Post: #1

Can you recommend some apps or pagesfor learning a new language?

I would like to learn some new languages but due to work I am quite unflexible for going to normal classes. Furthermore in class you usually have to adjust your learning speed to all the other participants + the classes tend to have a bad reputation in a sense of being expensive and of very poor quality in my area.

My idea was to learn the basics via an app and and later adding online sessions with native speakers/tutors. The aim is just to reach a normal conversational level within the next 2 years (not speaking or writing perfectly).

I already did some research found the following sides:

https://www.italki.com/home?hl=de
https://www.fiverr.com/gigs/language
https://uk.babbel.com/learn-english-online

But I am quite unsure about an app (those are usaully quite cheap).

Can you recommend some apps or sites?

My Budget would be about 50 - 80$ a month per language. Ideally something that would be billed for taxing reasons.

Languages I would like to learn:

Spanish (had it years ago in school, I think I would pick it up very quickly)
Russian (a little bit similiar to my second language polish)
Chinese or French (both difficult but could be useful for my career)

Post: #2

You should try this site for learning Spanish: https://baselang.com/ , you get unlimited one-on-one Spanish tutoring via Skype sessions. I haven't tried it but a friend did and recommended it, seems like a great deal, I did in person lessons in Colombia and they were about $8/hour. I've used Duolingo as well and found that to be pretty good too.

Post: #3

duolingo.

https://www.duolingo.com/

It is free

Post: #4

Duolingo>Pimsleur>Assimil

Another site to build some vocabulary is Lingvist; there is French, Spanish and Russian for English speakers

Babbel is good to learn some gramatic, PM me if you want the premium app

Post: #5

Somewhat of a dupe thread:
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Anyway, I used memrise (http://www.memrise.com) to learn the local language of where I am currently practicing, and using only that program I have become tolerably fluent in the context of a medical conversation (though I had to look up certain grammar concepts in books). The basic features are free, and you can easily make your own customised word lists. It's primarily a way of learning vocabulary.

Post: #6

(12-15-2016 04:53 AM)Naughty_Boy Wrote:  Spanish (had it years ago in school, I think I would pick it up very quickly)
Russian (a little bit similiar to my second language polish)
Chinese or French (both difficult but could be useful for my career)

The fact that you don't have a specific language in mind or a strong motivation for learning one means you will not actually end up developing useable skills. Given that, I would go with either duolingo or memrise.

Post: #7

Anyone here recommend a good app/ online service for learning Mandarin?

Post: #8

I have a Russian online tutor from the site Verbling, pay £10 for an hour which at the local language college would be 3 or 4 times more expensive!