Cheap Self-Paced Language Courses or courses IN said languages?

[nykorn]

Looking for CHEAP self-paced language courses/degrees/tests that grant credit and never require live or in-person meetings. These can be titulo propio or similar, as long as they grant credit. Alternatively, as a sink or swim method, cheap courses that are taught IN those languages, but entirely self-paced and open to foreigners. For example, I can register for a free university course in Germany, but those typically involve live, required lectures and homework deadlines, which is a no-go. Mainly interested in Chinese, Korean, and Russian for career purposes, but am open to other languages including minority languages, hence making this a general thread about all languages.

What I've found so far:

Chinese:
HSK - $20-$100, test that, at the highest levels, grants credit at some few universities

French:
Sophia - French I, $99/month before referral discount
CLEP exams (up to 9 US credits), roughly $100, test fee gets reimbursed at Modern States

German:
CLEP (up to 9 US credits), $100, test fee gets reimbursed at Modern States

Japanese:
JLPT - $60-100, test that, at the highest 2 levels (N1, N2), grants credit at some few universities

Spanish:
CLEP exams (up to 12 US credits), $100, InstantCert has a prep course, test fee gets reimbursed at Modern States
InstantCert - Spanish I (3 US credits, $15?), separate course from above
Sophia - Spanish I and II, $99/month
ENEB - Spanish for Business Certificate course, included with their English €99-€300 Master's titulo propio programs. 
ENEB - Titulo propio in Business / Management subjects, taught in Spanish, roughly €99-€300.
Masstercursos - Titulo propio in Humanities or Psychology subjects, all courses are self-paced and taught in Spanish, €299 before discounts

Swedish:
antagning.se - Some random courses taught at university level are mainly self-paced and have no mandatory live lectures (especially some computer / tech related courses and iirc Yiddish). There's still an overall course or homework deadline but you wouldn't be penalized much (in some cases, at all) for late assignments. Some have recorded lectures or lectures that get recorded after the fact, thus no mandatory live lectures. $0 for European residents or citizens.

[Tomas]

Finnish language, for those who dare, Metropolia https://www.metropolia.fi/en/academics/o...foreigners (not sure if that's the best link,...), has Finnish language self-paced courses via Viope platform, at 0 EUR. Probably other Finnish polytechnics might have too, I didn't pay that much attention, current offerings can be found via https://opintopolku.fi/konfo/en/ )

[jg_nuy]

XAMK has Finnish for free as well:
https://www.xamk.fi/en/openstudies/?fwp_...-charge-en

If you're open to learning without needing credits, you can try EdX and Open University:
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/free-courses

[bjcheung77]

The main providers are ACTFL for a cheaper, easier, faster, and possibility of more credits, and the other is NYUFLP - this is another option but a bit more in cost and probably has a smaller list of languages available. Either of these should grant you some credits, maybe enough for a minor or concentration, not sure about a major as most institutions would want you to take some classes with them at least.

[nykorn]

Thanks guys. As a person from Sweden, I don't have any fears of learning Finnish, but maybe someone else does The addition is welcome.

It looks like ACTFL does not grant credit directly, but you get ACE recommended credit so your university has to accept ACE. It can only grant credit for specific languages at specific levels and it is very confusing. As an example, of the beginner levels I clicked on it said credit can only be at the beginner level obtained for: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

However an advanced one I clicked on said credit can be obtained at the advanced level for: Afrikaans, Akan-Twi, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Czech, Dari, Dutch, English, French, Ga, Georgian, German, Greek, (Modern), Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hmong-Mong, Hungarian, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kikongo-Kongo, Korean, Krio, Kurdish, Lao, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin, Mandingo-Bambara, Nepali, Pashto, Persian-Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian/Croatian, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof, Wu and Yoruba.

Plus the credits possible from the test are divided into "Lower-division Baccalaureate" and "upper-division Baccalaureate". There is no note on the page explaining if there is a credit difference between the "Lower division" credits of a beginner's test versus the "Lower division" credits of an advanced test.

It looks like ACTFL test costs $165, you can get up to 9 credits per test, and Americans are using it as certification towards being interpreters, which is good to know.