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| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4518 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes  Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 4 16 July 2012 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Has anybody signed up and tried this course before, and if so was it effective or a waste of money?
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| dinguino Nonaglot Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4752 days ago 55 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English, German*, FrenchC1, Catalan, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Turkish, Russian, Irish | Message 2 of 4 16 July 2012 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've never heard of this but after watching the video here:
http://linguisticator.com/ I'd say that I don't need such a program to learn a language or to motivate me. By the way you have to pay for it... Despite this I would like to experience the situation described above. If You Were Airdropped into a Jungle… …and you had to learn the local language to survive… …how would you do it? I can tell you that I know many people who came into another country without knowing the local language and most of them struggle a lot! Edited by dinguino on 16 July 2012 at 11:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4518 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 4 16 July 2012 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah the reason that I wanted feedback was because I saw there was a cost involved, and i'm not going to pay for something that I haven't heard anything about! Doesn't seem like anybody has tried this, I imagine that as you said for yourself most people on here are probably motivated enough as it is! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 4 16 July 2012 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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This course has come up before on HTLAL, but the only person who watched any of the
videos was boaby (scroll down a bit). Not one of our finer moments, actually—we chased the author away in two pages of posts before anyone had actually looked at the course. As far as I can tell, the creator comes from an academic linguistics background, he knows several languages, and he has spent some time studying field linguistics. From what he's said on HTLAL, it seems like he's trying compress Linguistics 101 and some basic field linguistics training into an online video course. Basically, it looks like another "polyglot toolkit and roadmap" of the type that several people sell (e.g. Benny Lewis), and it's probably meatier than some of them. At the very least, it's nice to see another perspective on the subject. The actual course costs $30/month for the first month, and $15/month thereafter. For a busy professional who wants to learn a language, and doesn't know how to do it, that's actually pretty cheap. And in any case, it's a niche product, so I doubt he's making a living. I'd love if it somebody sat through the course (or at least the free demo videos) and reported back on: 1) what value it has for a first-time language learner, and 2) what value it has for somebody who's already learned one or more languages to a decent level. A lot of these polyglot courses tend be pretty useless once you reach B1+ in your first foreign language, at least if you've read a couple of language learning blogs or forums. Edited by emk on 16 July 2012 at 9:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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