Independent learning
Ready to take matters into your own hands?
The Language Centre has compiled some online resources that you can use to improve your language skills.
Interested in a language exchange? Find a tandem partner.
Tandem learning
Tandem language learning is a tried and tested method which enables you to improve your language skills in an independent and informal way.
This is how it works: you offer your own language skills (ideally in your native language) and in exchange you get the chance to learn the language of your tandem partner. You should arrange with your tandem partner to meet up once a week for about an hour and a half and practise both languages at each session.
The Language Centre will help you find a suitable tandem partner. Register using one of the links below and complete the form. You will find all the information on this same link.
Please note your registration is valid for the current academic year only.
Online resources
- Tandem: the mobile app (for learning languages with people all around the world)
- Bonjour de France (offers a wide range of exercises grouped into different modules)
- Le Point du FLE: Exercices de Français (offers a wide selection of exercises on grammar, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension and pronunciation)
- Ma France (interactive video course for learning French and finding out about France)
- Dictionnaire Loecsen (audio dictionary to translate everyday words and phrases)
- La lettre (aide avec rédaction de des lettres)
- Les 7 jours sur la planète (learn French through news reports)
- BildungsInteraktiv 1: Französisch Grammatik (videos to help German speakers in understanding French grammar)
- BildungsInteraktiv 2: Französisch Grammatik (videos to help German speakers in understanding French grammar)
- Cours de Français: Die französische Grammatik verstehen (offers a variety of grammatical topics and exercises)
- Language Guide: French (offers exercises divided into three main categories: grammar, readings and vocabulary)
- Learn French with Alexa (YouTube channel, uploads a new video every Monday and Wednesday)
- Anki (friendly, intelligent flashcards)
- Lang-8 (find friends from all over the world and have your posts corrected by native speakers)
- Tandem: the mobile app (for learning languages with people all around the world)
- Phonetics: The Sounds of American English (exact the pronunciation of all American English sounds through graphic animations of the speech organs)
- The English We Speak (podcast built around English expressions)
- Academic Phrasebank (resource containing a wide range of phrases used in English academic writing)
- British Council Learn English (tools for the practice of general, academic and business English)
- Exam English (resources concerning different official English exams)
- Get that Job ( activities and exercises to help with job hunting)
- Smart Words (sources for finding synonyms and the right words to express yourself)
- engVid (free English Video Lessons)
- Perfect English Grammar (explanations, video-tutorials and exercises for important grammatical topics)
- News in Level (World News for Students of English)
- Anki (friendly, intelligent flashcards)
- Lang-8 (find friends from all over the world and have your posts corrected by native speakers)
- Tandem: the mobile app (for learning languages with people all around the world)
- E-Valbu (elektronische Valenzwörterbuch deutscher Verben)
- Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten (wichtigsten Nachrichten auf Deutsch für LernerInnen in langsam und gesprochener Sprache)
- DW Kostenlos online Deutsch lernen (mobilen Kursen der Deutschen Welle)
- shribe! – master your studies (Hausarbeit, Bachelorarbeit oder Masterarbeit zu einem Meisterstück macht)
- Easy German: Learning German from the Streets (Youtube channel showing street interviews with people about different topics)
- Phonetik: Die Laute des Deutschen (exact the pronunciation of German sounds through graphic animations of the speech organs)
- Lernabenteuer: Die Stadt der Wörter (language game to expand and improve your basic vocabulary for beginners)
- Deutsch Perfekt: Die deutschsprachigen Länder (presents the German-speaking world through different articles about Austria, Switzerland and Germany)
- Ticket nach Berlin – die Abenteuerspielshow (drei jungen DeutschlernerInnen bestehen reisen in dieser Show quer durch Deutschland)
- Sprachtest.de: Deutsch Einstufungstest (assessment and overview of your reading, listening, vocabulary, and grammar)
- Anki (friendly, intelligent flashcards)
- Lang-8 (find friends from all over the world and have your posts corrected by native speakers)
- Léier Lëtzebuergesch Online – LLO.LU (free self-study platform from the INLL and the Ministry of Education)
- Tandem: the mobile app (for learning languages with people all around the world)
- Luxembourgish Lessons with Paul (videos on everyday Luxembourgish)
- Infolux (Fuerschungsportal iwwert d’Lëtzebuergescht)
- Apprendre le Luxembourgeois avec Astrid et Jérôme Lulling (série de vidéos dont chaque épisode est dédié à un thème spécifique)
- Petite Grammaire Luxembourgeoise (vue d’ensemble théorique de la langue luxembourgeoise)
- Linguistica Luxemburgensia (offre documents et liens pour en savoir plus à propos de la langue luxembourgeoise)
- Spellchecker.lu (Lëtzebuergesch Texter korrigéieren)
- Dico.lu (Dictionnaire Luxembourgeois Français)
- Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire
- Lexilogos – Dictionnaire luxembourgeois (resources for the study of Luxembourgish)
- Bonjour.LU (multimedia resources for learning Luxembourgish)