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ESL Library Guide

This library guide contains useful library resources for ESL students, at Kent State University.

Language Learning Online

Duolingo is a free language-learning platform that includes a language-learning app along with a crowdsourced text translation platform, and a language proficiency assessment center. Duolingo is ad-free. The language-learning app offers over 40 different language courses across 23 languages, and is available on the Web, iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8.1 platforms with over 100 million registered users across the world. The base app is free, but premium features are locked behind subscription.

 

Busuu is  a crowd sourcing (social network) for learning languages. It is based on a freemium business model. The website provides learning units for twelve languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese. Users select one or more of these languages and work through the self-paced units.

 Available on itunes as an app as well as on Google Play for Android devices.

 

Pangaea Learning is available as a Web App as well as iPhone and iPad apps. Teaches vocabulary, phrases, pronunciation as well as grammar concepts. Choose from over 10 languages. According to their website : " Designed especially for students and tourists as well as business and medical professionals." The English module contains 114 lessons, includes more than 3,000 vocabulary words and has quizzing features.