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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 9 of 13 14 March 2011 at 1:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 10 of 13 14 March 2011 at 1:27am | IP Logged | ||||||||
First question - $9.95? Second question - if using Pimsleur as part of your well balanced language plan kept you from understanding, maybe you should research your products before you shell out the cash? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5419 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 11 of 13 14 March 2011 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||||||||
1: Italian Pimsleur Course for $9.95 2: My post was just meant as a play on the Mastercard adverts, I take it they aren't broadcast where you are though so I understand how you might miss the jokiness of my post. Here is an example of one: Priceless. On that site I linked where they sell some stripped down Pimsleur courses for $9.95, they claim Pimsleur will teach you the language in ten days. Some gullible people will unfortunately buy into that but of course all you will get are the basics of beer buying and no doubt asking how to get to the Colosseum. Edited by jazzboy.bebop on 14 March 2011 at 1:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 13 14 March 2011 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Two of Ziad Fazah's quotes come to mind:
"I was born with a divine talent for languages" "I do keep being the greatest living polyglot" 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| anothername Triglot Groupie Brazil Joined 5062 days ago 96 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English | Message 13 of 13 14 March 2011 at 3:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Probably a very subtle difference indeed, since my Oxford Dictionary states that memorize is to "learn (sth) well enough to REMEMBER it exactly". I see your point (you seem to believe the word 'memorize' means only some kind of active effort to assimilate something). But if the definition above is correct, 'memorize' has a much wider meaning, and MT claims that it is possible to remember something without actually learning it. :) 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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