Saturday 21 January 2012

Free Online Language Learning

Online Spanish and English language learning represent two major markets for online language courses. Many of these courses are pricey, but they can also be a highly motivating experience for online language study. However, there are a number of free language learning software that can also answer your language learning needs especially if you are on a tight budget.

Contrary to what people might think about online language learning in general, it can be highly interactive and can help you build confidence in order to eventually speak the language.

Online Language Software for Learning Spanish

SpanishSense allows you to experiment with their language learning software for a 30 day period. Subscribing to the free podcast is the most convenient way to go about online Spanish learning. The online Spanish lessons are built using specific language structures around specific scenarios.

You first hear the dialogues, then the speakers isolate the grammatical forms emphasizing the special tenses and the target vocabulary. For the visual learner, there is a PDF file for each corresponding online Spanish lesson and you can browse through the archive of lessons and add them to your custom feed allowing for easier accessibility.

Navigating from the site to the content material is relatively simple but be prepared for some language adjustments especially, if you have not learned Spanish in quite a while. However no online language learning software is perfect and there are adjustments to be made:

    in explanations and accents and pace
    in instructions for reading and writing assignments

Since the focus is production and making yourself effectively understood, the lessons appeal to a general language threshold of understanding.

Online Language Software for Learning English

For students interested in online English learning, Dave's ESL Café is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling whose love for teaching and technology comes across in one awe impressive website of forums, discussions, links, teacher resources,and an undated photo gallery for learning English. But, many ESL websites have this... so what is so special about Dave's ESL Cafe?

Since its establishment back in 1995, Dave's ESL Cafe has become the one stop for English language learners and teaching professionals. You can find information on how to learn English along with interactive grammar and vocabulary exercises. Some of his teaching reflects the pre-Internet mode of teaching. Students of online English learning like this approach because it keeps to teaching points within a conservativist methodology yet surprisingly is quite interactive.

This site was built with the educator in mind. Pop-up windows effectively facilitate information on types of idioms and definitions of idioms. Other websites do not go as far as to provide these explanations.

There are quizzes that range from topics such as geography, grammar. Since Dave adopts a grammar approach, you will find a lot of isolated grammar points that are taught in isolated ways, which at first, do not always appear meaningful.

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