Pimsleur
LANGUAGES: OVER 50 LANGUAGES
Pimsleur’s courses primarily focus on oral language. As such, your speaking and listening skills will improve faster with Pimsleur compared with other language courses. The coupon code only applies if you’re purchasing a course and not a monthly subscription.
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Glossika
LANGUAGES: OVER 65 LANGUAGES
Discount: Save $5 on a subscription by clicking the link below.
Glossika has learning resources for over sixty languages that impressively range from Armenian and Czech to Icelandic and Tagalog. While not suitable for absolute beginners, lower intermediates could use the resource to familiarise themselves with sentences in their language of choice using Glossika’s intuitive approach.
Use code: 2023BF50 and get 50% off any annual courses!
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LanguagePod101
LANGUAGES: AVAILABLE IN OVER 35 LANGUAGES
Discount: Use the coupon code “ALLLANGUAGERESOURCES” to save 25% on a subscription.
These resources do more than just provide listening practice, but it’s one of their strong suits. In SpanishPod101 alone, for example, there are almost 2000 audio lessons. Most of these are catered toward lower language levels, but they’re quality.
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Baselang
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
Discount: If you sign-up using our link, you’ll get $10 off your first month.
Baselang offers unlimited Spanish classes for $149/month. It’s much more than just a tutoring service though as they also have an excellent curriculum, along with elective lessons and assessments. I was really impressed with Baselang. Anyone with enough time and money to fully utilize the service should strongly consider using it.
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The Chairman’s Bao
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: Use the coupon code ‘alr15’ to save 15% on a subscription to The Chairman’s Bao.
The Chairman’s Bao (TCB) is an online graded newspaper for learners of Chinese. New articles covering current events in China and abroad are published daily, and the difficulty levels range from HSK1 to HSK6+. Additional features include audio recordings, a pop-up dictionary, grammar notes, flashcards, and more.
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Skritter
LANGUAGES: CHINESE AND JAPANESE
Discount: Save 10% on any subscription by signing up from the link below.
Skritter is a powerful tool for learning to write in Chinese or Japanese. You can use it to practice writing on your phone with your finger. It uses spaced repetition to make sure your time is used efficiently. For those serious about improving their writing skills, it’s the best resource around.
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Ripeti Con Me
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN
Discount: Use the promo code “ALRRCM” to save 10%
Ripeti Con Me is an Italian course that’s similar in style to Glossika but improves on it in a few ways. It teaches the language intuitively and requires you to speak throughout the lessons. Not everyone will love the lesson style but it’ll definitely improve your speaking rhythm and understanding of Italian.
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Red Kalinka
LANGUAGES: RUSSIAN
Discount: Save 20% each month on a subscription to Red Kalinka by signing up through the link below
The ‘Largest Russian School in the World’, Red Kalinka has lots of different products that will get you learning Russian. Its main course – Red Kalinka Russian Course – is very well thought-out and will certainly improve both beginners’ and intermediates’ reading, writing and comprehension skills. While it is not the most entertaining thing in the world, the videos and exercises are exceptionally thorough. Without a doubt, if you stick with this course, your Russian will become very good.
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Teuida App
LANGUAGES: KOREAN
Discount: Save ~10% on a subscription using the coupon code ‘ALR003’
Teuida is a Korean learning app that’s available for iOS and Android, with instructions in English or Vietnamese. The app takes a unique approach to language teaching by simulating conversations, including some featuring K-Pop star Nancy from Momoland. Users of the app have the opportunity to get lots of speaking practice and feedback on pronunciation through voice recognition technology.
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Jiveworld (Lupa)
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
Discount: Save 17% on a monthly subscription by signing up via the link below.
Lupa is a podcast-style app that helps Latin American Spanish learners improve their listening comprehension. The company has partnered with NPR’s Radio Ambulante to republish fascinating stories and interviews full of cultural insights and natural Spanish. Then, they have added a bunch of learner-friendly features to help you understand what’s being said: variable speeds, partial transcripts and translations, definitions and more.
NOTE: LUPA IS NOW JIVEWORLD. WE UNDERSTAND THE APP HAS BEEN TOTALLY REDESIGNED AND IMPROVED, BUT HAVE NOT YET HAD OPPORTUNITY TO TEST IT OUT. The review applies to the old Lupa.
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Speechling
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, CHINESE, GERMAN, RUSSIAN,ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE, KOREAN, AND JAPANESE
Discount: Save 10% on an unlimited plan with the promo code ‘ALR123’
Speechling is a website and app that makes it easy to improve your speaking skills in several languages. The free version is a valuable resource that makes it easy to practice mimicking native speakers. The Unlimited Plan provides unlimited corrections of your recordings by a teacher.
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LingQ
LANGUAGES: OVER 20 LANGUAGES
Discount: Save 35% on an annual premium plan from the link below.
