MX101x: Basic Mandarin Chinese – Level 1
MandarinX via edX
Self-Paced
6 weeks - 4 hrs/week
Introductory Mandarin is the first in a series of six courses designed to teach you how to speak Mandarin Chinese. This course will introduce you to the basic language you will need to eat, live, and get around in Mandarin speaking countries.
Since this is a language course, we recommend taking this course with a friend or group of friends. Practicing with others by speaking the language will help you learn it more effectively. Additionally, Mandarin is a tonal language, which means that in order to truly master it, you will need to say the words out loud! Join the community of over 900 million native Mandarin speakers and start learning today!
Chinese for Beginners
Peking University via Coursera
Self-paced
7 weeks - 1-2 hrs/week
Nowadays, there is an increasing number of people who are interested in Chinese culture and language. And it is useful to know about the language when coming to China for travel or business. This is an ABC Chinese course for beginners, including introduction of phonetics and daily expressions. After taking this class, learners can have a basic understanding of Chinese Mandarin and make basic conversations of daily living such as exchanging personal information, talking about daily arrangements and food, asking about price, introducing the city and the weather, telling your hobbies etc. Selected topics and situations come from real life scenarios and can be used for everyday communications. In addition to the dialogues, the selection of reading materials and practice activities will make the content as rich and varied as possible, in order to stimulate the learners’ interests. This is an elementary course on Chinese speaking. The learners don’t need to study Chinese characters, so it is easier to follow and complete this course.
Chinese Characters 汉字
Peking University via Coursera
Oct 8th, 2015
10 weeks - 5-7 hrs/week
"Chinese character" (1st volume) course will be divided into 40 lessons in this term.There will be one lesson on
every Monday to Thursday. Each lesson has a theme shown in a short video of 5-10 minutes. In the video, there are 6 characters relevant to the theme. There are totally 240 Chinese characters in this course. After the teaching of the Chinese characters, the common Chinese vocabulary, which is composed of the Chinese characters taught in the previous part, will be shown in the second part of the video. In this way, the Chinese characters and the vocabulary could be combined together to enhance the learner`s reading ability.
Each Friday will be a day of learners` self - testing. No lesson will be on that day, but a quiz instead. The score of 70 out of 100 is required.
BSP101x: Learn Spanish: Basic Spanish for English Speakers
Universitat Politècnica de València via edX
Sep 15th, 2015
16 weeks - 4 hrs/week
This 16-week Spanish language course is aimed at students who would like to learn conversational Spanish starting with Spanish basics. The course introduces everyday language and includes activities to practice all four language skills: reading comprehension, writing, listening comprehension and speaking.
After completing this course, you will be prepared to introduce yourself, ask basic questions, and conduct a brief conversation in Spanish.
This course uses reference materials, cultural notes, grammar explanations, functions of language, etc. Students will be able to monitor their progress by taking a number of performance tests and a final achievement test.
Español Salamanca A2
Universidad de Salamanca via Miríada X
Oct 2oth, 2015
Distributed in 6 modules, the course is more oriented towards communication and social interaction than to mastering the formal resources of Spanish: its ultimate aim is to provide its followers with the means to solve basic tasks or problems typical of daily life, using Spanish to do so.
The course is organized around fundamental functional nuclei (see below), and provides audio-visual material for the presentation of the contents and its contextualization. Learners will also have other materials available through different media (conventional material in PDF, Power Point presentations, forums, wikis, etc.). The course has been designed to stimulate autonomy and cooperative learning.
Introduction to Dutch
University of Groningen via FutureLearn
Nov 2nd, 2015
3 weeks - 3 hrs/week
Are you planning to visit, or work or study in the Netherlands soon? This free online course is perfect if you have little or no prior knowledge of Dutch, but would like to master the fundamentals in order to survive life in the Low Countries.
Cours de français langue étrangère
Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France via France Université Numerique
Oct 5th, 2015
7 weeks - 2 hrs/week
Vous allez vivre une expérience avec la langue française, dans un Paris… différent ! Le cours s’organise autour de 7 semaines. Chaque semaine du cours correspond à une journée de découverte culturelle à Paris.
Avec ce cours vous allez pratiquer :
• L’écoute grâce à des vidéos, des documents audio
• La lecture avec des documents de la vie courante à Paris
• L' écrit avec des textes variés et amusants
• La grammaire et le lexique grâce à des vidéos pour comprendre, des exercices pour appliquer
Des vidéos et des activités pour mieux comprendre Paris en version originale, sa vie culturelle, la vie des parisiens ! Vous allez aussi pratiquer l’écrit et l’oral en communiquant avec les autres participants du cours.
Paroles de FLE {Français Langue Etrangère}
Université de Nantes via France Université Numerique
Nov 2nd, 2015
5 weeks - 2-3 hrs/week
Avec plus de 200 millions de francophones, le français fait sans conteste partie des langues les plus utilisées dans le monde. Si vous souhaitez vous perfectionner et surtout mieux comprendre la langue française à l'oral, alors ce MOOC est fait pour vous.
En effet, vous y poursuivrez deux objectifs principaux :
- mieux comprendre le français à l'oral dans différentes situations (exemples : une conversation, un reportage télévisé, etc...). Vous pourrez interagir et vous entraîner avec d'autres locuteurs de français sur les espaces d'échanges du MOOC ;
- acquérir des stratégies d'écoute pour faciliter la compréhension de documents abordant des sujets variés et comprenant des accents, des voix, des rythmes variés.
ASLCx: AP® Spanish Language and Culture
St. Margaret’s Episcopal School via edX
Self-paced
10 weeks - 6-8 hrs/week
AP® Spanish Language and Culture is a challenging course taught exclusively in Spanish that helps students to improve their proficiency across the three modes of communication: Interpretive, Interpersonal and Presentational. This course is designed to help you prepare for the AP exam, and focuses on the integration of authentic resources including online print, audio, and audiovisual resources, as well as traditional print resources such as literature, essays, and magazine and newspaper articles. Students will communicate using advanced vocabulary and linguistic structures as they build proficiency in all modes of communication toward the advanced level. Class is conducted completely in Spanish and includes frequent writing and integration of skills with a review of grammatical structures, which are troublesome for second-language learners. Advanced organizational and analytical strategies are taught, and students will complete the course feeling better prepared to take the AP exam.
