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Coronavirus Update: Why Not Take A Virtual Class To Break Up The Routine?

April 29, 2020 / 5:50 PM EDT / CBS Miami

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - A sure-fire way to break up the dull routine is to learn something new, we are finding virtual classes for everything.

There are many ways you can battle boredom and expand your knowledge on any budget while you sit safe at home.

For expanding your professional skills or just basking in the awe of the best in class, Masterclass.com offers instruction by the "who's who" in entertainment, literature, business and sports.

You can take film direction from Spike Lee, acting tips from Natalie Portman
guitar from Carlos Santana. There are fashion design lessons from Marc Jacobs and makeup class from Bobbi Brown, and for the science minds, Neil de Grasse Tyson teaches scientific thinking and communication.

There are a total of nine categories, you can check their website for special offers.

Parlez vous France? Sprachen de Duetch? Anyone can learn some new phrases, get conversational or even become fluent in another language, and it's the first step in learning a new culture. There are plenty of tools online.

Duolingo is best known for its android and ios apps, and it's free. You can take several different languages right on your phone.

For 25 years in Miami, the Società Dante Alighieri has been operating as the local branch of the Italian government's cultural institute, promoting all things Italian. This of course, includes the language and now, offering classes online for the first time. Claudio Pastor is the Executive Director.

"A lot of students that have been putting off learning the language have joined our online classes many new students have joined from different parts of the country and the world."

Rosetta Stone has been making efforts to help provide work-from-home parents some relief and provide engaging remote language learning opportunities for as many people as possible.

Rosetta Stone is giving three months of free language learning to all elementary, middle and high school students worldwide.

Parents can visit www.rosettastone.com/freeforstudents to claim a free subscription for a language of their choice. And subscribers are treated to free unlimited virtual tutoring through June 30,2020.

AXS Art, is part of Wynwood law firm AXS Law Group, is supporting the local arts community during the coronavirus pandemic by hosting free weekly online art classes with local artists every Wednesday at 6pm via zoom. The focus is on all types of art and media. And classes are appropriate for all ages. To register for a class, visit https://www.axslawgroup.com/blog.

And while we can't travel the globe we can explore it on Open Learn - the home of free learning from British based The Open University.

There are all kinds of courses from astronomy to climate change, conservation, health, and more, through their website.

And speaking of languages, I'm polishing up on my own Italian skills here. Talking with Claudio reminding everyone – in Italian- to stay home: 'statia casa.primeneti" or "tutti a casa" more directly. Arrivederci!

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