LingQ is a language learning platform that makes it easy to read and listen to interesting content at varying difficulty levels. As you read, words will be marked as known and LingQ tracks the total number of words you “know”. The content comes from lots of different places. They also make it very easy to upload your own content.
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Outlier Linguistics
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: Use the coupon code ‘ALR20‘ to save 20%
Outlier Linguistics is amazing if you want to really geek out about Chinese characters and figure everything out about them – their components, origins, evolution, and more. These dictionaries are available as an add-on in the Pleco app and available in both Simplified or Traditional characters. But, beyond simply being interesting, learning more about how characters are constructed and have changed over time, can help make them more meaningful, and therefore, easier to remember.
Chinese For Us
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: Use the promo code “alr15off” to save 15% on a subscription to ChineseFor.Us
ChineseFor.Us has impressively well-made online Chinese courses. The content is explained extremely well, in a simple manner, and with a lot of depth. It’s one of the best resources we’ve tried on ALR and received a perfect 5 star rating.
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Yoyo Chinese
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: You can save 10% on any course or bundle by using the promo code “ALR10”.
Yoyo Chinese is probably the most established and popular website for online Chinese courses. Yangyang has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn Chinese and her videos have been viewed millions of times. There are several different video-based courses available which include interactive quizzes, clear explanations, and tons of practice, with each progressing in difficulty. The conversational courses are especially good value.
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Chinese Zero to Hero!
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: Use the promo code “ALR10” to save 10% off any course at Chinese Zero to Hero!
Chinese Zero to Hero!’s courses cover HSK1-6 of the HSK Standard Course textbooks. While it’s not in-depth enough to be the only resource you use, few courses are. It’s a great option for those looking to add structure into their independent study routine or who are preparing for the HSK tests. It isn’t meant to be a replacement for a textbook, but those with textbook phobia would really benefit from this course.
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SpanishVIP
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
Discount: Mention ALR to get a free month of group classes with conversational or fluent package purchase.
SpanishVIP is a service that connects students and teachers of Spanish for online video lessons. It offers an “unlimited lessons” model for a monthly subscription and could be extremely cost effective for learners that take several lessons per week. It’s best suited for learners of Latin American Spanish at any level that want to improve their listening and speaking skills. It might not be the best fit if you’re mostly interested in Iberian Spanish or if you live in an Asian time zone.
Use Promo Code: PROMOVIP50 and get 50% off of SpanishVIP’s new program, SpanishVIP Academy!
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Du Chinese
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: Use the promo code “alr10dc” to save 10% on a subscription to Du Chinese
Du Chinese is one of the best resources for learning Chinese. This app will help you to improve your Chinese reading skills, as well as listening comprehension. There are articles across six different levels – from Beginner to Master. The design of this app is absurdly good, making it exceptionally easy to use.
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Mandarin Blueprint
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: Save 20% with the coupon code ‘ALR20’
Mandarin Blueprint is an online course for learning Mandarin Chinese. It teaches the language through videos and flashcards on the Anki flashcard app. It also makes use of the Hanzi Movie Method, which is a mnemonic memorization technique involving visualizations. The course is very thorough and designed for absolute beginners looking to build a solid foundation in Mandarin.
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Super Chinese
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: Save 15% with the coupon code ‘alr15’
Super Chinese is an app for learning Mandarin that claims to help users, “Learn efficiently using our proprietary artificial intelligence.” Produced by the creators of HSKOnline, it’s available for iOS and Android, is free to download, and requires a subscription for full access. Language practice happens in a variety of interactive exercises that test learners’ abilities in reading, writing, listening, and speaking Mandarin.
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ELSA Speak
LANGUAGES: AMERICAN ENGLISH
Discount: Save 10% with the coupon code ‘ALRELSA’. Note: The discount is only available from the link below and not within the app itself.
ELSA, whose name stands for English Language Speech Assistant, is an AI-powered English pronunciation app and a serious contender for the position of your virtual pronunciation coach. It has a free and paid-for version, and is geared toward non-native English speakers who want to talk in a neutral American accent, improve their fluency, and speak with confidence.
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HSK Online
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: Save 15% with the coupon code ‘alr15’
HSK Online is an app that focuses on helping learners prepare for the HSK exams. However, just because it’s a test prep app, doesn’t mean that only those interested in taking the HSK tests can find value in using it. It can help you improve your vocabulary, reading and listening comprehension, writing, and even take practice exams.
GoEast Mandarin Online Course
LANGUAGES: CHINESE
Discount: Mention ‘All Language Resources’ to get a $20 discount on your purchase.
GoEast Mandarin offers in-person classes in Shanghai as well as online courses. This discount is for their online course, which offers a blended approach with self-study lessons and private 1-1 lessons. Their teachers are excellent and the self-study content is solid. Although the high cost will be prohibitively expensive for many people, when considering everything included, the price becomes much more reasonable.
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