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Free skills you can learn online

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Free skills you can learn online

Wondering what to do with your free time?

Why not learn a new skill…online…for free?

People‘s got a few of them, including:

Learning how to cook  Check out the BBC, The New York Times and TheKitchn.com among many other sites for free recipes and how-to videos.

Learning an instrument  Fender has free guitar, ukulele, and bass classes for the next three months at Fender.com.

Learning a new language  If you’re a student or have kids, Rosetta Stone is offering three months of free online classes.

Learning to code  You can start learning the basics at FreeCodeCamp.org.

Learning something new  There are 450 Ivy League courses you can take online…everything from nursing to quantum mechanics…at ClassCentral.com.

What skill would you like to learn?

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