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Besides easing your way through restaurant ordering and hotel bookings, knowledge of a foreign language at any level can be your lucky passport to another land, its people, and culture.

Today, it's never been easier to find free language courses online from which you can choose a variety of lessons — ranging from basic travel phrases to full-blown multimedia tutorials.

Just ahead, check out what's available on the Web, at tops sites offering free courses in the most popular foreign language lessons for vacationers, business travelers, kids & students, with more on where to find a whole world of foreign language studies online from Albanian to Urdu...

More about learning a foreign language around the Web:

Learning a Foreign Language - Suggested by a Rhode Island educator (thanks, Helen) this great resource makes it easy to find dozens of free Web tutorials and lessons in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Slavic and Quechua, with additional links to related cultural studies.

Free Online Language Courses - A mega-directory of available courses around the Web in a browseable A-Z list.

BBC Languages - Beginner to advanced courses in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, and Portuguese plus mini courses in Polish, Japanese and Urdu many with video & audio tutorials, games & puzzles.

Free Online Pronunciation Guides with Instant Sound - Easy to use guides with audio pronunciation of words in a dozen different languages including comparisons of accents of English speakers in the U.K., U.S., India, Canada and South Africa.

Internet Polyglot - Basic vocabulary in some 20 different languages employing interactive flash cards and audio pronunciation.

LanguageGuide - 11 languages each with their own lessons in basic vocabulary and grammar.

Phrases and Sentences in many languages - English translations of common phrases in almost 50 languages ranging from Arabic to Zulu.

Digital Dialetics - Learning games and quizzes to help build vocabulary for more than 50 different languages.