Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Internet-resources-for-polyglots

Best Free Services for Polyglots

Internet is a giant treasure. It provides so many free services.

The following resources are all free but you can consider donating or buying additional functions.

Basic Course

http://www.duolingo.com/

The best free online language courses. Web version is better than mobile, because it shows "tips and notes".

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Languages

Books are mostly incomplete and in lack of update, but some courses are nearly completed or completed, not bad.

https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/

Courses of Foreign Service Institute, Defense Language Institute, Peace-Corps. FSI is the most famous among them, old good courses initially aimed for middle-aged officials.

Pronunciation

http://forvo.com/

Dictionary of pronunciation.

Reading

https://www.wikipedia.org/

Numerous articles in many languages, and is usually proofed to read.

http://readlang.com/

Articles in many languages, with online dictionary.

https://www.beelinguapp.com/

Bilingual stories. Voices are from volunteers, the quality is not very good.

Listening

https://librivox.org/

Books read by volunteers.

https://lyricstraining.com/

Listen to songs and fill in the blank of lyrics.

http://www.listeningpractice.org/

Practice listening. Not very good-looking. Voices are from volunteers, the quality is not very good.

Vocabulary

http://www.memrise.com/

Though said to be memorizing words with "mems", they are actually not in good quality. But flashcards in high quality can be found, that's enough. Flashcards cover many subjects besides languages.

http://www.internetpolyglot.com/

Comparison of words in two languages.

https://www.learnwitholiver.com/

Simply learn words. If you register, they will send you an e-mail every day about a word in a language.

Online Dictionary

https://www.wiktionary.org/

Practical, don't need to switch dictionaries, shows translations in many languages.

http://www.wordreference.com/

It is really completed.

http://www.linguee.com/

It is comleted, has many example sentences in high quality.

http://bab.la/

It is completed.

https://glosbe.com/

It support so many languages, citing results from other sites. It is messy and in many cases inaccurate, but when the dictionaries listed above aren't able to find, maybe this one can help.

Offline Dictionary

http://www.lingoes.net/

It has stopped updating, but is still very useful.

Example Sentences

http://tatoeba.org/

Example sentences in many languages.

http://www.dictionarist.com/

Search for example sentences of a word, with lingoes dictionary inserted. Many results are from Tatoeba.

Cloze Test

https://www.clozemaster.com/

It's effective to train with cloze test.

Spelling and Grammar Checker

https://languagetool.org/

It supports several languages, but works well on few.

Pronunciation Checker

https://speechpad.pw/prononce.php

Check your pronunciation through SR and TTS.

Conjugation

http://cooljugator.com/

Conjugation. Many pages are lost, but it's enough to induct the law of conjugation of a language.

Translator

https://translate.google.com/

The best translator by now.

https://www.bing.com/translator

It supports several languages that Google Translation doesn't support, but not so good as Google's.

https://www.itranslate.com/

A combination of the two above.

Language Encyclopedia

https://www.ethnologue.com/

A site of SIL International, introducing basic information about world languages.

http://www.omniglot.com/

It provides information about some basic knowledge of many of world languages.

http://aboutworldlanguages.com/

Less languages than Omniglot, similar with contents in Wikipedia.

Community

http://www.italki.com/

The most popular language community by now.

https://polyglotclub.com/

There are some unique features of it, such as Wiki lessons, Events.

Questions and Answers

https://hinative.com/

Ask and answer with people around the world.

Phrasebook

https://www.50languages.com/

Actually a few more than 50 languages. Contents are very much.

http://bravolol.com/

Content is less, but it's still good.

https://www.loecsen.com/

It supports many languages, but it's already stopped updating.

Language Exchange

https://mylanguageexchange.com/

Free users can be choosen by those who have paid as contact. As they are paid, they are more likely to be serious learners.

Language Identifier

http://www.polyglot3000.com/

Identifiies languages.

Radios and Podcasts

https://mytuner-radio.com/

Radios around the world.

http://castbox.fm/

Podcasts around the world.

TV Channels

http://livetvcentral.com/

The most complete list of world online TV channels.

Country and Culture Information

https://www.britannica.com/topic-browse/Countries-of-the-World/1

Britannica.

https://www.infoplease.com/countries

Some basic information about countries.

https://www.worldtravelguide.net/

It's aimed at travellers. It also introduces some cities.

http://www.commisceo-global.com/country-guides

It's aimed at travellers.

http://guide.culturecrossing.net/index.php

It tells some details about manners of many countries.

http://www.everyculture.com/

Its information is old, but cover peoples.

International Phonetic Alphabet Keyboard

http://ipa.typeit.org/full/

To input IPA. Though it's still lacking some, it's enough for common use.

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