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| jhslash1 Newbie United States Joined 5346 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: English* | Message 1 of 14 09 April 2010 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well im 20 and I want to finally learn a new language. I was thinking about Spanish since there are so many people that speak Spanish where i live. I was just looking for some suggestions, thanks also what are thoughts on rosetta stone? Thats like the only program I know of.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6014 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 14 09 April 2010 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Rosetta Stone has been discussed at great length here over the years. If you want to know in depth why not to use it, you can use the search function.
I'll summarise: Overpriced piece of rubbish. Avoid. I'd personally recommend Michel Thomas Spanish. You can try out the first hour of the course for free at www.michelthomas.co.uk/soundclips.htm and decide for yourself. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5588 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 3 of 14 09 April 2010 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | ||
I honestly love Michel Thomas. His programs are top rate, I love them. For the money, they are priceless. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5878 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 4 of 14 09 April 2010 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have never liked Rosetta Stone. It's just way too expensive and you don't learn much. I would pick up Assimil
Spanish with Ease and/or Living Language Ultimate Spanish along with a Teach Yourself Spanish. I would also look up the youtube channels: Moses McCormick (Laoshu505000), Steve Kaufmann (lingosteve), and Professor Arguelles (ProfASAr). They have some great advice on language learning. I would look into Steve Kaufmann's LingQ.com. I'm using it for Spanish at the moment and it has greatly helped me. (Steve talks about it in his videos) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6082 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 14 10 April 2010 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I used Michel Thomas's Spanish course as I dabbled with Spanish and although the
methodology has had it's share of criticism here I would recommend it. It seems to internalise the language in a very very effective way. I still think in Spanish, well - most of it is incomprehensible as I have very limited vocabulary, even though I haven't studied it for years. Spanish pronunciation is very natural to me. I'd also recommend the Assimil course, never did it with Spanish but for French so far it has helped me a lot. A quite entertaining and very rewarding course. Edited by mrhenrik on 10 April 2010 at 12:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5498 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 6 of 14 10 April 2010 at 3:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I have used Pimsleur Italian with much success. It's my guess that the Spanish edition is
just as great, but perhaps someone else can confirm this. It's a little pricey, but worth the money I think. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jhslash1 Newbie United States Joined 5346 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: English* | Message 7 of 14 10 April 2010 at 5:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you to everyone for your advice.
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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5425 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 14 10 April 2010 at 7:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm learning Spanish, I'd say go for it, natives are awesome to speak to. Also, try Michel Thomas and Assimil, they are some of the best. Also purchase a workbook such as one from the Colloquial or Teach Yourself series, they are recommended a lot here. DON'T get Rosetta Stone.
Also, I'd say start Michel Thomas, work through a couple hours of it and the workbook, then start Assimil. ¡bueno suerte, amigo (¿o amiga?)! Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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