{"id":45710,"date":"2024-07-29T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/?p=45710"},"modified":"2024-10-03T04:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:05:54","slug":"open-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/reviews\/open-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Culture Review: Great for Uncommon Languages, but Won&#8217;t Take You Very Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve self-studied more than 10 languages in my life, starting with Hindi as a curious (and bored) nine-year-old. So I&#8217;ve found myself scouring the Internet for cheap resources more times than the Average Joe.<\/p>\n<p>Open Culture tries to solve this problem by keeping a curated list of completely free resources for 48 languages. I decided to see how much Persian I could learn using only their listed resources while having no history with the language at all.<\/p>\n\t<link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css?family=Nunito:400,700\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t.wp-review-45710.review-wrapper { font-family: 'Nunito', sans-serif; }\n\t<\/style>\n\n<div id=\"review\" class=\"review-wrapper wp-review-45710 wp-review-point-type wp-review-xiaomi-template delay-animation\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"review-heading\">\n\t\t\t<h5 class=\"review-title\">\n\t\t\t\tOverview\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"reviewed-item\">\n\n\t<div class=\"reviewed-item-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-logo-300x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"open culture logo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-logo-65x65.png 65w, https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-logo.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"reviewed-item-data\"><p><strong class=\"reviewed-item-data-label\">Name:<\/strong> Open Culture<\/p><p><strong class=\"reviewed-item-data-label\">Description:<\/strong> A website page that lists free online learning resources for 48 common and rare languages, including Arabic, French, Persian, Maori, Chinese and more.<\/p><p><strong class=\"reviewed-item-data-label\">Offer price:<\/strong> Free<\/p><ul class=\"review-links\" style=\"padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/\" class=\"reviewed-item-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visit the Open Culture Website<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"review-total-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"review-total-box\">7\/10<\/span>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"review-point review-total\">\n\t<div class=\"review-result-wrapper\" style=\"background-color: #dfe0e1\">\n\t\t<div class=\"review-result\" style=\"width:70%; background-color: #3994ff;\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"review-result-text\" style=\"color: #efebe9;\">7\/10<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><!-- .review-percentage -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"review-desc\">\n\t<p class=\"review-summary-title\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\t<p>Open Culture is a free education website that has a language resources page where you can find free online resources to learn 48 languages. It includes many rare and less-studied languages, such as Maori, Amharic, Lao and Bambara, as well as common ones like French, Spanish and Chinese.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<ul class=\"review-list\">\n\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<span>User friendliness - <span>8\/10<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"review-point\">\n\t<div class=\"review-result-wrapper\" style=\"background-color: #dfe0e1\">\n\t\t<div class=\"review-result\" style=\"width:80%; background-color: #3994ff;\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"review-result-text\" style=\"color: #efebe9;\">8\/10<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><!-- .review-percentage -->\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<span>Delivers on promises - <span>5\/10<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"review-point\">\n\t<div class=\"review-result-wrapper\" style=\"background-color: #dfe0e1\">\n\t\t<div class=\"review-result\" style=\"width:50%; background-color: #3994ff;\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"review-result-text\" style=\"color: #efebe9;\">5\/10<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><!-- .review-percentage -->\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<span>Authenticity - <span>5\/10<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"review-point\">\n\t<div class=\"review-result-wrapper\" style=\"background-color: #dfe0e1\">\n\t\t<div class=\"review-result\" style=\"width:50%; 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It includes many rare and less-studied languages, such as Maori, Amharic, Lao and Bambara, as well as common ones like French, Spanish and Chinese.\"\n}\n<\/script>\n\n<p>[fluentu-toc skip=5]<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Open Culture and How Does It Work?<\/h2>\n<p>Open Culture is a website that links you to resources you can use to learn languages. All the resources are said to be free and they have resource lists for 48 languages total.<\/p>\n<p>You can find all the language resources on Open Culture&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/freelanguagelessons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Languages&#8221; page<\/a>. Each language has its own section with the resources in bullet point lists, accompanied by a link and a short description.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-languages-page-screenshot-of-the-farsipersian-section.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-languages-page-screenshot-of-the-farsipersian-section.png\" alt=\"open culture languages page screenshot of the farsi:persian section\" width=\"500\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-languages-page-screenshot-of-the-farsipersian-section.png 2724w, https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-languages-page-screenshot-of-the-farsipersian-section-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-languages-page-screenshot-of-the-farsipersian-section-1024x517.