Ryu's Free (And Legal!) Resources

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Just some various free resources that I've gathered, dedicated to a friend. Feel free to bookmark, share, whatever. Comments will be screened to keep the post looking pretty, feel free to suggest anything I've forgotten.

Audio Books / eBooks

Amazon Kindle Ebooks (Search for a subject/genre and sort by price)
Instafreebie (Requires a name and email address, can be a fake name. Join their newsletter to be alerted to giveaways and check their blog too!)
LibriVox (Public domain audio books)
Loyal Books (Audio books for public domain content)
Project Gutenberg (Public domain content)
Textbook Revolution

Programs/Video Games

Giveaway Of The Day (Also includes PC games everyday)

General How-To Sites

Instructables
Howcast
How Stuff Works
Unplug The TV
WikiHow
WonderHowTo

General Learning Resources, including MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)

Academic Earth
Acamica (Spanish)
Alison
BBC World Service Podcasts
BlackBoard Learn
Canvas
Codecademy (For programming. Some free courses, but most require a (paid) Pro membership)
Coursera
edX
Eliademy
freeCodeCamp (For programming)
FutureLearn
iTunes U
Iversity
Kadenze
Khan Academy (Youtube)
Harvard Medical School OpenCourseWare
Japan OpenCourseWare Alliance (Japanese)
Johns Hopkins OpenCourseWare
Lesson Paths
Memrise (User-created courses for many subjects)
Microsoft Virtual Academy (For programming)
MIT OpenCourseWare
MongoDB University (For MongoDB programming)
Open2Study
Open HPI
OpenLearn
OpenLearning
Open Learning Initiative
OpenUpEd
P2PU
Saylor Academy
Schoo (Japanese)
Stanford University
TED-Ed
Tufts OpenCourseWare
Udacity
Udemy (See sites like SmartyBro for coupon codes/discounts)
UMass Boston OpenCourseWare
UniMOOC (Spanish)
Universia (Spanish/Portuguese for various countries)
University of California Berkeley
University of London
University of Oxford Podcasts
University of Reddit (I've seen a lot of dead "courses" though)
Utah State OpenCourseWare
Veduca (Portuguese)
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Yale Open Courses
Youtube (For free video courses such as Crash Course or Minute Physics)

Can I get college credit for taking an MOOC course? No, the closest thing would be paying for a certification of completion that some of them offer. Don't let that deter you from learning valuable skills though. Apparently University of the People offers a tuition-free degree but I don't know much about it.

Language Learning Resources

I will not be including websites that only offer courses for a single language. Any with a 🔥 (fire emoji) are ones that I personally recommend!

101Languages (Vocab lists)
50 Languages🔥 (Free downloadable audio courses, maybe intermediate level?)
Anki🔥 (Program/App)
BBC Languages
Busuu
Digital Dialects (Vocab lists)
Duolingo (Their speech bot isn't the best though)
E-Language School
Fluent U
FSI Language Courses🔥 (Public domain courses for the US government, not the best quality and may be out-of-date)
FreeLanguage.org
HiNative (Language exchange)
Innovative Language🔥 (SpanishPod101, ChineseClass101, etc.)
InternetPolyglot (Vocab lists)
Interpals🔥 (Language exchange/Pen pals) iTalki🔥 (Language exchange partners are free, tutors require payment)
Lang-8🔥 (Language exchange, Help other learners translate!)
Learn A Language
LingQ
Lingualia
LiveLingua
Mango Languages (Available if your public library offers it)
Memrise🔥
Mondly Languages
Omniglot🔥 (For more links!)
Open Culture
Papora
Polyglot Club (Language exchange)
Pronunciator (Available if your public library offers it)
So You Want To Learn A Language🔥 (Lists of more resources!)
Streema (Watch TV in your target language)
Study Stack
Surface Languages (Vocab lists)
ThoughtCo (List of resources)
WeSpeke (Language exchange)
Wikibooks🔥
Wikitravel Phrasebooks
Word2Word (More links!)
Youtube - International channels
Youtube - Language Transfer🔥

Educational/Positive Subreddits

/r/BeerMoney (Starter Guide, feel free to ask me for ref links!)
/r/BudgetFood (Starter Guide)
/r/ChangeMyView
/r/CordCutters (Starter Guide)
/r/DataIsBeautiful
/r/DecidingToBeBetter / /r/SelfImprovement
/r/Documentaries
/r/Frugal
/r/InternetIsBeautiful
/r/LanguageLearning
/r/MealPrepSunday (Starter Guide)
/r/PersonalFinance (Starter Guide)
/r/Productivity
/r/Shoestring (Thrifty traveling)
/r/WorkOnline
/r/ZenHabits

Other ideas, maybe
- Internet privacy/security guide? VPNs and whatnot
- Not sure if I wanna include apps/programs, especially if I haven't tested them

To be updated whenever I feel like it or get suggestions. Last updated 02/05/2018.