My eldest wants to try learning Spanish, and suggested that I look for some audio study materials for her MP3 player. I had a quick look around the internet for free stuff. Here are some that I found
Free Spanish Lessons and Spanish Language Courses
Spanish Lessons – A to Z Home’s Cool Homeschooling Foreign Languages
Free Foreign Language Courses (Download to MP3 Player, iPod or Computer) | Open Culture
She’s starting with the episodes of the Coffee Break Spanish podcast
Update: Coffee Break Spanish have just announced that they are stopping the series after episode 80 and starting again from the beginning. In one way it is sad to see it end, but in another way it can give my daughter renewed hope that she will get to the end. She’s currently still squeezing the juice out of the first few episodes!
This looks interesting, as much for the business model of establishing credibility through writing a blog, then monetising it in offering training. I have met Simon Brown and do think he knows what he is on about, though, so if you are in the market for software architect training, this should be worth a look.
Software architecture training for £500 – Coding the Architecture
I find that one of the saddest things about taking an Open University course is that all the work and thought that people put into discussions in the course forums are just thrown away at the end of the course. This seems particularly poor from a learning perspective, as some of the best sources of aid and information for new students would be students who have successfully progressed through the course.
Why think of this now? I happened on an interesting little web article related to a course (M873), but have no obvious way of sharing that information with tutors and future students on this course. This just seems a shame.
Oh well, maybe someone might make the connection if I post the link here
UX eye for the BA guy.