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How helpful are college courses?
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Language Learning Forum : Immersion, Schools & Certificates

platypodes
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14 June 2010 at 10:46pm | IP Logged

Hey,

I study French at an intermediate level and want to learn Swahili and Chinese. I'm entering college next year, and I'm wondering whether colleges courses are effective at teaching languages? I heard that group courses in general aren't that great and that independent study with tapes and texts are much better. If I decide to take courses in each language, it would probably require about a year + summer intensive course to achieve decent fluency. I'm considering using textbooks and FSI for Swahili and French and taking Chinese courses -- my college has an excellent Chinese department. Do you guys have any thoughts on this?

Hopefully, I'll be able to travel a bit in the next four years to practice these languages -- I'm traveling to France this summer, my family is Chinese, and I'm definitely planning on visiting/working in Africa sometime.

Thanks everyone!

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