What are the best online tools ? Need tips :)

[surikate]

Hi All,

I just moved to Barcelona and I would like to learn Spanish even if I know that Catalan is the spoken language here. I am looking for tools or Social Networks where I can either use a solution or meet people to teach me Spanish. For now I have found those 3 online communities :

- Nekoplaza

- Babbel

- LiveMocha

Do you guys know any other tools/communities ?

I appreciate your help here. Thanks !

[BearAcrosser]

Hello!

What do you mean use a solution? I'm not sure I understand.

Anyway, if you are up for language exchange (you help a person practice a language, and they reciprocate) you can try http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/, there are plenty Spanish speakers there who can help you.

Lingualia also gives you the chance to practice with native speakers, although I have never used it.

The best way would be to actually make some Spanish friends though, learning will happen more naturally and you won't even notice how much you're improving!

[deathbyprayer]

So you want tutors or just a community? There is this website I know of it's called Duolingo it's basically a language teaching app you can try your had on it, its pretty sweet. As for the community well I'm not sure I can help you with that.

[Baburra]

I usually go to Youtube for tips because they often have many tutorials made by many different people. This way I get to learn a lot not only through reading but also I have a good idea of the pronunciations as well. Also, since there usually are multiple people uploading their own tutorials, I get to compare them all and see what small differences there may be among individuals so I have a much broader perspective on the current standard.

[Trellum]

You can try the polyglot web site, I think there are plenty of Spanish speakers looking for a language exchange. So you could easily meet someone there, a lot people is interested in learning or improving their English. I have made a couple of good friends over there.

[gmckee1985]

Kind of been wondering the same thing myself, in regards where to go online to get tips on learning a new language. I think there are some pretty useful youtube video clips that can be of a big help. Otherwise, I'm not so sure. Haven't really found anywhere that did a really good job of having a step by step process of learning a new language.

[Hedonologist]

BYKI is probably the best on-line tool that works for a multitude of languages. There might be better tools available for individual languages but BYKI is brilliant for vocabulary and they have around 90 languages.

[Languagetat]

To me, wordreference.com is an invaluable source for learning how to use words adequately in context. The forums there are particularly useful, since most people replying to questions on a specific language are native speakers of that language. Whenever I have a doubt on how to use a phrase I go there and ask.