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This one has more links for each one with fewer languages.
This one has more links for each one with fewer languages.
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This one has references about YouTube and iTunes.


== Endangered Language Protection ==
== Endangered Language Protection ==

Revision as of 06:03, 18 November 2017

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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

https://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

https://forvo.com/

Dictionary of pronunciation.

Reading

https://www.wikipedia.org/

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

https://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. It also has conjugation exercises.

Vocabulary

https://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.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

It's complementary to Memrise. It also can be used offline without payment, and content can be in diversed format.

https://quizlet.com/

It's complementary to Memrise.

https://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.

Typing

https://10fastfingers.com/

A place to train typing.

Online Dictionary

https://www.wiktionary.org/

Practical, no need to switch dictionaries, translations in many lanugages are shown together.

http://www.wordreference.com/

It is really completed.

https://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 somehow messy and in many cases inaccurate, but when the dictionaries listed above can't find a word, maybe this one can help.

Offline Dictionary

http://www.lingoes.net/

It has stopped updating, but is still very useful.

Games

https://babadum.com/

It's pretty good for educating young polyglots.

http://greatlanguagegame.com/

Listen and identify the language.

Example Sentences

https://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.

Synonyms and Antonyms

http://www.synonyms.net/

To find similar words. Not many languages are supported.

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.

Text-to-Speech

http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm

A software to read texts. If you don't know how to get the voices, you can see https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/English/Culture/How-to-use-SR-and-TTS-on-Windows

World Clock

https://www.timeanddate.com/

It has not only world clock for every city, but also calendars with festivals of almost every country.

Language Exchange

https://discordapp.com/

A software to chat, with prominent features, such as text and voice channels. It's very suitable for not only playing games, but also learning languages.

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.

Community

https://www.italki.com/

The most popular language community by now.

https://polyglotclub.com/

There are some unique features of it, such as Wiki lessons. It adopts ISO 639-3, almost every language is included here.

Questions and Answers

https://hinative.com/

Ask and answer with people around the world.

Radios and Podcasts

https://mytuner-radio.com/

Radios around the world.

https://castbox.fm/

Podcasts around the world.

TV Channels

http://livetvcentral.com/

The most complete list of world online TV channels.

News

http://unfiltered.news/

It reveals how media around the world report about the world.

Videos

https://www.youtube.com/

No one can be better than this.

Live

https://www.twitch.tv/

Players in different languages are playing games. There are people around the world broadcasting their real life, In "IRL" and several sections.

Lyrics

https://www.musixmatch.com/

See lyrics and translations.

Blog

https://blogs.transparent.com/

There are periodly good contents being presented.

Language Encyclopedia

https://www.omniglot.com/

It provides information about some basic knowledge of many languages. Many "Alphabet and Pronunciation" lessons are from there.

http://aboutworldlanguages.com/

Only some languages, with essential information.

Map and Street View

https://www.google.com/maps/

It resolves exotic sense. If you are careful enough, you can find some trivia of a place, and even conjucture people's life situations.

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.

Phrasebook

https://www.50languages.com/

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

https://bravolol.com/

Content is less, but it's still good.

https://www.loecsen.com/

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

Fonts

https://www.google.com/get/noto/

It covers fonts of all languages, which means all living and many hictorical scripts will be supported.

Language Identifier

http://www.polyglot3000.com/

It identifiies languages.

International Phonetic Alphabet Keyboard

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

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

Resourse Links

Unlike this page, those are for some specific languages, and I am not responsible for its qualities.

https://www.lonweb.org/

This one has more languages with fewer links for each one.

http://www.languagelinksdatabase.com/free-language-resources/

This one has more links for each one with fewer languages.

http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons

This one has references about YouTube and iTunes.

Endangered Language Protection

If you are capable and responsible, please do your part to protect endangered languages.

http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/

http://www.eldp.net/

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