kieran Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5495 days ago 12 posts - 14 votes Studies: Spanish
| Message 1 of 8 12 November 2009 at 5:27pm | IP Logged |
www.livemocha.com
What do you guys think of it? I've been using it, and it's really helpful.
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Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh
| Message 2 of 8 12 November 2009 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
I'm not personally impressed with the methodology, but if they believe in the method they should make it downloadable -- the pause before downloading each sound sample slows the course down too much and means I get bored quicker than I otherwise would.
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Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5676 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish
| Message 3 of 8 12 November 2009 at 8:54pm | IP Logged |
I think it's good for giving you some sense of what the language looks like before you
start using other material. It's also good practice/revision.
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 8 13 November 2009 at 12:04am | IP Logged |
I think of it as Rosetta Stone "light", and have learned a bit from their (i.e. LiveMocha's) Chinese lessons, but some of the translations are non-intuitive, if not plain worthless.
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Halie Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6109 days ago 80 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French
| Message 5 of 8 13 November 2009 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
I don't really like LiveMocha. I've used a few of the Spanish lessons and I'm not really sure how helpful they were.
Also, I uploaded a few dialogs of myself speaking French to get some feedback on my accent, and some creepy old man kept sending me messages that said things like "I adore your voice. Let's chat some time..."
Needless to say, I deleted my account.
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LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5574 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian
| Message 6 of 8 15 November 2009 at 7:31pm | IP Logged |
Nice for feedback but you don't necessarily learn much.
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taras Diglot Newbie Russian Federation t-english.ru Joined 5528 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Russian*, English
| Message 7 of 8 15 November 2009 at 9:53pm | IP Logged |
I tried LiveMocha twice and quit. I couldn't feel any benefit from it.
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NB Groupie Canada Joined 5533 days ago 42 posts - 45 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Japanese
| Message 8 of 8 15 November 2009 at 10:04pm | IP Logged |
I used it for about a week to get the basics of hiragana/katagana, but got bored with it.
Flashcards just kill my language-learning motivation.
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