Español / Spanish Language Resources

Compiled & recommended by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving’s Fluency Project

Estoy estudiando español y espero que estos recursos te ayuden!

An ever growing list of hand-picked tools tested and approved by Fluency Project founder Monroe Mann:

APPS/aplicaciones

BOOKS/libros

  • Assimil Spanish (I ADORE THIS SERIES, FOR EVERY LANGUAGE)
  • Living Language Spanish (beginner to advanced)
  • Collins Easy Learning Spanish Conversation
  • Collins Easy Learning Spanish Grammar
  • Collins Easy Learning Spanish Vocabulary

WEBSITES/sitios web

  • Yabla Spanish at Yabla.com
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Deutsch / German Language Resources

Compiled & recommended by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving’s Fluency Project

Ich studiere Deutsch und ich hoffe diese Ressourcen helfen Ihnen!

An ever growing list of hand-picked tools tested and approved by Fluency Project founder Monroe Mann:

APPS/applications

BOOKS/livres

  • Assimil German (I ADORE THIS SERIES, FOR EVERY LANGUAGE)
  • Living Language German (beginner to advanced)
  • Collins Easy Learning German Conversation
  • Collins Easy Learning German Grammar
  • Collins Easy Learning German Vocabulary

WEBSITES/sites

  • Yabla German at Yabla.com
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Français / French Language Resources

Compiled & recommended by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving’s Fluency Project

Je suis un étudiant de français et j’espère que ces ressources vous aideront.

An ever growing list of hand-picked tools tested and approved by Fluency Project founder Monroe Mann:

APPS/applications

  • Larousse French Dictionary
  • Trivia Crack (Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Living Language French (Beginner to Advanced)
  • Memrise
  • Brainscape
  • Audible French Audiobooks
  • Radios France
  • News in Slow French
  • Radio France
  • Busuu
  • Duolingo (good to get you started)
  • Larousse Dictons
  • Plango
  • Larousse Citations
  • Collins En-Fr
  • Le Journal – Le Figaro
  • 7 Jours Sur La Planète  (AWESOME — Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Setting Up Anki for Foreign Language Vocabulary Fluency – The Fluency Project Way

BOOKS/livres

  • Assimil French (I ADORE THIS SERIES, FOR EVERY LANGUAGE)
  • Living Language French (beginner to advanced)
  • Collins Easy Learning French Conversation
  • Collins Easy Learning French Grammar
  • Collins Easy Learning French Vocabulary
  • Speaking Better French by Rosenthal
  • Any books by Frédéric Lenoir (Advanced)
  • Anything by CLE International

WEBSITES/sites

  • Yabla French at Yabla.com
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Italiano/Italian Language Resources

Compiled & recommended by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving’s Fluency Project

Sono uno studente d’italiano e spero che troviate questi strumenti utili.

An ever growing list of hand-picked tools tested and approved by Fluency Project founder Monroe Mann:

APPS/applicazioni

BOOKS/libri

  • Assimil Italian (I ADORE THIS SERIES, FOR EVERY LANGUAGE)
  • Living Language Italian (beginner to advanced)

WEBSITES/siti

  • Yabla Italian at Yabla.com
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汉语/Chinese Language Resources

Compiled & recommended by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving’s Fluency Project

我是一个学习汉语的美国人。我用这些工具为了提高我的汉语。

An ever growing list of hand-picked tools tested and approved by Fluency Project founder Monroe Mann:

APPS/app

BOOKS/书

  • Developing Chinese listening, reading, and writing courses
  • Road to Success textbook series
  • Boya Chinese textbook series
  • Living Language Chinese (Great to start with)
  • Assimil Chinese (I ADORE THIS SERIES, FOR EVERY LANGUAGE)
  • Chinese Breeze Graded Readers
  • HSK Test Syllabi – HSK1 – 6 (The Commercial Press)
  • Learn Characters with Ms.
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Proof That Your Foreign Language Vocabulary Probably Stinks — Take This Quiz!

by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, ME, LLM
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc. (& The Fluency Project)

Here at the Break Diving Fluency Project, we recognize what most language schools do notone of the biggest reasons you can’t fully communicate in the foreign language you are studying is because you have a terrible level of vocabulary–wholly deficient.  Read More