All the Skills You Can Learn for Free While Social Distancing

We've all got so much free time. It turns out we're even watching streaming services about 8 hours a day. Rather than rot the brain in your head, why not nourish it and learn a few new things?

Learn to Play Guitar with Fender

That acoustic guitar you bought to "bring the room together" that's been sitting on the stand since you tried to learn Stairway to Heaven the second day doesn't have to be a waste of money. Fender is offering free 3 months online lessons for guitar, bass and ukulele, through their program Fender Play.

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Visit the link in bio to get started. Let’s play through this together.
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Become a Master Chef The Kitchn offers virtual cooking lessons, so you can learn everything from knife skills to garlic chopping. Seonkyoung Longest has a whole YouTube channel dedicated to teaching how to cook Asian cuisine. He even offers live cooking classes.

Heck, just type in "Cooking" and the food you want into YouTube.

Become a Prima Ballerina with NYC's Principal Dancer Tiler Peck jumps on her Instagram every morning and give a free ballet lesson.

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See you all tomorrow at 10PST/1EST on my IG LIVE ... After seeing a continued outpouring response, let’s continue dancing together daily Mon-Fri 😘 Don’t forget to hashtag #turnitoutwithtiler so I can see all of you since I can’t during LIVE. I loved watching them after class today and have some general helpful tips for you tomorrow! #ballerina #dancetogether #bettertogether #makingitwork #dance #tilerpeckdesigns @body.wrappers A post shared by Tiler Peck (@tilerpeck) on Mar 17, 2020 at 5:21pm PDT

Learn a New Language with Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone is offering free lessons for the next three months to students while they're not in school.

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PSA for everyone with kids home from school during this #socialdistancing: We're here to help with 3 months of free language learning for students globally! Learn more & sign up at rosettastone.com/freeforstudents [link in bio]. Stay safe, everyone! 💛 . . . #staystrong #stayhealthy #corona #coronavirus #quarantine #stayhome #student #free #homeschool #language #languagelearning #learn #learnlanguages

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Become a Master Colorer There's so many free coloring pages out there, and a lot of museums have their own pages.

Learn to Code Get that extra promotion when this is all over by learning how to be a programming wizard through FreeCodeCamp.

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Some devs - like Dhanish - are lucky enough to already work from home (and have this awesome #setup 😎). . What tips do you all have about how to #wfh effectively? Share below!👇 . 📷: @dhanishgajjar #developer #productivity #tips #coding #workfromhome #peoplewhocode #freecodecamp #programming
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