Guides: Modern and Classical Languages Research Guide: Ways to Practice

Any Language Practice

The Mixxer
The Mixxer is an entirely free non-profit website hosted by Dickinson College. The site is open to anyone looking to practice a with a native speaker in exchange for help with their own. Once registered, users can contact potential language exchange partners via live chat on the site. Members can practice speaking with the language partner via Skype or improve their writing by submitting a writing sample and asking for corrections from native speakers. Those using the writing function are asked to return the favor by correcting short samples in their native language.

News in Slow Spanish
A streaming service for language immersion, created and produced by an international team of journalists, writers, linguists, audio engineers, and native language hosts. Requires a subscription for full access.
Radio Ambulante
Radio Ambulante has told stories from all around Latin America. With over 200 episodes produced from more than 20 countries, Radio Ambulante is Latin America’s most ambitious narrative journalism podcast, offering a sonic portrait of the region and everywhere Spanish is spoken.
El Instituto Cervantes
The Instituto Cervantes is a public institution created by Spain in 1991 to promote universally the teaching, study and use of Spanish and to contribute to the dissemination of Hispanic cultures abroad. Use their collection of apps to practice Spanish.

Learn French with international news
Podcasts and exercises to learn and practice French, for all levels. RFI does not just speak French on its airwaves, it also teaches it. To help some of its listeners maintain a language that they do not use every day, to allow others to become familiar with or improve their knowledge of a language that they often need for their work, and finally for all those who love and want to master French for the values it conveys, RFI puts radio at the service of promoting and learning the French language.
TV5MONDE
TV5MONDE aims to promote French-speaking culture and creation in all its forms. Its specificity: to broadcast works in French, whether Belgian, French, Quebec, Canadian, Swiss and Monegasque or from the African continent, to make them shine throughout the world and to support creation through original productions or co-productions, purchases and pre-purchases. Use their free language lessons, take quizzes, watch films or use their various resources to learn French.