Archive for 'For Learners'
New: Beginner English Courses for Kurdish & Marshallese Speakers Posted by meaghan on Mar 19, 2025 in For Learners, For Libraries, Learning Material Updates
37. Thirty-seven. A three and a seven. English learners can now take beginner English courses taught in *37* languages in Transparent Language Online. Introducing the two latest additions to the 350+ hour ESL collection: English for Behdini Kurdish & Marshallese speakers. You may be wondering: that’s a lot of languages. Why so many? Why yes…
3 new indigenous North American languages Posted by meaghan on Jan 20, 2025 in For Learners, For Libraries, Learning Material Updates
A big part of the reason learners can choose from 140+ languages: the hard work of 7000 Languages and their community partners! In the last 12 years, the non-profit has worked with indigenous groups to create online courses in 38 indigenous languages. Including the three latest additions: Chinuk Wawa, Comanche, and Hupa. The partners provide the…
Free language learning at every library in Denmark (for Danes and newcomers!) Posted by meaghan on Dec 9, 2024 in Company News, Learning Material Updates, Library Success Stories
Since 2023, every Danish citizen has been able to learn a language for free with their library card. But only if they were comfortable learning a new language using English. Now every Dane—and newcomers to Denmark—can access free language courses taught in their native language. No more language barriers. “Danish for Migrants” course for speakers…
4 new indigenous languages added to Transparent Language Online Posted by meaghan on Oct 14, 2024 in For Learners, Learning Material Updates
More voices. That’s the goal. To promote language learning at large. And to protect languages at risk. Advocating for more voices has been the goal since we started our first indigenous language course (Balinese!) way back in 2013. Here we are—11 years and 35 indigenous languages later—marking Indigenous Peoples’ Day with four new additions to…
Advocating for More Voices Posted by Transparent Language on Aug 5, 2024 in Company News, For Learners
What does it mean to be a language advocate? What are we even advocating for? The best way I’ve heard it put: “more voices.” More voices. That’s what we need to celebrate and increase multilingualism. Our languages are foundational to our identities. When one dies (which happens at a rate of one language every two…
Close Your Rings, Learn a Language Posted by meaghan on Jul 10, 2024 in For Learners, Learning Feature Updates
What are you lookin’ at? Oh, the new learner portal design in Transparent Language Online!? Us too. ? Goodbye cloud background (IYKYK). Hello clean new dashboard. The new look reduces distractions. So learners can focus on what matters most. 
Completing your next lesson. Meeting your daily goal. Reviewing regularly. It’s like closing the…
Learn a language offline with the Transparent Language Online app Posted by meaghan on Jun 17, 2024 in For Educators, For Learners, For Libraries
It’s 2024. Surely everyone learning a language with us has home internet, right? Unfortunately, no. Tens of millions of US households don’t have internet. And potentially more soon. Congressional funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program ran out on May 31. The program provided a home internet subsidy to more than 23 million low-income households. If…