🗂️Keep in Mind This Site Offers Hundreds of Free Language Learning Courses

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Whether you learned Spanish from Sesame Street or took French in high school, your skills might be have gotten a bit rusty over the years. Or maybe you work in an industry where it's helpful to understand Arabic, Korean, or Finnish, or you want to pick up some Italian to help research your ancestry.

Whatever the reason, if you'd like to learn a new language, there are plenty of free, online courses and resources to help get you started. Here's one of them, which offers courses in 49 languages.

Where to find free online language courses​

The website OpenCulture.com is a remarkable repository of free online resources—from open-access movies and audiobooks, to public domain art, to countless educational courses. The site maintains a page with a running list of free online language courses.

Currently, there are free online lessons available, covering 49 different languages:

1. 
   Amharic
   
   
2. 
   Ancient Greek
   
   
3. 
   Arabic
   
   
4. 
   American Sign Language
   
   
5. 
   Bambara
   
   
6. 
   Bulgarian
   
   
7. 
   Cambodian
   
   
8. 
   Cantonese
   
   
9. 
   Catalan
   
   
10. 
    Chinese (standard)
    
    
11. 
    Czech
    
    
12. 
    Danish
    
    
13. 
    Dutch
    
    
14. 
    English
    
    
15. 
    Farsi/Persian
    
    
16. 
    Finnish
    
    
17. 
    French
    
    
18. 
    Frisian
    
    
19. 
    German
    
    
20. 
    Greek
    
    
21. 
    Hebrew
    
    
22. 
    Hindi
    
    
23. 
    Hungarian
    
    
24. 
    Icelandic
    
    
25. 
    Indonesian
    
    
26. 
    Irish
    
    
27. 
    Italian
    
    
28. 
    Japanese
    
    
29. 
    Korean
    
    
30. 
    Lao
    
    
31. 
    Latin
    
    
32. 
    Lithuanian
    
    
33. 
    Luxembourgish
    
    
34. 
    Mandarin
    
    
35. 
    Maori
    
    
36. 
    Norwegian
    
    
37. 
    Polish
    
    
38. 
    Portuguese
    
    
39. 
    Romanian
    
    
40. 
    Russian
    
    
41. 
    Serbo-Croatian
    
    
42. 
    Spanish
    
    
43. 
    Swahili
    
    
44. 
    Swedish
    
    
45. 
    Thai
    
    
46. 
    Turkish
    
    
47. 
    Twi
    
    
48. 
    Vietnamese
    
    
49. 
    Welsh
    

There's a description of each language course, as well as what type of free materials are available—like mp3s, PDFs, videos to stream, and interactive modules. While many of the courses are introductions to the languages, others are more specialized, like medical Spanish for healthcare providers, Arabic in Jordan, foundations of French for global communication, and easy travel Japanese. There are also general courses providing tools for anyone looking to improve their foreign language skills.

For more information, you can find the full list of languages, courses, and resources on OpenCulture.com. And for additional language-learning tools, check out these previous Lifehacker posts on learning a new language while casually browsing the internet, and how to study a language so you actually understand it.
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