polyglot440 Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5501 days ago 2 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French, Italian Studies: German, Mandarin
| Message 177 of 376 14 December 2010 at 5:29am | IP Logged |
Assimil, Pimsleur, FSI "French Basic Course" and DLI "Defense Language Institute".
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zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6375 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 178 of 376 14 December 2010 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
Assimil and old Linguaphone courses like the Icelandic one. I like FSI as well, I think
it's pretty thorough although it'd be better without English on the tracks.
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Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5103 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German
| Message 179 of 376 14 December 2010 at 9:33pm | IP Logged |
I like Pimsleur so far and Mango Languages isn't half bad either.
The fact that Rosetta Stone hasn't been mentioned (in the pages that I read, at least) amuses me.
Edited by Darklight1216 on 22 December 2010 at 6:05am
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wilzy Newbie United States Joined 5186 days ago 15 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish
| Message 180 of 376 25 December 2010 at 2:14pm | IP Logged |
This isn't a program, and it doesn't include an audio component, but I found the French version of Reader's Digest really useful for learning French. Not the most interesting magazine around, but the articles aren't culture specific, are not written at too difficult a level, and have lots of useful vocabulary - and it was easier than reading a book, what with the short articles and contemporary but not literary language.
It's available in quite a few languages, so I would like to try it out with some of the others. I haven't started learning Spanish yet, but when I have time, I would like to start getting the Spanish version of Readers Digest and find out how much can be learned just using it, a dictionary, and a basic grammar reference.
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yuriythebest Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie UkraineRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5086 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Russian*, Ukrainian*, English, Greek Studies: Japanese
| Message 181 of 376 04 January 2011 at 10:58pm | IP Logged |
pimsleur/MT - very well done but short
JapanesePod101 - epic. 20gb of content/audio/video.
Rosetta Stone- sonly good for a very cursory introduction and not worth the money.
Edited by yuriythebest on 04 January 2011 at 11:00pm
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Ameriphone Newbie United States Joined 5068 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes
| Message 182 of 376 12 January 2011 at 6:21am | IP Logged |
Michel Thomas
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krieger Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5063 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 183 of 376 17 January 2011 at 1:46am | IP Logged |
For my German studying I have found Berlitz programs extremely helpful!
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TheMatthias Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6249 days ago 105 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin
| Message 184 of 376 17 January 2011 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
Michel Thomas & Smart.fm
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