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-languages-page-screenshot-of-the-farsipersian-section-768x388.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-languages-page-screenshot-of-the-farsipersian-section-1536x776.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/open-culture-languages-page-screenshot-of-the-farsipersian-section-2048x1035.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Pros of Open Culture<\/h2>\n<h3>Tons of free resources<\/h3>\n<p>The biggest pro of Open Culture is definitely its resource quantity. I was impressed with how many resources they&#8217;ve compiled for so many languages\u2014I felt like I could keep scrolling endlessly.<\/p>\n<p>The Persian section has four resources. I felt like this was the perfect amount to get me started without overwhelming me. I decided I&#8217;d use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaiandconversation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation<\/a> as my main resource and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easypersian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Easy Persian<\/a> to learn the alphabet and grammar. I wanted to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/4pl9wViUWAHG4l5zuJO1aK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn Persian Farsi Easily, Effectively, and Fluently<\/a> podcast as a supplemental resource when I felt like doing a little bit more, but the podcast isn&#8217;t actually available anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth one was the least appealing. So I decided not to use it.<\/p>\n<p>Some languages\u2014like French, English and Chinese\u2014have way more resources than other languages. But even though you&#8217;ll have to put a little more thought into selecting which ones to use, you&#8217;ll still know that whatever you choose will be extremely affordable.<\/p>\n<h3>Includes resources for exotic and less common languages<\/h3>\n<p>What caught my attention even more than the abundance of resources was the languages they collect resources for. I&#8217;ve studied exotic and endangered languages before, and Open Culture would&#8217;ve definitely helped me save time searching for affordable, effective resources.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of the exotic languages included are Amharic, Ancient Greek, Bambara, Lao, Luxembourgish, M\u0101ori, Serbo-Croatian and Twi.<\/p>\n<h3>There&#8217;s a wide variety of resource types<\/h3>\n<p>One thing I like about Open Culture is that you&#8217;ll find more than just textbooks and online courses. They also include links to podcasts, audiobooks, movies, news websites and more.<\/p>\n<h3>There are resources for dialects of certain languages<\/h3>\n<p>Something unique about Open Culture is that it offers resources for specific dialects of some languages. A great example of this is the Arabic resources. On the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free_arabic_lessons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Arabic Lessons<\/a>&#8221; page, you can find resources for Jordanian Arabic, Levantine Arabic and Saudi Arabic.<\/p>\n<h3>There are lists for non-course resources<\/h3>\n<p>Aside from the free course list, Open Culture also has other lists where you can find things like media, podcasts, books and more.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a movie list with over 4,000 films you can watch for free. Not all of them are in a foreign language\u2014many are in English\u2014but sifting through them or using the handy Ctrl + F to search for your language will help you locate what you want pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the other lists you might enjoy, although they&#8217;re not for learning another language:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/freeaudiobooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/freeonlinecourses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/online-degrees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Online Degrees &amp; Mini Degrees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/great-podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 150 Best Podcasts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Cons of Open Culture<\/h2>\n<h3>Many of the links are broken<\/h3>\n<p>The biggest drawback by far is that many of the links on Open Culture are broken. Even their &#8220;about us&#8221; page is no longer available but still appears in search results.<\/p>\n<p>Within about two minutes of exploring the language resources page, <strong>I came across five broken links.<\/strong> This is especially disappointing for lesser-studied languages, most of which only have one to three links to begin with. For example, Catalan only has one resource listed\u2014a podcast\/website called One Minute Catalan\u2014but the link takes you to a nonexistent page.<\/p>\n<h3>Some languages have way more resources than others<\/h3>\n<p>It makes sense that rare languages have fewer resources than common ones like French and Spanish. But many noteworthy, completely free resources could easily be added to the list.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Open Culture lists Duolingo as a resource for many of the common languages. But Duolingo also has quite a few rare language courses that are missing, like Hawaiian and Navajo, which aren&#8217;t even on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Duolingo also has a course for Czech\u2014for example\u2014which currently only has one resource on the Open Culture list. So while Open Culture does provide quite a few high-quality free options, you might find even more just by doing a Google search.<\/p>\n<h3>It&#8217;s missing some languages that could easily be added<\/h3>\n<p>Since Open Culture is only a resource page, it&#8217;s missing several languages I expected it to have. For example, I really wanted to learn Tagalog for this challenge, but Tagalog doesn&#8217;t even have a list despite there being lots of free resources available online.