Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3397 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 369 of 376 10 September 2015 at 2:57pm | IP Logged |
Last weekend I bought TY Spanish and Step by Step Spanish books. I can't wait until they are here to start
my journey.
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Richard.H Newbie Czech Republic Joined 3328 days ago 1 posts - 4 votes
| Message 370 of 376 02 October 2015 at 5:03pm | IP Logged |
I love Pimsleur.
It has immediate usefulness. Basically within 30 minutes you will learn something you can use right away and gives you amazing feeling of achievement. Which is great to boost your morale and help you stick with it.
Every time I hit a new language I always go back to Pimsleur.
Unfortunately it doesn't take you all the way, you won't master a language with P but it's a great introduction to the language of your choice.
The one free lesson is also really great since it really gives you a nice feel of how the language sounds - amazing if you never heard the language and you're still figuring out whether or not you actually wanna study it.
Of course there are other great courses, and if you are serious about studying one specific language you will have to move on from P to something else eventually but for starters it will always be my #1.
Hang in there!
Richard
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4994 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 371 of 376 02 October 2015 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
Welcome to the forums, Richard. We have mostly moved to the new ones: forum.language-learners.org but some people still frequent these quite diligently.
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Jukola Newbie Finland venla.info Joined 4318 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 372 of 376 25 October 2015 at 10:52am | IP Logged |
I like Pimsleur and Michel Thomas, because you can just listen them while you walk or do the dishes. I also think that for me the audio works better than reading.
They have some similarities, both build up the language from bottom to top (where as in the traditional method you are taught sentences which you should be analyzed; at least that's how it was in my school). Pimsleur is a bit more repetitive and doesn't explain things like Michel Thomas, but you get lot's of basic vocabulary. Both of them give a good kick start, if you are an absolute beginner.
About the others: I didn't like Rosetta Stone, the method just seems outdated and doesn't motivate me. Colloquial and Assimil series has lot's of good basic stuff.
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Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3397 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 373 of 376 26 April 2016 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
Hi,
Has anyone use the Oxford Take off in Series? I am thinking about buying one for Spanish.
Edited by Rozzie on 26 April 2016 at 9:40pm
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alans Newbie Canada Joined 3774 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Studies: Yiddish
| Message 374 of 376 01 August 2016 at 8:13pm | IP Logged |
Has anyone used utalk the app?
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Rhian Moderator France Joined 6482 days ago 265 posts - 288 votes Speaks: English* Personal Language Map
| Message 375 of 376 01 August 2016 at 10:05pm | IP Logged |
Just a reminder that the majority of
members have moved to www.forum.language-
learners.org after software problems here. You are
welcome to post here or there or on both but note
that you need to register on the new site (ie your
HTLAL name and password won't work there). Don't
worry - sign up is much simpler over on LLOrg!
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Krbtv Newbie United States Joined 2626 days ago 3 posts - 2 votes
| Message 376 of 376 07 March 2019 at 3:51am | IP Logged |
Glossika is my favorite language program.
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