'Language learning has always happened outside the framework of official learning online, but now you can easily find Zoom calls in other languages to participate in'
Photo: The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty/Time Life Pictures If you’ve watched all of Netflix, played every board game in your possession, and baked more bread than you can possibly consume, consider spending some of your newfound free time learning a language.
Best overall language-learning program Pimsleur From $20 All of the experts we spoke to say that traditional online learning programs are the most effective tool for beginning language learners to acquire and practice some vocabulary and grammar. Unlike “pop language apps” like Duolingo, these are often more rigorously researched, combine different learning techniques, and usually cost a good amount of money.
$10 at Amazon Buy From $13 at Talk To Me In Korean Buy Best beginner language-learning app Duolingo Plus From $7 From $7 Our experts didn’t totally write off pop language-learning programs like Duolingo . Many suggest that you use the app as a starting point with a combination of different methods, especially since it primarily depends on translation and game-like learning techniques.
One way to practice conversational language is with a teacher. Yankl-Peretz Blum, project manager at YiddishPOP and a polyglot who has studied over 20 languages, says that right now he’s learning Palestinian Arabic with a private teacher on the website italki. “We just shmooze, the teacher rarely talks to us about language, and instead we just talk about things, like our lives or a TV show, in the language,” he explains.
From $6 at Netflix Buy From $9 at Netflix Buy BrainPop $220 Another online tool for language learning is BrainPop, an educational website with more than 1,000 short animated movies in English , Spanish, French, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
From $100 at Alibris Buy $67 at Bookshop Buy Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry $10 $10 When you’re starting to read, Baecher recommends accessing texts at an easier Lexile level. “Reading something a little more challenging is going to expand you out of your basic set of vocabulary, which tends to repeat over and over in an app, and bring you into more natural language,” she explains.
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