So, I realize releasing blogs isn't the most practical way to keep track of tips and tricks for learning. Information is spread widely across many blogpost and it can be difficult to orient oneself. For this reason, I am releasing this lingolist. Here you'll find everything I talk about in my blogs, and more! The best part about it? 100% free, for everyone. Always. This list will be continously updated as long the blog exists.
How to use the lingolist:
Determine your target language
Check the lingolist for general language learning tips.
For language specific tips, head down to the bottom of the page to the Social section. Here you can click on either the Duolingo forum link, or the Reddit link. There you can find forums with helpful tips and tricks for your target language.
Let's get listin'.
Online courses
Free University courses (MIT language courses)
These are a personal favorite of mine. What if I told you that you could study with the same material students at the Massachussets Institute of Technology and Harvard do, without paying a dime, but still 'sitting in' their lectures? Look no further. Here you'll find video lectures of courses MIT, which are, of excellent quality. I have always had difficulty mainting focus and, this is a skill that is often tested in University. I owe my two degrees in economics in part to MIT and professor Duane Kouba, a kind soul at the University of California Davis (my understanding of calculus comes from this webpage). For they offer FREE courses in a variety of subjects. MIT has language courses, Harvard doesn't seem to have any, but it's here as a bonus.
Youtube courses
Youtube is a great resource in general, you can follow people's channels for absolutely anything. Here are some language ones I found useful while learning and teaching.
Other courses
Learning and interactive
Flashcard applications
Writing and feedback
Media Oriented
Audio and listening
Here are some very interesting approaches to learning. Languagetransfer is a series teaching French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, and English. I guarantee you've never learned a language like this. Podcasts, are audio that you can listen to while doing something else. There's a podcast for everything, I'm not even going to fact check this because that's just how it is. You can find podcasts on their respective websites, soundcloud, and spotify.
podcasts
TV shows and movies
So I've mentioned before that watching TV shows in your target language is a great opportunity, especially with tools like languagelearning with Netflix, that let you get both your subtitles and original language subtitles at the same time. A friend reccomended watching the Simpsons for free, in spanish, on youtube.
Neflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu...
Written and visual
I am a big believer in reading as a learning tool. On these websites you will find free ebooks that you can download for your kindle or ereader device. Check out my blog on reading and the kindle.
Social
Online Conversation/forums & offline meetups
Reddit and Duolingo offer pages (forums) very much like this page. In otherwords, you will find hubs to external resources, full of nice blue links like the ones you are finding here. On reddit you'll have to subscribe to subreddits whereas on duolingo you will have to find the language forum. Both are incredible places to get started as I am not covering every language in depth on this webpage. Conversation exchange and HelloTalk are great places to get to know people, online, that speak your target language. Here's the blogpost. Language cafés are bomb. If you have some going on, and you most likely do, go, go, go.
Your's truly,
calypso
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