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Choose from over 100 world languages, including English language courses. Learn anywhere, anytime.

  • Practice conversations about real-life situations.
  • Study up on your grammar.
  • Test yourself with quizzes.
  • Listen then repeat to perfect pronunciation.
  • Strengthen your speaking and writing skills.
  • Build cultural confidence.

What You Get

  • Learn to speak Somali, Nepali, or Spanish.
  • English courses for speakers of Somali, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin) & more. Includes American Citizenship Course, English Immersion Conversation Courses, Workforce English Essentials, Business Vocabulary, and more.
  • Speakers of Arabic, Spanish, French, Portuguese & Turkish can change the website to native language.
  • & more

Start a conversation. Make new friends. Find your way. And discover a whole new world.

Languages include:

Afrikaans, Albanian, Altai, American Sign Language, Amharic, Arabic, 4 Dialects Available, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Baluchi, Bambara, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bengali, Benhti Kenaga' (Lower Tanana), Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buriat, Cambodian (Khmer), Chechen, Cherokee, Chinese, 2 Dialects Available KidSpeak Available, Cree, Croatian, Czech, Dakota, 2 Dialects Available, Danish, Dari, Deg Xinag, Denaakk'e (Koyukon), Denesuline, Dinak'i (Upper Kuskokwim), Dutch, Ekpeye, English, KidSpeak Available, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Farsi, Finnish, French, 3 Dialects Available KidSpeak Available, Georgian, German, KidSpeak Available, Greek, Gwich'in (Dinjii Zhuh K'yaa), Haitian Creole, Hän, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Holikachuk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, KidSpeak Available, Japanese, Kalmyk, Kaqchikel, Kazakh, Kituba, Koasati, Korean, Kurdish, Kwak̓wala, Latin, Latvian, Laz, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Maori, Michif, Mirandese, Mongolian, Nahuatl, Naskapi, Nepali, Nogai, Norwegian, Oji-Cree, Ojibwe, 3 Dialects Available, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, 2 Dialects Available, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shughni, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, 2 Dialects Available KidSpeak Available, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajiki, Tamil, Tanacross, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ukrainian, Upper Tanana (Nee'aanèegn'), Urdu, Uzbek, 2 Dialects Available, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Yoruba, Yup'ik, Zulu

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