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Pimsleur Hindi
Hindi, Audio Lessons
Pimsleur Hindi consists of extremely interactive audio lessons with constant prompting and cajoling, from the earliest moments, to get you speaking in Hindi. It’s a great way to practice your accent and get a basic feel for the language’…
Learning Spanish Like Crazy
Spanish, Audio Lessons, Multimedia
I haven’t tried Learning Spanish Like Crazy, but one of my readers described it as “right up there with Pimsleur in my opinion, but focus[ing] on more informal Spanish than what’s in Pimsleur’s course.” My impression,…
VocabuLearn Greek
Greek, Audio Lessons, Vocabulary
VocabuLearn Greek consists of a series of vocabulary audio lessons—very basic, pretty boring, but totally useful if you pay attention. It is no longer being published, as Penton Overseas ceased production of all VocabuLearn products during the global economic…
Let’s Speak French: Lesson 1
French, Audio Lessons, Radio/TV/Video/Film, Websites
If you want to sound literate in a foreign language, it is important to be able to spell. But because the spoken alphabet is not normally taught in standard teach-yourself materials, you kind of need to work on it on…
VocabuLearn Italian
Italian, Audio Lessons, Vocabulary
VocabuLearn’s publisher, Penton Overseas, was a victim of the global economic crash. The company no longer exists under that name, but the CDs it used to make are gradually finding new life on the web in the form of…
VocabuLearn Arabic
Arabic, Audio Lessons, Vocabulary
VocabuLearn Arabic comes in two different levels, for a total of six hours of vocabulary instruction. Each level of this product, originally published by Penton Overseas, used to consist of four CDs organized by parts of speech: nouns, adjectives and…