<\/p>\n<p>Open Culture also includes endangered languages like Maori but not Hawaiian, even though there&#8217;s an entire Hawaiian Duolingo course and many free online lessons offered by universities.<\/p>\n<h3>The list isn&#8217;t very updated<\/h3>\n<p>Something I noticed early on while exploring Open Culture was that the list is pretty outdated. And not just because of the broken links and missing languages that could easily have a spot.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the resources have changed their offerings and pricing, so some of them aren&#8217;t even free anymore. For example, almost all of the Thai courses are either not available or aren&#8217;t actually free.<\/p>\n<p>Other times, certain resources are kept on the list even though they&#8217;ve been unavailable for a while. For example, the One Minute Catalan example I gave earlier turns out to be an old Coffee Break Languages course that&#8217;s no longer offered. I actually found the lesson archives on Google, but the podcast episodes and study materials can&#8217;t be downloaded anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing with the third Persian resource, the Spotify podcast I wanted to use\u2014the page opened, but I couldn&#8217;t play any of the episodes because they&#8217;d been archived. I tried to find the podcast on my phone instead of my laptop, and it didn&#8217;t even appear in the search results.<\/p>\n<h3>Some of the courses aren&#8217;t actually 100% free<\/h3>\n<p>Open Culture advertises its page as a place to find resources you can use to learn languages for free\u2014but many of the resources are now either completely paid with no free version or only offer free trials.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the main resource I used during my time learning Persian\u2014Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation\u2014actually isn&#8217;t a free resource. It doesn&#8217;t even have a free plan\u2014I just used the 30-day free trial and made the most out of it.<\/p>\n<h2>Open Culture Alternatives<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.innovativelanguage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovative Language<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Innovative Language offers tons of language courses, making it an excellent alternative to Open Culture&#8217;s resource reference page.<\/p>\n<p>There are eight &#8220;featured&#8221; languages\u2014Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Russian, German, Korean and Spanish\u2014and over 30 other languages. These include less-studied ones like Filipino, Persian, Urdu, Serbian, Nepali, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Signing up for an Innovative Language course gives you lifetime access to a free account, but there are limitations. However, they also usually offer the &#8220;Fast Track to Fluency&#8221; deal once you sign up, which is only $1. For the Persian course, it includes 30 days of Premium access, 50 exclusive lessons, one free product download and the seven-day &#8220;Fluency Fast&#8221; course.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FluentU<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>FluentU isn&#8217;t a free resource, but it gives you a 14-day free trial and you can study as many of the offered languages as you want. There are currently 10, including Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Russian and more.<\/p>\n<p>FluentU has lessons for all levels, beginner to advanced. It teaches your target language using authentic content so you&#8217;re immersed from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>As you watch videos\u2014like movie trailers, commercials, TV series clips, etc.\u2014you can click on words in the subtitles you don&#8217;t know yet. This shows you the word&#8217;s meaning, pronunciation and example sentences. You can then add it to personalized flashcard decks, which use a spaced repetition system to put vocabulary into your long-term memory.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.17-minute-languages.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17 Minute Languages<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>17 Minute Languages offers courses in tons of languages similar to Open Culture&#8217;s list, including rare languages like Albanian, Amharic, Georgian, Malaysian and more.<\/p>\n<p>They say that after three hours you can have your first conversation, and 50 hours will make you fluent. It&#8217;s called 17 Minute Languages because the program asks you to commit to as little as 17 minutes a day. It uses spaced repetition to teach you the most important words as fast as possible, and they have their own &#8220;superlearning technology,&#8221; which they say will get you to learn 32% faster.<\/p>\n<h2>Final Results: How Much Was I Able to Learn from Open Culture?<\/h2>\n<p>I completed two lessons from the two Persian resources I chose out of the four listed on Open Culture (but one was broken). My honest feelings? I&#8217;m impressed by how much I learned.<\/p>\n<p>In one hour, I learned 10 letters and how to combine letters (and write words from right-to-left) from the Easy Persian website, which is 100% free. And in 30 minutes, I completed two audio lessons from Chai and Conversation (and did the exercises), learning 33 words total. The only thing I didn&#8217;t like was that the Chai and Conversation website isn&#8217;t free even though it&#8217;s listed on Open Culture\u2014I&#8217;ve been using a free trial.<\/p>\n<p>However, Persian was not my first language of choice\u2014or my second, or my third\u2014but it was the only one I felt I could learn using more than one resource (that actually worked) for free. To me, Open Culture didn&#8217;t really deliver its promise of free language learning due to the prices of some resources and the fact that many of them were broken links.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, Open Culture is<strong> a good starting point to find a resource or two that will get you off the ground.<\/strong> But it definitely won&#8217;t take you to the advanced level. 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