Essential Phrases in 40 Languages and Other Learning Tools on BBC Languages Website

  Getting ready for a vacation abroad or trying to improve your foreign language pronunciation or comprehension?  Check out several free useful language learning tools on BBC Languages website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/) including the “Quick Fix” page featuring essential phrases in 40 different languages from Albanian to Urdu.   This site also includes audio and video clips to help with pronunciation as well as narratives of travelers sharing their discoveries of correct phrases in a foreign tongue.  See Don’t Try This Abroad page for some amusing stories from France, Germany, Turkey, Spain and Italy.