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Learn languages online

Communicate with your peers out there, by equipping yourself with these popular languages

THE WORLD is full of languages. Think about how many more people and places you could really get to know, and think about how proud you would feel to be known as a polyglot. Log on to the following sites and learn the ten most popularly spoken languages of the world.

Mandarin

http://www.newconceptmandarin.com/: Mandarin, the most widely spoken language on the planet, is based in the most populated country on the planet Speaking Mandarin can be really tough, because each word can be pronounced in four ways (or "tones"), and a beginner will invariably have trouble distinguishing one from another. But if over a billion people could do it, so could you.

Spanish

http://www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm: Spanish is spoken in just about every South American and Central American country, not to mention Spain, Cuba and the U.S. Learn the language with accurate grammar. The site has an exhaustive course in Spanish grammar.

Russian

http://www.russnet.org/online.html: Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Yakov Smirnoff are among the millions of Russian speakers out there. This portal has a collection of downloadable materials for learning and teaching Russian. The media in the modules is presented in the Real Player format.

Arabic

http://www.arabic2000.com/school/: Arabic, one of the world's oldest languages, is spoken in the Middle East, with speakers found in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. The basics of the language can be learnt for free on the website.

Bengali

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Bengali.asp: In Bangladesh, a country of over 120 million people, just about everybody speaks Bengali. And because Bangladesh is virtually surrounded by India, the number of Bengali speakers in the world is much higher than most people would expect.

Portuguese

http://www.orbislingua.com/eb-8.htm: In the 12th Century, Portugal won its Independence from Spain and expanded all over the world with the help of its famous explorers like Vasco da Gama and Prince Henry the Navigator. Since Portugal got in so early on the exploring game, the language established itself all over the world, especially in Brazil, Macau, Angola, Venezuela and Mozambique.

Malay-Indonesian

http://www.languageresourceonline.com/languages/learn_malay.html: Malay-Indonesian is spoken in Malaysia and Indonesia. There are many dialects of Malay, the most popular of which is Indonesian. But they're all pretty much based on the same root language, which makes it the ninth most spoken language in the world. Find methods to master the language with ease on this portal.

French

http://french.about.com/: Often called the most romantic language in the world, French is spoken in lots of countries.You have a plethora of options to choose from. Opt for French for beginners or French for the traveller or any of the nine other options.

Japanese

http://www.japanese-online.com/: Japanese ranks as one of the world's most important languages with over 126 million speakers. There has been a great surge of interest in the study of Japanese as a second language throughout the past 30 years, due to the Western world's fascination with Japanese culture, as well as to Japan's status as a world economic power. Learn the language with the aid of the courses offered on this website.

German

http://webgerman.com/: In modern times, the use of German outside of Europe has generally been limited to German-speaking minorities living in the Western Hemisphere, Africa and Australia because Germany undertook overseas colonial expansion only after the British, the French, the Spanish and the Portuguese. However, today German is one of the most sought-after foreign languages in India.

AYYAPPA NAGUBANDI

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