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 (contains exemplary letters designed to help you formulate and structure your own letter)
- 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)
- RFI (Learn French with international news)
- TV5Monde (Improve your French comprehension with videos).
- Français avec Pierre (videos to help understand French vocabulary, expressions, and grammar)
- Projet Voltaire (online training service for mastering of spelling and expression)
- 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)
- Tandem: the mobile app (for learning languages with people all around the world)
- E-Valbu (electronic valence dictionary of German verbs)
- Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten (most important news in German adapted in tempo and vocabulary for learners)
- DW Kostenlos online Deutsch lernen (mobile classes of the Deutsche Welle program)
- shribe! – master your studies (Youtube channel containing tips and useful Information on how to perfect writing your academic paper, bachelor thesis, and master thesis)
- 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 (three young German learners have to accomplish small tasks and games while travelling all across Germany)
- Sprachtest.de: Deutsch Einstufungstest (assessment and overview of your reading, listening, vocabulary, and grammar)
- Anki (friendly, intelligent flashcards)
- Lingolia (exercises and tests for different grammatical concepts)
- 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 (research portal about the Luxembourgish Language)
- Apprendre le Luxembourgeois avec Astrid et Jérôme Lulling (series of videos where each episode is dedicated to a specific theme)
- Petite Grammaire Luxembourgeoise (look at the theoretical entirety of Luxembourgish grammar)
- Linguistica Luxemburgensia (offers documents and links to know more about the Luxembourgish Language)
- Spellchecker.lu (correction of Luxembourgish Texts)
- Dico.lu (French dictionary about Luxembourgish)
- Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire (online dictionary which provides you with six different languages from which you can translate into Luxembourgish)
- Lexilogos – Dictionnaire luxembourgeois (resources for the study of Luxembourgish)
- Bonjour.LU (multimedia resources for learning Luxembourgish)
- Sproochmaschinn (a Luxembourgish website for Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech functions)