{"id":1401,"date":"2010-04-09T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/free-language-learning-resources\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:49:00","slug":"free-language-learning-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/free-language-learning-resources.html","title":{"rendered":"Free Language Learning Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I have come across several useful online language-learning resources recently, in the form of web sites with freely available courses such as those developed by the Foreign Service Institute. Here are some worth checking out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fsi-language-courses.org\/Content.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">FSI Language Courses<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/soyouwanttolearnalanguage\/languagee-books\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">So you want to learn a language?<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacecorps.gov\/wws\/multimedia\/language\/lessons.cfm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peace Corps language lessons<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syrianarabic.com\/contents.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Syrian Arabic<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eric.ed.gov\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Education Resources Information Center<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2342918785910844014?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have come across several useful online language-learning resources recently, in the form of web sites with freely available courses such as those developed by the Foreign Service Institute. Here are some worth checking out: FSI Language CoursesSo you want to learn a language?Peace Corps language lessonsSyrian ArabicEducation Resources Information Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Free Language Learning Resources<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have come across several useful online language-learning resources recently, in the form of web sites with freely available courses such as those\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/free-language-learning-resources.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Free Language Learning Resources\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have come across several useful online language-learning resources recently, in the form of web sites with freely available courses such as those\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/free-language-learning-resources.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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