Learning a new language can be a very fulfilling experience if you have the patience and can find a good, cheap way of learning it.

Short of travelling to a foreign country to work and live among the locals for an extended period of time, your options might seem to be limited to buying a book or tapes, or enrolling in classes.

Thanks to the internet, however, you can also do these courses online. One such website is Babbel.com.

They offer free English, French, German, Italian and Spanish language courses. The course material includes pictures and sound files to help you with your pronunciation.

Taking normal language courses a step further, Babbel also has a community of users who help each other hammer out the finer details of a given language.

Visit www.babbel.com for more information.