This is a more focused follow up to a question I had the other day about moving to other countries. I’m wondering what the best options are for learning a new language at the moment. I’m vaguely aware of companies like Duo-lingo losing their reputation lately and it’s hard to trust the top google results nowadays with all the SEO junk. So does anyone have suggestions for trustworthy/useful sites for learning a new language? If it matters, in particular I’m interested in trying (In roughly this order) Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, or Spanish.

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    My advice for future: just try to use language for things that interest you. It doesn’t matter what it is. Youtube videos, films, books, games, anything!

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      Great way to learn a language indeed. And even while browsing:

      Toucan is a browser extension which changes some words or sentences on all websites you browse to the language you selected. Clicking on the word/sentence will show you the word in your language together with a “listen” button to hear how it sounds.

      I used it for a while and installed it on a browser profile I only use to browse generic content like news, nothing private.