Learning Languages

I guess there is no need to explain why it's important to know different languages nowadays.
Especially if your native language is spoken only in your home country and there are less then 5 million people who speak this language. What do we do for learning a new language then? Of course we have an opportunity to study it in school or in Universities. We also can take a language courses individually. But there are a lot of other ways how to learn a new language or to improve the one you already know on World Wide Web. Today I want to tell you about useful web-site that can help you to improve your language skills. This is a  very interesting online language learning community - www.livemocha.com. This is a web-site where you can create an account and use it for educational purpose. Livemocha provides instructional materials in more then 30 different languages and also it is a platform  for people to interact with native speakers and help each other to learn new languages.

Free basic courses are offered in almost 38 languages on this site, consisting of 30-50 hours of coursework. Few languages were first added to Livemocha through the process of "Member Translation". Members of the community fluent in two or more languages may translate already available course materials into their native tongue and put the results on web-site. Other users can rate and improve the translations. By the way Lithuanian language courses are among these type of courses, created by users of the web-site :)

More advanced courses - called "Active Courses"  are available in five languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. But you have to pay for it. They require a monthly or annual fee however these courses are intended to achieve conversational fluency.

I think that even courses which are offered on this site free of charge are very useful. For beginners it's quite easy to start language exercises. For those who are already on intermediate or advanced level site gives a really good opportunity to communicate with native speakers. Of course you can communicate with native speakers on other social networks as well. But very specific and different thing about this web-site is that as it is meant to be a language learning community you can ask other members (more probably native speakers) to review your accomplishments in learning language and to give some suggestions. It's really easy and convenient access to native speakers. By the way if you want you can also help others to learn your native tongue or the language which you already know quite well. You can revise their works on web-site, give them some advices and make the learning process easier.