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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6150 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 23 14 September 2012 at 11:50am | IP Logged | ||
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I've purchased a lot of language products over the years, and with most of them I can see how they're meant to work. However, I've also come across some very odd products, that are unlike anything else on the market. I really struggle to see how anyone can really learn from them. If I'd to nominate courses, I would pick
No Time Hungarian - This is one of the strangest audio courses I've ever heard. A non native speaker runs through features of the Hungarian language at an incredibly fast pace. It's also ridiculously expensive at around €80\$100. Subliminal Spanish - This could've been a great vocabulary training product, but the English and Spanish are spoken at the exact same time. Unless you take out one earpiece you won't hear the English word. Honourable mention Vocabulearn - It's probably more a product flaw, but at some points the background music drowns out the words. What are the strangest language products you've encountered ? Edited by DaraghM on 14 September 2012 at 11:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 23 14 September 2012 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Definitely Jozen-Bo's language portal (although being a concept rather than a commercial commodity it may not qualify in this discussion)
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| hobbitofny Senior Member United States Joined 6232 days ago 280 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 23 14 September 2012 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree about the No Time Series. The No Time Russian is to fast. The price was very high for what you get.
I would recommend the Vocabulearn Russian. It has the back ground music but I have no trouble hearing the words. I do recommend using an audio software program to break the lists into smaller units. The way they come is to long for me to learn them. Once made smaller they are very use full lists. The native speakers are very clear and clean speakers. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 23 15 September 2012 at 1:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I recently came across a book from the eighties called "Italian by Association", in which
the author had taken the idea of mnemonics and tried to make a whole beginner course based on it. Essentially an entire book of "The Italian word for 'cow' is 'mucca'. Think of a 'moo cow'". And trust me, it got far worse than that. We had a good laugh at that one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 5 of 23 15 September 2012 at 10:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Bake your way to Language Fluency"
The idea is you prepare little cakes or biscuits (cookies), out of a pleasant-tasting dough that is firm enough to have letters written in it. Then you write (or stamp, using the special stamps that come with the beginner pack), target language words on one side, base language word on the other. Simply bake for twenty minutes, remove from oven and cool on a wire tray. When ready to eat, you take hold of the little cake or cookie, and say the word on each side, repeating as many times as you like, then you pop it in your mouth and eat it, thinking about both words as the cake goes down. As you absorb the cake, you absorb the words - it's as simple as that! It's absolutely great for your TL vocabulary. It's absolutely terrible for your waistline! No, this doesn't exist, as far as I know. I just made it up in a moment of Saturday-evening silliness. But there are probably whackier courses out there! [If anyone wants to take this idea and run with it, it's yours as my gift! :-) ) Edited by montmorency on 15 September 2012 at 10:02pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5831 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 6 of 23 15 September 2012 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Great idea. Would definitely give Rosetta Stone a run for their money, and would probably be more effective! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 7 of 23 16 September 2012 at 1:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Unfortunately the idea is not new. (see message 104) Oh fuuck it was hard to find that thread! I ran tons of g-searches like "eat flash cards" or "flash cards bake" XDDDDD Edited by Serpent on 16 September 2012 at 1:29am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hobbitofny Senior Member United States Joined 6232 days ago 280 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 23 16 September 2012 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||
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thank you for the great laugh! I missed it years ago. So who has done this method. How many words and weight gain issues? lol
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