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
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.
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://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, 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.
Example Sentences
https://tatoeba.org/
Example sentences in many languages.
https://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 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.
Live
https://www.twitch.tv/
Players in different languages are playing games. In "IRL", there are people around the world broadcasting their real life.
Language Encyclopedia
https://www.omniglot.com/
It provides information about some basic knowledge of many languages.
http://aboutworldlanguages.com/
Only some languages, with essential information.
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, Events.
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.
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.
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