articles. This prodigious resource also offers useful foreign phrases in more than 200 languages, with many audio recordings. On the website you'll have free access to Multilingual texts, language names, country names, colours, numbers, idioms, time expressions, kinship words, tongue twisters, signs, proverbs and sayings and songs in many languages, a book store with language learning materials and, finally, links to online language-related resources. That’s a lot of language goodness - and it’s all free.

Steve Ridout created Readlang to help you learn languages using numerous learning modalities including tools for enhanced online reading, a video player, a customizable dictionary, a vocab manager and a flashcard toolkit. Enhanced online reading tools include a Web Reader that allows you to instantly translate and save text from any web page for use in learning as well as on online eReader with inline translation which reduces distractions and keeps you focused on the materials you choose to import. With Readlang you can import your own texts - anything from poems to short stories to full length novels! - and instantly get all these cool learning tools to work with while reading what you really want. Readlang is free to use and offers an optional and very reasonably priced upgrade to gain access to more phrase translations, increase the length of phrases you can translate and allow enhanced flashcard features.