Instreamia is a new MOOC that focuses on learning a language. Instreamia offers free courses in Spanish, English, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. Instreamia uses common YouTube videos from pop artists or other sources (like TED lectures) in the language you are learning from a native speaker. There are listening exercises and flashcard exercises. In the listening exercises, you can keep the translation option on so you can start to pick up words to build a vocabulary. You can ask questions as you work through exercises in your class and other members and a teacher for the course will answer them publicly so others can learn from it in the community. On Instreamia, you can friend others including other members in the course or other native speakers of the language you are learning. Having pop culture materials to learn a language has usually been seen as a plus in the language learning community and now this MOOC, Instreamia has that feature built into it.
You can sign up and try Instreamia here: http://www.instreamia.com/
