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Cooljugator Mini-Review: Conjugations For Uncommon Languages

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Cooljugator is a free online verb conjugation dictionary for over 40 languages, with special attention to languages without existing free resources. Besides conjugated forms, the website also provides examples, English translations, pronunciation hints, related verbs, and more. On each page, you can also read the translation for your chosen verb into every other language available on the site. Unfortunately, there are no audio files to help you with pronunciation, but maybe that will change in the future.

You can directly search for conjugations, or if you’re looking for inspiration, every language has a list of the most common verbs to choose from. On that same page, you can read some facts and a brief overview of what verb conjugation looks like in your chosen language.

Although Cooljugator is 100% free, you can purchase the creator’s other project, Interlinear Books, to learn languages through stories.

If you would like to practice verb conjugations for some common languages, check out Conjuguemos, another free resource with verb conjugation games. Also, SpanishDict is probably more appropriate for Spanish learners because of the extensive resources and activities that accompany their sections on verb conjugation.

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The current rating is our best estimate. We haven’t had the opportunity yet to more thoroughly evaluate this resource, as we do for our full reviews.

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Forvo Mini-Review: Audio Pronunciation of Millions of Words

Forvo – 4.8

Forvo’s mission is to improve spoken communication across cultures. Anyone can explore pronunciations of millions of words in over 390 languages with maps displaying where each speaker is from. The site also organizes popular categories and essential phrases for when you don’t have a specific word in mind.

As a registered user, you can contribute to the site by pronouncing words or phrases in your native language or by requesting pronunciations in a specific language. You are also encouraged to vote on audio files in your native language to help others identify the best pronunciation. For those of you who enjoy using Anki, Forvo allows you to download mp3 files to use in your learning endeavours.

Forvo also has an e-learning course for French, Spanish, and English; you will find three levels and a group of topics with sets of the most common words in your target language. Using an SRS flashcard system, you will be able to learn the pronunciation of these words and view an example of how to use them in a sentence.

If you are looking for a pronunciation reference guide, look no further than Forvo’s extensive database!

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The current rating is our best estimate. We haven’t had the opportunity yet to more thoroughly evaluate this resource, as we do for our full reviews.

By Tara Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azeri Basque Bengali Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese Catalan Chewa (Chichewa) Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Greenlandic Gujarati Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Inuktitut Irish Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer (Cambodian) Korean Kurdish Latin Latvian Lithuanian Luganda Luxembourgish Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Mandarin Chinese Manx Maori Marathi Mongolian Navajo (Diné bizaad) Nepali Norwegian Occitan Papiamento Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Quechua Romanian Romansch Russian Sami Sardinian Serbian Shona Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Swahili Swiss German Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek

Instant Immersion Mini-Review: No Longer a Good Investment

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Instant Immersion offers programs in over 120 languages, narrated by native speakers. It claims to help you build your vocabulary, converse with ease, and perfect your pronunciation. It has interactive activities on the computer, interactive games you can play with your family on a DVD, and MP3 files for your car.

Their topics include food, shopping, restaurants, animals, numbers, etc. In other words, Instant Immersion will probably not help you if you are looking to have immediately applicable conversations

A common trend in many reviews is the lack of structure in these courses. While other courses build on what you have previously learned and help you learn vocabulary relevant to your everyday life, Instant Immersion seems to provide a large amount of information without transitions or a clear learning path. There is a lot of content, but this doesn’t necessarily mean you will learn a lot. Instant Immersion may have been a good investment several years ago, but now there are many other options for affordable, quality language learning.

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The current rating is our best estimate. We haven’t had the opportunity yet to more thoroughly evaluate this resource, as we do for our full reviews.

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italki Review – The Good, The Bad, & The Just Alright

Quick Review

4.5

Summary:

italki is the most flexible and affordable place to find a tutor for the language you’re learning. They have a huge number of teachers offering classes to students of over 100 different languages. As a learner, you’ll be able to find a tutor that best fits your learning style, schedule, and personality. Teachers are able to set their own prices and make their own schedule.

