Although visitors to foreign lands often communicate at a basic level by pantomiming, Americans inevitably give away their tourist status by gesturing with an accent. Pole vault over language barriers without resorting to charades with today’s Groupon: for $25, you get a complete two-month online language course with feedback from native speakers from Livemocha (a $58 value). Choose from French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

One of Time magazine’s 50 Best Websites 2010, Livemocha opens the door to multilingual mastery thanks to comprehensive lessons and a helpful online community that has grown to more than eight million people. Pick up a foreign tongue without wondering where it’s been or how to explain it to a customs agent by working your way through one of the company’s Active courses, which help students learn conversational French, German, Italian, or Spanish while working at their own pace. Courses progress through four levels of fluency, from beginner to intermediate, and incorporate a series of Internet-based multimedia lessons. Role-playing exercises give you a chance to raise your conversational experience level without having to fight the same three Cactuars over and over again.

Livemocha's more than eight million members will be a mouse-click away to offer feedback and provide lips with the motivation they need to break out of their one-language rut; this Groupon also entitles you to 16 Tutor Reviews (eight per month), in which Livemocha tutors offer feedback on your written and spoken submissions. Each course includes linguistic lesson content from educational megapublisher HarperCollins, as well as cultural notes to help you understand subtleties such as slang. Stick with it and you could be talking your way out of an embarrassing baguette faux pas in Paris or talking your way into an exclusive graham-cracker boutique in Hamburg in no time.