Courses

There are many companies that publish material for language learners. They range from books to audio programs to Internet sites and more.

Textbooks based in English[]

• Assimil
• Teach Yourself
• Colloquial
• Linguaphone
• Foreign Service Institute
• Living Language
• Spanish Short Stories by Lingo Mastery

Audio Only[]

• Pimsleur
• Linguaphone allTalk
• Michel Thomas

Computer Programs[]

• Learning With Texts
• Foreign Language Text Reader
• Minticity
• Rocket Languages
• Rosetta Stone
• Tell Me More
• Fluenz
• LearnWithOliver
• www.turkishlanguagehouse.com

Monolingual courses[]

Most of these are originally meant for classroom use but many are autodidact friendly, or at least usable, as well.

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Norwegian
• Spanish
• Swedish

Textbooks based in other languages[]

• French
  • Assimil
• German
  • PONS
  • Langenscheidt
  • Assimil
• Czech
  • courses published by Leda
  • courses published by CPress
  • courses by other publishers

An overview of various language courses is available in a series of videos by Professor Alexander Arguelles.

A collection of comparative reviews of 70 courses, covering 300 languages, is available from Paul Burke, retired teacher and researcher. It also shows which publishers cover each language.

Supplementary learner aimed material[]

sorted firstly by type, secondly by target language. Various source languages sorted on the individual lists.

Grammar books-references, exercises, verb overviews and so on[]

English

French

German

Live online German classes

Spanish

Vocabulary sources- exercise books, frequency lists, etc., anything but dictionaries[]

French

Dictionaries-online and paper, mono and bilingual, alphabetical, illustrated, thesauri, etc.[]

Exam preparation course books[]

Foreign character learning sources[]