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📰 Language Learning: General Resources
Updated:  2023-05-05
A list of various websites, resorces, and tools, that relate to — and may be useful regarding — language learning.
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Contains collections (with audio recordings) of various categorized "essential" phrases, in over 50 languages — as well as speech practice tools, idle background audio, and several games.

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A global Q&A platform, on which users can ask language-specific or region-specific questions to others around the world — and assist others, by answering their questions.

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A collection of 100 basic lessons (in a phrase-book style), in over 50 languages.

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An encyclopedia, containing information on languages — including writing systems, and useful phrases (some of which contain audio recordings).

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Easy-to-understand lessons, with examples, on a variety of grammatical topics, in over 50 languages.

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The world's largest pronunciation dictionary.

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A collection of example sentences and translations, with over 400 languages listed.

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An online language exchange community, including games, user-written lessons, and more — especially useful for finding pen pals around the world.

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eBooks and audio books concerning a variety of topics (though most prominently, language learning) — many of which, are free.

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Reading, listening, diction, and vocabulary-building activites, in German, English, Spanish, French, and Italian.

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Bilingual eBooks — stating the oiginal language, and an English translation underneath.

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Discover thousands of live radio stations around the world, by rotating the globe.

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Professional podcasts and media in a variety of languages.

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Listen to audio, or watch a YouTube video in over 40 languages — and complete an activity, based on listening, comprehension, and typing.

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Anonymously speak with strangers around the world (via video chat). Tags can additionally be entered, to match with others who share specific interests (e.g. "language learning").

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Anonymously speak with strangers around the world (via video chat) — with the ability to select a specific country of interest.

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An online chatroom, with users' (selected) country, listed.

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Anonymously speak with strangers around the world (via video chat) — with the ability to select specific countries of interest.

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Anonymously speak with strangers around the world (via video chat) — with the ability to see the [general] location, of the person with whom you're speaking.

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Pictionary, but online: given a specific prompt, one player draws, as others guess what is being drawn. Available in over 25 languages.

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A collection of free language learning resources, for 48 languages.

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Lessons, with translations, and audio recordings, for over 40 languages.

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Comprehensive collections of language learning resources, for many languages.

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A multilingual, community-built dictionary, including over 6,000 languages, with example sentences, translations, and more.

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Type a word or phrase, and hear it being spoken and pronounced, in different context, through a variety of YouTube videos.

Available for English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, and Arabic.

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Easy-to-follow introductory courses, for over 20 languages.

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An easy-to-navigate portal of free courses (Foreign Service Institute, Peace Corps, etc.) for over 150 languages and dialects.

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A variety of categorically-organized, interactive language lessons, articles, recordings, and additional resources, for over 40 languages.

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Essential vocabulary lists, phrase lists, grammatical examples, flashcards, and more, for over 90 languages.

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Free language-learning courses, available for over 30 Indigenous languages.

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A collection of publicly available (Foreign Service Institute, Defense Language Institute, Peace Corps, Cortina, etc.) courses, and additional resources.

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Free, categorized, language-learning lessons, for over 20 languages. Also included are multilingual charts — very useful for learning multiple languages simultaneously.

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Free-to-download audio files (technically meant to be listened to, while studying their respective books), for over 60 languages.

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A community foreign-language-audio-sharing platform, through which users can request text to be read aloud by native speakers, and practice speaking.

Audio recordings can also be searched for — extremely useful for auditory language exposure, and practicing pronunciation.

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