If one of the things on your to-do list in 2007 is to learn a new language, there is no need to pay a lot of money to do so. FSI Language Courses is a website that hosts the language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute by the United States government and are in the public domain. Currently they have the following languages on their site:

• Amharic
• Arabic
• Cambodian
• Cantonese
• Chinese
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Vietnamese

New course updates are made on a regular basis. This is a great opportunity to learn a language without the cost usually involved in such an undertaking.