Foreign Languages

Updated on March 8, 2017

Kids and high school students have wonderful opportunities for learning foreign languages with the online websites and apps listed here.  French, Spanish, English, German, Italian, and Chinese Mandarin are some of the most commonly found languages in these listings.  Some include social learning tools so students have an opportunity to converse with native speakers.  And some sites have lesson plans and teaching materials.

Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects offers free online language learning games in 50 European, Far Eastern, African, and Middle Eastern languages, as well as English.  Some games and interactives include audio.  Topics generally covered are intro material to a foreign language, such as…

How To Conjugate Spanish Verbs

Tom Tomati will show you how to learn and practice Spanish Verbs Conjugation free online using a wide variety of interactive exercises, videos, rules, conjugation lists and entertaining characters!  

Primary Languages

Learn basic words and phrases in French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese while you play games.  The foreign language vocabulary includes sounds, numbers, calendar, greetings and introductions, school, food and drink, activities, seasons, animals and weather. There are also videos and…

MySpelling

MySpelling site is designed to help your language learning experience by improving your words and sentences’ spelling in a set of languages of your choice. Available languages: English, Spanish, French, Russian and Hebrew.  You select the language you’re learning and…

Foreign Language Learning for Kids

Chillola.com is designed to give children the opportunity to explore foreign languages, countries, and cultures. Children using chillola.com learn for free and enjoy the process. It features English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.

MyLanguages Language Learning

MyLanguages offers grammar, vocabulary and phrases in 95 languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu. Some of the vocabulary is accompanied by audio pronunciations of the words.

Foreign Language News and Newspapers

MIT Libraries offers online editions of several foreign language journals, newspapers and magazines.  The electronic publications are offered in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Foreign Language Picture Dictionary

This picture dictionary provides translations for words between English and several foreign languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese and Swedish.  Students use the alphabetic index at the to go to the page of words starting with that letter. …

BBC Languages

The BBC offers online courses in several languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek and Chinese.  They also offer a brief overview of other languages, such as Japanese, Polish and Urdu.   Courses include syllabus, vocabulary list, grammar tips, pronunciation guide…

Mango Languages

Learn 71 languages with Mango, offered free throughout the US in many public library and school systems. The focus of Mango is learning through short conversations, broken down word by word, with occasional grammar lessons inserted. You repeat words and…

MisCositas

From site:  MisCositas.com is a free web resource that offers teachers a variety of materials for teaching languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Thai and ESL. Available on the site are: Videos for teaching simple vocabulary, “in-flight movies” for fantasy trips, karaoke…

ePals Global Community

Use ePals to help you students practice their foreign language skills in a meaningful way. ePals is the largest and fastest growing K-12 online global community. More than 132,000 classrooms, 350,000 teachers, and millions of learners across 200 countries and…