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**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** April 4, 2015 1:12 pm

I love learning, and I really have a passion for languages.

Does anyone know if there's some good, (and free) language learning pages out there?

I'd like to learn some more Dutch. My guy is from Holland... I can already read Dutch pretty well but it could be fun to actually learn to speak the language as well.

**Posted by Lilythiell** April 4, 2015 10:26 pm

Free? I don't know of any...I wouldn't mind to find one myself, but so far, I've had no such luck. You can try out Babbel.com, I suppose. Not that expensive. And if you don't want to pay, it's always an option. Granted, you'll have less content, but...
Wish I could help out more.

-Lily

**Posted by Mela** April 4, 2015 10:55 pm

When I was in my "french phase" I found an interesting website. It's called Duolingo and it was free if I remember well! It was quite a basic course (first you learn some simple words and sentences) but I had fun. There was also an app for smartphone ahah

Take a look https://www.duolingo.com/

Last edited by Mela (April 4, 2015 10:56 pm)

**Posted by Schmiezi** April 5, 2015 6:23 am

I used a few online pages to prepare for my holidays in Italy. There seem to be similar pages for Dutch. I don't know them, but maybe you can check them out.

http://www.101languages.net/dutch/
http://www.taalthuis.com/
http://www.learndutch.nu/

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** April 5, 2015 6:43 am

Thank you SO much, as soon as I return from my Easter holidays I'll have a good look at these links!

I think I'll have fun learning this language! I tried to learn Irish some years back... a teacher had filmed his classes and put them on youtube and even put the papers online too. I just never found the time then.

But this I will make time for!