PolyG Newbie United States Joined 3639 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Studies: Japanese
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I've been debating on what foreign language software I wanted to get so, I settled on
instant immersion for Japanese, Korean, Spanish, swahili and French and maybe some others
but I also wanted to find some books and websites from Korean through French.
Does anyone have some suggestions?
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Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5431 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Korean, Haitian Creole, SpanishC2 Studies: Japanese
| Message 2 of 14 15 December 2014 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
What are you saying?
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PolyG Newbie United States Joined 3639 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Studies: Japanese
| Message 3 of 14 16 December 2014 at 12:07am | IP Logged |
About the books and websites and the other language software, what do you or anybody else
recommend?
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5015 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 4 of 14 16 December 2014 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
Welcome to the forums, Poly. As your question is so widely put, I recommend searching the
forums a bit. There are many recommendations. You can, for exemple, use the G-search
function or look at the logs of learners of your languages.
Instant immersion is quite a wide term, is it name of a company, of a product, or a
methodology? The phrase is being used quite often in many product descriptions.
And if you are asking about the books as well, than the whole forum is full of such
information. However, it is well possible you could get a useful answer here on the
thread, should you give us more specific information about what you're looking for
(target language, your level, language background, goals etc.)
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PolyG Newbie United States Joined 3639 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Studies: Japanese
| Message 5 of 14 18 December 2014 at 8:29pm | IP Logged |
There's way too many threads to look through,
but sure why not. Thanks for replying :-)
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5015 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 6 of 14 18 December 2014 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
Exactly, there are far too many things to recommend without further information about
your needs. I don't think it's worth it to copy whole forums into a new thread. But
should you have any more specific question, I'll try my best to be of assistance.
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Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5772 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 7 of 14 19 December 2014 at 5:15am | IP Logged |
Cavesa was pretty nice about this, but I would've said: If you're not able to take in a lot of information and quickly decide whether it's relevant to your situation, you might want to train that skill first before you make an attempt to self-study one language, let alone several. If there's one thing that is incompatible with reaching working proficiency in a foreign language, especially in mainly self-directed study, then it's expecting to be spoon-fed information.
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kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4853 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
| Message 8 of 14 19 December 2014 at 6:32am | IP Logged |
PolyG, welcome to the forums.
Bao is pretty much spot-on with his comments, as is Cavesa. But don't be put off;
these forums really do help self-study language learners. HTLAL is a valuable
resource, but it really does help if you ask more specific questions and give more
information on what level you are and what type of resources/advice you are looking
for.
If you are a beginner in Japanese, here are a few suggestions (although I would
recommend you to do the research yourself on these. Some of these I've done, and some
I haven't, but they might be of help to you).
TEXTBOOKS: Genki series, Minna no Nihongo, Japanese for Busy People, etc.
WEBSITES: Tae Kim Japanese grammar guide, Erin's Challenge. Also, search for NHK
World Japanese lessons.
AUDIO: I'm not sure - maybe others can answer - but there might be some Assimil or
Pimsleur courses for Japanese. You can also try the website JapanesePod101.com.
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