The desire to speak another language has driven many of us to spend hours looking for the perfect way to learn a language online. Whether you want to brush up on a few words for a holiday, learn the basics for a business trip, or complete a full length language course, we have done the work for you. Learn A Language Online continues to search the internet for every available option, from traditional books and cd's, through personal coaching via the internet, to fully automated online solutions.

If you wish to learn French, Spanish, German, Italian, or even Chinese please follow the links above for our reviews. If you would like to learn a different language, or have any comments or suggestions please let us know via the contact screen and we'll be more than happy to help wherever we can.

To get you started straight away we've included a handful of links below that provide good starting points:

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) makes its courseware available to all who wish to use it. The courseware is more academic than some of the other sites, but the quality is good, and there is good information on various local cultures as well as their language.

The language pages at BBC online offer a wide range of languages (French, Spanish, German, Italian, plus Portuguese, Greek, and Chinese) , with multimedia learning resources and language games. The site doesn't perhaps have the depth of dedicated language learning products, but it is a great place to start! It also includes key phrases in 36 different languages, great if you are going on holiday.

Livemocha is a new site, which social networking with online language learning. The site contains instructional content in English, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin Chinese (and others), which is combined with a community of native speakers in each language. Kind of like a bunch of online pen-pals if you like, and for now at least, it's free!