<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8961e96b-158c-4392-820d-a8ead6564345/13578208-A319-4029-B381-4AADFEBF9B81/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thriftynet.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-on-line-language-lessons-from-bbc.html" href="http://thriftynet.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-on-line-language-lessons-from-bbc.html" style="font-size: 11px;">thriftynet.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thriftynet.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-on-line-language-lessons-from-bbc.html"><H1 class="title"> <A href="http://thriftynet.blogspot.com/" linkindex="2" set="yes">Thrifty Living</A> </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thriftynet.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-on-line-language-lessons-from-bbc.html"><H3 class="post-title entry-title"> <A href="http://thriftynet.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-on-line-language-lessons-from-bbc.html" linkindex="3" set="yes">Free On-Line Language Lessons From BBC</A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thriftynet.blogspot.com/2007/11/free-on-line-language-lessons-from-bbc.html"><DIV class="post-body entry-content"> <P><DIV>I actually came across this <A rel="reading the" href="" target="_blank" id="lx8" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="4">reading the</A> Buffalo News this weekend (old <A rel="fashioned style" href="" target="_blank" id="lx10" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="5">fashioned style</A> reading). In the Money Matters section they had a short article from <A rel="marketwatch.com" href="" target="_blank" id="lx2" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="6">MarketWatch.com</A> titled 'Get Free Language <A rel="lessons'" href="" target="_blank" id="lx3" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="7">Lessons'</A>.</DIV><BR />I checked out the website that they referenced and was quite impressed. It is a <A rel="self-paced" href="" target="_blank" id="lx5" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="8">self-paced</A> system (I sure can't commit to it daily...but once a week...maybe). You can take a test for it to gauge what level lesson you should start at; or for someone like myself (who took Latin in <A rel="highschool" href="" target="_blank" id="lx4" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="9">highschool</A>) just start at the <A rel="beginner level" href="" target="_blank" id="lx0" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="10">beginner level</A>. The beginner level has some nice activities to get you going. <A rel="there are" href="" target="_blank" id="lx7" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="11">There are</A> also <A rel="'crash courses'" href="" target="_blank" id="lx1" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="12" set="yes">'crash courses'</A> if you're hopping on the <A rel="plane tomorrow" href="" target="_blank" id="lx9" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="13">plane tomorrow</A>. You can even download popular phrases to your mp3 player. There are a wide variety of languages including:<BR /></P><UL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">French</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Spanish</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">German</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Italian</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Chinese</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="portugese" href="" target="_blank" id="lx6" class="lx-link-style2" linkindex="14">Portugese</A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Greek</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">more...</LI></UL>Well worth it to check out the site: <A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/" linkindex="15">BBC Languages</A> <DIV></DIV> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13578208-A319-4029-B381-4AADFEBF9B81/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks:  Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!