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French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. A major world language, French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents. It has about 76.8 million native speakers worldwide.

Here are some free resources you can use to make French your new language!

Vocabulary

Larousse French Dictionary – Online French dictionary with definitions in French, example sentences, a section of syn...

HOW TO CHOOSE WHAT LANGUAGE TO LEARN

 

Language learning is a long journey with ups and downs. It takes time and effort, there’s no way around it. It’s therefore normal to want to choose a language carefully, since we’ll be investing so much time and effort into learning it.

Maybe we have a language in mind, but we may want to dismiss it because we may feel it’s not useful, wanted by the job market or important enough. This leaves us spend so much time wondering, “What language should I learn?”

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Would you like to learn Spanish but don’t know where to start or how to become conversational? Maybe my story with the language will help you realize it’s absolutely doable. In this article, I’ll share my experience with you, as well as everything I did to become conversational in the language in three months.

Spanish was the first language I taught myself, and where it all began. I started in September 2012. I discovered Duolingo, which was a new website at the time, and I decided to give it a ...

Italian is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. Italian descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire and, together with Sardinian, is by most measures the Romance language closest to it. Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (where it is the main language of Ticino and the Graubünden valleys of Calanca, Mesolcina, Bregaglia and val Poschiavo), San Marino and Vatican City. It has about 67 million native speakers.
Here are some free resources you can...

German is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol in Italy, the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. It has about 95 million native speakers.
Here are some free resources you can use to make German your new language!

Vocabulary PONS dictionary Online...

Vocabulary Spanishdict Online English Spanish dictionary and translator with example sentences, free courses, online verb conjugator with translations and a Spanish word of the day Linguee Online English Spanish dictionary and translator and example sentences from the web Wordreference An online dictionary that includes a forum where users can ask vocabulary and grammar related questions about the language Diccionario de la lengua española Online Spanish dictionary Word definitions in...

I speak 8 languages. I used to be horribly bad at all of them, and Im bad at all the other languages that are out there.

As pretty much anyone whos ever tried to learn a language, at first youre going to be very bad at it. Yes, even YouTube hyperpolyglots were very bad at languages when they started learning them. That foreign interpreter you see on TV, interpreting from a foreign language to your native language at lightning speed, once had atrocious skills and couldnt string two sentences...

Youtube is the number one video sharing platform worldwide. Theres a reason for that; its rich with great and versatile content uploaded by users themselves. Theres too many videos to watch about too vast an array of topics, that theres something worth watching for any user.

Language learning videos are no exception. Theres hundreds of video tutorials for almost any language. Basic phrases, alphabets and pronunciation, survival phrases, complete tutorials, how to deal with exams Whatever...