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| PeteP Newbie United States Joined 5040 days ago 27 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Romanian | Message 17 of 43 07 November 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Like Tarvos said, DLI Romanian is VERY good. It is HUGE and goes fairly deep. It has
about 60+ hours of audio, but the quality of the audio (its sound, not its content) is lower quality than most modern courses. They are copied from tapes made in the very early sixties. DLI Romanian also has less of a military focus then you would expect. LOTS of everyday life material (along with stories of tank warfare in Korea, but much less of that then you would expect). It is a bit of a dry course and the attempts at humor sometimes involve Bing Crosby :-) There are also sentences like "He dances like Fred Astaire" and many, many references to smoking :-) For a more modern and very thorough free course, google Limba care ne unește (The language which unites us). It is a Romanian course produced by Moldova. The Romanian is completely standard Romanian, the audio features speakers with standard Romanian accents with only a slight hint of Moldovan accent. At the "so you want to learn a language" site mentioned in the previous post, there is a lot of good Peace Corps Moldova material in the Romanian section, sadly with not much audio. The audio it does have features speakers with heavier Moldovan accents than Limba care ne unește. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4256 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 18 of 43 14 November 2013 at 8:54am | IP Logged | ||
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I would add that second-hand-books'-shops often or at least sometimes have language learning resources; I found a Hungarian textbook that I paid 2€ for and looked at the price for a new copy which is 50€, and I also got a Hungarian reader with a Finnish glossary for 1€. That means I'm pretty well set to begin studying Hungarian and I managed to achieve that with three euros.
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| catullus_roar Quadrilingual Octoglot Groupie Australia Joined 4571 days ago 89 posts - 184 votes Speaks: Malay, Hokkien*, English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese*, French, German, Spanish Studies: Italian, Latin, Armenian, Afrikaans, Russian | Message 19 of 43 14 November 2013 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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For Russian, you should try this website called lingualift.com. Much better than duolingo or other such websites, but it's paid (not an exorbitant price though). You can always take advantage of the free 14 day trial and download all their materials within the 14 days then study it slowly (teehee).
Try Amazon used books as well. I am not a fan of FSI as I find it too technical for someone who is starting from scratch (keep in mind the FSI books were designed for use in conjunction with intensive classes with an instructor and classmates). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4850 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 20 of 43 15 November 2013 at 2:03am | IP Logged | ||
I don't doubt the effectiveness of Listening-Reading, but I wonder why you say it is inexpensive. It seems that buying two copies of novels (L1 and L2), then buying the audiobook version in L2 would be somewhat expensive, especially if you are buying a lot of them. I guess it depends upon one's "purchasing threshold", i.e. how much a person is willing to pay for learning a language. Edited by kujichagulia on 15 November 2013 at 2:08am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6912 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 43 15 November 2013 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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The inexpensive options are sites like Gutenberg and Librivox, and we shall not forget libraries.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 22 of 43 15 November 2013 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | ||
Moldovan accents are all right, you just need to realise the weird palatalisation stuff going on comes from Russian. I find them hilarious. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4831 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 23 of 43 15 November 2013 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
And second-hand books of course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 24 of 43 04 December 2013 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wrote a series of ebooks on how to learn languages without spending money:
72 Ways to Learn German for Free 72 Ways to Learn French for Free 72 Ways to Learn Spanish for Free 72 Ways to Learn Japanese for Free They include some of the tips you found here, but also 40+ pages of other tips, specifically tailored to each language. Get these books from http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Meyer/e/B00FK6X8GC You don't need a Kindle - you can also use Amazon's free software for iPhone, iPad, Android, PC, Mac or even the web version in order to read these. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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