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30 Minute Languages

FOR when you only have time for the very basics. Learn first words like ‘hello’ and ‘thank you very much’ plus basic food and drink vocabulary. Learn Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Welsh with this simple, addictive and interactive method.

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  • Choose to learn 'first words' or food, or you can go straight to the quiz section.

    Choose to learn 'first words' or food, or you can go straight to the quiz section.

  • Hear essential phrases and see how they are written before playing a game.

    Hear essential phrases and see how they are written before playing a game.

  • Match up the word you hear with the correct picture.

    Match up the word you hear with the correct picture.

  • It's over to you. Hear the word, then record your own voice and compare the two.

    It's over to you. Hear the word, then record your own voice and compare the two.

  • What did they say? Pick the corresponding picture in the hard 'first words' game.

    What did they say? Pick the corresponding picture in the hard 'first words' game.

Will it work for me?

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30 Minute Languages offers a quick route into learning. It lifts the language off the page with encouraging games that help you remember what you’re learning and award you points for progress. Because it fits easily into short ten-minute sessions it’s ideal for busy people. Great for anyone looking for a quick, enjoyable alternative to dull exercises and rote learning.

What will I learn?

You’ll learn your very first words in all of these 12 languages: essentials such as how to say ‘hello’ and ‘sorry’, order a drink and ask for directions.

30 Minute Languages help languages

  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Alsatian
  • Amharic
  • Armenian
  • Assamese
  • Azeri
  • Basque
  • Bengali
  • Berber (Tamazight)
  • Breton
  • Bulgarian
  • Burmese
  • Cantonese
  • Catalan
  • Chichewa
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Chuvash
  • Cornish
  • Corsican
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • English (American)
  • Esperanto
  • Estonian
  • Faroese
  • Finnish
  • Flemish
  • French
  • Frisian
  • Galician
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Hausa
  • Hawaiian
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Igbo
  • Indonesian
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Jèrriais
  • Kannada
  • Khmer
  • Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
  • Kirghiz
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Latin
  • Latin American Spanish
  • Latvian
  • Lingala
  • Lithuanian
  • Luganda
  • Luxembourgish
  • Macedonian
  • Malagasy
  • Malay
  • Malayalam
  • Maltese
  • Manx
  • Marathi
  • Mongolian
  • Māori
  • Navajo
  • Nepali
  • Norwegian
  • Occitan
  • Papiamento
  • Pashto
  • Persian
  • Pidgin (Papua New Guinea)
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazilian)
  • Portuguese (European)
  • Punjabi
  • Quechua
  • Romanian
  • Romansh
  • Russian
  • Saami
  • Sardinian
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Serbian
  • Sesotho (Southern)
  • Shona
  • Sindhi
  • Sinhala
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Somali
  • Spanish
  • Swahili
  • Swedish
  • Swiss German
  • Tagalog
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Tibetan
  • Tswana
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese
  • Welsh
  • Xhosa
  • Yiddish
  • Yoruba
  • Zulu

How does it work?

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Play interactive language games. 30 Minute Languages feeds you new words, along with pictures to reinforce your memory. It then tests your knowledge with fun quizzes. As soon as you start playing you start learning.

You will hear the languages spoken all of the time and, using the recording games, you can start speaking straight away, then compare your voice to a native speaker.

You can learn on the move. Carry on learning in the airport lounge or the ferry without a computer. Just print out the phrasebook sheets included in the program and take them with you, or upload the program’s audio onto an iPod.