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numerodix
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 Message 2 of 109
10 June 2012 at 10:14am | IP Logged 
David Hayter wrote:
It is the best possible way to go about
learning a Romance language, since that's what it was designed for.

The fact that it was designed for Romance languages does not in itself mean that it's the
best way to learn them, does it?
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Alexander86
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 Message 3 of 109
10 June 2012 at 2:35pm | IP Logged 
You could spell "dispel" properly?
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nakrian keegiat
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 Message 4 of 109
10 June 2012 at 2:47pm | IP Logged 
Alexander86 wrote:
You could spell "dispel" properly?


What is the point in making a post like this? How does it contribute anything?
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Serpent
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 Message 6 of 109
10 June 2012 at 3:46pm | IP Logged 
I'm suspicious of anyone who "speaks" Spanish or French but doesn't learn other Romance language through the one they know.
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anamsc2
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 Message 7 of 109
10 June 2012 at 4:04pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
I'm suspicious of anyone who "speaks" Spanish or French but doesn't learn other Romance language through the one they know.


Wait, why? I speak (not "speak" :p) Spanish, but I'm learning French through primarily English-language resources because they are more readily available for me. Plus, Spanish and French are really not all that much more similar from a learner's point of view.

Anyways, if I understood this guy's post, he's saying that, by using Rosetta Stone, he didn't learn a language through another language.
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numerodix
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 Message 8 of 109
10 June 2012 at 4:48pm | IP Logged 
David Hayter wrote:
Good point. However, having used it to learn 2 romance languages to
a decent level, I'd
say it's the best way (for me) to do so. All the grammar is covered, you get a lot of
vocabulary, thinking in the language, excellent pronunciation, etc. Then you're just in
the business of adding vocabulary, fancier constructions, and colloquialisms.

"All the grammar is covered"? I've seen RS for Italian, all three units, and that's a
fairly absurd statement to make, unless you have an esoteric definition of grammar. Not
even Assimil covers all the grammar, because there's too much of it, but certainly way
more and much more systematically than RS.


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