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| Salv Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5348 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Studies: English* Studies: French | Message 17 of 22 22 October 2010 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | ||
I was thinking about doing the same thing, except I've not been able to find a website like this in French. I imagine there are many sites out there... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6610 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 18 of 22 22 October 2010 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am very skeptic about language learning methods and more after several years in this forum. I am very chaotic in my own process. I think the best approach is to keep it simple. Language learning = reading, listening, writing and speaking. The trick here is to find out what are you passionate about and use this to interact in your target language. Nothing easier in our Internet age. I see language learning as a mean of communication and a side-effect from other activities. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fireflies Senior Member Joined 5116 days ago 172 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English* | Message 19 of 22 22 October 2010 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | ||
I agree with you on that. As long as you have a good idea about pronunciation that works perfectly for languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ubik Senior Member United States ubykh.wordpress.com/ Joined 5251 days ago 147 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin, Arabic (Egyptian), German, Spanish | Message 20 of 22 23 October 2010 at 12:19am | IP Logged | ||
Ill add to that that Stevick seemed to put too many words into the respondees mouths. Like "so you felt that xxxxxx, right?" and the obvious response. I also got bored as even though all the situations were intended to be different, they all seemed to blend together after a point. Of course maybe that could be attributed to the fact that I found myself most identifying with the first girl who could just tell what language someone was speaking and had no fear about jumping in and therefore everything else didnt really click with me...dunno... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5365 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 21 of 22 23 October 2010 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||
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If there's one thing I've learned from hanging around this forum, it is that we are all different. Different cultures, backgrounds, ages, interests, values, goals, personalities, etc. Hence we tend to have different approaches, methods and techniques for learning foreign languages. For some people, a textbook is fine; for others, it's an online program; for others it's a formal class. You have to find what works for you.
That said, there is one thing we probably have in common. I think that the majority of people here have at least a shelf, if not more, of books and software on the languages that they have studied or are studying. I've always found that one source is not enough. Is one textbook enough? I doubt it. I will say that I've regretted buying some things, especially those software packages, but I've always found a little nugget of useful information. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6517 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 22 of 22 23 October 2010 at 5:52am | IP Logged | ||
I guess I'm in the minority, then. I did buy a number of Mandarin learning materials, but I've thrown them all away because they didn't do anything for me. Then I found the one source which took me all the way up to fluency (ChinesePod). For Cantonese, it's been the same thing, except I never found a useful source. I just use a dictionary and native materials (the grammar is pretty much identical to Mandarin). So the thing I've learned is that I won't buy language learning books again (except possibly Assimil, which seems more like it could work for me). So I don't have a shelf, but rather a couple, of books on language learning (and no software). But that's just because I haven't thrown them away yet. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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