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What is I Kinda Like Languages?

I Kinda Like Languages is a website with free full introductory and basic level language courses made by volunteers. Our courses are aimed at production: getting you to practice speaking and writing the language right from the start and throughout the courses because we believe that understanding comes naturally from production and not the opposite. The courses are targeted on non-linguists (not language-geeks or professionals - thus no difficult grammatical terms). Currently we have over 10 introductory, 2 alphabet and 3 basic level courses in the works.

What courses do you have?

Since courses are made by volunteers, a freedom of expression is allowed when structuring the courses. However, we have come to have and we encourage making two kinds of courses: introductory or basic:

  • introductory courses are very short courses which aim to get you to know a little bit of the language so that you can recognize it if you see it written or say a couple of things when you meet native speakers
  • basic courses are longer courses which try to teach you the necessary structures of the language so that you can communicate afterwards purely with a help of a dictionary

You could complete an introductory course in 30 minutes to an hour and a basic course in a matter of hours. Apart from those two we also have alphabet courses which usually teach you the complete alphabet of a language and are a good starting point for learning languages like Greek, Russian or Arabic.

How to use this site?

Here is how the I Kinda Like Languages website is organized:

The structure of the site: Labs, courses and blog

A. If you simply want to learn a new language, go visit our main site where you have our courses listed.

B. If you want to go one level deeper and either:

  1. check out what courses we are still working on
    2. or...
  2. join us and see how you can make courses yourself
... then go to the labs and look around or register.

C. Finally, if you want to see what's up in I Kinda Like Languages and read some tips or stories about language learning, go check out my blog.

And whatever you do... I would love to hear your feedback on this site. Visit this feedback page and let me know what you think!