Teacher Quality

You’ll find everyone from long-time professionals to brand new teachers.

Platform

The overall platform has tons of useful features but also some room for improvement.

Value

Huge number of teachers, low prices, and flexible scheduling.

I Like…

There are large numbers of teachers available even for less common languages.

You can find skilled teachers even at low prices.

The flexibility to schedule lessons whenever convenient. The huge number of teachers guarantees you’ll find someone to fit your schedule.

The extra features in the italki Community make it easy to ask questions, get your writing checked, and find a free language exchange partner.

I DON’T LIKE…

Community features are only available through the app.

You may need to try several tutors before finding one that fits your learning and personality style.

It’s easy to not take classes as often as you should.

Price

The prices vary by teacher and language with some being as low as $4 and others as high as $60 per hour. Most will fall somewhere near the $10 per hour range.

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By Tara Arabic Afrikaans Albanian Armenian Assamese Belarusian Bengali Breton Bulgarian Cantonese Catalan Chechen Corsican Cree Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Dzongkha English Esperanto Estonian Ewe Faroese Fijian (ITaukei) Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Guarani Gujarati Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Inuktitut Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kanuri Kazakh Khmer (Cambodian) Kinyarwanda Korean Kurdish Latin Latvian Limburgish Lithuanian Luxembourgish Malay Malayalam Maltese Mandarin Chinese Manx Maori Marathi Marshallese Mongolian Navajo (Diné bizaad) Nepali Norwegian Occitan Ojibwe Oromo Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Quechua Romanian Romansch Russian Samoan Sanskrit Sardinian Serbian Shona Sindhi Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Sotho Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tajik Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Tibetan Tigrinya Tongan Tsonga (Xitsonga) Tswana Turkish Turkmen Twi Ukrainian Urdu Uyghur Uzbek Venda Vietnamese Welsh Wolof Xhosa Yiddish Yoruba Zhuang Zulu

LangCorrect: Unlimited, Free Writing Practice With Feedback

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LangCorrect is a free community-driven writing site where users can both contribute to editing others’ work and receive feedback on their own writing.

After writing your piece, you may submit it to receive feedback from other site users. In order to ensure accurate feedback, multiple users can cross-check the corrections that were made and add comments.

Volunteers and Patrons have access to writing in up to 10 languages, but typical users can write in a maximum of two languages at a time. Everyone is encouraged to both write and correct others’ work on the site.

If you are looking to improve your writing skills in one of the over 100 languages available, trying out this resource is a must! However, if you’re studying a less common language and not finding many users to give you corrections, consider trying the exercise section in italki’s community features.

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The rating is our best guess, but we haven’t yet had the opportunity to fully test and review this resource.

By Brian Alsatian Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Assamese Aymara Azeri Basque Belarusian Bengali Berber (Tamazight) Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Burmese Catalan Cebuano Chewa (Chichewa) Cornish Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch Dzongkha English Esperanto Faroese Fijian (ITaukei) Filipino Finnish Flemish French Frisian Galician German Greek Greenlandic Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Kinyarwanda Korean Kurdish Lao Latin Latvian Lithuanian Luganda Luxembourgish Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Mandarin Chinese Manx Maori Marathi Mongolian Navajo (Diné bizaad) Nepali Norwegian Oromo Papiamento Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Quechua Romanian Romansch Russian Sami Samoan Sardinian Scots Scottish Serbian Shona Sicilian Sindhi Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Tajik Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Tigrinya Tswana Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Wolof Xhosa Yiddish Yoruba Zulu

Cudoo Review — I Wouldn’t Even Use it if it Were Free

Quick Review

0.6

Summary

Cudoo is an online learning platform that offers courses in over 160 languages. The platform also offers courses teaching soft skills and other professional development courses. Certificates are available upon course completion, and courses are provided to libraries and non-profits for free. We feel that the quality of the language courses is quite low, and that the prices are relatively high.

Quality

It’s nice to have native speaker audio, but I personally found the course to offer very little learning potential.

Thoroughness

The course didn’t cover everything listed under “Course Content” and offers no explanations.