19 Ways to Learn a Language Online

Many believe online learning is the future of knowledge. There are a wide variety of ways to learn languages online, many of them available for free. Below is a list of 19 ways you can go from knowing how to say "Hello" to fluency.

1. Mango Languages: 12 different online language courses presented in conversational format.Some courses are free.

2. Vocabulix Free vocabulary building lessons in Spanish, German and English, as well as other languages, with a baked in social network.

3. BBC Languages A host of language learning tools and self-contained online courses from the BBC.

4. eLanguageSchool.net Free lessons for learning 10 different languages online.

5. Linkua An online marketplace of real-life language tutors. There's nothing like learning a language directly from a native speaker.

6. LiveMocha This site combines lessonswith an online community, allowing you to practice speaking with native speakers, which dovetails nicely into the next set of sites.

7. SharedTalk A language exchange covering 113 languages from the makers of the popular Rosetta Stone language learning software.

8. xLingo A language exchange that lets users create and share flashcards with each other.

9. Palabea Reviews of language learning software in addition to an online language exchange.

10. iTalki A language exchange with a Yahoo! Answers-style Q&A site, and a wiki-based public knowledge base for 10 different languages.

11. Interpals A large language exchange from a popular penpal social network.

12. Mixxer A free language exchange, using Skype, built by Dickinson College.

13. TT4You A free global language exchange site.

14. Language Buddy A free language exchange with 115 supported languages.

15. Convesation Exchange Text and voice chat, email, or face-to-face meetings can bet set up via Language Buddy to improve your conversational skills.

16. Lingozone Build vocabulary skills by playing game of Word Ladder and Hangman, while making friends with whom to practice speaking.

17. Language Exchange Network Think Craigslist for language learning. This site has super-simple language exchange classified listings.

18. MyLanguageExchange One of the oldest online language exchanges (this site was a Yahoo! Internet Life pick in 2001), it claims over 1 million members speaking 115 different languages.

19. Language Exchange A language exchange application for Facebook.