Can I Learn Spanish Online For Free?

This week I’m checking out online applications that can help me learn introductory Spanish for free.

Being able to learn a language online is a nice example of the many types of solutions that today’s education technology makes possible.

I want to start learning Spanish so I can help my sons use it more at home – they both take Spanish in school, and would benefit from the practice. My goal this week is to search out resources online that can help me at least get started, hopefully at no cost.

I’ll take a brief look through sites that I know of or can easily find, and try them out a little. I’ll pick a few of these that I’ll use more over the summer to help me learn and practice. I’ll share my experiences here - what seems to work well and what doesn’t, and seek feedback from my readers about their experiences.

This time last year I wrote a real brief mid week post in which I very briefly looked at the topic of learning languages on line. I’ve revisited the sites mentioned in that post, and found one to be useful for my current objective (Livemocha.com is included below under the sites I liked). Next, I performed a Google search for “learning spanish online”, which naturally produced a kazillion results, and I checked out the top 10 returned links. Here’s what I found, grouped by those sites I liked, and those that didn’t readily appeal to me.

I Liked These Sites:

• SpanishPrograms.com: This site takes you right into Lesson 1, a sentence building lesson. By the time I was done with this 12 minutes lesson, I knew how to create sentences such as ”I want to go to the hotel”, “I don’t want to go to the office”, “I need to go to the store”, and a handful of other useful phrases. You can get 7 more lessons for free on the

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