Introductory courses aim to acquaint you with the structure of a new language and enable you to produce it in an extremely short time which ranges from 30 minutes to 1 hour. We currently have 14 introductory courses.
Introduction To Basque | Introduction To Dutch | Introduction To Esperanto |
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| Learn to talk about the past, present and future in both positive and negative, express what you have, need or want, introduce yourself and where you are from, say Basque greetings and questions. This all in 5 lessons. | Learn describing things and talking about them in the present and the future, asking and answering questions and using greetings. Learn to see the link between Dutch and English. A pretty easy-going course which has 5 lessons. | Learn to tell where you are from, what you work or study and that you speak Esperanto, give compliments and greet people and understand how to use the accusative case and some basic verbs. All in 5 lessons. |
Introduction To Estonian | Introduction To French | Introduction To Italian |
| Learn the basic structure of the Estonian language: dealing with Estonian verbs, using the three most important Estonian noun cases, the main personal pronouns and their possessives, some Estonian greetings and vocabulary. This course has 5 lessons. | Learn to have a conversation in French where you can tell how you are doing, where you are from or what languages you speak and ask the same to your conversation partner. The course has 5 lessons. | Learn expressing basic introduction stuff which includes exchanging information about your nationality, profession, name, language knowledge and some other things in Italian in this 5 lesson course. |
Introduction To Latin | Introduction To Lithuanian | Introduction To Norwegian |
| Learn how to introduce yourself and greet people, say that you speak Latin or describe things as good or bad, along with getting a glimpse of Latin structures in this course constisting of 5 lessons. | Learn to greet, thank people, ask where they are from, what they do, what languages they speak, what they want or have and to answer those questions yourself as well as negating things and dealing with two different verb categories. All in this 5 lesson course. | Learn the most important Norwegian verbs, the present, the future tense, all the main greetings and their meanings and some useful vocabulary. The course also shows how closely Norwegian is related to English after all. There are 5 lessons in total. |
Introduction To Polish | Introduction To Portuguese | Introduction To Russian |
| Learn to talk about your wishes and actions, asking and answering questions, dealing with some of the most common Polish nouns, getting acquainted to the common Polish constructions and much more. This Polish course has 5 lessons. | Learn to explain your wants, needs and ideas, give reasons and ask why, what and where questions , greet people and answer to greetings and give general introduction about yourself in Portuguese in 5 lessons. | Learn some Russian verbs and nouns and how to deal with them, find out how to have a basic introductory conversation, ask for directions and learn to convert some international English words into Russian ones easily. There are 5 lessons in total. |
Introduction To Spanish | Introduction To Uzbek | |
| Learn almost full Spanish conversation and by almost full Spanish conversation I mean saying hi, expressing your intimate feelings towards another person and asking one about his profession, field of study or language skills. In 5 lessons. | Learn to ask for a hotel, order tea or do similar things and get introduced to the structures of the grammar of the Uzbek language in this 5 lesson course by GBarto. | |
These are complete courses where you learn the writing systems of different languages of the world. We currently only teach 2 alphabets here but these are good courses and we hope to expand this section in the near future. These courses would take you about 30 minutes to a few hours to complete although you will probably still need some reading practice to solidify your knowledge of the alphabet afterwards.
Arabic Alphabet | Russian Alphabet | |
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| Learn the entire Arabic alphabet by taking this Carl's course which consists of 16 short lessons. | Learn to read the Russian alphabet which allows you to read not only Russian but also Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian and some other Slavic languages. The course has 9 lessons. | |
Unlike introductory courses these are bigger language courses where you not only learn to introduce yourself and get to know the sounds but rather dive on a deeper level into the structures of the language. These courses usually have plenty of lessons and require you on the order of hours to complete. We have 3 basic courses right now.
Japanese Basics | Lithuanian Basics | Portuguese Basics |
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| Learn basic Japanese constructions along with Hiragana and some important Kanji in this audio by Carl which includes 4 CD discs worth of audio and 8 CD discs are planned to be released in the long term therefore this course is still under development. | Learn basic Lithuanian which includes mastering most common verb and noun categories, learning to express yourself in a variety of situations and communicate with Lithuanians in this course which features over 40 lessons. Course is still under development. | Learn to express yourself in Portuguese by acquiring knowledge of most common verb conjugations and intricacies of the grammar of the Portuguese language in this course with over 10 lessons and still under development. |