Free software for learning languages

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tomlukeywood
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I am learning Russian at the moment so dose anyone know of a language learning program similar to Duolingo that is free software?

Thanks in advance

Джордж
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Hi Tom!

"Learning with texts" is a very nice software for learning languages in general.
"The software is 100 % free, open source, and in the public domain." I‘ve been using it for years now. Reading a text while listening to audio is essential for learning.

http://lwt.sourceforge.net/

If you‘re serious with learning Russian then you should learn cursive handwriting while learning the alphabet. The alphabet is pretty easy but cursive handwriting is a bit tricky, especially joining letters.

Here are some useful resources (the first link is great for inflexion)

http://russian.cornell.edu/rdt/index.cfm
http://corpora.uni-leipzig.de/en?corpusId=rus_mixed_2013
http://seelrc-iis.trinity.duke.edu/russdict/

Happy learning!

tomlukeywood
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ок спасибо я попробую программу и у меня уже есть книга учит меня кириллицы почерк.

lembas
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I've found the various free flash card softwares useful for learning words in foreign language. There's a number of them in the repo.