Fourth Edition
Welcome to the fourth edition of The Free Language Letter.
New Languages
Two new languages have been added to the site! We are happy to announce new sections for the Afrikaans and Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) languages.
New Resources
21 new resources for 11 languages have been added to the site:
Afrikaans
LearnAfrikaans.us Learn Afrikaans Free Online Language Courses
Beeld South African News in Afrikaans
Arabic
Free Learn Gulf Arabic Language Resources
Learn Arabic Free at Speak7
English
ESL Business News Podcast
Podictionary English Dictionary Podcast
French
RFI News in Slowly-Spoken French Podcast
World Nomads iPod French Language Podcasts
German
Learn to Speak German with this Free Podcast
Hindi
World Nomads iPod Hindi Language Podcasts
Indonesian
Beginning Indonesian Learn Bahasa Indonesia Course
Learn Basic Bahasa Indonesia Phrases at Expat.or.id
SEASite Indonesia Resources for Learning Bahasa
World Nomads iPod Lingo Indonesian Language Podcast
Italian
World Nomads iPod Italian Language Podcasts
Japanese
World Nomads iPod Japanese Language Podcasts
Mandarin Chinese
World Nomads iPod Mandarin Chinese Language Podcasts
Spanish
Notes in Spanish Intermediate Podcast
Notes in Spanish Advanced Podcast
Rolling Rs Learn Spanish Podcast
World Nomads iPod Spanish Language Podcasts
Coming Soon...
Our First Podcast
The first Free Language Podcast show was supposed to be here last month, but it was put on the back burner in order to launch Afrikaans and Indonesian resources on the site. We will do our best to get this out in June.
Commercial Language-Learning Resources
Once again, this was put on the back burner. In June we hope to be rolling out a better store with a larger selection of commercial language-learning products and services. Funds earned from this new section will be put into making the interface and features of the site more rich and better organized.
Full Stats from freelanguage.org
Another back burner story... but in June we will be posting the entire history of statistics for freelanguage.org. For now, you can see a hint on polyglot's blog. You can also see a visual representation of where our visitors come from by visiting the Geovisitors tag page. Here is a screenshot of visitors from today:
The Blog Grows More
There are now six bloggers over at the Free Language Blog:
If you are interested in blogging about your language-learning experiences here, you are invited to request a BETA user account on Free Language. As mentioned in the March 2007 Free Language Letter, when Free Language V3 is launched, revenue sharing for users will be implemented.
Current Languages
A quick list of all 14 languages for which resources are currently available on the site:
Suggest a Resource
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Auf wiedersehen.
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