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Courses, dictionaries and reading tools for a new language are grouped under language learning. The listings include full courses, vocabulary apps, flashcard tools, grammar references, pronunciation guides and graded reading. Some entries cover widely studied languages, and others focus on smaller or regional ones. It helps to know which skills each one teaches, the level it starts at and whether you can practise speaking as well as reading. Some services are free and others charge or limit free use, so confirm the cost before you commit time to a course.
IPA Reader is a tool for reading International Phonetic Alphabet notation aloud, so users can hear how words are pronounced from their phonetic spelling. Audio is generated through a request to Amazon Polly.
This website presents the grammar of New Ithkuil, a constructed human-usable language. The language uses a matrix of grammatical concepts intended to express deeper levels of human cognition more overtly, logically, and precisely than natural languages. It is based on a predecessor, Ithkuil, and has been significantly modified to incorporate suggestions for improvements and new ideas from its author. New Ithkuil is more systematic and regularized in its structure compared to its predecessor.
JapaneseTest4You is a website offering free online Japanese practice tests. It provides JLPT Kanji, grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening tests in all levels, along with vocabulary, grammar and kanji lists, infographics, flashcards and ebooks.
JapaneseWithAnime provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
Kong Long Mandarin offers a method for learning Mandarin Chinese by focusing on listening and speaking, acquiring the language naturally like a child. The site provides self-guided lessons, how-to guides, and grammar and expressions.
LanGeek is a language learning platform for learning English. It offers vocabulary, expressions and idioms, reading comprehension, pronunciation lessons and grammar lessons. A Daily Words feature is described as a digital version of the Leitner System for improving vocabulary knowledge. The site also lists a free online English picture dictionary and a mobile application.
LangX is a language exchange app for practising with native speakers who are learning the user's language. Users see people who speak the language they are learning and are learning theirs. Messages can be held to receive corrections, and a feed allows sharing moments and asking for corrections. It is free, open source and without ads, and is available on iOS, Android and web.
Laoshi is a Chinese language learning service built around smart flashcards and a spaced repetition system for studying Mandarin vocabulary and characters. It offers practice in reading and writing in the app, ready-made HSK word lists, goal setting and progress tracking. A family of digital tools includes a classroom, dictionary, grammar library, pinyin converter and Chinese name generator.
Learn Eberban is a free and open-source book for studying the constructed language Eberban. It teaches the language up to an intermediate level and reads like a book, with each chapter introducing a concept alongside vocabulary and example sentences. The course is marked as out of date and on indefinite hiatus.
A free online English course for beginner and intermediate learners, offered since 1999. It provides ESL and EFL lessons arranged in units, starting with alphabet and number basics and moving through verb tenses, time, numbers, adjectives and everyday topics.
Learn NZSL provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
LearnNatively provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
A language-learning service offering audio flashcards, games, annotated texts, writing and listening drills, and AI conversation practice across many language combinations. It includes daily email exercises and progress tests, with free and premium accounts.
Lengualytics is a tool for learning languages with comprehensible input. It lets users track hours spent on YouTube, reading, gaming and podcasts, and offers detailed analytics of comprehension progress. The site states it does not teach a language itself. Free to start.
LetsLearnHangul provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
Lifeprint.com hosts ASL University, an American Sign Language resource site established in 1997 by Dr. Bill Vicars. It offers free ASL lessons, a sign dictionary with thousands of videos, fingerspelling practice, and Deaf culture resources for students, interpreters, teachers, and parents of Deaf children.
LingoClip is a language learning site that uses music, having users fill in gaps in song lyrics while listening. It offers multiple game modes, a built-in translator, and karaoke mode, and supports several languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German.
LingoDeer provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
Lingotype provides educational videos, lessons, tutorials, or self-learning resources.
lipu Linku is an interactive dictionary for Toki Pona. It lists words with meanings and definitions, including common definitions, ku definitions and pu definitions, along with usage notes such as word category and usage percentage. Individual word pages also show sitelen pona and sitelen sitelen writing, UCSUR codepoints and origin information.
An unofficial educational course about toki pona, a constructed language designed in 2001 and revised by Sonja Lang. The language uses 120 official words, a simple grammar and few hard-to-confuse sounds, and is context-sensitive with many words having multiple meanings. The course is a series of pages with a table of contents, extra pages and community links.
A language learning app that teaches the most frequently used words in context, aiming for understanding of most speech and text. It uses a custom spaced-repetition algorithm and linguistic analysis with neural networks, and is described as unlimited and ad-free. A web version is in beta.
Lojban.io is a free and open-source platform for studying Lojban, an artificial spoken language built over more than 60 years. Its grammar is based on simple rules, and its linguistic features are inspired by predicate logic. The site offers courses, decks and resources, and it also links to a community Discord server.
LyricFluent is a website and mobile app for learning languages through song lyrics, covering English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. It presents vocabulary in the context of songs and uses a spaced repetition system to support memorization.
