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this site has been recommended to me by a friend in the UK, who has been using it to learn French : www.myngle.com


Basically sign up, choose your course & off you go, free trial lesson too. Will be trying out my German skills this evening.

Thanks for the link, looks interesting but I've never even used Skype before let alone done an online course!

Please do report back on how you get on, and how it all worked.

Thanks

kodokan

This certainly looks an interesting concept. It seems to fill a gap between the 'teach yourself' CDs etc. and college courses. The feedback idea is similar to eBay. This should assist in finding the most appropriate course.

The only problem that I have is with Skype. I have installed it a couple of times but have had problems with virus checker/firewall settings etc. I am sure this is just my lack of knowledge. I will need to get someone with more knowledge to assist.

It looks like Myngle is relatively new, but seems to be taking off quite well with numbers. As more people get signed up, it should get even better.

I learnt my German from the DW-welle website
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,9572,00.html

excellent collection of language courses, slowly read news broadcasts with transcripts, and lots more.

Here is another - http://www.babbel.com/

Completely free and very interactive. Only does Spanish / French / Italien / German / English