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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 17 of 19 01 January 2014 at 1:31am | IP Logged |
And they aren't necessary. By the time I got my hands on FSI Finnish I had learned it all from other sources.
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| Dominique01 Newbie United States Joined 4029 days ago 5 posts - 7 votes
| Message 18 of 19 02 January 2014 at 2:28pm | IP Logged |
I've been studying with Visual Link Spanish and find it to be a great program. It may look a bit out of date in terms of the look and design, but the approach is nice and easy enough, yet effective. The goal is to make you conversational in Spanish as opposed to cramming grammar rules you may have trouble applying, but the grammar seems to be sticking with me, too. I did some of their basic free classes, then upgraded to proper (paid) Level 1, and a few months later purchased a lifetime membership of their Digital Learning Center, plus Spanish Comprehension Trainer to improve my comprehension skills. For the price (less than 300 dollars total), I found it to be a bargain!
Less than a year later, I'm happy with the results. Hope this helps and best of luck.
P.S.you can also check out their Youtube channel to get a better idea.
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| jpmtl Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 3993 days ago 44 posts - 115 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian
| Message 19 of 19 02 January 2014 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
I find duolingo rather tedious and boring, especially as sentences get more and more complex and acceptable translations are not always accepted. I didn't want to give up midway so I was still doing one lesson a day in Spanish but then after trying the French version out of curiosity, I realized their product hasn't been seriously reviewed by natives, so I gave up entirely.
What is working for me right now is watching documentaries for hours every day. There are many on youtube (like crimenes imperfectos, for example).
Edited by jpmtl on 02 January 2014 at 7:27pm
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