# Recommend online language courses?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 26, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745 "2017-08-26T17:16:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745/1 "2017-08-26T17:16:09Z")

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A friend is looking for an online French course. Anybody know a good one?

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745/2 "2017-08-27T01:51:19Z")

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Cancel the request. But I found the Foreign Service Institute’s [complete language courses](https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/) online, if anyone is interested.

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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745/3 "2017-08-27T02:19:05Z")

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Duolingo

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**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745/4 "2017-08-27T12:53:56Z")

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there are a lot of options - my library lets me use Rosetta Stone for free, for example. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745/5 "2017-08-27T13:31:51Z")

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> [@JackieLikesVariety](#):
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> there are a lot of options - my library lets me use Rosetta Stone for free, for example. 🙂

My wife prefers Pimsleur to Rosetta for her Polish lessons. She looked at Duolingo, but didn’t care for the format. I recommended French in Action, the old Capretz system that was used when I was in the Foreign Service, to our friend and she’s going to check it out.

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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745/6 "2017-08-27T14:44:59Z")

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I’ve become a fan of Duolingo, but I can see where it wouldn’t appeal to everyone.