E-learning

[davan839]

I am looking for really good examples of e-learning sites, both peerproduced like UniLang and commercial. Help my finding out what characterizes a really good e-learning site.

UniLang is a good example of a strong and large user base.

[skye]

I thought that learnspanish site was quite ok, they're not 100% free though. (Hope this isn't advertisement.)

[duko]

Davan, are you interested only in e-learning languages, or in e-learning in general? I'm asking because e-learning is of interest for me too. If you have any good sites, would you too post them here please?

[Nukalurk]

Yesterday, I stumbled over http://www.china-8.com/cms/sites/china-8/section.cfm?id=1 for Mandarin, it seems to be good.

[skye]

For learning about how things work I really liked howstuffworks.org (they even have an article on e-learning), because it's written in a simple enough manner so I can understand things that I never learnt about before.

For learning about html I very much liked that htmldog.com site that people recommended to me here at unilang. (Not that I managed to make a website - I started one, but it wasn't very good, so I decided against wasting webspace.)It was also clear and easy to understand.

Then there's also about.com that has articles and other resources on different subjects - from languages to music and what not. Nevertheless quite well organized.

englishforums.com is quite a good forum where you can discuss English in English (I used to be a member). wordreference.com is also very helpful when you're looking for a word or a phrase.

What I like about the site I mentioned before (studyspanish.com): it's well structured, the lessons advance from easy to difficult, there is a free exercise for every lesson and there are over seventy lessons. It's basically an on-line grammar book with exercises.

Not sure if this is quite what you were looking for?

[polishboy]

The site of Tokyo Universtiy is very nice.

[nighean-neonach]

They only "e-learning" site I've ever used is http://www.ur.se/gulahalan for Saami. There is also a nice one for Scottish Gaelic at http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/fogh ... air_bheag/

Apart from that I prefer the good old-fashioned books approach, or sitting in a café with a friend and practicing conversation

[Sol Invictus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ is interesting, altought perhaps not perfect (I remember havibg some kind of technical difficulties)

[ILuvEire]

This is the best Welsh online site, ever: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/
I prefer using books and native speakers though.